Getting Started with Chat Octopus
Sign up free, describe what you want made, and download the finished file. What to type in a first request, and how to correct a result you do not like.
Updated July 21, 2026
Everything in Chat Octopus starts the same way: you describe what you want, and you get a finished file back. No timeline to learn, and no logo of ours on the result. The only part that takes real time is the work itself.
Create your free account
No invite code, no credit card. Sign up and your account comes with credits, enough for real work: caption a video, transcribe an interview, cut a clip, get four thumbnails to choose between, ask a long contract where the clause is. Everything you make is saved to your account, so you can close the tab mid-project and nothing is lost.
Ask for what you want
Open a new chat and type the request the way you would brief an editor. Attach a file or paste a link in the same message. A photo counts as a file, so a picture of a whiteboard is something you can send and ask about.
- "Add captions to this video and export it as an MP4."
- "Transcribe this interview and pull the three best quotes."
- "Turn this blog post into a vertical clip for Reels."
Plain requests work. Specific requests work better: "captions" gets you captions, "bold yellow captions that fit a vertical frame" gets you exactly those.
Watch the work happen
Nothing disappears behind a spinner. Chat Octopus shows you each step as it runs, and when a decision needs your call (vertical or widescreen, keep the intro or cut it) it stops and asks before continuing. You always know what is happening.
Download your file
When the work finishes, the file is yours: MP4, MP3, SRT, PNG, DOCX, whatever the job called for. We never stamp a logo on it.
If the result is close but not quite right, say so in the same thread. "Tighter cut." "Slower captions." "Same video, but square." The conversation remembers everything that came before, so a follow-up refines the work instead of restarting it.
Where to go next
Once the first file is out, the habit forms fast. See what the conversation can do as your projects get bigger, pull the key points out of a long document, or skip the blank-page moment and start from a template.