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Guides for ViralSky — registration, credits, generators, LinkedIn scheduling, and AppSumo activation.

01

Quickstart

Create your account and ship your first viral thread in minutes.

What is ViralSky?

ViralSky is an AI-powered viral content generator for social creators. Generate human-sounding threads and posts in seconds, browse proven templates from creators with hundreds of millions of views, create matching images, turn news into posts, and schedule content to LinkedIn.

  • Idea Generator — turn a niche into 10 topic ideas
  • Thread Generator — write viral threads for LinkedIn, X/Twitter, and more
  • Image Generator — create on-brand visuals with Nano Banana models
  • News Generator — research trending topics and draft posts
  • Template libraries — viral threads, images, and comment memes
  • Scheduler — connect LinkedIn and auto-publish on your timeline

Create your ViralSky account

Sign up with Google (fastest) or email and password from the homepage, pricing section, or /signup.

  1. Go to viralsky.ai and click Get Started (or open /signup).
  2. Continue with Google, or create an account with email and password.
  3. Accept the Terms of Service.
  4. Choose a plan on the select-plan screen — or continue with Free to explore libraries first.

Password requirements

Email signups need a password of at least 10 characters with uppercase, lowercase, and a number (max 128 characters).

Generate your first thread

Once you have a paid plan (or AppSumo access) and credits, you can create a thread in a few steps.

  1. Open Thread Generator from the sidebar (or /generate).
  2. Enter a topic — or start from Idea Generator and send an idea over in one click.
  3. Pick an output format (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Threads, and more), writing style, emoji level, and optional CTA.
  4. Optional: turn on Sources and check what to use.
  5. Click Generate, review the draft, regenerate if needed, then copy or schedule it.

Connected workflow

Best results come from Ideas → Thread → matching Image → publish (manually or via the LinkedIn scheduler on Ultra / Max / any AppSumo tier).

Free vs paid access

New accounts start on Free with 0 monthly credits. Free users can browse Viral Comments and Viral Images. AI generation (threads, news, ideas, custom images) requires Pro or higher. The LinkedIn scheduler requires Ultra, Max, or any AppSumo tier (T1–T3).

  • Free — Viral Comments + Viral Images libraries
  • Pro+ — Idea, Thread, News, and Image generators + all template libraries
  • Ultra / Max (and all AppSumo tiers) — Scheduler; Influencer Blueprint on Ultra / Max / AppSumo T2–T3
02

Registration & login

How accounts work, plan selection, and password recovery.

Sign up with Google or email

ViralSky uses secure authentication. Google OAuth is the quickest path; email + password works if you prefer a classic account.

  • Google — one click; we create your Free account and send you to plan selection.
  • Email — provide email, password, accept Terms, then continue to plan selection.
  • Forgot password — use /forgot-password to receive a reset link.

Choosing a plan after signup

After registration you land on Select Plan. Pick Pro, Ultra, or Max, or continue with Free. AppSumo buyers use the AppSumo activation flow instead.

  • Pro — $5/mo or $50/year — 450 credits/month
  • Ultra — $10/mo or $90/year — 1,300 credits/month + scheduler + Influencer Blueprint
  • Max — $20/mo or $180/year — 4,000 credits/month + early access + priority support

AppSumo buyers activate through a separate flow and receive AppSumo T1–T3 allowances (see AppSumo activation below).

Manage your account

The Account page shows your email, password controls, credit balance, subscription status, and support shortcuts.

  • Set or change your password (Google-only accounts can add a password later).
  • Open the Stripe customer portal to update billing or cancel a subscription.
  • Delete your account permanently by typing DELETE in the danger zone.

Cancel any active Stripe subscription in the billing portal before deleting your account if you want to stop future charges.

03

Credits & billing

How credits work, what each action costs, and how plans refill.

How credits work

Credits power AI generation. Your monthly allowance depends on your plan. Balance is shown in the sidebar and on Account.

  • Credits refill automatically at the start of each calendar month.
  • Unused credits do not roll over — the balance resets to your plan’s monthly limit.
  • Upgrading via Stripe refreshes your balance to the new tier’s monthly limit.
  • Free accounts have 0 credits (libraries only).

Check your balance anytime

Look at the credits widget in the sidebar, or open Account → Credits for available credits vs monthly limit.

What each action costs

  • Thread generation or regenerate — 2 credits
  • News generation — 2 credits
  • News refinement — 1 credit
  • Idea generation (10 ideas) — 1 credit
  • Image generation / regenerate — Nano Banana 2 — 5 credits
  • Image generation / regenerate — Nano Banana Pro — 10 credits
  • Viral comment / viral image AI regenerate — 5 credits (paid plans)

Browsing and copying from Viral Threads, Viral Images, and Viral Comments libraries does not spend credits. Generation and AI regenerations do.

Subscription plans (Stripe)

  • Pro — 450 credits/month — threads, news, images, ideas, all templates
  • Ultra — 1,300 credits/month — everything in Pro + LinkedIn scheduler + Influencer Blueprint + priority support
  • Max — 4,000 credits/month — everything in Ultra + early access to new features

Manage or cancel Stripe subscriptions from Account → Manage Subscription (Stripe portal). You keep access until the end of the paid period.

04

AI generators

Ideas, threads, images, and news — the core creation suite.

Idea Generator

Enter a niche or audience and ViralSky returns 10 topic ideas you can send straight into the Thread Generator.

  1. Open Idea Generator (/generate-ideas).
  2. Describe your niche, audience, or theme.
  3. Generate (1 credit) and pick an idea to turn into a thread.

Thread Generator

Turn a topic into a viral thread tuned for your platform. Choose writing style, AI model, emoji level, and CTA type.

  • Output formats include LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Threads, and other social formats
  • Styles: viral, educational, storytelling, list, and default
  • AI providers: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and xAI
  • Optional CTAs for course, video, product, link, or custom
  • Sources: save links, PDFs, and notes on your account; check up to 8 per thread
  • News → Thread carries those links over
  • Regenerate costs another 2 credits and stays grounded if the original used sources

LinkedIn tip

Select the LinkedIn output format when you plan to schedule or paste into LinkedIn — tone and structure adapt for that feed.

Image Generator

Create visuals that pair with your threads. Choose Nano Banana 2 (5 credits) or Nano Banana Pro (10 credits), aspect ratio, and (on Pro) resolution up to 4K.

  • Aspect ratios: square, portrait, landscape, social (4:5), photo (4:3)
  • Nano Banana Pro supports 1K / 2K / 4K output sizes
  • Regenerate or edit with instructions at the same model cost

News Generator

Research current topics with Perplexity-backed search, then draft posts in short, medium, long, newsletter, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and related formats.

  • Categories include AI, marketing, social, business, ecommerce, and personal branding
  • Generation costs 2 credits; refinements (shorter, stronger hook, CTA, etc.) cost 1 credit
  • Browse past runs in News Generation History
  • Turn into Thread carries article links into Thread Writer
05

Templates & libraries

Proven threads, viral images, and comment memes you can copy instantly.

Viral Threads library

Browse 50+ proven thread structures that have driven millions of impressions. Fill in your topic and adapt the pattern for your niche. Using the library to generate requires a paid plan.

Viral Images library

100+ ready-to-use image inspirations. Free users can browse and copy; paid users can regenerate variations with AI (5 credits).

Viral Comments

Meme-style comment images designed to drive engagement and start conversations. Free to browse and copy. AI regenerate on paid plans costs 5 credits.

Library content is provided for you to copy and use — there is no copyright restriction attached to items in our viral libraries.

06

Scheduler (LinkedIn)

Connect LinkedIn and publish generated or custom posts on your schedule.

Who can use the scheduler?

The post scheduler is available on Ultra and Max subscriptions, and on every AppSumo tier (T1–T3). Stripe Pro includes generation but not scheduling.

LinkedIn publishing

Connect your LinkedIn account, pick a generated thread or write a new post, choose date and timezone, and ViralSky publishes automatically.

Connect LinkedIn

  1. Open Scheduler from the sidebar.
  2. Under connected accounts, click Connect on LinkedIn.
  3. Complete the LinkedIn authorization popup and return to ViralSky.
  4. Your LinkedIn profile appears as connected — you can disconnect anytime from the same card.

If the connection popup closes early, use Sync / reconnect on the scheduler page. Allow popups for viralsky.ai if your browser blocks them.

Schedule a post to LinkedIn

  1. From Scheduler, click Schedule a post — or schedule directly from a generation when available.
  2. Select your connected LinkedIn account.
  3. Choose an existing generation or write/paste new content.
  4. Set the publish date, time, and timezone.
  5. Confirm — the post appears in your scheduled list with status until it goes live.
  • Timezone-aware scheduling so posts go out when you intend
  • Status tracking: pending, published, or failed (with error details)
  • Published posts include a link back to the live LinkedIn URL when available

Scheduling does not spend credits — credits are only used when you generate or regenerate content. Keep enough credits for the drafts you want to create before you schedule.

07

AppSumo activation

Redeem your AppSumo license and understand T1–T3 benefits.

How to activate

  1. Open the activation link from AppSumo (it sends you to ViralSky’s AppSumo activate page with your license session).
  2. Sign up with Google or email — or log in if you already created an account for this license.
  3. Confirm activation — your AppSumo tier, monthly credits, and included features apply immediately.

You generally cannot stack AppSumo on an account that already has an active paid Stripe subscription or another AppSumo license. Use a fresh account or email info@viralsky.ai for help.

AppSumo tier comparison

  • AppSumo T1 — 550 credits/month — full AI generators + templates + LinkedIn scheduler
  • AppSumo T2 — 1,600 credits/month — generators + LinkedIn scheduler + Influencer Blueprint
  • AppSumo T3 — 5,000 credits/month — generators + LinkedIn scheduler + Influencer Blueprint + public REST API / Make / MCP

AppSumo plans are lifetime with monthly credit refills for as long as ViralSky operates. Manage your license on appsumo.com; your ViralSky Account page shows credits and plan label (AppSumo T1/T2/T3).

AppSumo credit allowances differ from Stripe Pro/Ultra/Max numbers — that is expected. Your AppSumo tier mapping is the source of truth for your deal.

08

API & automation

Public REST API, Make.com recipes, outbound webhooks, and MCP for Max / AppSumo T3.

Public REST API overview

ViralSky exposes a generation + credits REST API for Max (Stripe) and AppSumo T3 accounts. Create keys at Account → API & automation (/settings/api). Scheduler/publish endpoints are not included in v1 (waiting on Meta App Review).

  • Auth: Authorization: Bearer vs_… on all /api/v1/* routes
  • POST /api/v1/generate/thread — 2 credits
  • POST /api/v1/generate/ideas — 1 credit (0 on cross-user cache hit)
  • POST /api/v1/generate/news — 2 credits
  • POST /api/v1/generate/image — 5 or 10 credits by model
  • GET /api/v1/credits — balance + monthly limit
  • Rate limit: 60 requests / API key / minute
  • Optional Idempotency-Key header on POST (24h replay of 2xx responses)

Product gate

API access is Max / AppSumo T3 only (internal tier max). Pro/Ultra and AppSumo T1/T2 cannot create keys or call /api/v1.

Example curl

curl -sS https://viralsky.ai/api/v1/generate/thread \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vs_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: make-run-123" \
  -d '{
    "topic": "How I grew to 10K followers",
    "outputFormat": "linkedin",
    "writingStyle": "viral",
    "emojiLevel": 1
  }'
curl -sS https://viralsky.ai/api/v1/credits \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vs_YOUR_KEY"

Make.com HTTP recipes

v1 does not include a native Make partner app. Use the HTTP module against the REST API (or Catch Hook + outbound webhooks).

  1. Create an API key at /settings/api (name it Make.com).
  2. In Make: add HTTP → Make a request.
  3. URL: https://viralsky.ai/api/v1/generate/thread (or /ideas, /news, /image, /credits).
  4. Method POST (GET for credits). Headers: Authorization = Bearer vs_… and Content-Type = application/json.
  5. Body type Raw / JSON with topic + outputFormat (thread) or niche (ideas).
  6. Optional: set Idempotency-Key to {{execution.id}} so retries do not double-charge credits.
  7. Map the JSON response content into Vista Social, Google Docs, Slack, etc.

Outbound webhooks (optional)

Register your Make Custom Webhook HTTPS URL under /settings/api. After successful API generations ViralSky POSTs a signed content.generated event (headers X-ViralSky-Signature = sha256=HMAC, X-ViralSky-Timestamp). Verify: HMAC-SHA256(secret, `${timestamp}.${rawBody}`).

MCP server (Claude / Cursor)

ViralSky hosts a remote MCP endpoint at https://viralsky.ai/api/mcp. Add the URL + your API key — no Node install or local checkout. Tools: generate_thread, generate_ideas, generate_news, generate_image, get_credits. Credits and Max/T3 gates match the REST API.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "viralsky": {
      "url": "https://viralsky.ai/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer vs_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Paste the snippet into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or project .cursor/mcp.json), then reload MCP. Prefer Authorization: Bearer ${env:VIRALSKY_API_KEY} so the key stays out of the file.

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop is stdio-only. Use npx mcp-remote with --header Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER} and env AUTH_HEADER=Bearer vs_…. Details: /docs/api.md and mcp/README.md.

09

Communities & affiliate

Creator communities and earning with referrals.

Communities directory

Browse creator community groups with engagement tips to grow alongside other operators. Open Communities from the sidebar or navigation.

Affiliate program

Earn recurring commission when people subscribe through your link — ViralSky pays 40% every month with no earnings cap.

  • Unique referral tracking for signups from your link
  • Affiliate signup and dashboard via the Affiliate pages
  • Separate from your main ViralSky app login when using the affiliate portal

Thumbnails (SkySnail)

Need YouTube or social thumbnails? ViralSky partners with SkySnail for AI thumbnail generation. Open Thumbnails from the sidebar to visit skysnail.io.

10

Support & troubleshooting

Where to get help and how to report issues.

Contact support

Email info@viralsky.ai for support, AppSumo activation help, billing questions, or bugs. Include your account email and a short description (screenshots help).

Who built ViralSky?

ViralSky was created by AI content creator René Remsik (700,000+ followers) together with senior developer David Stredansky — built for creators who want viral-ready posts without generic ChatGPT fluff.

11

FAQ & troubleshooting

Quick answers to common questions. Still stuck? Reach out — we are happy to help.

Still need help?

Email us with your account email and a short description of the issue.

Feature requests welcome — send us your ideas