Make Reels from your phone

You can make Reels, TikToks and Shorts from your phone alone: start Claude Code in the cloud from the Claude app, connect a private GitHub repository, and let Claude Code write and render the video in the cloud session. The finished MP4 is saved in the repository, and you download it to your phone and post it.

You need a paid Claude plan that includes Claude Code (Pro or higher), the Claude app on iPhone or Android and a free GitHub account. The setup takes a while once; after that it is prompt, render, post.

Check what you need

• A paid Claude plan with Claude Code. Pro or higher. Claude Code in the cloud uses the same account.
• The Claude app on your phone, where you open Code and start sessions.
• A free GitHub account. The cloud session works inside a GitHub repository.
• A video kit, if you use one: templates, sounds and fonts that the session can reach. Without a kit, Claude Code can still build videos from scratch.

How the cloud version works

When you start a session, Claude Code gets a fresh computer in the cloud with your repository on it. It can install tools, run commands and push changes back to the repository. When the session ends, that computer is gone, and only what was pushed to the repository remains.

Three consequences shape the setup:

1. Your files live in the repository. Kit, projects and exports all go there, so the next session finds them.
2. The repository must be private if it holds licensed material such as a paid video pack.
3. The network is limited by default. Each cloud environment has network settings, and downloads from addresses outside the allowed list are refused. If your setup downloads files from a specific site, that address has to be allowed.

The one-time setup

1. Make a private repository. On github.com or in the GitHub app: New repository, give it a name such as my-reels, choose Private, tick Add a README file and create it.
2. Connect it in Claude. In the Claude app, open Code and connect GitHub when it asks. Give Claude access to that repository.
3. Allow the addresses you need. On claude.ai/code (your phone's browser works), edit the cloud environment's network access, choose Custom, add the domains your setup downloads from, and keep the default list of common package managers included so Node.js tools and FFmpeg can install.
4. Run the setup once. Start a session in the repository and paste a setup prompt that downloads your kit, stores it in the repository and renders a test video.
5. Make videos. From then on, start a session in the repository and paste any video prompt. Ask Claude Code to copy finished videos to an exports folder and push them.

For Motion Cheat Code, the phone setup page has the exact domains to allow and the setup prompt with a copy button, filled in with your download link when you open it from your download page. It takes about 15 minutes, once.

Make a video from your phone

Open a session in your repository and paste a prompt, exactly as you would on a computer. A prompt in five parts (format, scenes, style, sound, render) works best; see how to write a video prompt. Claude Code builds the project, checks it, looks at snapshots and renders.

Two habits help on a small screen:

• Ask for snapshots or a draft render first. The live HyperFrames Studio preview needs a computer with a browser, but still frames and a quick draft work fine on a phone.
• Ask Claude Code to keep its reports short and to always name the export path.

Save the video to your phone

• If the app shows the video as a file in the chat, open it and save it.
• It is always in your repository too: open github.com on your phone, go to the repository, then exports, tap the video, then Download (or View raw), then Share and Save Video.

Post it from your camera roll like any other video.

Limits to know

• Rendering happens in the session, so long or heavy videos take a while. Short reels are the sweet spot.
• Each session starts fresh. Anything not pushed to the repository is gone afterwards.
• Keep exports a sensible size so they download quickly on mobile data.

The phone route and Motion Cheat Code

The full Motion Cheat Code pack works on a phone this way: the setup puts the kit, the 6 Claude Code skills and a project card in your private repository, and every prompt in the pack works from there. Keeping your copy in a private repository for your own use is allowed by the license; sharing it is not. The free starter kit is set up on a Mac or Windows computer.