Ten SMS styles, for reels about texting: a lock screen, the thread, a phone with the result beside it, two phones trading a text, one giant bubble, dark neon, receipt tape, the inbox, the keyboard, and the results. Each cut plays the conversation in again, and Claude puts in your clinic's name and your messages.
Romotiq 2, rebuilt on layers. Every part of a reel is its own layer: the take, the cuts, the animation, the captions, the sound, the cover and the post copy. Change any one of them by hand or by asking Claude, and undo it.
New reel opens in Claude Code. Drop your clips on the frame, watch them copy in, and Claude makes the first draft: cuts on the beats, the animation, headline captions, sounds, the cover and the copy.
Headline captions put the big word behind you. Romotiq cuts you out on your Mac, so the word sits between you and the background.
Post Trial Reel. Send the finished reel to Instagram as a trial reel, shown first to people who don't follow you, from inside Romotiq.
Exports only re-render what changed, so a second export takes seconds.
Improvements
Your reels page shows where each reel is: take, cuts, animate, export, with the next step to do.
Romotiq carries its own tools and its own browser for rendering, so there is nothing else to install.
Your licence carries over, and the reels you made in Romotiq 1 come across the first time Romotiq 2 opens.
Words no longer go missing after cutting pauses. Whisper sometimes timed a word inside the silence before it, and the cut dropped the word from the transcript even though you could still hear it. Opening words like "What's" now stay.
Auto no longer asks you to reopen the cut. While Auto is on, Claude puts missing words back itself and keeps going.
New reels ask what you want to make with two big choices: Animated captions or Motion graphics. Then choose Auto or Step by step. Files keep copying while you choose.
Adding a recording shows a “Copying to file location” bar with the percentage and MB copied. Once the copy finishes, it says “Preparing preview” so you can see what is happening next.
Storyboards describe the objects, action, timing cues and result for each beat. Those plans follow the animation through sketches and revisions.
Animation reviews check the full motion, including cue timing and playback after seeking. Existing approved animations keep their edits.
Fixes
Opening a reel in Codex shows the setup step and how long it has been running. Cancel stops the setup, and a stalled command ends with a clear message so you can try again.
Closing the app chooser while it checks access no longer opens an app afterward. A late reply cannot change a new choice.
Reels opened beside Codex use Codex for transcript checks and other default AI work. Explicit model choices stay yours. Transcript results record the provider that did the work.
Zoom to beat gives you a closer look at the current beat's tracks and captions. Fit reel brings the whole timeline back.
Music volume is shown in decibels. New music starts at −20 dB.
Improvements
Clear tracks makes the timeline easier to scan, with larger labels, quiet colours for each kind of layer, and clearer waveforms.
Caption cards read as phrases across the whole reel. Zooming shows finer detail. Each mark keeps its original words, timing and controls.
Turn off Show all tracks to give the reel more room while keeping Take, Background animation, and Words + captions visible.
Music comes first in Assets, with a larger waveform, volume, mute, and start/fade controls together. Its preview fills the reel: short tracks repeat, and long tracks end with the reel.
Adjust music volume while listening. Muting and unmuting keeps the level you chose.
Fixes
CapCut music fills the timeline and keeps your chosen level and start.
Returning to a reel while its music level saves keeps that level.
Show all tracks opens all seven layers: Take, Background, Background animation, Words + captions, Overlaid text, Music, and Sounds. Turn it off to give your reel more room.
Hide the background colour and texture while keeping the animation.
Improvements
Words and captions share one timeline row. Your ending follows the recording on Take.
The stage bar takes less space. Editing tools shows the current stage above the nine steps.
Fixes
Seeking while paused now moves the recording to the same frame as the animation and captions.
Every layer has its own timeline row on every saved reel step: video, animations, captions, title and logo, music, sounds, and ending.
Click a clip to open its controls; double-click an animation to open its beat. Empty rows stay ready to use. Each row's eye hides or shows that layer in the preview.
Improvements
Animation clips show their real previews. Caption clips follow the captions you saved, including the animated version you chose.
On shorter screens, scroll the tracks while Play stays in reach.
Choose Smooth or Cut for any view switch in Transitions, or ask Claude.
Hide and show any layer while playing: video, animations, captions, title and logo, music, sounds, and ending. The export keeps every layer.
Improvements
The storyboard suggests switches once. After that, your switches stay as you set them. Choose Use the storyboard's switches to put its suggestions back.
Face framing leaves a crop or camera you set by hand alone.
Changing words updates your captions and keeps your animations. A note before the first save tells you which drawings may show the old words.
Blips. Removing pauses now also finds the stumbles: a word said twice, a sentence you started and then said again, and the odd "um". They're marked in violet next to the pauses, and one Apply cuts them all.
Select reels on Home and move them to the Trash together. Select all is there too, and before anything moves it asks whether their exported videos should go to the Trash as well.
Improvements
Your words are transcribed and checked by Claude while you trim, so they're ready when you reach Words. Nothing is transcribed twice, and Transitions no longer waits on it.
The split view finds your face. When a storyboard sets the layout, Romotiq aims the split at your face, so the top of your head is never cut off.
Switching between split and full view now slides smoothly by default. Claude uses a hard cut only when a beat calls for one.
Fixes
The animation now stays on screen on the Captions and Finish steps. Before, playing the reel there showed only your video and the captions, with an empty space where the animation should be.
Light mode. Romotiq now matches the app it sits in: light beside a light Claude app, Cursor or Codex, dark beside a dark one, and on its own it follows your Mac. It switches as soon as you change it.
Fixes
Romotiq makes sure the browser it checks drawings with is installed. It fetches it in the background if it's missing, and a check that finds it gone fetches it first instead of failing.
Claude no longer opens a draft's raw files in a browser tab, where they showed as plain text. Drafts show in Romotiq, over your take.
Romotiq asks you to pick a plan before your first reel. After you choose where to make it, the same pop-up shows the plans: Founders, $99 once (yours for good, with every update); Monthly, $19; or Yearly, $149. Checkout opens in your browser. The email that follows has your code: click its link, or paste it in, and your reel opens where you picked. Beta testers are already in and see nothing new.
Fixes
A paid copy keeps checking its licence by itself while you're online, so it no longer asks you to reconnect after a month.
New reel asks where to make it with a proper pop-up: a card for each app, with its own icon. Your last choice is ready, so Enter takes it, and the card shows each step while Romotiq gets the other app ready, then what to do there.
Make reels in Codex. New reel, a reel's tile and its ••• menu offer In Codex: Romotiq sets itself up in Codex and opens a new Codex chat with your first message typed in and the reel in Codex's browser beside it. The first time, Codex may ask whether to trust your Reels folder: say yes.
Improvements
In Codex, Romotiq runs its drawing checks itself, so Codex doesn't stop to ask you about each one.
Make my reel works beside a chat in the Claude app or Cursor. It turns Auto on and asks you to say "go" to Claude in the chat, instead of asking you to finish AI setup. You can also just ask Claude in the chat to make the reel for you.
Dragging recordings over a new reel lights up the whole reel, and while they load, a spinner shows which clip is coming in.
A reel's ••• menu has Open folder.
Fixes
Romotiq's tools start in Cursor. Opening a reel in Cursor now sets up Romotiq through Claude Code, which Cursor picks up by itself. If Cursor lists a "romotiq" server with an error, delete it: the other Romotiq is the one that works.
Claude can put recordings that are already on your Mac on a new reel. AirDrop them from your phone (they land in Downloads) or save them to iCloud Drive, then tell Claude which ones.
Improvements
In Claude Code and Cursor, Romotiq opens by itself when Claude needs it.
Claude Code no longer asks you to allow Romotiq's own steps: its drawing commands and the drafts it writes inside your reel. Anything else is still asked about.
New reel in Claude Code or Cursor starts a new reel straight away, without asking which reel.
If the reel beside the chat is closed, Claude knows how to open it again, and when no reel is open it can offer your newest ones.
In Cursor, when its own browser isn't on, the reel opens in your browser.
Fixes
A new reel open beside a Claude chat is no longer tidied away before its first clip arrives.
Romotiq's own chat no longer sees a second copy of Romotiq's tools when the Claude app has them too.
Opening Romotiq always opens its own window, with your reels first, so updates and Settings are always there. New reel, or clicking a reel, asks where to make it: in Claude Code, in Cursor or in Romotiq.
Closing Romotiq's window no longer quits it, so reels you're making in Claude Code or Cursor keep working. Quit with ⌘Q.
Romotiq works in Cursor too. Open in Cursor opens a Cursor window on the reel, with the first message typed into its chat. Cursor's agent makes the reel with Romotiq's tools, with the reel in Cursor's browser beside the chat. The first time, Cursor asks to add Romotiq's tools: say yes.
Clicking a reel or New reel on Home asks where to open it: here, in the Claude app or in Cursor, whichever your Mac has.
When your Mac has both the Claude app and Cursor, opening Romotiq asks which to use. Tick Always open this way to stop the question, and change it any time in Settings, under When you open Romotiq.
Fixes
When Claude starts Romotiq for its tools, it no longer opens another new chat.
When Romotiq opens into the Claude app, a waiting update (the 1 on its Dock icon) now installs the next time you click Romotiq in the Dock, unless it's busy. Romotiq reopens on the new version.
Romotiq now works inside the Claude app. Opening Romotiq starts a new Claude Code chat in the Claude app, with the first message typed in. Send it, and Claude opens your reel in the browser beside the chat and makes it with you, pressing Romotiq's own buttons. If the Claude app isn't on your Mac, Romotiq opens its own window as before.
To open Romotiq's own window instead, switch off Open in the Claude app in Settings. The Dock icon's menu always has Romotiq Window.
Open in the Claude app, on Home and in a reel's ••• menu, opens that reel in a new Claude app chat.
Improvements
The reel options take one small row, and the presenter choices are now called Transitions: hover one to see a small phone play it.
Inside the Claude app, Romotiq shows only the reel. The Claude app's chat is the chat.
Fixes
Claude in Romotiq no longer calls everyone Daniel.
Joining your clips is much faster. It uses your Mac's own video encoder, so a 4K iPhone take joins in a fraction of the time, and it shows how far it has got in percent.
Before working on a reel, Claude Code asks whether you trust its folder. Romotiq now explains the question, and Trust my Reels folder answers it once for every reel, renamed ones included.
Quitting or closing Romotiq while it's joining clips, exporting or making something now asks first. If it was closed mid-join, the reel says so the next time you open it.
Fixes
A reply sent while Claude Code was asking about trusting a folder could quit Claude. Replies now wait until the question is answered.
A clip added before renaming a new reel no longer disappears from it.
A renamed reel's old chat no longer keeps running in a folder that's gone.
"Joining your 1 clips" now says "Joining your clip".
Import your Claude design system. In the Style guide, choose the .zip Claude Design exports (or its folder). Claude drafts your kit from its colours, fonts, name and logo, and you check it before saving.
A design system's own fonts now appear in every reel, including web fonts a Mac can't install.
Improvements
Setting up Claude Code no longer needs Terminal. The welcome screen and Settings each have an Install button that shows its progress, and sign-in happens in your first reel's chat.
Romotiq finds Claude Code wherever it is, including the copy inside the Claude desktop app.
Fixes
Installing Claude Code no longer fails when an old shortcut to a removed copy of Claude is in the way. A failed download is tried again, and errors say what to do in plain words.
An import that found a logo no longer throws away the drafted colours and fonts.
An import tried before Claude is signed in now says so.
The licence box on Home no longer says Checking… forever.
Getting started and Send feedback sit neatly inside the sidebar.
A clear Turn on auto mode button resumes a stopped reel from its saved progress, keeping the steps you have already completed.
Claude setup warnings open the chat automatically, so sign-in, update and folder-trust prompts stay visible when a reel needs your attention.
Fixes
New reels check that Claude is signed in and ready before starting. Guided sign-in, update and retry buttons help you recover without restarting the app.
Folder-trust prompts stay accessible, with controls to choose and confirm an option. Auto waits until setup is complete before sending instructions.
Quickly stopping and resuming Auto no longer sends an old stop instruction after work has resumed.
Sound effects follow meaningful moments inside your beats. The app analyses spoken words, item reveals and animation cues, then checks the plan again. Several moments can earn accents within a beat; ordinary cuts stay silent.
Improvements
New full-presenter graphics can use the whole portrait reel, with transparent space around you. Lists can use the space they need; there is no fixed card count.
Spoken lists reuse the direction from the original stack reel: consistent role, tool and logo cards, ordered and timed to the actual recording.
Full-presenter reviews reject graphics that fill most of their canvas with an opaque backdrop. Individual cards stay readable on a transparent canvas.
Fixes
Auto no longer adds a pop at every beat's start. If sound analysis fails or the recording changes, the existing sound lane is kept for another pass.
GPT 6.1 Sol with medium effort can take over when Opus 5.5 is unavailable. Enable or disable the backup in Settings. Existing chats keep their provider.
Animation reviews now inspect graphics over your cropped recording, including frames around spoken list items, before the first draft moves on.
Improvements
Lists use clear logo, name and role cards, with grouped pages and compact recaps. Empty future rows and dense towers are rejected during review.
New full-presenter graphics start lower in the frame. Review checks face clearance again after animation, together with actual item reveal timing.
Fixes
Continue stays available in the simple view after a pause scan or framing. Choose whether to remove the marked pauses or keep them before continuing.
Open the reel's chat directly from the build-progress banner.
GPT chats show their provider correctly, including after reconnecting.
Your first animation gets more review before you see it. Claude checks the word timing, reviews each concept, then inspects the complete storyboard for clarity, continuity and animation distribution.
Spoken lists stay together, with each item timed to its spoken words. Company mentions use real logos from your assets or the web.
Improvements
Claude defaults to Opus 5.5 with medium effort throughout, including transcript checking, storyboard reviews, sketches and animations. Change the model or effort in Settings when you want something else.
Sketches get a preview check before approval. Missing logos and stale reviews need fixing before a new storyboard can move forward.
Get to your first reel sooner. One short welcome replaces the six-step tour. Make my first reel opens your recording when setup is ready, or shows the setup actions you need. Styles and social accounts can wait.
Connect AI from setup opens the AI connection page directly. Getting started on Home brings the welcome back whenever you need it.
Chat with Claude now has one place to talk. The extra change-request box is gone; ask for changes directly in the reel's conversation on the left.
A simpler way to make a reel: Add recording, Review reel, Publish. Make my reel uses your saved look and voice to create a finished first draft. Watch it, ask for changes, then export or post when you're ready.
Four presenter layouts: full for the whole reel, split for the whole reel, start full with automatic transitions, or start split with automatic transitions. Romotiq saves your choice and keeps it when Claude makes the storyboard.
Choose Captions only or Full animations before making your reel. Auto follows your choice. Captions only starts with animated captions; motion graphics keeps the regular caption style.
Claude checks your transcript automatically after transcription and corrects misheard words before they reach captions or the storyboard. You can still edit the words yourself.
Improvements
Chat with Claude sits beside Add recording. It opens the reel's own conversation on the left, with a place to describe what you'd like to change. Close it to give the preview more room.
Editing tools opens the detailed steps and manual controls whenever you need them. Your recording, edits and chat stay in place.
Claude makes your cover. On the Post step, Make a cover with Claude asks for one in the reel's own look, with your hook as the headline. It pops up big when it's ready, with the part your profile grid shows marked. Use it, try again with what to change, or go back to a frame.
Claude places sounds. Ask it to place the pops and it puts one on each card as it appears, or any sound where you say, on the sound lane.
Shrink for Instagram, on Finish: one click pinches the whole reel in a little, so Instagram's buttons and caption never cover anything.
Move your hook text on the reel itself: on Captions, Finish and Post, drag it where you want it, or nudge it with the arrow keys.
Improvements
A title's time on screen is one click: 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, or All for the whole reel.
Fixes
The export's percent only goes up now. It used to jump back to half at every scene, then sit at 99 % for the final encode.
A post that went up but that Instagram hadn't confirmed yet no longer says "Nothing was posted" with Try again, which would have posted it twice. Romotiq keeps checking, then says Posted with its link, or offers Check again.
Hook text shows on the Post step's preview as soon as you change it.
The Post step takes a cover photo. Use a photo… makes any picture a 1080 × 1920 cover, and it goes up with the Reel for Instagram to show first.
Hook text: Finish has Add hook text, big words on screen for the reel's first seconds, so the opening frame says what it's about.
One click sets how the reel opens: Opens Full or Split, in the timeline's head.
On the storyboard, All beats gives every beat the size and place of the one you set, and Cmd+Z takes back the last move, resize or All beats.
Improvements
The Words step shows what you said in the Details pane, beat by beat, with Fix words: Claude goes over what was misheard and puts it right. The Details pane is open until you close it.
Words shows your take's waveform before the beats are cut, so you can scrub through it.
Captions come one word at a time by default.
Animated captions see the animation made for the reel: they stay off each picture and don't repeat what it already says.
Fixes
Fixing a word before the beats are cut now fixes the captions too, and the preview shows the new captions straight away.
Posting a Trial Reel uploads your video again. Before, every upload stopped just short of the end and the app told you to check your internet, though your connection was fine. If the connection does drop mid-upload, Romotiq now tries once more before it says the upload didn't finish.
Go back to any step, from any step. On a reel you've made, steps 1–3 open its own cut again, in place. Trim it, press Update the reel, and every beat whose words stay keeps its picture and motion; only the beats that changed are drawn again. What it replaces is kept in a backup inside the reel's folder.
While a reel's cut is open again, steps 4–9 on the ladder take you straight back to the reel. If you've changed the cut, a second click leaves without the changes.
Improvements
After a trim, the sounds, the title and the cover move with the moments they were on, and the storyboard's shots set the layout again.
Claude goes over your words the moment they're transcribed, on every reel, before anything is drawn or captioned. It fixes what was misheard (names, brands, design terms) and asks you about any word it isn't sure of.
The Post step has an Export video button beside Post Trial Reel, so you can save the finished video as a file whenever you like, and still post it from there afterwards.
If Claude Code isn't on your Mac, one click in the chat pane installs it. It needs a paid Claude plan (Pro or above).
Improvements
Your reel's ending shows on the timeline, after the last beat, with its name.
When your Claude plan's limit is reached partway through a reel, the chat pane says so and when it resets. Your reel is saved: tell Claude to carry on once it does.
The storyboard, each beat's details and the export's steps speak plain words instead of the app's internal names.
Fixes
Correcting a beat's words now corrects the captions too. Before, the captions kept what was first heard.
Auto keeps the ending you chose for a reel, and its list names it, instead of saying "No ending".
Sending back a finished picture gets it fixed with your note, instead of being refused.
The storyboard starts as quick sketches. Right after you pick a concept, Claude sketches every beat at once, in well under a minute, so you can approve the plan straight away. Then it draws every finished picture and its motion at the same time, going all out on each one. A 19-second reel went from concepts to finished animation in about 10 minutes.
Each beat's sketch says how it's shown: split (the picture above you), full (you fill the frame) or the picture on its own, with a cut or a smooth switch into it. Approving the storyboard sets your reel's layout to match, so you don't place the views by hand.
In a full view, a beat can put you in front of the picture instead of under it. Romotiq cuts you out of the background for those moments, even on reels where the split card's cut-out is off.
Improvements
Your style's picks (how things arrive, what a card is made of, the pace and the voice) now reach the steps that draw and animate each beat, not only the concepts.
Claude can fix a finished picture after it looks at it, for example two labels printed on top of each other, instead of being held to its first try.
Each storyboard tile shows its beat's shot in a few words.
The app notes more about where a reel's time goes, on your Mac only, so slow steps can be found and fixed.
Fixes
The preview's stylesheet is served with the same safety rules as the rest of the preview again.
The storyboard is much faster. Claude Code now builds its concepts at the same time, one helper each, then draws every picture at once and adds all the motion at once, where it used to go one or two at a time. A 20-second reel's storyboard took about 48 minutes; it now takes about 9. Every helper still thinks at full effort, so the pictures keep their quality.
Captions sit on the divide. When your reel is split, with the animation on top and you below, the captions now sit centred on the line between them instead of inside the animation. In the full-screen parts they sit lower, as before, and glide between the two.
The app notes how long each storyboard step takes, on your Mac only, so slow steps can be found and fixed.
Fixes
Beats animated at the same time keep what the beat before already showed still, instead of building it all in again from nothing.
Concepts built side by side no longer fail each other's checks while they are still being written.
Playing a reel takes less of your Mac. The timeline's playhead and the camera-blink preview no longer measure the whole page on every frame: about 96% less of that work while a reel plays or sits open.
The app is lighter. The old editor's leftover parts are gone: the in-app reel chat, the first Auto mode, and the old Post, music brief and Account panels. Claude Code beside your reel and Make it for me do those jobs now.
If something goes wrong in a part of the app this release changed, the crash report says which part, so it can be fixed sooner. Reports only go out if you've allowed crash reports in Settings.
Fixes
Saving the caption in the export window no longer clears your pinned comment.
••• Account opens your plan again.
When an export is refused, Fix it with Claude Code sends the failed checks to Claude Code, instead of to an assistant that was no longer there.
Make it for me. Once your clips are in, one button has Claude Code make the whole reel: the trim, the storyboard, the animations, captions, music, sounds, your ending and logo, the cover and the post caption. It stops on the Post step, so posting stays your click. A list beside the reel shows each part as it's made, and Stop keeps what's done.
Step 9 is Post. The cover, the caption and where it goes sit beside the reel. Export the video from there, find it in Finder and copy the caption. Claude can write the caption for you.
Captions light up the key word on each card: the one word, or a two-word name like Claude Code, that a viewer must catch. A switch in the caption settings turns it off.
Describe a look in a sentence, like "an 18th century printed book", and Romotiq paints this video with it: colours, fonts, corners, shadow, texture and motion. It's in the style panel for this video.
Improvements
Settings is simpler. One line says whether everything works, or the one thing to fix. Below it are five plain rows, and the technical settings are on an Advanced page. Switches save as you change them.
The workspace, with Claude Code beside your reel, is now the editor for everyone.
Quick picks (the key words, a look from a sentence, the music Auto chooses) don't need a Jev key: Claude Haiku makes them through your Claude Code. A Jev key in Settings makes them faster.
Fixes
Your brand and your style guide reach the preview and the exported video again. Since 4 September they had been left out.
In the Social post panel, Disconnect and the other buttons that ask first now work in the Mac app. They asked for a confirmation the app never showed, so nothing happened.
Each reel opens on its own page, like projects in CapCut. Home, a reel and New reel each load fresh, so nothing carries over from the last reel. Back and Forward work, a reload stays where you are, and Claude stays with its reel.
An activity log on your Mac: every page, step and button, and every action Claude takes, with times and no words from your reels. When something goes wrong, copy it from ••• → Copy activity log.
Reels made with earlier versions don't open in this one. Start them again as a new reel.
Fixes
Going Home, starting a new reel and then opening another reel no longer gets stuck on the new reel.
A new reel keeps its clips when you leave it, even before you merge them. They are there when you open it again.
Auto, started from a new reel, makes the reel in that new reel's own folder.
Claude does the work in the Workspace (beta). Ask it to remove the short pauses, trim a clip, add a switch or go to a step, and it changes the reel itself while you watch. Merging your clips is the one thing it asks you about first.
The chat leads. Claude says what each step is for and does it. The step you are on is named at the top. When a choice is yours, a bar above the reel asks it, with one button.
Every change Claude makes shows under the reel, with Undo right there.
Reply to Claude in one click: up to three answers sit under the chat, and Claude offers the ones that fit what it just asked.
A timeline you can read at a glance: seconds along the top, a bigger waveform, the cuts marked on the wave, your words under it and each beat's still on the storyboard steps.
Endings: close every reel with one of your own ending clips. They sit in Assets under Your brand. Play one, press Use on this reel, and the reel plays into it and exports with it. Claude asks which one at step 8.
Motion graphics is the first choice for a new reel, for everyone. Captions only is the other choice.
Improvements
The Details pane is closed. Open it from ••• → Step details when you want the facts.
Claude's text is bigger, and you can size it: A− and A+ in the corner of the chat, or ⌘− and ⌘=. Your size is kept for every reel.
Assets opens from step 1 of a new reel. Files you add go into the reel's folder; music and sounds go on once it has its beats.
Fixes
New reel always starts a new reel with the next number. It no longer reopens the last one you left open, and Home names each new reel by its number.
A new reel keeps its own name in the top bar. It could show the name of the last reel you opened.
A new reel made from a sound or an .srt file offers Continue to words, not a Merge button that could never be pressed.
The timeline lights the beat the playhead lands on straight away.
Claude guides you from the first click. In Workspace (beta), New reel makes the reel's folder straight away and Claude Code opens in it, then walks you through every step: what to drop in, which cuts to keep and what to press next. A new reel you leave empty is tidied away.
A step ladder across the top of the Workspace: every step by name, one click to move between them, ticks on the ones you have finished.
The Details pane is open beside your reel on every step. It says what the step is for, what each part of the screen does right now, the step's own work, and when it is done.
Improvements
Merging clips is much faster: a recording cut into pieces is converted to standard colour once, not once for every piece.
Details sits in the top bar next to Assets. The reel's connections, versions, layout and activity are in the ••• menu.
Workspace (beta) is simpler. Claude Code sits on the left with three suggested next steps under it. On the right: the step you are on, your reel as large as it fits, and a timeline with only the lanes that step needs. Details holds the rest.
Assets, in the Workspace's top bar: this reel's logos, music and sounds, your brand, and the sound library in one place. Every sound plays. Drop files from Finder onto the sheet, the timeline, the reel or Claude.
Watch Claude draw your storyboard: each still appears in its tile as Claude writes it, and the reel plays the beat being drawn, live.
Improvements
PLAY waits while your recording loads. The button says LOADING, then the reel starts with your voice.
Claude Code in the Workspace starts quietly, without your own hooks, plugin messages or status line. Turn Quiet Claude off in Settings.
Fixes
Pressing PLAY from the start, or looping a beat, no longer mutes your voice while the sound effects play.
A build no longer deletes the reel's music, sound effects and transition clips, or files you added while it ran.
The step you chose no longer jumps ahead when the reel refreshes, for example when your recording's preview finishes.
Pages inside the editor can no longer open a dialog over the app or read files outside their own reel. If the editor's page crashes, Romotiq reloads it.
Finish → Appearance has three new finishing touches: a timed presenter zoom that punches in on longer beats (choose 6, 12 or 20 %, or press Auto zoom), your own logo on the reel (upload it, then size and place it), and camera-blink transitions.
Sound in Finish: set the level, fade and offset of your voice, music and sound effects. The export lowers the music under your voice and evens out the loudness.
Workspace (beta), in Settings: Claude Code beside your reel, with the reel and its waveform always on screen and suggested next steps under the terminal. It needs Claude Code installed. It is off unless you turn it on; off keeps the editor you know.
Improvements
Exports are faster: each frame goes straight to the encoder instead of being saved to disk first.
New reels' captions start as karaoke: three words at a time, with the word being spoken highlighted.
A reel you reviewed before this update may ask for a fresh review once.
Fixes
A reel with a logo or finishing transitions no longer runs out of memory at the very end of its export.
Cancelling an export no longer leaves a half-written file behind.
Romotion is now Romotiq. Same app, same licence, same reels. On first launch your Movies/Romotion folder is renamed Movies/Romotiq; nothing is copied and nothing is deleted. Updates now come from romotiq.xyz.
A reel with animations gets its final touches. Captions and Finish now sit between Animations and Export, as steps 7 and 8, and they are the same screens a captions reel has: the look and place of your captions, titles and brand cards, the border, your post. Where you put the captions there is where the export puts them, and leaving the step saves it.
Improvements
A new reel's border starts dark navy. Once you set a brand kit it starts from your backdrop colour, as before.
Fixes
While animations were being created the preview could say it "couldn't load" and show a black video, because it looked for your recording in the wrong folder. It finds it now.
On Finish, the forward button no longer reads "Continue to finish".
Titles and brand cards. A reel can carry several overlays now, not one title. A card is drawn from your brand kit — a small line above, the big headline, an optional line under it — in your own colours and faces, in Brand, Light or Dark, at whatever width you set. The copy stays typed, so changing a word is typing.
Each overlay has its own place on the picture, its own on/off switch and its own moment: drag the bar over the waveform to set when it shows, a grip at each end. Dragged to the end means the whole reel.
Improvements
Appearance folds away on the Finish step, like Titles & cards.
Every animated caption run now records how long the model took, so speed can be compared between models, not just cost.
Finish takes the room it needs. The right-hand panel widens for this step, so the border sliders, the title row and your post all sit in full view instead of running off the edge.
A Finish step after Captions: the reel's border, colours and corners, your title or hook text, and your post, all in one place before export.
Your post writes itself from your words the first time you reach Finish. Edit it in place, or say what to change and have it revised.
A title or hook text: type it, choose small, medium or large and how long it shows, then drag it where you want on the video. Every export carries it.
Every caption version exports as its own reel, so trials can be posted side by side.
Export & share shows the post as it will look before any export: a cover frame you scrub to and save, with your caption under it. The cover lands beside the reel.
Improvements
Changing the border, corners or split height no longer asks you to recreate your captions.
Behind you now works when you are large in the frame. A scene you asked to sit behind you may be covered up to sixty percent; words that would vanish still stay in front. Auto keeps the old guard.
Animated captions in versions. Choose 1, 2 or 3 before you create them; they are made at the same time, each with its own take (balanced, bolder, calmer) and, if you like, its own model, so you can compare Claude and Codex on the same reel. Pick the one you want; playback and export follow.
Fixes
Behind you now reaches the model: scenes are asked to sit behind you wherever the cut-out allows.
Where the words sit is now two cards under the looks, In front of you and Behind you, each showing a figure and the word. Hover one for a moving example and a line on what it means.
Your words are checked with AI on their own the first time they land on the Captions page. You see the two steps as they happen: finding your words, then fixing with AI.
Hover a look on the Captions page for a moving example of it and a line on what it is for.
Merging your clips is shown as it happens: the button fills, each clip lights as it is converted, a scan line crosses the cut as it is joined.
Improvements
The Layer choice for animated captions sits with the look. The direction box and Add animations are set aside for this release.
Transitions opens with the layout card unfolded.
The framing check on Captions has a title and a plain explanation.
The header names the reel with its number underneath. Reels change from Home.
The blocked option when you set a reel is called Motion graphics, with no hover state.
Fixes
A new reel started from a captions reel no longer shows that reel's caption scenes under its timeline.
Captions reels have no Words step. The rail runs Add files, Trim & silences, Transitions, Captions, Export. The Captions stage holds the words beside the preview, the reel's own waveform and view switches under it, and the framing check.
The words read along with the recording, Loom-style. Words light up as the reel plays, hovering one marks it on the waveform, clicking one moves the playhead, and a double-click edits the paragraph in place. Edits save when you click away.
Animated captions build in the open. The frames the model looks at show as a filmstrip, a mark on the waveform follows where it is looking, each scene lands as a block on a caption track and plays in on the preview, and progress is measured by words placed.
The model double-checks the script. Misheard names and terms are corrected in context, shown with a green underline, and a Fix with AI button runs the same check on its own, for styled captions too.
Animated captions move by hand. Drag a caption on the preview to move it, double-click to hand it back to the model. The export follows.
Editing the words recreates animated captions on their own. An edit during a run stops that run and starts again with the new words.
Set & continue asks what to make. Captions is live; Captions + animations is marked coming soon.
Improvements
The new-reel draft keeps its tools on one row: cut or framing tools in the middle, Zoom and the green continue button on the right, all in sentence case.
The Captions settings column has one type scale, a segmented Styled / Animated toggle, and Adjust appearance open by default.
Opening Captions before the background words exist keeps asking until they arrive, and says so.
Reopening the take from the rail on a reel with captions asks for a second click first.
Fixes
iPhone HDR recordings no longer export washed out. Clips are converted with Apple's own tone map before the join, with FFmpeg's as the fallback.
Correcting a word no longer deletes the timed words on a captions reel; the timings follow the correction.
Animation workers see where you stand again. A frame is taken at the middle of every beat when the beats are cut, and again before a build if any are missing, so graphics are laid in the clear space instead of over your face.
The briefs and prompts speak of the presenter, not of one person by name, so a tester's reel is written in their voice.
The component registry no longer points workers at a reference reel that is not in the app.
A dedicated animation workspace shows each scene's idea, creation progress and preview status. Unfinished ideas are clearly labelled as not generated.
Improvements
Beats and stories share one workflow step, keeping the path from words to animation easier to follow.
Animation workers receive a shorter, consistent build brief and a bounded inventory of local assets.
Fixes
Simultaneous animation workers publish complete snapshots without overwriting each other's temporary files. Interrupted publication can recover without taking ownership from a live worker.
Scene rebuilds report the matching durable trace and version, including builds that finish immediately.
Written animation, preview loading and export readiness are shown separately, so a loading or failed preview is not mistaken for a finished result.
Stories write themselves. Approving the words cuts the beats and then writes one idea per beat on your default model, on the same screen. Each story sits under its words on the right, and Generate animations runs from there. The Animation plan wizard and its model dialog are gone from the flow.
Switch view at the playhead: a button on the transitions bar, like Loom's Split at, adds a swap where the playhead is and opens straight to the choice of view.
Add files, Trim & silences and Transitions on a finished reel reopen its saved take as a new draft, with its current framing, background and view swaps; Set & continue makes a new reel and the original stays. Earlier cut history and generated scenes are not copied.
Improvements
The stage shows the take alone until the animations exist: no title, premise or captions ahead of their time.
The rail keeps only the stages on the words page; the beats are the paragraphs on the right.
The draft preview no longer draws animation-overlay or captions placeholders.
Reorganized the editor and publishing code to make maintenance and future fixes easier, while preserving the existing editing workflow.
Added checks that verify the files included in an app build and catch incomplete release inputs before packaging.
Fixes
Approving words now clearly says it also starts AI story writing on the default model, before you click.
Reopening a finished take restores its saved composition and corrected words. Continuing without timing changes reuses those words; new trims discard stale transcript timings before transcription. Saving the new draft leaves the original reel unchanged.
Before the words were approved, the words page borrowed the stage's placeholder beats, one per subtitle cue, so Beat 01 to 09 showed early and an edit refused with "no beat sheet yet".
Animation rendering and sound-effect mixing now use the same configured ffmpeg executable as the rest of the media pipeline.
Release checks now stop when the update feed or downloads are unavailable, rather than reporting a completed release.
Border colour sits in Appearance beside the border width, as a swatch and a hex field. It saves to the reel on change and previews live in a draft.
Split height: a slider in Appearance sets how much of the reel the camera card takes, from 25 to 60 %. The classic card is the default.
The presenter cut-out (you matted out of the take, rising over a blurred card) is now a choice under Reel layout & style → Advanced, off for every new reel. Split view is the plain recording in its card until you turn it on.
A seconds ruler over the waveform, a label every five seconds and a tick every second.
Improvements
The rail lists every step: Add files, Trim & silences, Transitions, Words, Beats, Stories, Animations, Export. Steps done in the cut read as done.
After the words are approved the paragraphs on the right are the beats; the rail keeps only the stages on that page.
Edit changes the words inside the paragraph itself, with Save correction and Cancel beneath. No second box.
The transcript arrives as one paragraph. The overlay after Set & continue says Transcribing.
The draft preview no longer shows animation-overlay or captions placeholders; those come after the words and the beats.
Crop, bands, reload and Re-cut fold under Advanced.
Fixes
The waveform drew at two thirds of its width before the beats existed, and again after they were cut: the runtime came from the stage's 27.9 s default and the wave was never redrawn. The take's own length is used and the wave redraws when the runtime changes.
Going back to Cut on a reopened saved cut and continuing no longer fails with "Merge the clips first".
The preview box follows the playhead again when the cut-out is off, so Full presenter shows at the start after cutting into beats.
The total time no longer reads 0.00 s after a draft closes.
New reel is the editor itself. Drop one clip or many onto the timeline, trim with snapping, split, reorder and remove pauses, then Merge & continue. The wizard is gone.
Merge & continue saves your cut as a reel straight away, with the joined take and your source clips in its folder. A saved cut shows on Home as CUT SAVED and reopens where you left it.
Your words arrive while you frame yourself. The transcript reads as paragraphs on the right; click one to play from there, Edit fixes the words and keeps the timings. Approving the words is what cuts the beats.
The spoken word lights up as the recording plays, and hovering a word marks its moment on the waveform.
Click the view row to switch views from that point or change a view; each choice is a menu, not a surprise split.
Your reels live in ~/Movies/Romotiq (Reels, Exports). An older Beat Workbench folder moves across on first launch, and reels parked in a backup folder come home. Show in Finder on Home and in each reel's menu.
Improvements
The stages sit in the left rail with a way back to your reels, the layout panel folds to its title until you need it, and the step history cards are gone.
Full presenter is the opening view for a new reel; the first swap goes to Split.
Set & continue sits on the timeline bar, the play row waits for the first clip, and Merge hides while a pause scan waits for Apply or Keep.
The detailed timeline's layers, view changes and play controls share one thin bar; crop, bands and reload live in Reel layout & style; timing and options open as a dialog.
Fixes
Finished comparison working copies no longer pile up beside your reels; they go to the Trash, and render caches for reels that no longer exist are cleared.
Removing a view swap with × works with a real click.
The layout could not be saved before beats existed; approving the words now cuts the beats first.
The reel assistant has a resizable side panel, persistent conversations, a visible provider and model picker, and an editable queue for follow-up messages. Hide it and return without stopping the work.
Ask only keeps questions read-only. Editing requests work on a separate copy, with a summary of applied changes and Undo that protects newer edits.
Auto shows each version's public agent updates, available provider summaries, tool activity and timings. Earlier activity stays available, and finished versions have their own preview buttons.
Rounded corners are now a slider, from square to fully rounded, with the same appearance in previews and exported videos.
Improvements
Ask the assistant to continue an unfinished animation or prepare a finished version for export. Completed work is checked and reused; publishing still requires your choice of accounts and confirmation.
Enter sends a message, Shift+Enter adds a line, and a writing preference supports multiline-first use. Provider sessions retain follow-up context.
Auto's Hide and Stop controls stay visible while reading activity, with clear requested-versus-reported model names.
Fixes
Finished chat-built animations move to Export instead of asking for another animation-plan review. A later validated repair clears an old Auto attention badge without rewriting the failed run's history.
Preview caches and chat activity no longer falsely count as changes to the recording or animation plan during Auto generation. Real edits still protect the current reel from stale results.
Blank animation backgrounds and caption-only scaffolds cannot be mistaken for completed animation output.
Usage at the top of Reels brings Claude and OpenAI account allowances together, with reset times and token totals. Claude readings appear when its CLI reports them; unavailable or expired readings are clearly labelled.
Improvements
Reels show tokens instead of dollar amounts. API-equivalent values remain available in Usage details as a reference, not a bill.
Ask AI names the provider and model above the conversation, distinguishing the selected model from the model actually answering.
Model menus separate Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, with updated names and a picker for each animation version. Custom model IDs remain available, and existing defaults are unchanged.
Fixes
Auto progress moves into the Ask AI header while chat is open, keeping the message box and Stop button clear on hover and click. Hiding progress does not cancel work.
Auto intake usage is attributed to the provider and model selected for that run.
Auto mode turns a video into editable animation versions in one run. Choose your models, number of versions and a visual style; Auto handles pauses, captions, stories, view switches and appearance without approval screens.
Animated progress shows your recording being prepared, stories taking shape and versions coming to life. Allow 10–15 minutes or longer, keep the app open, and hide or reopen progress whenever you like.
Full animation fills the reel with graphics and removes the presenter from view while keeping the voice.
Export & share brings version selection, video files and social destinations into one place. Each version can become a separate post; publishing still requires your confirmation.
Improvements
The workflow is now Intake, Beats, Animate, Export, without a mandatory review phase.
A staged animation wizard separates model choices, stories and layout. Simple mode writes and accepts stories, then generates your chosen versions automatically; Advanced mode keeps individual beat controls.
Reel layout, border and rounded-corner controls stay visible beside the preview.
New-reel creation has its own progress window, and a clearer transcript prompt helps you check the words after import.
Fixes
Pause detection starts at 0.3 seconds, and timeline dividers no longer show duplicate guide lines.
Auto keeps completed alternatives when another model fails and preserves your original recording and animation page.
Generated comparison versions can be exported using their own saved filenames.
Export and publishing keep the selected version consistent without changing the version you are editing.
Meet Romotiq in a six-screen getting-started guide, with Back, Skip, progress and shortcuts to styles, AI Models and Social Accounts. Reopen it from Home whenever you need it.
Save multiple named styles and choose a different look for each reel, during import or under Appearance → Reel style. Saving a style to your library leaves your reels unchanged.
Open Connections for AI and social accounts, with dedicated AI Models and Social Accounts entries on Home.
Improvements
A clearer header shows Home, the reel number and full title, and the current version. AI runs & versions lives in the AI panel; Send feedback sits above Workflow & build.
Select and drag view-switch dividers on the simple timeline, enter an exact time, or delete a switch. Undo restores the edit.
A Changes to save summary shows added, moved and removed view switches before you save.
Social publishing includes destination-specific setup for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn where enabled. Publishing availability remains subject to account and server setup; exporting never posts automatically.
Fixes
Style templates no longer open as a blank gallery. Saved styles retain their colours, fonts and settings when applied to an individual reel.
Custom colour edits update the live style preview and are included when saving.
Edit your caption transcript in sentence boxes grouped by beat, beside the video preview. Style and word-count controls stay visible.
Choose an animation model and open Versions directly from the animation plan. Your model choice carries into generation confirmation and matching version settings.
Zoom the detailed timeline with a slider, plus/minus buttons and Fit.
Improvements
Timeline zoom responds smoothly to mouse-wheel and trackpad movement, keeping the time under your cursor in place.
Pause and Remove controls stay visible in the sound chooser and music track. Removing music from a reel keeps a recoverable copy without touching library originals.
Fixes
Click the Split / Full row to switch layout exactly where you click, in both simple and detailed timelines. Playback and the playhead stay put.
Clicking a music or sound-effect preview again stops it. Switching previews stops the previous sound, and the sound chooser stays open.
Sentence corrections preserve unchanged word timings where possible, with failed saves keeping your edits available to retry.
Preview caption styles over your recording before applying them. Simple style choices sit below the video, with word edits and extra settings tucked under Adjust.
Choose rounded or square corners under Appearance, independently of border width. Your choice carries through Full presenter, Split view and exports.
Improvements
Ask AI opens in a compact floating-corner window, with reel context and extra actions available when needed.
Click the Split / Full strip to swap views at the playhead, without a separate swap-button row.
Timeline tracks use Routiq colour accents, with a clear amber playhead and mint music waveform.
Animation-plan cards keep the simple presenter choices without the advanced animation-content dropdown. Existing settings stay unchanged.
Fixes
Recording thumbnails keep their proportions in a filmstrip instead of enlarging a portrait to fill an entire beat.
Caption save failures keep corrections available to retry, and delayed caption responses cannot switch you away from another reel.
Ask AI opens above the whole editor with a gentle pop-in animation and a dimmed backdrop, instead of squeezing into a side panel.
Whole-reel context is clearer. Closing chat preserves your draft and the editor underneath; keyboard navigation and reduced-motion preferences are supported.
Compare animation versions made by Claude, Codex or Cursor, with a separate model choice for each. Two versions run at once; additional versions queue without replacing your original.
Open AI runs & versions to inspect saved prompts, reported model and token usage, tool activity and quality checks. Optional Langfuse export asks for consent before sending a trace.
Improvements
Animation-plan cards show Split and Full presenter choices, with a route back to editing swaps on the waveform.
Build progress has clearer colour accents and a visible return path after choosing Back to stage.
Fixes
Return to Check recording without restarting AI work or losing the saved animation plan.
Presenter-preview status fades in place instead of shifting the editor. Short desktop windows retain a usable recording preview.
Comparison versions with failed quality checks remain held for inspection rather than replacing a working animation.
See plain-language build activity and timestamped updates without opening the technical log.
Track partial token usage when the provider reports it, followed by final totals. Missing usage is clearly labelled, and API-equivalent costs are not presented as subscription charges.
See elapsed time, active tools, observed tool durations and quiet gaps. Preview-ready and completion notices appear even when the activity panel is closed.
Fixes
Removed the fixed ten-minute first-preview promise. Quiet periods no longer imply a confirmed stall, and failed builds no longer show a successful full progress bar.
The import title now names the current step and its number. Keep pauses sits beside Remove pauses, so both choices are easy to find.
Choose your starting view directly above the waveform: Full presenter or Split. Later view changes stay in place.
Opening the detailed timeline hides the simplified waveform. Switch back with the same toggle.
Fixes
Adjusting pause sensitivity or minimum duration no longer makes the page jump. Controls and previous highlights stay in place while the new results load.
Smooth view changes. Full presenter and Split now ease between layouts over 0.6 seconds instead of snapping. Each change still starts at the exact waveform marker, keeps later returns in place and shortens safely when another marker is close.
Keep the picture moving while you edit. Change views during playback without a visual jump: the temporary audition starts from the picture on screen and follows the recording clock until it rejoins the saved edit. While paused, the same audition never starts, seeks or reloads the recording.
Fixes
A view change at the beginning of a recording now keeps a real transition from the first frame instead of replacing the starting layout with an instant change.
Switch views on the waveform. Choose a moment and use Swap to split or Swap to full beside the time marker. Labelled sections show where each view applies. Move later to swap back, or choose Undo swap without losing your place.
See the recording as you seek. A compact waveform beneath the preview shows the recording's own audio, with beat boundaries and the current time. It follows the same playback and edit as the detailed timeline.
Improvements
One clear next action after import. Check the recording, draft an animation plan, generate, then review and export. The next button explains what it does and whether it uses your connected AI account.
Review the edit before planning. Initial view swaps stay reversible until you continue. Confirming the edit saves your choices; animation planning and generation each need their own action.
Beats and the selected transcript stay easy to find. Detailed timing and appearance controls remain available without competing with the main next step.
Fixes
Full presenter no longer leaves the split view's opaque backing card over the recording. Intentional animation overlays remain visible.
A cutout from an older recording or edit no longer replaces the current presenter. While a matching cutout is unavailable, the preview keeps the source recording sharp and shows preparation status beside it.
Changing the view, crop or border now asks for a fresh review before export. Review images and playback use the same composed video, so you approve the layout you will actually export.
One waveform through import. Keep the sound wave in view while trimming, removing silence and framing. Pause suggestions appear directly over the waveform and follow its zoom and your confirmed trim.
Fine-tune pauses without another click. Minimum pause and sensitivity stay visible. Adjust either control and the highlighted pauses update automatically when the analysis finishes. Nothing is removed until you choose Remove pauses.
Choose your starting view. Frame & layout clearly shows Split and Full presenter, with a live border-width slider. Both support animation overlays, and your choices are saved with the reel.
Reels, everywhere you work. New reel, Create reel, Reels and Reel chat replace episode wording. Existing recordings and saved work stay compatible.
Fixes
Older pause scans cannot replace newer settings or apply an outdated suggestion.
The waveform follows the retained recording after cuts, and stays available for mouse and keyboard seeking in every import step.
More compact framing controls keep the waveform visible above the desktop footer.
A clear finish to trimming. Choose the part you want, then press Confirm trim. The screen confirms the kept duration before you move on to silence removal. Changing the trim asks you to confirm again; your original stays untouched.
One edit through both steps. Silence removal starts at the beginning of your confirmed trim. The preview, duration and pause markers all follow the part you kept, including cuts from the middle.
Simpler controls. Divide here adds a boundary without removing anything. Remove section, Preview without pauses and Remove pauses say exactly what they do.
Fixes
Waveform times stay sharp and correctly proportioned on Retina displays.
Portrait recordings have a properly sized preview, with consistent placement between trimming and silence removal. Controls remain reachable in short and narrow windows.
Seeking across a removed section lands on the next kept frame. Going back preserves your trim, and undo or redo keeps its confirmation accurate.
Import, trim, then frame. Import now has three focused steps: Import & trim, Remove silence, and Frame & layout. Each step keeps its next action in view.
A proper recording trimmer. See the waveform, drag the start and end, split at the playhead, or select a section to remove. Zoom in for precision and undo or redo cuts. Your original recording stays untouched.
Keyboard shortcuts you can find. Open the shortcut guide from the toolbar or with Command–/. Escape closes the top dialog and returns focus to where you were; Tab stays inside open dialogs.
Improvements
Silence removal has its own preview and confirmation step. Keep the pauses or remove them before framing; spoken filler words are not removed.
Go back through import without losing your trim decisions. Ordered clips keep their original source information, and silent video can be trimmed without an audio track.
Playback, beat navigation, layout switching, chat and settings have consistent shortcuts. Typing in a field no longer triggers editor commands. Command–Z and Shift–Command–Z undo and redo import cuts when you are not editing text.
Fixes
Crop dragging follows the visible recording correctly when the preview is letterboxed.
Import controls stay reachable in shorter windows, and old analysis results cannot replace a newer recording's draft.
Escape no longer rewinds playback, and ordinary Tab or Enter presses do not accidentally approve a story.
A workspace built around your beats. A readable beat list stays on the left, the video sits in the centre, and the selected beat's words and animation direction live on the right. Choose a beat with a click or the arrow keys; its time range stays visible.
Full presenter, split view, and back. Two visual buttons above the preview change the view at the playhead and save automatically. Move forward and choose the other view to return. The View track shows where each layout starts and ends.
Fine tune when you need it. Detailed audio tracks, layer controls and precise editing tools expand from one button. Border controls live under Appearance; captions and music are beside the beat inspector. The AI connection and episode chat stay in the top bar.
Improvements
More room for the preview, with compact controls in shorter windows and a scrolling layout in narrow windows.
Selecting a view section previews it without changing the edit. Select or drag a divider to adjust its timing, then Apply or Discard those detailed changes.
Keyboard-accessible beat navigation, tool buttons and option menus; clearer focus outlines and reduced-motion support in the editor.
Fixes
Changing the presenter view keeps the playhead where you put it instead of resetting to the selected beat's start.
Switching during an existing transition preserves the next return where it still applies. Failed saves keep the draft recoverable.
Long beat lists keep the selected beat in view, and the AI chat's Send button stays reachable in smaller windows.
Feedback closes the options menu before taking its screenshot and returns keyboard focus to the control you opened it from.
One format, and a border. Every episode is presenter + animation: the animation up top, you in a camera card below, SPLIT or FULL per beat. The three format tabs are gone. Above the video there is one slider, BORDER: the frame of background colour around the reel. Drag it and the preview follows; let go and it is saved for the whole episode. At 48 px it is the look you had, with a dark card behind the animation; at 0 the reel runs edge to edge. An episode made as a split card opens as this with the 48 px border. Older overlay episodes still open and say so, with one button to make them presenter + animation.
Click a layout marker to swap it. On the LAYOUT track, pressing → FULL makes it SPLIT from there on, and back, saved in the same click. Dragging still moves it.
Improvements
Changing the format no longer refuses while a layout edit is unsaved. It saves the edit first, in the same click, and only refuses if that save fails.
Intake no longer asks for a format. Every new episode is presenter + animation; the border is set above the video afterwards.
One next step, always in view. A card at the top of the right-hand panel says where the episode is and what to do next, with one button: write the stories, build the animations, review, export. An episode opens on it; the chat is a click away as before.
Pause removal finds the pauses itself. No disclosure, no numbers. When your recording loads it says how many pauses there are and how much dead air, with REMOVE THEM and HEAR IT FIRST. "fewer" and "more" nudge it; the fine controls are one small link away.
Every beat is animated. Unless you set a beat to ON CAMERA, it gets an animation. Per beat you choose SPLIT (you up top, the animation below) or FULL, from this beat on, in every format; the timeline marks where the frame changes. New episodes are reel-ready by default, chosen from three format cards at intake, and the format is a toggle above the video.
Improvements
Edited beats say the stories are stale. Cut, join, reword, retime or change the shot of a beat after the stories were written and every story button reads REDO THE STORIES until you do. A build waits for fresh stories.
The beat inspector reads in three groups. What it says, what's on screen, when — each editable in place, with one SPLIT and one MERGE.
Settings say which model to use. The models section sits under the connection card, each stage says what it does and which model suits it, and one button sets the recommended set.
Fixes
An on-camera beat is no longer asked to build an animation. The inspector read the shot from the notes and defaulted to animated; it now reads the beat sheet. The build button was also never hidden on any beat.
Your ON CAMERA choice survives the story stage. On a fresh sheet the model's answer used to overwrite it.
A FEEDBACK button. Press it and tell Daniel what broke. It sends your note, a picture of the window as it was, your app version and the app's diagnostics — never a recording or a transcript — and Daniel can reply straight to you. If it can't send, the same files land on your Desktop as a zip.
Improvements
The whole version card opens the changelog. Click anywhere on it at the foot of the rail, not just the number.
Clips in the order you drop them. The new-episode screen takes any number of clips as one numbered list. Move them with the arrows or by dragging; the reel plays them in that order with straight cuts. The hook and main labels are gone.
Improvements
A first-run screen with one button. One sentence says whether you can start. Below it, only what still needs you, each with its button on the row: the speech model, the export tools, your invite code, your AI connection. The cards and the second summary are gone; the full inventory is one click away under "What's on this Mac".
The version opens the changelog. Click the version at the foot of the rail to read what changed in every build, newest first, with your build marked.
Settings names the model that will run. A blank model field used to say "CLI default", which named nothing. The connection card now shows the default your CLI is set to — read from its own config, for example fable 5.1 from ~/.claude/settings.json — and each blank stage says the same, plus what that stage actually ran last.
Pick models from a list. Each stage has a picker: the CLI default, then the provider's own choices (for Claude Code the aliases fable, opus, sonnet and haiku, which always mean the latest of that family), then "type a model ID…" for anything else. An All stages picker sets every stage in one go.
A new build announces itself. A banner across the top of the window says a build is on its way, then that it is downloaded, with one button: relaunch now. The Dock icon is badged so it reaches you from another app. The app now checks every 15 minutes instead of every hour.
Fixes
Transcription works on a Mac without Homebrew. The bundled whisper looked for its compute backends in Homebrew's folder, which a fresh Mac does not have, and stopped on the first take. The backends now ship inside the app, and every build proves it by running whisper with Homebrew hidden.
A failed transcription says why. The app said "whisper failed" and threw away the line that named the cause. It now shows that line, and the failure reaches the error log.
Export every reel version at once. When an episode has more than one version, the preflight asks which reels to make: the one on stage, or all of them — A, then B, then C — each through the same gates, landing as reel.mp4, reel-b.mp4, … so the trials can be posted side by side. The run names every file by its letter, and says which reel it is on.
Improvements
One REEL VERSION control in the bar. The row of version pills is gone; the bar shows the version on stage — A, B, C — and a menu lists them all, with the captions page and "clone this version" underneath. What is on stage is what exports.
Release notes you can read in dark mode. The update dialog's notes follow the Mac's appearance instead of painting near-black text on a dark ground.
Fixes
The gates judge the version being exported. The review-sheet and grade gates looked at the original page even with a trial on stage; they now check the page that is about to export, and a trial's files are the ones swept up if a run is stopped.
Export follows the version on stage. With animation-b.html on stage, FINAL (HQ) exported A. Now the preflight, the render and the reel are the version you are looking at — a trial lands as reel-b.mp4 beside reel.mp4, and the button says which (One complete reel · B).
A style per video. STYLE in the rail: give one reel its own look — a different field, different cards — and adjust its six colours, without touching the show's style guide. The reel changes the moment you save; the built animation keeps its choreography. One click follows the show again, or makes the video's look the show's.
A line to Daniel when someone activates, buys or tops up; the desk counts who is activated, seen today and on which build.
Improvements
The changelog page and the update dialog show the version alone.
The style guide is one choice. Upload your style guide — a PDF, your website, or a few lines — and the agent drafts the kit and names the closest look; or start from a template, the kit's own or eleven from the board. How things move, how fast, how loud is the agents' call per reel, from your script and the story research, inside the look. The eight picks are gone.
The version alone, everywhere people read it; the build number lives in the rail's tooltip and the feed.
The style guide's door is two roads, each the size of a pick: take the eight picks, with the same beat snapping and drifting side by side, or start from a look, with five of the twelve fanned out. The tile is the button.
The style guide. The Brand Kit is now a wizard: twelve looks — the kit's own first, then eleven aesthetics from the board — and eight picks, each shown as the same beat two ways. Every save is a version; Revert lists them, and the kit's own look is always one click away. Templates keep a look, its picks and your colours under a name.
The fifty sound effects, three takes each, ship in the app. The Sound Library lists them by register with when to use each; a letter picks the take the lane uses; ✦ SUGGEST SFX places them on the cuts, one per beat, one meme per reel.
Music from a link. Paste a YouTube or Spotify link as the base for a track; forty seconds of it steers the sound.
Brand kit import. A PDF, your site, or a few lines; the fonts are checked against this Mac.
Generation through your licence. Music and sound effects are made with credits — no fal key needed. The account panel shows the balance and the month's allowance, with a top-up.
Beta testers get the Founders licence for $0 with the code in the invitation; checkout opens with it filled in and the copy upgrades itself once payment clears.
Improvements
The rail's licence chip follows the account, and the licence screen speaks to a beta.
The lane decodes its sounds ahead of time and never plays one late.
The version and update state sit bottom-left, with check now.
A referral link in the account panel: a free month for every person who activates through it.
Fixes
The export mix reads your own library folder as well as the pack.