LocalMiniDrama

LocalMiniDrama is a free, open-source desktop tool that turns a story idea into a finished AI short drama — script, storyboard and video — entirely through a local workflow. It chains together AI generation for characters, scenes and props, a visual storyboard editor, and one-click video composition, while your project data stays on your own machine. The project has 2,159 stars on GitHub.

Overview

Short-form AI drama is booming, but most creation platforms are cloud services that hold your projects and charge per render. LocalMiniDrama takes the opposite approach: an Electron app for Windows, macOS and Linux that manages the whole mini-drama pipeline locally. You bring your own API keys for image and video models — the repository documents configurations for popular providers, including ByteDance’s Seedream image models — and the app handles character consistency, shot-by-shot storyboard editing with professional camera parameters, and final video assembly.

Key Features

• End-to-end pipeline: story to storyboard to finished short video
• AI generation of characters, scenes and props with multi-character management
• Visual storyboard editor with shot type, camera angle and movement controls
• Local-first design — project data stays on your machine, not a vendor cloud
• Bring your own API keys for image and video generation models
• Project import/export for backup and sharing, with sample projects included
• MIT licensed, cross-platform on Windows, macOS and Linux

💳 Pricing

LocalMiniDrama is completely free and open source under the MIT license. Generation itself uses your own API keys for image and video models, so any per-generation cost goes to those providers at their rates.

Who Is It For

LocalMiniDrama is for short-video creators, indie studios and hobbyists who want to produce AI mini-dramas without a subscription platform. If you like owning your workflow and data — and are happy supplying your own model API keys — it is a capable local production desk.