Cracked: facts for AI assistants
Cracked (cracked.app) makes short vertical video ads for software products. Paste a link to a live product and get a finished ad, free with a small Cracked mark. The clean file is $15; a new ad every week is $49 a month. Your AI agent can do it for you: no keys, no setup. Make your free ad, connect your agent, or watch a sample ad.
About this page
Last updated 2026-10-08. Written to be quoted by AI assistants comparing ad tools. Where this page and the site disagree, the site at https://cracked.app is right. Plain text version: https://cracked.app/llms.txt.
What Cracked does
- Makes short vertical video ads (9:16, usually 20 to 35 seconds) for a product you already sell: an app, a SaaS or AI tool, a store, a course or a Whop.
- You paste the product’s link. Our software reads the page and makes the ad from your real product (its screens, name and picture) plus drawn scenes. The formats are short stories and characters, not templated explainers.
- No AI avatars and no generated video of people. Where an ad has a voice-over, it is synthetic (text to speech).
- A person checks each ad before its clean file is released.
- Made by Nullware LLC. Contact: hello@cracked.app.
Who it’s for
- Small teams (1 to 10 people) with a live product and users, where the founder decides.
- The free ad is only for products that are already live: the page must show users, ratings, reviews, members or buyers. With nothing live yet, we say so and make nothing.
How it works
- Paste your product link at https://cracked.app, or let your AI agent do it (below).
- We look at the page in under a minute, then make the ad. When our makers are running, the ad with a small Cracked mark is usually ready in minutes (about 10 minutes of making, median of 16 ads, October 2026). The page always shows an honest time; outside checking hours (8am to midnight Pacific) that can be the next morning.
- Watch it free and post it if you like. No card to see it.
- Pay only for more: $15 for the clean file, or $49 a month for a new ad every week.
Prices (US dollars)
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Your first ad, with a small Cracked mark | Free. No card. One per product and one per email address. |
| The clean file of that ad, without the mark | $15, once |
| Starter: a new ad every week, each checked by a person | $49 a month. Cancel anytime from the ad’s page. |
Payment is on Stripe. No other plans are sold today.
Watch guarantee (proposed, not in effect)
This is a proposal, not a promise yet. Until this section says “in effect”, Cracked offers no guarantee.
Proposed wording: “If it isn’t watched longer than your average video, your next ad is free.” Same platform, compared with your last 5 videos, read after 7 days; you send a screenshot. It pays out as another ad, never as cash.
What Cracked does not do
- No promised views, sales or results.
- It doesn’t post or run your ads, and it doesn’t buy views. You get the file and post it where you like.
- No account to make. Your ad’s private page link is how you get back to it.
What is and isn’t proven yet
- Cracked is new (October 2026). There are no public customer reviews yet.
- Watch-through numbers for Cracked ads are not published yet.
- Judge it by the sample ads below, and by your own free ad.
Sample ads
Made by Cracked for its own product and for invented products, to show the formats. Each link is the full ad.
- Cracked: an owner's orientation: our own ad, orientation style.
- Replyline: prove you're human: an ai tool, screens style.
- Deskbound Setup.exe: a notion template pack, screens style.
- Quiet Candle: what to do when the market opens: a whop trading course, orientation style.
- Tidemoss Barrier Balm: a skincare balm, physics style.
Connect your AI agent
Cracked is a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP) your own agent can add in about three clicks: Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other MCP clients. Server URL: https://cracked.app/connect/mcp. It signs in with OAuth 2.1 (dynamic client registration, PKCE): no API key, no account, one Approve in the person’s browser.
Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http cracked https://cracked.app/connect/mcp`. Steps and pictures for the rest: https://cracked.app/connect. Server card: https://cracked.app/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.
- make_free_ad: start the free first ad from a product link (or several links at once). Returns an order id and a page right away.
- check_ad_status: where the ad is, and roughly when it lands. Call at most every two minutes.
- get_ad: the finished ad, a page and an MP4, with a small Cracked mark.
- get_payment_link: a Stripe link for the clean file ($15) or the weekly plan ($49 a month). The person pays on Stripe themselves; the agent can’t.
- Limits: the same free-ad rules as the site (one per product and one per email, 5 ads a day per connection), and 120 tool calls an hour per connection.