Changelog

The text update — what you see on the canvas is now what lands in the exported video, plus 27 new text behaviours and a picker where every effect plays itself.

• 27 new text behaviours (224 total). Punch In/Out, Whip Pan, Hinge Drop, Slam Down/Up, Unfurl, Signal Lock, VHS Tracking, Datamosh, Title Rise, Anamorphic, Push In, Heartbeat, Tilt Sway and Tracking Drift — filling the Starting, Loop and Ending categories that were thinnest.
• Every behaviour previews itself. Each card in the Starting / Loop / Ending picker plays its own effect on a sample of your text, in your font. The picker also scrolls to the effect already applied and highlights it.
• Animated letter spacing. Behaviours can now open and close tracking over time — in the editor, in the preview and in the export.

• Canvas ≡ export. Rotation direction, skew, loop timing, the final exit hold, gradient fills, outlines and text-transform now match between what you design and what you render.
• Text animation on Android export. 129 behaviour presets that previously exported frozen now animate.
• Urdu & Arabic. Nastaliq faces keep their shaping through per-letter reveals and the preview, custom fonts resolve correctly in export, and baseline placement is fixed across every font.
• Fonts come back with your project. Reopening a project re-downloads any font it is missing instead of silently falling back to the default.

• An image on a lower track could cover the layers above it while playback was paused. Export was always correct; the canvas now agrees.
• Pressing play on the last frame now rewinds to the start instead of stalling.
• A text row with a behaviour already set can reopen its picker again.
• Exports survive a rejected background-export permission on Android instead of failing outright.

Brushes, a colour-grading library, editable motion paths and a much friendlier timeline.

• Brushes. A new layer type with a 134-brush procedural catalog — ink, marker, chalk, spray, grunge and calligraphic strokes — with the full shape colour system (fills, gradients, glow) behind them. Renders in the editor and in the export on both platforms.
• Colour-grade library. A browsable library of downloadable film looks, with live canvas preview, before/after compare and keyframing so a grade can shift over time.
• Light & grade regions. Grade only part of a layer — multiple independent regions per layer, each with its own look.
• Editable motion paths. Drag the endpoint handles to stretch, rotate and move a motion path directly on the canvas.
• Repeat. Pick a target length and a clip loops its source to fill it, instead of freezing on the last frame.
• Logo from any photo. Add a logo straight from your camera roll — no brand profile needed — and crop it before it is applied.

• Pan the timeline by dragging the empty area below the tracks.
• New inserts get their own row instead of landing on top of an existing clip.
• Clip filmstrips now fill the whole clip, with no gaps at the edges.
• Smoother, steadier preview playback.
• Apple offer codes can be redeemed from the promo field on the iOS upgrade screen.
• Anonymous usage and crash reporting is on by default to help us find crashes faster. You can turn it off in Settings.

• Library cleanup no longer deletes media a project still uses.
• Saving a project no longer wipes its thumbnail, and projects survive an iOS storage-path change after an update.
• Stopping playback no longer jumps the playhead back to a stale position.

Bring your own film looks, a built-in sound-effects library, and clip-level audio control.

• Import your own .cube LUTs. Drop in a colour grade from any grading suite and it appears in Filters with a real baked preview, a live canvas render and a quick-select badge row.
• Grade keyframing. Animate from one look to another with a canvas crossfade, and compare against the original with a before/after slider.
• Sound-effects library. A browsable SFX collection in Explore.
• Clip audio controls. Per-clip fade in/out, level and repeat.

• Imported grades preview instantly and export with correct colour — matching the canvas exactly.
• Large libraries and imported templates use far less device storage, and cached downloads expire on their own.

• The Android upgrade screen no longer comes up empty, and Restore reports what it did.
• Fixed export crashes tied to background processing on Android.
• A removed grade no longer leaves the canvas blank.
• Membership status refreshes after managing a subscription.

The FX update — seven parametric filter engines with 100+ one-tap Looks, 24 new motion effects, live effect previews on your own footage, and a smarter automation surface for AI assistants.

• 7 parametric FX engines. Cinematic Grade (split-tone color wheels, skin-tone protection, film halation and grain), Warp & Distort (swirl, fisheye, kaleidoscope, tiny planet), Retro Display (CRT, scanlines, LED boards, handheld palettes), Edge & Sketch, Light FX (lens flares, light leaks, anamorphic streaks), Cartoon (cel, comic, watercolor, oil paint, pop art) and Light Flicker (projector, neon, candlelight, lightning).
• 100+ one-tap Looks. Every engine ships tuned presets — Teal & Orange, Film Print, Cyberpunk Neon, Tiny Planet, CRT Monitor, Comic Pop and more — organized in a new tabbed picker (Looks · Warp & Distort · Retro · Sketch · Light · Cartoon · Flicker · Custom). Stack up to 4 engines per layer; picking a new look of the same engine swaps it in place.
• 24 new motion effects (61 total) — entrances like Bounce In, Roll In and Swirl In; exits like Puff Out and Sink Down; emphasis loops like Tada, Head Shake and Metronome; and camera-style moves like Pan Zoom and Push In.
• Live effect previews. Every effect and filter tile now previews on your actual footage — motion effects animate and filters render on the selected clip's frame before you apply anything.

• AI agent connector: 252 tools. Agents can now apply engine Looks by name, stack and remove individual filters safely (with the 4-stage chain guard), and verify their work frame-by-frame. Still disabled by default, local network only.
• Skills Library v3. Twelve portable Agent Skills in the open Agent Skills format — including new skills for FX looks, audio post, kinetic captions, data videos and a retention playbook — each also served as a raw SKILL.md for one-line install into 40+ agents.
• Showcase refresh. Live demos for all 61 motion effects and the new FX-engine looks, right in the browser.

• Removing a filter now removes it everywhere — applying looks no longer stacks hidden duplicates of the same engine.
• Multiple filters on an image layer now compose correctly in the preview, matching the export exactly.
• The editor toolbar now highlights the right tool when FX filters are applied to a layer.

MCP local-network reliability, cinematic clip-to-clip transitions, and a simplified pricing structure — plus the usual polish and stability work.

• AI Agent connector — local network fixes. The in-app MCP server now reliably connects over your local Wi-Fi on both iOS and Android. iOS 14+ prompts for Local Network access using a private Bonjour service so external AI clients can reach the editor.
• Junction transitions. Add cinematic clip-to-clip transitions between adjacent clips, rendered with Metal/GLSL shaders directly in the editor.

• Timeline scrubber. More accurate seeking and smoother dragging on long clips.
• Memory & playback. New low-memory warning banner and improved playback stability on lower-end devices.
• Plan pricing. Basic features are now included in the Free plan; Pro and Elite plans are repriced for simpler billing.
• GPU preview safety. Metal canvas validation is now stricter before enabling GPU preview paths.

• Removed leftover debug logs and unused Metal constants.
• Fixed timeline scrubber edge cases when dragging beyond the start of a clip.
• Various UI/UX and export consistency fixes across iOS and Android.

Our biggest creative update yet — shader-powered looks, video-in-text titles, richer masking, brand kits, and a larger automation surface for AI assistants.

• Video in Text. Fill any text layer with a video or image for bold kinetic-typography titles.
• Shader transitions. A new family of GPU-driven scene transitions — cover-and-reveal wipes, ink dissolve, slice wipe, tile flip and more — bringing the transition library to 49.
• Generative background shaders. A refreshed catalog of animated gradient and atmospheric backdrops, each with a transparent-overlay mode so you can composite it over your own footage.
• Shape Widget. Drop in rows of animated shapes as a single, configurable timeline layer.
• Advanced masking. Geometric mask shapes — linear, mirror, triangle, star, heart and freeform — with rotation, plus per-layer gradient fade masks for soft edges.
• Light-leak overlays. A curated catalog of cinematic light leaks to warm up any clip.
• App-promo toolkit. A Phone Mockup Reveal effect and a turnkey App Branding template for product intros.
• Brand kits & template theming. Apply your colors, fonts, logo and watermark across an entire template in a single tap.

• Filter parity. Color filters now look identical in the editor preview and the final export, everywhere.
• Smoother editing. Timeline, scrubbing and playback are faster and steadier, with lower idle CPU.
• Predictable sizing. Newly added media fits the canvas cleanly, with consistent resize and drag behavior.
• AI agent connector. The optional in-app connector now exposes 194 tools — including one-call template import, template theming, widget data, and export-parity verification. It stays disabled by default and binds only to a local interface.

• Corrected a text-backdrop orientation issue on certain shaped title styles.
• Resolved a rare black-frame issue affecting a few exported effects.
• Numerous export and layout consistency fixes across iOS and Android.

The release line that brought ExpoCut to the App Store and Google Play, establishing the core editor.

• Multi-track timeline editing for video, audio, image and text, with full on-device undo/redo history.
• 130+ visual effects and 120+ color filters, plus cinematic color grading.
• Text & titles. Animated lower thirds, text-animation presets, and on-canvas text styling — including right-to-left scripts.
• Audio editing. Import, record and mix audio with audio effects and transitions.
• On-device AI suite. Background removal, chroma key, auto-reframe, speech-to-text captions, and on-device text-to-speech voiceover.
• Stock media & import. Royalty-free photos, videos and audio, plus media import from your gallery, camera, or a direct URL.
• Collage layouts, widgets (countdowns and timers) and motion-path animation.
• In-app AI agent connector (MCP) for hands-free, automatable editing.
• Export up to 4K using your device's built-in hardware video encoder.