Ballpit

Background video that never repeats.

29 games and simulations, seeded so every render is original. Split-screen your own video over one, add your music and text, and export for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, in clips you own outright.

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Maze Solver

Three steps to a finished clip.

  • Roll a seed

    Every seed is a different run. Reuse one to reproduce a render exactly.

  • Set the length

    Ten seconds to three minutes, in vertical, square or landscape.

  • Record it

    Encoding happens on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, nothing queues.

1 of 27 in 2D, live in your browser

Live, not a recording

Watch the whole catalogue.

Ball DropFree

Marbles scatter through a peg field and stack into a bell curve, then the floor drops and it refills.

  • Ball Drop
  • Brick Breaker
  • Sand Fall
  • Ring Breaker
  • Slice
  • Wash
  • Rock Paper Scissors
  • Color Sort
  • Swarm
  • Territory
  • Merge
  • Pendulum Wave
  • Sort Bars
  • Stack
  • Grow
  • Vortex Drain
  • Press
  • Mow
  • Marble Race
  • Escape
  • Topple
  • Pin Screen
  • Maze Solver
  • Chaos Pendulums
  • Fireworks
  • Galaxy Collision
  • Murmuration

11 games, 11 simulations, 7 satisfying loops.

Games have a winner to root for. Simulations are physics and nature running on their own: galaxies colliding, a flock turning, fireworks over a city. Satisfying is the cleaning, cutting and pressing. Every still is a real frame, and resting on one starts it running.

Block Destruction and Balls & Marbles run in 3D, in the studio.

Every generator, by kind

Edit

Edit it right here.

The steps you would otherwise do in a second app, done before the file is made, so it comes out ready to post.

  • Split screen with your video

    Pro

    Drop in a podcast, a reaction or a talking head. It goes over the top, the simulation underneath, with your video's sound mixed into the file.

  • Your own music

    Pro

    Add a track and it plays under the clip from the first frame, looping if it runs short, and lands in the export.

  • Looks

    Free and Pro

    Glow, film grain, vignette, retro scanlines, dream and noir, drawn into the frame. Vignette and film are free.

  • Slow motion to double speed

    Free

    Half speed for the satisfying ones, double time to fit a whole race into fifteen seconds.

  • Progress bar and countdown

    Pro

    A bar that fills as the clip plays and a 3, 2, 1, GO over the opening: the two things that keep people watching to the end.

  • Templates

    Free and Pro

    Who wins, marble race, split-screen background, logo reveal and more, each one click from a finished setup.

Start from a template

One click opens the studio set up and running.

Pro

Make it yours.

Longer, sharper clips with no watermark, and the things that turn a clip into your clip.

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  • Your logo inside the simulation

    Upload a logo, a face or your art. It becomes the armies in Rock Paper Scissors, the marbles in a race, the ball in Escape, the shape pressed through Pin Screen and the picture Wash uncovers.

  • Text that is ready to post

    A hook across the top, a caption, and an end card for the last three seconds, placed clear of the platform buttons and drawn into the file, with a progress bar and a countdown if you want them. No second app.

  • Six sound packs

    Every hit plays a note, in key. Pluck, marimba, glass, 8-bit, pop and drums, generated as the clip runs, so there is still nothing to license.

  • Green screen

    A chroma green background, to key the simulation over your own footage or a split screen.

  • A cover from any frame

    Pause on the best moment and save it as the video cover, at the export resolution, with your text on it.

  • A licence with every clip

    A document recording the clip, its seed and the terms it was made under, for the client or sponsor who asks where it came from.

Generated, so there is nothing to license.

Every frame and every note is generated from a seed on your own machine, so the simulation is yours to publish and monetise without asking anyone. The only things to clear are the ones you add yourself: your music, your video, your logo.

Pricing

Free

$0

Pro

US$9.99/mo

plus tax where applicable

Generators7 of 29All 29
Clip lengthUp to 30sUp to 3 minutes
Resolution720p720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4k
Frame rate30 fps60 fps
WatermarkStudio mark, movingYour handle, or none
Batch exportNot includedIncluded
Saved presetsIncludedIncluded
Seed libraryNot includedKept on your account
Batch sizeOne at a timeUp to 50 in a run
Custom palettesNot includedIncluded
Full controlsCore settingsEvery setting
Your own imagesNot includedLogos, faces or art, in five generators
Text on the clipNot includedHook, caption, end card, progress bar, countdown
Split screenNot includedYour video stacked over the simulation
Your musicNot includedAny track, mixed into the file
Looksvignette and filmAll 7, glow and retro included
SpeedSlow motion to 2xSlow motion to 2x
SoundOne packAll 6 packs
Green screenNot includedIncluded
Cover imageNot includedAny frame, as a PNG
Licence documentNot includedWith every export

The free tier needs no account, and nothing you export is uploaded.

Questions

Can I monetise videos made with Ballpit?
Yes. Every clip is generated from a seed by a physics engine running on your own machine, so there is no stock footage licence, no music rights and nothing to clear. The output is yours to publish and monetise. Music or video you add yourself is yours to have the rights to.
Do I need an account to export a video?
No. The free tier runs without an account and exports clips up to 30 seconds at 720p with a studio watermark. An account is only needed to go Pro, which removes the watermark and raises the limits.
What aspect ratios and resolutions can I export?
Vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, square 1:1, and wide 16:9. Each format has its own course, so a generator fills the frame rather than being cropped into it. Pro exports up to 4K at 60fps.
What does the seed do?
The seed decides the whole layout: how many pegs, where the ramps sit, which colours, how fast things move. The same seed always reproduces the same clip exactly, so a render you liked can be brought back, and a different seed is a genuinely different video rather than a recolour.
Is anything uploaded to a server?
No. The simulation, the rendering and the video encoding all happen in your browser. Images you add stay in your browser too. Nothing you make leaves your machine unless you choose to save a seed to your account.
Can I put my own logo or images in the videos?
Yes, on Pro. Upload up to three images and they become the armies in Rock Paper Scissors, the marbles in Marble Race, the ball in Escape, and the picture pressed through Pin Screen or uncovered in Wash. They stay in your browser and are never uploaded.
Can I put my own video over the simulation?
Yes, on Pro. Split screen stacks your video, such as a podcast or a talking head, over the simulation in a vertical clip, with your video's sound mixed into the export. The video is played from your own machine and never uploaded.
Can I add my own music?
Yes, on Pro. Add an MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG track and it plays under the clip from the first frame, loops if it is shorter than the clip, and is mixed into the exported file.
Are there templates?
Yes. Templates set up a generator with the speed, look and text that suit it in one click, such as Who wins, Marble race, Split-screen background and Logo reveal. Several are free, and everything a template sets can be changed afterwards.
Do the videos have sound?
Yes. Every bounce and payoff plays a note, generated in key as the clip runs, so there is no music to license. The free tier has one sound pack and Pro has six, and every export can be made with sound or without it.
Can I add text to a clip?
On Pro, yes: a hook across the top, a caption, and an end card for the last three seconds. They are placed clear of the TikTok, Reels and Shorts buttons and drawn straight into the exported video, so there is no second editing step.
How long can a clip be?
Up to 30 seconds on the free tier and up to three minutes on Pro. The generators are loops that never come to rest, so a longer clip keeps producing new events rather than repeating.