
Private by default · No public feed
Private AI Video Generator
Video work often starts with something personal: a selfie clip, a client's footage, your own voice. On Mage, every clip and every upload stays in your account, out of any public feed, until you decide to post it.
No installation. No credit card. Private by default.
- Opt-inPosting, one clip at a time
- 30 daysThen history clears itself
- PrivateCharacters and voices by default
- $0Free to start
The basics
What makes an AI video generator private?
Privacy in AI video comes down to three questions. Who can see what you make? What happens to the footage, photos and voice recordings you upload? And what does the company's licence let it do with all of it, including training its own models? A tool can be private on the first question and still keep wide rights on the third, so check each one on its own.
Mage answers the first two in the product. Every clip is private by default: it goes to your own history, not to Explore, your profile or the leaderboard, and it becomes public only if you post that one creation. The photos, clips and voice recordings you upload, the characters you save and the voices you give them, and your outfit, location and object references are private too. History clears itself after 30 days, and anything you save stays in Saved creations until you delete it.
The third question lives in each company's terms, not in its app.
A little more possibility
Why creators keep their video work on Mage
Private by default
Clips, edits and uploads stay in your account on every plan, Free included. Nothing reaches a public feed unless you post it.
Posting is per creation
Sharing one clip to Mage Social never opens up the rest of your library or your drafts.
Private characters and voices
A character you save, and the voice you give it, stays private until you choose to publish it.
History that clears itself
Generations leave your history after 30 days unless you save them, so abandoned drafts do not pile up.
Delete when you are done
Remove items from history, delete collections, or delete your account and everything in it from Settings.
No watermark
A private clip is a finished file. Nothing is stamped on it, on any plan.
From idea to creation
How do you make a private AI video?
It takes three steps, and it is free to start.
Open the generator
Start from the Cherry generator or any video app in your browser. A free account is what keeps your work tied to you and no one else.
Add your inputs
Write the prompt and upload the photo, clip or voice the job needs. Uploads stay private to your account.
Generate into your history
Each clip lands in your private history. Save the keepers; the rest clear after 30 days.
Share only on purpose
Download the MP4, or post a single clip to Mage Social when you want an audience.
Tips and techniques
What stays private on Mage, and what leaves your account
Inside Mage, private means private to your account. Your generations, the source clips you upload for a swap or an edit, the photos and recordings you use for a lipsync, your saved characters and their voices, and your references are visible to you alone. Your history keeps each generation for 30 days, then deletes it; saving a clip moves it to Saved creations, which you can sort into collections and delete whenever you like.
Private by default describes who can see your work, not where it is processed. To render a clip, your prompt and inputs go to the model that makes it, and some models are run by outside providers that screen requests with their own filters. That is true of every hosted generator. The only way to keep footage on your own machine is a model you run locally, with the setup and hardware that takes.
If you generate from an AI assistant through Mage's MCP server, the request and the result also pass through that assistant, under its terms, and the result link lasts 30 days. Everything that starts with your own face or voice deserves the same care on any tool: the Video Face Swap, Video Character Swap and Lipsync apps all keep uploads private, and the swap apps ask you to confirm you have permission before they run.
- Save the clips you want to keep: history clears after 30 days.
- Post deliberately, one clip at a time.
- Use footage and voices of real people only with their permission.
- Delete source clips from history when a client job ends.
Tips and techniques
Keeping video work private on any tool
Check the default first. Some tools publish free-plan generations to a public gallery and sell privacy as an upgrade, so the plan you are on decides who sees your drafts. On Mage the default is private on every plan, but the habit is worth keeping wherever you work: make a test clip and look for it in the public feed before you upload anything personal.
Then decide what really needs to go in. A product launch can be drafted with a stand-in object until the final render. A client face can wait until the client has approved the concept. A voice clip can be a short line rather than a whole recording. The less personal material you upload, the less any licence covers.
Finally, close jobs cleanly: download the finals, delete the source clips from history, and keep only what you saved. For stills made the same way, see the private AI image generator.
The right model for the job
Video models for private work
Every model on Mage follows the same privacy rules, so pick by the job, not by the setting.
Cherry 2 Pro
Mage's flagship for final clips: up to 30 seconds at 1080p with sound, characters with their voices, and edits of a source clip.
Lemon
Animate your own photo exactly from a first frame, or a first and a last, with audio unless you turn it off.
Melon
Mage's anime video model, for characters still in development that you are not ready to show.
Kiwi
Everyday clips from a prompt with nothing else to set up, at 5 or 10 seconds and up to 1080p.
Try these prompts
Private video prompts
The kinds of clips people keep to themselves until they are ready. Swap in your own photo or @character.
A family photo brought to life
Animate this photo: she laughs and leans toward the camera, curtains moving in a light breeze, warm afternoon light. Keep her face exactly as it is.
A product under embargo
A matte aluminium smart speaker on a walnut desk, slow orbit, soft window light, a faint chime as its light ring wakes. No logos, no text.
A character in development
@yourcharacter walks through an empty train station at dawn, tracking shot from the side, long shadows, footsteps echoing.
A voice test
@yourcharacter looks into the camera and says "This is take one." Close-up, soft key light, quiet room tone.
Room to experiment
Private-by-default vs public-feed video tools
Many AI video tools treat a public gallery as the default and privacy as an upgrade. A private-by-default generator starts the other way round: you choose what, if anything, the world sees.
Mainstream tools
- Free-plan clips can go to a public feed
- Hiding your work can cost a higher plan
- Drafts kept until you clean them up
- Uploads and characters visible on a profile
Mage
- Private by default on every plan, Free included
- Posting is per clip and always your choice
- History clears after 30 days unless you save
- Characters, voices and references private too
Follow your imagination
Who needs a private AI video generator?
Personal footage
Animate family photos or your own clips without them landing in a feed.
Client and agency work
Draft concepts with client footage and products, and share only the approved finals.
Characters in development
Build a cast, its voices and a few scenes privately, then publish when the series is ready.
Voice and likeness tests
Try a voice or a face on a short clip before deciding whether to use it at all.
Start small. Dream big.
Is the private video generator free?
Privacy is the same on every plan. New members get 300 Gems to try any video model, and unlimited video starts on Pro.
Free
$0
One-time 300 Gems for new members, private by default, no watermark.
Pro
$30/mo
Unlimited Melon, Lemon at 3 s and 480p, Wan, LTX and MiniMax-H3 Turbo, plus 1,500 monthly Gems.
Pro Plus
$60/mo
Adds unlimited premium video models such as Cherry, Kiwi and Plum Max within set lengths, plus 3,500 monthly Gems.
A little more clarity
Frequently asked questions
Are AI videos made on Mage private?
Can other people see the footage I upload?
How long does Mage keep my videos?
Is a private video generator the same as a local one?
Are videos I make in Claude through Mage private?
Can I make private videos of real people?

Ready to make video that stays yours?
Free to start, private by design. Have fun creating!
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