What we shipped

Redesigned exports panel

Your newest export leads with the rendered file itself, playable in place. Older renders collapse into a dense list instead of ten identical cards.

Sound effects for punched words

Curated whoosh, impact, and riser sets in the wizard, with per-effect volume and live preview.

Search across the template gallery

Templates also load only the fonts they need, so the gallery paints faster.

Creator rewards

Hit view milestones with a captioned video and earn plan time back.

Editor timeline rebuilt as a designed surface

Clip cards show which clip is live and which word carries the punch, with grip handles and a real playhead.

Transcript editing moved into the editor sidebar

Export previews could not be scrubbed before playing

Caption backgrounds unified

One stored shape for global and per-caption backgrounds, independent padding and radius, and an enabled background can no longer render invisible.

Post-export screen reworked with clearer next steps

Onboarding now offers a sample video so you can try the flow instantly

Cloud exports rendered in the wrong typeface

Any template outside two default fonts exported incorrectly while the preview looked right. Cloud renders now load the full font catalog again.

Karaoke hid word backgrounds on inactive words

Filmstrip font picker with live canvas preview

Hovering a font previews it on the actual caption, laid out exactly as it would apply.

Browse-all sheet grouped by vibe

Cards preview your own caption text, and starring a font pins it to the strip.

Blend modes for captions, in early beta

Font names now read properly, so "Bebas Neue" instead of "BebasNeue"

The font popover detached from the panel while scrolling

Resizing a word pins the opposite corner

The grabbed handle now stays under your cursor instead of drifting away.

Pop captions drew a selection box around empty space

Dragging one also disconnected the caption from its auto-centering.

Hover outlines and click targets disagreed on where a caption was

Wave and Split Reveal were invisible on gradient text

The Pro badge sat out of line with the template tags

Founder letter and a two-question survey on first sign-in

Interlaced footage is detected on upload

You get an honest heads-up about combing instead of a silently degraded export.

Upload step redesigned with language cards and a clearer call to action

Space is play or pause everywhere, including the wizard and trim tool

Captioning progress shows status first instead of raw activity

"Change template?" warned on every template click, even with nothing to lose

Recoloring a preset left the old glow colour behind

Restyle and recolor one clip without touching the rest

Every eligible template is available as a clip design, with a Global tile to reset.

Designs sheet with mood tabs: Loud, Clean, Curved, Karaoke

Preset style suggestions as one-tap chips

Gradient editing uses one retint picker

Instead of eight separate stop pickers for a single gradient.

Dragging a colour corrupted the layout of dynamic templates

"Audio ready, loading video" could hang forever

Handwritten Instagram carousel maker

A per-slide editor for carousel posts, in the same studio.

Landing feature graphics and Why cards redrawn

Curve captions did not sit centered on the canvas

Comments could not be edited after posting

Eight new motion elements in the editor

Dissolve image element

A particle dissolve transition for photos and product shots.

Chinese caption groundwork, behind a flag for now

Bengali and Devanagari captions were cropped at the top

Curve look productionized with its own selection and positioning

Caption Look and the Curve editor are available to all users

Browser exports embed their fonts

So a curved caption exports with the same face it previewed with.

Inspector controls behaved oddly while a curve was active

Redesigned landing page, pricing page, and about page

Motion elements on a top-level layer

With a time-ruler timeline and a short tour of the editor sections.

Template Styles in the editor, plus 3D perspective captions

Upgraded the render engine and refreshed the elements editor

Several motion element controls showed blank or invalid values

Effect previews actually animate

Each card runs the real effect on a shared clock instead of showing a still.

Tutorials page with short walkthrough videos

Word timing popover

Drag word boundaries by hand when the transcript lands a beat off.

Pricing and credit copy corrected across the site

Notifications fired a burst of toasts when the tab regained focus

Render routing engine with capability-aware fallback to the cloud

Curated effect looks and opening hooks

Cloud renders run on right-sized memory tiers

Cheaper for short videos, more headroom for long ones.

Route telemetry so failed exports can be diagnosed properly

Serif Bloom, Afterglow, and a three-template karaoke set

Offers appear when you run out of credits mid-project

Comped, trial, and promo plan grants

Annual plans show a per-month price

Annual prices did not match what checkout charged

Audio-only uploads for podcast and voiceover projects

Single video layer for the whole composition

One decoder instead of one per clip, with per-clip effects preserved.

Mobile onboarding wizard productionized, with a faster review step

Long cloud renders ran out of memory and failed

Recovered renders did not appear in the exports list

Pages step in the wizard

Control how captions break across stacked pages before you reach the editor.

Perspective poses for captions

AI clip segmentation rewritten for tighter, more quotable cuts

Export analytics so slow renders can be traced end to end

Redesigned project dashboard with a launcher home

Free tools hub, no account needed

Post-signup welcome flow

Mobile wizard interface, rebuilt for touch

Import from a social link failed with an unhelpful error

Headless caption engine running the real app pipeline

API key authentication for engine requests

Native-script fonts were skipped by the engine renderer

Stacked caption pages with per-page styling

Long lines break into pages that hold their position instead of jumping.

Import a reel straight from an Instagram link, in beta

Rainbow palettes and Pro style variations

Recent colours were dropped between sessions

New styling engine behind every template

Showcase carousel on the landing page

Template poster cards and project covers in the studio

Bengali and Devanagari rendered as blank boxes in cloud exports

Caption Look beta with perspective and curve

Fade preset for caption entrances

The wizard suggests fonts that suit your language

Plus a Setup step that collects the basics up front.

Format moved to the end of the wizard, where it belongs

Free tools hub with an in-browser background remover

Clip effects, first version

Direct checkout without leaving the app

Search engines are notified the moment a page changes

Per-user inbox for product news and account notices

Template thumbnails now match between onboarding and the editor

Faster, lighter render engine after a dependency upgrade

Production errors now reach monitoring instead of dying silently

Free accounts were granted credits monthly by mistake

Free plans get welcome credits at signup, as documented.

A missing account row could crash the fonts panel

Upload your own fonts on paid plans

Instagram Reels preview overlay in the editor

Settings page with timezone and account controls

Wizard review step redesigned around the preview

Every export is backed up automatically

Rebuilt exports list with per-project grouping

Captioning failures now return a clear reason and a safe retry

Pop captions mistimed their exits

Pages within captions, with manual breaks

Decide where a long caption splits instead of accepting the automatic break.

Wizard and editor share a single asset pipeline

Colour pickers respond instantly

The old pickers lagged behind the drag on every colour change.

Review step shows your clips as an inline script

The proxy badge floated away from the player frame

iPhone HEVC and HDR video is converted on upload

Footage that used to fail or wash out now transcodes before it reaches the editor.

Interactive style builder in onboarding

Cloud exports did not match the preview quality

Long exports timed out while waiting on the wrong audio source

Centered play and pause control on the player canvas

More languages available in onboarding

Audio is tracked at the project level

One source of truth instead of a copy per clip, so scrubbing stays in sync.

Text effects are preset-driven, so templates share one engine

The player could stall silently after a hard refresh

Reset word styles back to the caption default

App redesigned on a new component system

Style presets inherit properly instead of silently overriding

Named text style presets you can apply in one click

Upgrade prompts when a free plan runs into a limit

Browser exports used local file references

They now prefer hosted copies, which is why exports stopped failing on reload.

Iris transition, colour beam and grain shaders, gradient text

Caption scale system for consistent sizing across formats

One export orchestrator behind every render path

Browser and cloud renders stopped drifting apart in behaviour.

Assets have a single source of truth in cloud storage

Plan errors during export were unreadable

Caption backgrounds, readability controls, and style variations

Smart split and merge for clips

Copy a clip's style onto another clip

Style cascade so global, clip, and word settings stop fighting

Export fell back correctly when a cloud render was unavailable

Dynamic layout algorithm with caption layout presets

Word rows arrange themselves into designed shapes instead of one flat line.

Dynamic Lime template

Template tab in the editor, with spotlight styles and karaoke presets

Per-word drop shadow and text transform

Credit system with in-app checkout and plan management

Export quality tiers: Standard, High, and Ultra

Keyboard shortcuts across the editor

Credits could go negative after a failed export

A cancelled export left its status stuck

Cloud rendering for exports

Restructured cloud storage with upload links that never expose keys

Corrupt or undecodable video is detected on upload

With an automatic repair pass instead of a failed export an hour later.

Project data split so autosave stopped burning bandwidth

Site and API moved to a single edge platform

Faster first load worldwide, and static pages are prerendered.

Canvas zoom fits the composition properly and shows a real percentage

Expired upload links broke exports mid-render

Projects sync to your account instead of living only in the browser

Transcription in 31 Latin-script languages

Text case transforms and trim, in the inspector and canvas toolbar

Fonts load in two phases

Nine critical faces first, the rest deferred, so the editor opens sooner.

Several security gaps around uploads and storage scope

Elements gallery with a schema-driven editor

Marquee multi-select with a floating toolbar

SRT export and a canvas size picker

Video aspect ratio is detected automatically on import

Colour picker and batch styling misapplied to the wrong words

Motion elements library

Dynamic captions with AI-picked spotlight words

The words worth emphasising get chosen for you, then you adjust.

First set of caption templates

Audio always uploads before transcription, so long files stop failing

Animated background library

Clip layers with overlay textures and a layer stack

Image-to-Video tool with filter effects, free to use

The hero call to action ignored the first click before the page finished loading

Text effects playground for trying looks before applying them

Style levels and a much larger font selection

Redesigned interface on a dark theme

Gradients rendered incorrectly and karaoke inactive words lost styling

Guided walkthrough on the review step

Live transcription progress instead of an unexplained wait

One caption per clip, with a redesigned timeline to match

Editing a word in review did not update the caption

Splitting a clip produced the wrong duration

Hinglish transcription

Hindi-English speech comes back in Roman script, ready to caption.

Transcription moved to the server

No more browser memory limits, and long files finally finish.

Captions break on natural phrase boundaries, not word counts

Canvas zoom and pan with a contextual floating toolbar

Copy and paste styles between word groups

Export mode selector and a compact scrubber

Font size hints and a re-fit button when text overflows its box

Mobile guard and layout polish for small screens

Style step with a live preview during import

Highlight sub-styles for emphasised words

Rebuilt builder layout, inspector, and timeline

Faster landing page and lighter first load

Upload a video and get word-level captions

Visual caption editor with per-word styling

Projects saved in the browser, with undo and redo

MP4 export straight from the browser