A faceless Shorts setup that costs nothing

Everything here has a genuine free tier — not a trial that quietly expires the week you finally start posting. TTSMaker is the one that makes the whole thing work: it gives you commercial rights on the free plan, which almost no other text-to-speech tool does, so your first monetised upload isn't a licensing headache. CapCut and Submagic both do captions, so here CapCut just cuts and assembles — on free plans you're paying in export limits, and it's a shame to spend them twice on the same job. Buffer sits at the end because keeping a rhythm matters more than most people expect. Faceless channels tend to go quiet before they go bad.