app-sizzle

App Sizzle is a Pika Labs plugin skill that turns real iOS App Store screenshots into a polished, roughly 15-second cinematic app teaser video at 1080p. It solves the problem of producing a professional-looking app promo without a video team: each selected screen is first run through a GPT-image-2 enhancement pass so compressed captures become clean references, then a beat-driven teaser is generated (via Seedance) that ends on the brand logo plus a deterministic 'COMING SOON' overlay. The stated design intent is not to invent UI but to make the app's real screens render faithfully.

The workflow sources screens and brand assets first, from a Pika MCP App Store fetch, an auto-captured live website, user-supplied files, or URLs. It reads the app's personality from its icon, screenshots, and category to choose a visual treatment (a default cinematic-narrative template, or a liquid-glass template reserved for photography and filter apps), then writes a feature map and narrative arc before generating. The skill enforces a cost-transparency gate (calling identity_balance and requiring an explicit 'proceed' before any paid call), a pre-generation wall-clock guard, and single-line progress checkpoints. It locks resolution=1080p, duration=15, and sound=on so the user only supplies app identity, screens, logo, and aspect ratio.

The target users are app founders, indie developers, and marketers who want a fast, on-brand teaser for a launch or 'coming soon' moment. It is explicitly scoped to iOS app teasers sourced from App Store screens or real app UI, and is not intended for short-form consumer content like vlogs, GRWM, UGC, or non-app product ads.