# Hook Generator > Generate 10 spoken-word hooks for TikTok, Reels, Shorts or YouTube. Under 15 words each, sayable in three seconds, with the reason each one works. Free, no login. Canonical: https://faceless.so/tools/hook-generator Free Tool Ten opening lines for any video, each under 15 words and written to be said out loud in three seconds. Every hook comes with the archetype it uses and why it works. ## Your video 0/200 The more specific the subject, the less generic the hooks. Name the audience or the claim. Platform Let the model pick the best angle for each hook Every hook comes back under 15 words, so it can actually be said in the first three seconds. Your ten hooks will appear here Describe the video, pick a platform, and choose a style or leave it on auto. ## Most hook generators write headlines, not hooks Paste a topic into almost any of them and you get lines like “The Untold Truth About Freelance Pricing That Nobody Wants You To Know”. That is a headline. It reads at a glance and it works on a page, but said aloud it is five and a half seconds of audio, and by then the retention graph has already decided. Hooks are governed by breath, not by column width, and a tool that never measures spoken length cannot enforce the only constraint that matters. The second failure is generic mechanism. A hook works because it does something specific to the viewer: it opens a loop, rejects a belief they hold, names them directly, or shows them a cost they are already paying. Most tools generate ten variations of the same mechanism with different nouns swapped in, which is why a channel using them starts sounding identical to itself by the fourth upload. Tagging each line with its archetype is not decoration — it is how you notice you have shipped the same hook five times. What we would push back on, though, is the idea that a great hook rescues a weak video. It does not. It buys you three seconds of attention, and the fourth second is where most videos actually die. Treat the hook as the cheapest thing to iterate on and the least likely to be your real problem: if your retention cliff is at 15 seconds rather than 3, the hook is doing its job and the script is not. ## Frequently asked questions How opening lines actually earn the next three seconds ### What actually makes a video hook work? Two things, in order: it has to be sayable in the time you have, and it has to create a reason to stay. A hook of 28 words is already 6 seconds of audio, and the retention graph has made its decision by then. Once length is right, the mechanism matters — an open loop, a rejected belief, a number, a named audience — which is why every hook here comes tagged with the archetype it uses. ### How long should a hook be? Under 15 spoken words, which lands at roughly three seconds at normal narration pace. This generator enforces that in the prompt and shows the word count on every result, because it is the constraint most hook tools ignore. If a hook comes back over the limit it gets flagged rather than quietly returned. ### Are hooks different on TikTok, Reels and YouTube? Yes, and mostly in how fast you have to be concrete. TikTok punishes any setup at all, Shorts is judged on a retention curve that starts at frame one, and Reels rewards hooks that promise something worth saving. YouTube long-form gives you a little more room but the hook still has to imply a payoff big enough to justify ten minutes. ### Should I use the same hook style every time? No. Audiences pattern-match fast, and a channel where every video opens with a shocking statistic stops being shocking by the fourth upload. Leave the style on Auto for a mixed set, then lock a specific archetype when you already know the angle you want to test. ### Can I use these hooks commercially? Yes. The output is original text with no licence attached, so you can narrate it, caption it, put it in a thumbnail and monetise the video. If a hook contains a statistic, check the figure before you publish it — the generator is told to keep numbers plausible, not to cite sources. ### Do I need an account? No login, no email, no card. The tool allows 12 generations per hour per person, which is 120 hooks — enough to script a week of uploads and still have options left over. ## More free tools [Video idea generator Find the subject first, then come back here for the opening line.](https://faceless.so/tools/video-idea-generator) [AI script generator Write the rest of the script the hook has just bought you.](https://faceless.so/tools/ai-script-generator) [YouTube title generator The written half of the click, for the upload page rather than the audio.](https://faceless.so/tools/youtube-title-generator) [Script timer Check how long your finished script runs before you record it.](https://faceless.so/tools/script-timer) The full product ## The First Three Seconds is just the start. Automate your whole faceless channel Faceless writes the other five hundred: describe a niche and it scripts, narrates, edits and captions full videos, then uploads them to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram on a schedule. 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