Updates

You can now add timestamped comments or reactions to team videos.

Video uploading is now pretty much instant — we upload video in segments as you record (Web and Mac app).

Added tabs for Notifications and "Shared with Me" to make navigation easier.

🚀 New Features

• Preview Quality Indicator: Added visual indicator in the editor to clarify that preview quality is lower than final published videos, helping set proper expectations during editing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Card Duplication: Fixed critical issue where duplicating cards with multiple text overlays could cause all overlays to disappear when deleting individual layers

• Timeline Performance: Resolved lag when adjusting in/out points on the timeline for smoother editing experience

• Filmstrip Display: Fixed visual clipping issues in vertical filmstrip view when scrollbars are present

• Text Editing: Improved reliability of text layer interactions and fixed accessibility issues with color and font controls

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Timeline Responsiveness: Significantly improved performance when working with timeline in/out points

• Editor Efficiency: Optimized internal systems for faster UI updates and reduced computational overhead

✨ Quality of Life

• Visual Consistency: More stable layout behavior across different devices and input methods

• Developer Experience: Cleaner console output for better debugging and development
  
  

Combine stories into Playlists

Our team has been using Playlists to do weekly show and tell. We each record updates throughout the week and add them to the weekly playlist. It's a great snapshot of weekly progress. Playlists are also helpful for customer onboarding, product releases or anything with multiple stories part of a larger arc — try them out and let us know how you use them!

Annotate with text overlays

Add labels to your screenshots or screen recordings. Pick from Google Fonts and color themes.

Board summaries

Extract highlights from all the stories on a Board. Summaries update automatically as content gets added, removed, or updated.

Improved

• Publishing is now instant

• Better story summaries

• Animated preview images, including for embeds

• Pause and resume recordings

• Save default card layout and backgrounds

• Cursor tracking and zoom animations

• Added video and microphone controls to the PiP video controller.

• Updated design for mobile watch page

• Favicon previews included with resource links

• The preview player is now a more accurate representation of the public-facing video player

Floating narrator bubbles

Floating narrator bubbles use AI vision to remove the background from your webcam recording. This gives you more space to show the content behind you, and opens up some new customization options. For example, partial backgrounds which give you a splash of brand color (just in time for the brand kit update) while keeping the presentation in the spotlight. You can see one of these examples in the embedded story above.

Keep in mind: This customization requires a little bit of processing before the preview reflects in the editor. If you recorded via the Mac App, the results will be almost instant. Otherwise, you'll see the floating version available around a minute after recording stops — and yes, that will get much faster soon.

Brand Kit

Workspaces can now set brand colors and images in one place, then use them across all stories. Previously, you had to hunt down the exact color and upload branded backgrounds on each story you made separately. Manage your brand kit from the sidebar to add colors, logos, and backgrounds. These will be available for everyone in your workspace to use in future stories, and also change the default appearance of your share links — buttons, logo, etc.

Improved

• Recordings with cursor tracking (via Mac app), automatic zooms will now follow the mouse as it moves.

• Story view counts are now visible from My Stories and board overviews for quick reference. You can also sort

• Share links now feature a more mobile-friendly layout

• Overhauled transcripts, with better design and navigation on playback pages.

• Redesigned editor filmstrip and timeline controls to provide clearer context and navigation as you scrub through the story.

• Share pages now support keyboard navigation between chapters via arrows, and stop/start via spacebar.

• Boards now include automatic preview images when shared on social, or other places where links unfurl

These are just some of the dozens of improvements from this month's releases, and you can discover the rest in the app.

New embed customizations have landed. This round of updates brings button and display controls into embeds.

Change title card details

You now have finer controls over which details should appear before and during playback of story embeds. This includes things like narrators, publish date, and workspace. Keep in mind you can use different settings for each embed — just copy the configured embed code after toggling the options.

Embed a call to action

Stories with a call to action (CTA) can now include a button on embeds too. Previously CTAs were only available when viewing a story's share link. Use it to make next steps easy to find, wherever you publish updates.

Customize the play button

As a bonus, you can also now change the play button to display custom text instead of the default, video duration.

Find these options (and grab the updated embed code) via Share → Embed, when viewing a story.