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What's new and what's improved. Most recent at the top.

Fix

A refused export now works on the next press

When Reelium refused to start a render, pressing again used to get the same refusal until you edited the clip. Now the next press starts it. Refusals also say what happened: “Your edit session refreshed while this render was starting — press Try again. Nothing you made is lost.”, “This clip is open in the editor — finish or close it there, then try again.”, or “The last attempt at this render didn’t finish — press Try again to start a new one.” Leaving the editor no longer stops a render that has already started. A tab left in the background now says editing is paused, instead of quietly losing your edit session. And an export that never finishes no longer spins with no end: after 45 minutes it shows as failed, and a scheduled post waiting on it fails instead of waiting. You still have to export that clip again.

Fix

Posting says what went wrong, and a post that never left can be tried again

If a post failed before anything reached TikTok, YouTube or Instagram — a rate limit, the platform being down, a disconnected account — that clip could stay stuck on “unknown” for that platform, with no way to try again. Now you can post it again. A post that failed after the upload had started is still held, so it can’t go out twice. Errors are more specific too. Hitting YouTube’s daily cap now says “YouTube has hit a posting limit for now (usually a daily cap). This one did not go out — try again later.”, not that you need to reconnect. A revoked TikTok connection now says so and asks you to reconnect. In Discord, /reelium-here in a channel the bot can’t post in now tells you which permission is missing, instead of confirming a channel it can’t use. The Help bot no longer replies “Help bot is having trouble” when a question needs it to look something up. And views and likes for public TikTok posts sent through Reelium now show in Analytics, instead of “Unavailable”. Posts already showing “Unavailable” aren’t fixed yet.

Fix

Twitch imports say why they failed, and keep going when access lapses

Pasting a subscriber-only Twitch VOD used to tell you to try again in a minute. Now it says “This Twitch VOD is subscriber-only, so Reelium can’t download it — retrying won’t change that.” It also says to make the VOD public if it’s your stream. Reelium still can’t import sub-only VODs. A brief Twitch outage no longer marks a VOD that still exists as gone, so its clips keep previewing and re-rendering. When Twitch cancels Reelium’s access early, Reelium renews it once and keeps importing. Before, new VODs could stop arriving for up to four hours. If renewing fails, My Streams says “Twitch needs reconnecting” straight away. And when a clip shows “The source preview isn’t ready yet”, Reelium now starts preparing it. Before, nothing happened until a scheduled job got to the clip. The first answer is still “not ready”, and preparing takes a few minutes.

New

On Free, locked features show what you’d get

On Free, choosing Schedule used to show a lock. Now, if you’ve kept clips, it shows “Your week of posts”: up to a week of your kept clips, each with a posting time. It also gives Creator’s price and offers “Post the first now — free”. It schedules nothing until you’re on a paid plan, and “Not now” hides it for the session. The locked Upload tab now opens a panel instead of jumping to the plans page. The panel points you to pasting a Twitch or Kick link, which is free, and says which plan uploads are on. On a plan without Live Co-Pilot, the Live page now shows the biggest chat spikes from your last analysed Twitch stream. A few changes reach every plan. The jobs panel keeps finished analyses for 30 days, not 7. Step 1 has a “Back to your picks” button. And when Reelium found no clear best moment in a stream, the analyse window asks “Roughly when was the best bit?”

Platform

Free members of a paying team get their seat’s features

If you’re on Free in a team with an active subscription, you now get AI caption writing, a voice profile and the asset library at the team seat’s tier. Before, those features checked only your personal plan, even though the team plan includes them per seat. Seat features end when the team’s subscription stops. Your render allowance still comes from your own plan, not the seat.

Fix

Easier to read in the editor, and the sidebar fits short screens

In the clip editor, the precise-crop Done button has stronger contrast. The Pink hook and callout swatches now have an outline, so their sample text is readable. And a timeline block hidden from the preview now shows a dashed border and an italic label, instead of fading the whole block. On desktop windows 820 pixels tall or less, the dashboard sidebar links are more compact. At 1280 × 695, Teams, Settings and Upgrade now fit without scrolling, and a soft edge shows when there’s more below. Phones are unchanged.

Fix

Exports finish again

From 19 October until 22 October, a clip you exported could sit on “rendering” and never turn Ready. The video was made — Reelium refused to accept the finished file, because Reelium’s render service reported its address in a form Reelium didn’t expect. It now accepts both forms, so renders finish and show as Ready again. If a clip from those days still isn’t Ready, export it again; that export counts as a render. Three smaller fixes ship with it. Typing an edit just before Continue to export no longer gets the first render refused with “Save and confirm this clip’s edit session before rendering”. After a render that never started, Try again now starts a new one — before, it was refused until you edited the clip. And a scheduled post that only needs your approval now waits under Needs approval instead of failing.

New

A bigger preview: the timeline folds down until you need it

The editor’s timeline now starts as a thin strip, so the preview gets the height. It opens when you rest the pointer on it for a moment, click it, tab into it, select a caption, effect, sound or b-roll, or start a drag. Open, it takes 30% of the space it shares with the preview. “Keep timeline open” pins it, and “Focus preview” — or the F key — hides it again. This browser remembers the size and the pin. Uploads get two framing fixes. Split framing now works on an upload that has no still frame yet: the divider, Swap positions and drag-to-reframe read the shape from the playing video. And Reelium now makes and keeps a still frame for each uploaded video, so precise Adjust crop also works when you come back to the clip later, not only in the tab you uploaded from.

Platform

Team Agency seats include 30 hours a month

Each Team Agency seat now includes 30 hours of stream analysed a month, down from the 60 listed on 12 October, still at £149 for 10 seats. No team was on Agency when this changed.

Fix

The hook you saved stays the hook

The on-screen hook you saved in the editor could be replaced without you doing anything. Creating the video from the clip page, or restyling clips in bulk, could wipe it, and AI-written post copy for auto-posting could land on screen as the hook. Now the hook is the one you saved, and AI copy stays in the post text, where it belongs. Where a destination has both a caption you wrote and an auto-post caption, yours is the one used. And when the editor holds a different version of a clip than the video on its clip page, the clip page now says “The editor has a different version of this clip than this video”, with an Open in the editor link. It never picks a version for you.

New

Creator and Pro trials no longer need a card

Starting the 7-day trial of Creator or Pro used to ask for a card. It no longer does. Checkout says “Nothing to pay today. Your 7-day free trial starts now, and you can cancel any time before it ends without being charged.” If the trial ends with no card on file, you go back to Free and nothing is charged. Add a card during the trial to keep the plan. Settings → Billing now shows the date your trial ends and what happens then: the amount and date of the first charge if there is a card, or the move back to Free if there isn’t. The rest is unchanged — one trial per person across both plans, and Power has no trial. This supersedes the line “A card is needed” in the 2026-10-07 Creator trial entry.

New

A locked feature tells you which plan has it

A control your plan doesn’t include now names the feature and the cheapest plan that has it (“… — included from Pro.”), and opens the upgrade page with that plan already chosen. Locks on caption styles, Live Co-Pilot and Settings open the upgrade page in a new tab, so the clip you were working on stays where it was. On Free, the Connect button for a second publishing account shows the lock before sending you off to the platform, instead of after you come back. Settings → Billing shows a renders meter once you have used 80% of the month’s renders, and the date they reset once they run out. And when a look you saved has styling your plan won’t render, the editor and the Look panel say so before you export.

New

Clip cards are vertical, and Home counts each stream once

Clip cards in your library are now 9:16 (4:5 on narrow screens), the shape your clips are, so a vertical clip isn’t cropped into a landscape box. A stream’s own cover sits letterboxed on a blurred copy of itself. Home now shows the cover you chose for a clip — before, it ignored it. Analysing the same broadcast more than once now folds into one row that counts the other attempts, and a failed re-run no longer hides the result of an earlier one. Suggested moments counts each broadcast once; three analyses of one VOD used to triple the count. Stream titles typed in capitals show in sentence case, with the original on hover. Schedule opens on Needs attention when nothing is upcoming, and the sidebar no longer shows a Clips counter that never limited anything.

Fix

Trims and timeline moves stay where you put them

Dragging a trim handle, when picking a moment or in the editor, could slide the captions out of sync — one slow drag drifted them by seconds. They now stay on the words. On the timeline, dragging part of an item that spans a cut no longer makes it jump, and moving several items in a reordered sequence no longer drops some of them from the preview and the export. Trimming a sticker, effect or b-roll stops at its limit and leaves the other edge where it was. Trimming the start of a clip now shortens an effect whose beginning was cut off, and widening the clip again brings the footage back. The filmstrip keeps its frames when the video switches to a higher quality.

New

Undo takes whole moves, and screen readers can name every caption control

Holding an arrow key to nudge, trim or crop is now one undo step, not one per keypress, and “Apply to all” undoes in one step. Undo and redo work while the speaker or subtitle-sync panel is open. Escape closes those panels without clearing what you had selected, and Escape cancels a sticker drag. After Delete, focus stays on the timeline, so pressing Delete again removes the next item. If a Re-sync can’t run, your caption lines stay as they were. If a sync replaces lines you edited while it ran, Reelium tells you. For screen readers, a caption row is no longer one big button: each line has its own named controls — Preview line, Delete line, Split line — and its text and timing fields are labelled. On a touch screen, a second finger no longer cancels a crop drag.

Fix

The editor asks before your work is replaced

Reopening a clip now asks which version to keep only when this browser’s copy and the cloud copy differ. Each choice says what it replaces, and asks before discarding anything. A cloud version you replace stays under Versions. If cloud save is down, you can still export with Export without cloud save. Cloud save now works in Safari 15 and older, where it always read as offline and held the export back. A slow save that did go through no longer sets off “Another session has newer edits”. If one editor panel crashes, that panel alone shows Try again and your edits stay on screen. Copies kept in your browser now belong to your account and are cleared when you log out — Log out warns first if some edits haven’t reached the cloud. Signing out in another tab makes this tab’s editor read-only, with a Reload prompt.

Fix

The editor preview follows the export’s rules

The editor’s preview now follows the same rules as the export. It applies the caption styles your plan renders, and tells you when a style will fall back. Music drops under speech in the preview even with subtitles off, as it does in the export. On plans with Brand Kit, the preview shows your logo where the export puts it. Deleting every caption line now removes them from the export too, and creating the video from the clip page no longer brings them back. Reopening a clip that was already rendered shows that video as Ready, instead of starting — and counting — a new render. Uploaded clips now get a preview you can play, split and drag. A failed render shows a plain reason instead of raw error text.

Platform

From 2 November, Free has 40 renders and 5 searches a month

From Monday 2 November 2026 (UTC), Free includes 40 renders a calendar month, down from 120. Find a moment, the search box above your picks, gets 5 searches a calendar month on Free. Until now it had no monthly limit, only 10 searches an hour. On Free, Find a moment will also only return a moment when every word you searched for is said inside it. Filler words such as “the” or “show me” are not checked, and words like “funny”, “laugh”, “scream”, “shout” or “applause” also count when Reelium detected that sound in the moment. Paid plans’ monthly render allowances change on the same day: 100 on Creator (was 400), 200 on Pro (was 1,500) and 400 on Power (was unlimited). Each export of a clip is a render, and exporting the same clip again counts again. Every render and every search costs us money each time it runs — and Free is sized for real use: 40 renders is more than one finished clip a day. Free’s weekly hour of stream and 3 VODs are unchanged, and paid plans still have no monthly limit on Find a moment. Nothing changes before 2 November. This entry, and for Free accounts a notice on the dashboard, are the 14 days’ warning.

Security

Only a clip’s owner can render or restyle it

Now only the person who owns a clip can render it, restyle it or open its saved editor project. Before, on a team, a teammate could render your clip with their own captions, hook and overlays — and that clip posts to your channel. You were never asked. A teammate who tries now gets a refusal, and it is refused before it counts against their own renders. If your team shared clips this way, the clip’s owner now does the render.

New

New clips come with the dead air cut out

New clips now come with the pauses taken out. Any silence between words longer than 0.4 seconds is cut, keeping 0.1 seconds either side so no word gets clipped. The lead-in and the ending are never cut, and neither is a gap where Reelium heard laughter, a scream, applause or a loudness spike — that gap is often the moment. A button on the editor timeline, “Pauses cut”, shows how many seconds came out; press it to put every pause back, or use Ctrl+Z. The limits: it applies to clips made from now on, not to clips you already have. It needs word timings from a stream Reelium transcribed itself, so uploads aren’t cut, and neither are YouTube sources read from YouTube’s own captions. Where the stream had no audio check, the cut is offered but left off.

New

“Let Reelium decide” aims for 20–45 seconds, and the trim keeps the payoff

When you leave clip length on Let Reelium decide, the picker now aims for 20 to 45 seconds and goes up to 60 only when the setup and payoff need the room. It is an aim, not a cut: nothing is trimmed to hit it, and the 120-second cap is unchanged. When you choose a length — Punchy (about 15–30 seconds), Standard (30–60) or Longer (60–120) — and a moment runs long, the trim now keeps the payoff instead of cutting the punchline. If the payoff can’t fit, the clip ends on the payoff and runs past the length you chose, rather than losing it. Both apply to new analyses; picks you already have keep their lengths.

Fix

Picks on long streams land at the right time

On long VODs, picks could land in the wrong place or disappear. Reelium gave its picker times written as minutes and seconds, and many hours into a stream it read them as the wrong numbers — one 8.9-hour VOD kept 1 pick of 8. Times now go in as plain seconds, so picks land at the time the moment happened. Long analyses could also fail at the last step with “transcript not in cache”, because the transcript was too big to keep. There is now room for it, and if one ever can’t be kept, the analysis fails with the reason and your minutes of stream are returned. The long-VOD wait screen no longer sticks on “Waiting for the first status update…” when the tab is in the background or the page missed Reelium’s reply.

New

Choosing moments shows where each pick sits and why

The step where you choose moments is rebuilt around the picks. A stream pulse across the top shows where each pick sits in the stream, as numbered pins. The pick you’re looking at fills the main panel, with its evidence beside it — chat, viewer clips, stream facts. The highest-scored pick carries a Top pick tag, and Next pick moves on. Picks in the list carry the same evidence as small chips. The filter and tabs are gone, and the action bar shows thumbnails of the picks you’ve selected.

Fix

Big uploads survive a slow connection

Large uploads now hold up on a slow or flaky connection. A part that drops, or that our side fails to take, is tried again after 1, 4, 15, 30 and then 60 seconds. A part that makes no progress for 60 seconds is noticed and sent again. And the upload links now last 12 hours, so a big file on a slow line doesn’t run out of time. Separately, deleting one clip cut from an upload could delete the uploaded file itself, which broke re-rendering and caption Auto-sync for every other clip from that upload. The file now stays until the last clip that uses it is gone. Uploading a file is on Creator and up.

New

Power analyses streams up to 12 hours, and every paid plan gets more hours

Power now takes a single stream of up to 12 hours, up from 8, so a full-day stream goes in whole. Pro goes from 6 to 8 hours and Creator from 5 to 6. The hours of stream analysed each month go up too: Creator 16 (was 14), Pro 30 (was 28), Power 60 (was 56) — on Power that is five full 12-hour streams. Team plans move with them: Studio seats get 8-hour streams and 30 hours a month, Agency seats 12-hour streams and 60 hours. Prices are unchanged, and you don't need to do anything: if you already subscribe, the new limits apply now. Uploaded files follow the same lengths, with the same file-size limits as before. This supersedes the 2026-08 limits.

Fix

A render that can’t work is refused before it counts

A render with a setting the video can’t be made with — an unknown aspect ratio or filter, or a broken caption line — is now refused before it starts, with the reason. It used to count as a render and then fail on every retry. Bulk render keeps going when one clip fails, and opening the bulk dialog and leaving it untouched no longer wipes each clip’s own style. A scheduled or auto-posted clip with no usable captions is no longer exported without them: the post fails and says why. Monthly highlight reels now start four at a time, and a reel that hits a busy render service waits and tries again, for two hours at least. On 1 October, 11 of 17 reels failed that way, with “Rate Exceeded.”

Fix

A finished analysis says it finished, and a failed one tells you

An analysis that had in fact finished could come back half an hour later as “Analyse timed out — please retry”, because Reelium read an old status, left over from an earlier step, as your newest run. It now reads the right one, so a finished run shows as finished. When an analysis running in the background does fail, you now get an email saying so: the source, the reason, a line confirming any minutes of stream were returned, and a button back to the new-clip flow with the source filled in. A long stream split into parts that never finished used to sit at “transcribing” for good with its minutes held. Reelium now marks it failed and returns the minutes once a part has errored, once the parts have sat un-joined for 30 minutes, or after 6 hours. The email respects your email opt-out, and so does the clips-ready email, which it did not before.

Fix

A crop you confirm is yours alone

When you confirm how a channel’s scene should be framed — where the camera is, where the game is — Reelium remembers it for that channel. That memory was shared. On a channel more than one person clips, one person’s confirmation quietly set the crop for everyone else, teammates included. It is now kept per person. Your own confirmations from before the change still apply. The catch: if you were relying on a crop someone else confirmed, you will see the layout proposal or the layout question again once, and answer it yourself.

New

Your post text is the text you wrote

A TikTok caption is now exactly the caption you wrote, with no reelium.ai link or Reelium branding added. A YouTube post with no caption gets an empty description instead of “Made with Reelium — reelium.ai”. The reelium.ai/c link on YouTube and Instagram is now opt-in: a box in the publish panel, unticked by default, reads “Add the reelium.ai/c link to the YouTube and Instagram post”. The confirm step, and the schedule review in the new-clip flow, show the exact text that will go out. One limit: the box only applies when you press Publish now. Scheduled and auto-posted clips never carry the link.

Fix

Nothing connected yet? Step 5 offers the connections

If you reached the last step of the new-clip flow with no destination connected, the only thing on offer was Download. Step 5 now lists YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, each with a Connect link, and nothing ticked. Connect one from a clip and, once it succeeds, the Platforms page says “Connected. Go back to your clip to post it.” with a Back to your clip link. That works for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram connections made in the same tab within 30 minutes. It is a link, not an automatic redirect. A publish panel with nothing ticked now says “Tick a destination above to post this clip.” instead of sitting there.

New

Every limit says what you can do next

Hitting a limit used to end in a toast with no button. Now each one opens a dialog with a way forward. When a stream is longer than your plan analyses, the dialog offers Creator, which takes streams up to 5 hours, or names the plan that does fit if Creator can’t. When this week’s 3 free VODs are used, the dialog says which Monday they come back and offers Creator. A team member at the team’s limit is told to ask the team owner, with no checkout. Features Free doesn’t include are now shown locked rather than hidden: the Upload a file tab reads “from Creator”, and the connection limit and voice-profile messages carry See plans. Free accounts also see one line after an export: “Want the whole stream? Creator analyses whole streams.”

New

Creator gets a 7-day free trial too

Creator now has the same 7-day free trial as Pro. The upgrade page shows the trial on both plans, and the dialog a Free account sees at its limit offers “Try Creator free for 7 days”. A card is needed, and if you cancel before day 7 you pay nothing. It is one trial per person across both plans, so if you have already trialled Pro there is no second trial on Creator. Power has no trial. Changing plan during a trial goes through support rather than the billing portal.

New

Unused free hours carry over, up to 6

On Free, an hour you don't use no longer disappears on Monday. Whatever is left of your week carries into the next one, and keeps adding up while you're away, to a maximum of 6 hours. Skip two weeks and you come back to 3 hours; a 3-hour stream can then be analysed whole instead of an hour at a time. One stream is still analysed at most 4 hours at a time on Free. Free still has a monthly limit of 6 hours, so in a month you've already used some of, you get whatever is left of it. Settings → Billing shows how much this week holds. This adds to the 2026-10-06 entry below.

Fix

Sound effects and loudness are back in exports

For several days in early October, every export left out its sound effects and skipped loudness balancing. The export said which effects it had dropped, blaming “the sound mix” — the cause was a missing audio tool on our side, everywhere Reelium renders, schedules or auto-posts a clip. That tool is now in place in all three, so exports carry their sound effects and balanced audio again. A clip exported during those days still has the gap: render it again to get the full mix.

Fix

An analysis that finds nothing doesn’t cost a VOD

If an analysis lost its transcript and fell back to placeholder clips, it still used up one of your VODs, and on Free one of your 3 for the week. Now an analysis counts only when it returns real picks. A source of 150 seconds or less still counts, because it is returned whole on purpose. The limit: this covers analyses that run while you wait. An analysis of a long stream that runs in the background is still counted when it completes. Separately, if you have auto-analyse switched on, Reelium now checks with Twitch first and skips VODs Twitch has deleted, instead of running them into empty drafts. Those skips use no quota.

New

Full-screen meme cutaways

A meme can now take over the whole picture for a beat while the stream audio, hook and captions carry on over it. Each meme card has a Full screen button, and any placed image has Full screen and Punch-in toggles. A cutaway lasts 1.5 seconds by default and stretches from 0.4 to 10 seconds on the timeline. If a sentence is about to end, it starts just after it. A meme close to the clip’s shape fills the frame; anything else is shown whole over a blurred copy of itself. Punch-in adds a small zoom as it lands. The limits: images only, not emotes or shapes; the cut in and out is hard, with no transition; and in the strip layout it stops at the caption bar. Every meme gallery now credits Imgflip and says the plain part: templates are user-uploaded, so check you have the right to post one.

New

Onboarding and the new-clip flow in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

Onboarding and the start of the new-clip flow are now in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese as well as English. A browser set to Spanish or Portuguese gets them automatically, and an EN / ES / PT switch in the onboarding header and above the source step changes it by hand. The choice is remembered. Translated: onboarding, the source step, My Streams, the step rail, the analysing screens and the common errors before and during analysis. Still English: the picker, the editor, export, the rest of the dashboard, and some refusal messages inside the translated screens. The translations have not yet been checked by a native speaker, so tell us what reads wrong.

Security

Password-change emails say how, and account deletion you can find

The email you get when your password changes now says how it was changed — by a reset link or in settings — and tells you what to do if it wasn’t you: use Forgot password straight away, which signs out every other session, then email support. Deleting your account was already something you could do yourself, but /support told you to email us. It now links straight to Settings → Delete account. Deletion takes effect immediately and cancels a paid plan. If you own a team, transfer or delete the team first. Every one-to-one email from Reelium — onboarding, clips ready, support replies, account emails — also has a new, plainer layout with one button at most.

New

Free is one hour of stream every week

Free used to be 4 hours of stream a month, and one long stream could spend all of it on the first day. It is now 1 hour of stream analysed every week, across up to 3 VODs, and it comes back every Monday. A stream of any length is accepted: a longer one is analysed an hour at a time, and you choose which hour. When Reelium can see your viewers’ clips of the stream, it suggests the hour they clipped most; otherwise the hour starts 10 minutes in. Either way you can move it. After an hour is analysed, Reelium shows when else your viewers clipped, so you can see what the rest of the stream holds. The allowance is now called minutes of stream everywhere, rather than Studio minutes. Paid plans are unchanged and still analyse whole streams.

New

Free downloads end with a 1-second Reelium card

A clip you render on the Free plan from today ends its download with a 1.2-second "Made with Reelium" card after the last frame. Nothing is drawn over the clip itself, on any plan, so there is still no watermark. Posts are untouched: a clip you publish through Reelium to TikTok, YouTube or Instagram never carries the card, on any plan. Paid plans' downloads have no card, and the plan is checked when you press Download, so upgrading removes it from your next download straight away. The editor preview shows the clip without the card, and the Download button says so beside itself. This updates the 2026-07-31 entry below, which is kept as a record of what was true then.

Fix

The edit step shows 720p while 1080p is on its way

A freshly saved clip could open in the edit step on a blurry 284×160 file, and then stay on it, because the check for the sharper copy switched itself off. The edit step now opens on the 720p preview, then switches to 1080p once it is ready. It checks every 30 seconds for about 15 minutes, because the sharper copy usually takes a few minutes to prepare and has been measured at just over 8. If it still isn’t ready after that, the edit step stays on 720p: some sources, YouTube links among them, never get a 1080p copy.

New

The edit step is a canvas and a timeline

The edit step has been rebuilt around two things: a large preview you work on directly, and a full-width timeline under it. Everything you can add to a clip — memes, sounds, stickers, effects, your own uploads — now sits behind one Add media button: click a card to drop it at the playhead, or drag it onto the canvas or the timeline. Framing happens on the picture itself, with move and resize handles in place of most of the old sliders. The timeline splits, reorders and repeats sections of the source, sets a section’s speed anywhere from 0.25× to 4×, fades or crossfades between sections, and takes up to two music beds. The common moves have keys: S splits, Delete removes, Ctrl or Cmd+D duplicates, Ctrl or Cmd+Z undoes, Space plays. Projects save to your account, so an edit survives a closed tab. Two limits, stated plainly: audio balancing matches average loudness rather than a broadcast loudness standard, and the safe-area guides are approximate and do not appear in the export.

Fix

A finished transcription no longer stalls an analysis

An analysis could sit at “transcribing” after the transcription had in fact finished, because one failed write on our side dropped the hand-off between the two. That hand-off is now delivered again until it lands, so a completed transcription moves on to picking. Separately, the cut taken out of the source before every render is now copied straight across instead of being re-encoded, which shortens the wait before a render starts.

New

Review clips without leaving Home

Home is now a review workspace. The clip waiting for you plays inline beside Keep, Edit and Skip, and a review queue next to it shows where you are — “2 of 6” — across up to six drafts, with View full queue for the rest. Pressing play never records a decision, and a skipped clip stays in your library. If auto-post is on, Keep says so: it reads “Keep & queue”, because keeping that clip can add it to your publishing queue. Clips that are already scheduled or posted no longer show up as waiting for review. Quick navigation, on Ctrl or Cmd+K, jumps to any part of the dashboard from anywhere.

Fix

Re-sync means re-sync

Re-syncing subtitles used to re-time them from a transcript Reelium already had, which could leave the same drift in place. It now transcribes the clip’s audio again, so the timing comes from the sound you are looking at. It keeps who said what across the re-sync, marks the words it is unsure of so you can check them, and lets you set the speaker count to Auto-detect or to exactly one to six. A re-sync now uses Studio minutes, like any other transcription, and with none left this month it is refused rather than run.

Fix

The plan and the stream you chose survive signup

If you picked a plan before creating an account, the upgrade page now remembers it — “You chose” that plan, listed first, on the billing interval you picked — instead of starting you over. A stream chosen before signup carries straight through to setup, and the first screen after signup accepts a channel link like twitch.tv/yourname and lists that channel’s past broadcasts to choose from. Billing now defaults to monthly, and annual says up front that the full year is charged at once. The upgrade window lists only what an upgrade adds, rather than things Free already has. No price or limit changed.

New

Memes and meme sounds in the editor

Add media has a Memes tab. Search meme templates, or tap a reaction — Popular, Suspicious, Confused, Shocked, Angry, Laughing — and click or drag a result onto the canvas or the timeline, where it behaves like any sticker: move it, resize it, time it. A meme you use is copied into your media library, so it counts towards your upload allowance. The images come from Imgflip. Sounds gains 21 meme recordings beside the existing effects, each with a Listen button, so you hear one before it goes on the clip.

New

One-click hype pass

Run hype pass, under Add media → Effects, places zooms, shakes and sounds on the laughter and loud moments Reelium detected in the clip, as a single step you can undo. Light, Medium and Max place up to three, six or ten a minute, at least three seconds apart, and never within a second of something you placed yourself. Running it again replaces only what it placed. Four limits, stated plainly: Twitch and Kick VODs Reelium analysed in the last 60 days only, saved clips only, no zooms in Fit framing, and fewer moments until the clip’s preview is ready.

Fix

Trims move every layer, and the strip’s caption bar is always drawn

Trimming the start of a clip now moves its effects, sounds, stickers and b-roll with it, and widening the trim again puts them back where they were. Previews of your own uploads no longer expire an hour into an editing session. One thing to check — a hook set to “Below” in an older 9:16 strip design now exports under the caption bar. The export draws that bar on every frame, as the preview always showed it, so anything in the bottom 22 percent of the layout is not seen. New placements are kept above it and a callout under it gets a note, but a saved design is not moved for you. If you have one, move it up.

New

Teams get a pipeline and a review desk

Teams are now organised around clips rather than seats. Pipeline lays out a team’s work as Up next, In the edit, Needs review and Ready to post, and each clip can carry a brief, an assignee and a due date. Review desk is where feedback lands, pinned to a moment in the clip. An owner or admin approves; only an exported clip can be put up for review or approved, and replacing the export reopens the review. Teams can also set default caption and framing settings. Two things this does not do: approving a clip does not publish or schedule it, and assigning a clip does not change who owns it. It is there for members of a team plan.

Fix

An export says what it left out

If one item in an edit could not be loaded — an upload that has since been removed, a sound past the per-clip limit — a render used to fail, and sometimes only after it had been charged. It now drops that item, renders everything else as you set it, and tells you which item will not be in this export and why, including when rendering again might bring it back. The same notice appears in the library preview, in bulk re-render results, and in the toast when you re-render many clips at once, which says how many of them will leave something out.

Fix

Renders stop sitting in “rendering” for hours

A render that died without reporting back could leave a clip saying “rendering” for up to three hours. Reelium now gives up on a render after 45 minutes and checks every 15 minutes instead of every hour, so the worst case is about an hour. The clip then says the render timed out and that re-rendering will retry it.

New

Stickers, sound effects and your own uploads

A clip can now carry more than captions. Stickers come as 24 emoji, as eight shapes in eight colours — an arrow, a ring, a censor bar, a cross, a check, a star, an exclamation mark and an underline — and as your own channel’s Twitch, 7TV and BTTV emotes once Twitch is connected. A clip takes up to 20. Sound effects: up to ten a clip, each Subtle, Normal or Loud, with an optional dip in the stream audio underneath. Your own files: PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF images up to 10MB, and sounds up to 30 seconds. The library shows how much of your allowance you have used, large uploads show real progress, and deleting your account deletes every upload. The limits: an uploaded GIF does not animate reliably in the export, animated WebP and PNG files are refused, and Twitch and 7TV emotes animate while BTTV ones are placed as stills.

Security

Changing your password signs you out everywhere else

Changing or resetting your password now signs you out on every other device and browser, and keeps you signed in where you made the change. A session ended this way lands on the login page and says so. One behaviour to know before it surprises you — confirming your email for the first time, by sign-in link, Google or Apple, removes any password or passkey set on the account before the address was confirmed, and signs out other sessions. You get an email when it happens, and Forgot password sets a new one. The sign-in link email warns you about this before you click, and offers the alternative: sign in with your password and confirm the address with a code. And signing up with an address that already has an account no longer shows an error; that address gets an email pointing it to sign-in.

New

Analyse part of a long stream

A Twitch or Kick VOD longer than your plan allows in one go, or longer than the Studio minutes you have left, used to be refused outright. If at least 20 minutes of it fits, Reelium now offers to analyse a slice: you choose where it starts, in 15-minute steps, and you are told up front how many Studio minutes it will use. The results say how long the stream was, what was analysed, and which plan covers the whole thing. It applies to VODs of an hour or more; uploads are unchanged.

New

Render my top 3

Choose clips has a shortcut for when you trust the picks. Render my top 3 — Render my top pick, when there is only one — sends the highest-ranked picks straight to Export with captions taken from the stream’s transcript, eight words a line at most, and skips the edit step. It appears on runs Reelium picked. The same change fixes clips that went to Export without passing through the edit step and rendered with no subtitles at all. If you have turned subtitles off, that is respected.

Fix

A scheduled post renders its own clip if it has to

A post that came due for a clip that had never rendered, or whose render had failed, used to fail at its slot. Now, if the slot is within the last two hours, Reelium starts the render and posts once it finishes — late, but posted. When you schedule clips that are not rendered yet, you are told this before you commit. A large batch recovers one clip at a time, so later posts in it can still fail, and those show as failed on your schedule.

Fix

One subscription per person

Choosing a plan while you already pay for one now changes the subscription you have instead of starting a second. Checkout sends you to Billing to switch, and where a switch cannot be made there it asks you to email support, and we change it for you. Deleting your account cancels your subscription first, deletes nothing if that cancellation fails, and the deletion dialog says so before you confirm.

Fix

Teams keep their channels when someone leaves

A former team admin deleting their own Reelium account no longer disconnects the team’s shared channels along with it. Someone removed from a team can no longer post or schedule to the team’s accounts from clips they made, and their queued posts fail with a message saying why instead of going out. When a deleted team is finally removed, Reelium revokes its access at each platform.

New

A look per channel

Save this look now asks whether it should apply to every new clip or only to clips from one Twitch channel, and a channel’s look can be forgotten again. If you clip more than one channel, each can keep its own captions and framing, for up to 20 channels. A new clip takes its channel’s look first, then your team’s, then your own. A look carries settings, not timed items: effects, stickers, sounds and b-roll stay with the clip they were placed on.

Fix

The TikTok post screen names the account

Posting to TikTok now says which account the clip is going to, by name and handle, before you send it. Afterwards it says TikTok can take a few minutes to process a post, and when you post to drafts it says the clip went to your TikTok drafts rather than your feed.

Fix

Deleted clips stay out of the highlight reel

A clip you delete no longer appears in the monthly highlight reel, and the preview footage Reelium staged for it is erased with it, including when you delete your whole account.

New

B-roll

Upload a video and cut it into a clip, full frame or picture-in-picture at 35, 50 or 70 percent of the width. A clip takes up to five inserts, each from half a second to 30 seconds long, from H.264 MP4s of up to 200MB and a minute. An insert shows in the preview once the clip’s source is ready, and always in the export. It cannot go into one half of a Split layout, and on Free the upload allowance is smaller than the largest file b-roll accepts.

New

Freeze and callouts join the effects

Since 14 September the edit step has had punch zoom, impact shake and micro flash. Two more effects join them. Freeze holds the picture while the audio keeps running, for a third of a second up to three seconds, over a clean, dimmed or blurred background; the clip does not get longer, because the held time is footage the viewer does not see. Callout puts up to 80 characters of text, or an emoji, over the frame for up to six seconds, aimed by dragging it on the preview, with a choice of size, font, colour, background, and entry and exit motion. One bug was ours — for a day after 14 September, a new effect landed at the start of the clip whatever you chose. Effects now land at the playhead. And a shake or a very short flash now renders the way the preview draws it, so a new export of a clip that uses one will not match its old MP4; MP4s already rendered are unchanged.

New

Choose a clip length up front

Step 1 has a Clip length choice: Let Reelium decide, which stays the default, or Punchy at about 15 to 30 seconds, Standard at 30 to 60 and Longer at 60 to 120. In the edit step, 15s, 30s and Full chips shorten a clip from its end and keep its start, and a chip only appears when it would make the clip shorter than the moment the picker found.

Fix

More of the editor works from the keyboard

The crop window moves with the arrow keys, and Shift makes the steps bigger. The popover that splits a caption line keeps focus inside it while it is open and hands it back when it closes, and its speaker choice is labelled for screen readers. Low-contrast text across the dashboard was raised, the Settings focus ring is back, decorative icons are hidden from screen readers, and loading placeholders stop animating if you have asked your system to reduce motion.

Fix

Short, strong moments are kept

A moment shorter than the clip-length range you were aiming for used to be dropped. It is now delivered at its natural length — a 22-second moment survives a 30-to-60-second setting — and it is never padded to fit. Separately, a near-silent clip is no longer boosted into loud hiss: a large loudness boost now needs there to be something to boost, and when there is not, the render keeps the original audio.

Fix

The edit preview stays put

The edit preview no longer reloads itself every 30 seconds or stalls on a video that will not start, and a load that fails shows a Retry button instead of a dead frame. Once the clip’s source is ready, the preview is drawn by the same composition that renders the export. A cropped preview no longer slides off the frame and goes black, and a channel’s remembered layout no longer overwrites a crop you set. Captions hold a finished line on screen until the next one is due, for up to a second and a half, so they stop blinking off between lines, in the preview and in the export. And speakers are named by letter — “Speaker A” — rather than by an internal index.

Fix

Clearer refusals, and Twitch’s real retention window

Pasting a stream that is still live is now refused before any Studio minutes are reserved, with the reason: there is no finished VOD yet, so wait for the broadcast to end. A stream that times out while it is being prepared now tells you not to simply run it again, and a network error tells you to try once more. And the dashboard banner and the welcome emails had Twitch’s VOD retention wrong; they now give the range Twitch actually applies, from 7 to 60 days depending on the account, and suggest pasting a recent VOD.

Platform

Connect Reelium to Claude

Your clip review queue is now reachable from Claude. Add Reelium as a connector in Claude or claude.ai, or run one command in Claude Code, then sign in through your browser — there is no key to paste into a config file. From there you can page through unreviewed clips, read what the picker found in each one, set a clip’s framing and caption style, move the in and out points, render, and post to an account you have already connected. Nineteen tools sit behind six permissions, listed one by one on the consent screen, and you can decline any of them. Two limits are worth knowing before you start: a clip needs its captions synced inside Reelium before it can be rendered, and nothing on the Claude side can make them; and until you write an agent policy in Settings, a connection can read your clips but cannot restyle, trim, render or publish one. Saying yes in the conversation does not release that — the policy is re-read from your account on every attempt, so only what you wrote there counts. If you connected before 8 September, reconnect once: the framing and design permissions were added after your grant was issued and an old grant does not carry them. The step-by-step is at /mcp/claude, and the full reference — the endpoint, the scopes, the rate limits — is at /mcp.

New

Special effects in the edit step

The edit step’s rack gains a fifth section beside Cut, Framing, Captions and Post text. Punch zoom, impact shake and micro flash can be dropped at the playhead, dragged to a different moment, retimed, set to Subtle, Hype or Meme, and removed again — and the preview draws them as you scrub, at the same timings the finished MP4 will use, because both are drawn from one shared definition rather than two that have to be kept in step by hand. The nine colour grades move here from Framing, where they never belonged: a grade is not framing, and framing is about where the picture sits. The renderer gained the same effects a day earlier and shipped first on purpose, so that no clip could be saved with an effect the render pipeline did not yet understand.

Faster

Step 3’s preview is worth looking at

The focused player in step 3 was drawing a 284-pixel-wide file into a frame up to 720 pixels across — a two-and-a-half times upscale, five times on a high-density screen, which is why it looked soft. It now gets its own preview cut at up to 720p per clip. That resolution had to be bought rather than switched on: the low-resolution tier exists because one download of the whole recording is cached and every later clip is trimmed out of it, and no higher rung fits inside that cache for a realistic stream. The new tier deliberately skips the cache and cuts the single window it needs, which is a few megabytes rather than gigabytes.

New

“The whole frame is my camera” is now an answer

Step 4 asks which of the numbered panels is your camera, and on a lot of clips there is no right answer — an IRL stream, a just-chatting stream or a phone in hand has no camera panel in the frame, because the whole frame is the camera. Across eight clips, one per channel, all eight were typed as gameplay-with-a-camera by the detector; hand-checked, five were full-frame camera, two were a screen share with a webcam inset and one was genuinely gameplay with a camera. “None of these” is still there and still means only “not among these”. The new answer says why there is no panel, which is a different and more useful thing to record. It changes nothing about how the clip renders — a full-frame camera is already the centred crop the editor starts from — and it stops you being asked a question that has no answer.

Fix

A Cinematic Hit now needs audience evidence

Two things that interrupt you — the Cinematic Hit badge and the push or email that a draft is ready — could fire on a moment whose only supporting evidence came from the broadcast itself, a kill chime or your own laugh measured inside the cut. The score plate has refused to call that audience-backed for weeks and the badge’s own tooltip already promised an audience-backed score, so the gates now say what the copy says: both need evidence from your audience, a clip somebody cut or a burst in chat. No clip is withheld from you by this. A broadcast-only pick is still found, still scored and still waiting in Clips to Review — it loses the interruption, not the clip.

Fix

Chat evidence, and an honest answer when there is none

Step 3 carries what the stream’s chat actually held. Where there is enough of it to draw, the map shows chat activity across the whole stream; where there is not, it says so in the run’s own numbers — “Chat was too quiet to map — 19 messages across 133 minutes” — rather than drawing a flat line and implying evidence we do not have. The detection behind it changed too. Reactions were measured in five-second windows against a five-second normal, which on a quiet chat meant three messages inside five seconds and so almost never fired. The window now widens until “your normal” means something, and a spike needs more than one person reacting, so one fast typist is not read as a room. “We could not get a baseline” and “we looked and it was calm” are now two different answers, and you are told which one you got.

New

Choose and edit the cover frame

Since 15 August Reelium has picked a cover for each clip. You can now change it. Open Cover beside Render on the clip page, scrub to the frame you want or upload your own image, and lay the clip’s hook over it as a bare frame, a hook band or a full-bleed caption. What you see is what gets saved — the preview and the uploaded file are the same canvas, painted once. Two thumbnails underneath state a difference we would rather show than explain: Instagram takes the image you made, while TikTok’s API accepts no cover image at all and can only use a frame from inside the video, so it shows the moment your cover was cut from. Covers download alongside the MP4 and are free on every plan.

New

The edit step is built around the clip

The step where you design a clip drew that clip at 320px beside a taller column of controls — it was the smaller half of the step that is about it. The clip is now the largest thing on screen, with the controls in a rack beside it, and it is drawn once instead of twice: the stage shows whatever you are currently editing, the finished output by default and the source frame while you are cropping. A collapsed section states its current value rather than restating its own name. Every pick-one control is a full-size button with a focus ring that also tells a screen reader which option is selected — nine colour grades used to announce as nine identical buttons. Quiet supporting text is lighter across the app, which clears the WCAG AA contrast floor on the backgrounds where it had been failing.

Fix

The edit step arrives with something on it

Most of the edit step’s controls are gated on captions you have not made yet, so on arrival the rack held four rows beside a tall video and several hundred pixels of empty card, with nothing saying whether the step had four controls or nine. The rows that have not arrived yet are now shown as quiet placeholders naming what brings them, so you can count the step before you start, and Sync subtitles — the one action open on every plan — is a full-width block that names the rows it fills in rather than a small button beside a wrapped label.

New

Publish and schedule without leaving the wizard

Finishing a clip in the wizard used to hand you a link to the clips page to publish it, and scheduling was a separate screen past the last step. Both are now part of the last step. A finished clip’s row opens the same publish panel used everywhere else — one per clip, so two clips’ TikTok audience settings stay independent — and a Post now / Schedule switch turns the same list into a scheduling list with a time field on each row. Nothing navigates away. On Free the Schedule tab is visible and states the plan it needs rather than being hidden, and Post now stays enabled on every plan.

New

The review queue is on the dashboard

The dashboard home told you how many clips were waiting for your decision and then sent you to another page to decide. Those clips are now on the home page with Keep and Discard on each, and it says when there are more than it can show. Above them, one strip replaced the hero, the stat row and the pipeline card: four numbers were being drawn eleven times down a single scroll, with published clips counted twice under the same label. Each number now appears once.

Fix

A render stops stamping clips with a look you never chose

When a render started without a look attached — from the clips list, or a bulk render of up to fifty clips — Reelium filled the gap with a fixed TikTok caption preset. It did not only render in that look: it wrote it onto the clip permanently, discarding the crop and hook placement that clip already had. Both paths now use the clip’s own saved design first and your Look from Settings otherwise. This stops it happening; it does not undo it, so a clip already overwritten keeps that design until you change it in the editor.

Fix

Accessibility fixes across the site

Four fixes for keyboard and screen-reader users. The command palette’s search box removed the browser’s focus outline and never replaced it, so opening it with Ctrl/Cmd+K left a keyboard user with nothing on screen showing where they were. The four public calculators recomputed their results silently, with no announcement that the number had changed. The pricing comparison table’s column headers were not scoped to their columns, while the row headers beside them were. And several pieces of quiet text — the palette placeholder, two paragraphs on the pricing receipt, and the annotations on the homepage detection diagram — sat under the 4.5:1 contrast floor and have been lifted above it.

Platform

Instagram Reels is a live publishing destination

Meta approved our Instagram submission, so a clip scheduled to Instagram now posts as a Reel instead of stopping at a consent screen that would not complete. This supersedes the note from 26 August: connecting Instagram works now, and Reels appears beside TikTok and YouTube Shorts everywhere Reelium asks where a clip should go — including “Post it now” on the clips page. One requirement has not changed and is not ours: Instagram only accepts posts to a Business or Creator account linked to a Facebook Page, so a personal account still cannot be connected.

Platform

TikTok is a live publishing destination

TikTok approved our Content Posting API application, so a clip scheduled to TikTok now posts to your feed instead of stopping at a connection you could not use. Connect the account under Connected platforms and TikTok appears beside YouTube Shorts everywhere Reelium asks where a clip should go — including “Post it now” on the clips page.

New

Sign in with Twitch

You can now create an account and sign in with Twitch, which connects your channel as a clip source in the same consent — one screen instead of signing up and then hunting for a connect button. Accounts are matched on your Twitch user ID and never on your email address, so changing your Twitch email can never hand someone else your Reelium account.

New

Onboarding gets out of your way

Three changes to the first five minutes. Onboarding no longer opens on a pricing table — you land in the product and choose a plan once you have a reason to. Pasting a stream URL on the homepage now carries you straight into that analysis and skips onboarding entirely. And finishing the wizard ends on a checklist of what is left to do, rather than an empty dashboard.

Fix

The analyse step states your real allowance

The confirmation before an analysis quoted a generic allowance instead of what your plan actually has left this month. It now names the real remaining hours, so you can tell before you spend them whether a four-hour VOD fits.

Platform

Instagram publishing is awaiting Meta’s review

Instagram publishing has moved onto Instagram Login, the API path that supports posting on your behalf, and that submission is in Meta’s review queue. Until it clears, connecting Instagram may not complete at the consent screen — if it errors out, that is the review and not your account. The connect card now says so instead of showing a raw error. We will email you when it is approved.

Fix

Honest counts on the dashboard and Pulse

The dashboard could render a clip count as text rather than a number, and the Pulse tile was crediting views on clips that were no longer publicly reachable. Both are fixed — which means your Pulse figure may read lower than it did last week. The lower number is the correct one.

New

Password reset, and a safer password change

There is now a password reset flow from the login page. Changing a password while signed in asks for your current one first, so someone at an unlocked laptop cannot lock you out of your own account.

Fix

Free accounts can reach the caption editor they are sold

The Free plan advertises the caption editor, but free users hit a wall before they could open it, and the empty state told them to do something the plan would not allow. Both are fixed: captions are editable on every plan. What paid plans gate is the style library — the preset looks — not the captions themselves.

Fix

A verification code resumes your analysis immediately

When a source asked you to confirm a code, entering it left the analysis waiting for the next poll before anything happened. It now resumes the moment the code lands.

Faster

Analysis and previews are faster

Several changes landed together: the chat replay and the preview warm-up now run during the transcription wait instead of after it, and the render worker reuses the source it has already downloaded instead of buying it a second time for the preview. In practice the pick grid is usually ready as the analysis finishes, and pressing play no longer starts a download.

New

Connect Reelium to Claude and other AI clients

Reelium now exposes a connector an AI assistant can talk to: it can start an analysis, read the picks and the scores behind them, save the ones you want as clips, and list what is waiting in your review queue — without a browser. You authorise it from Connected apps in Settings, where every app you have granted access to is listed and can be revoked.

New

Clips say how much your audience reacted

A pick used to tell you only that the audience reacted. Each clip now says how much, measured against the rest of that stream, so you can tell a genuine spike from a room that was warm all night.

Security

Platform connections are encrypted at rest

The access tokens behind your TikTok, YouTube and Instagram connections are now encrypted in our database with AES-256-GCM rather than stored as readable text. We also added browser security headers across the site, closed an image proxy that could be pointed at arbitrary hosts, and put authentication and rate limiting on an internal endpoint that had neither.

Fix

The monthly render cap is an actual ceiling

The render limit was checked when a render started but not counted against renders already running, so a burst could carry an account past its cap. It is now a real ceiling.

New

Caption fonts you can actually see

The font picker listed typefaces by name in a single interface font, which made choosing one guesswork. Every font tile now paints its own name in its own typeface, and the look preview stays on screen while you change settings instead of scrolling out of view.

New

The picker sweeps the whole stream before it chooses

Clip selection used to work forward through a stream and commit early, which quietly favoured the first hour of a long VOD. It now nominates candidates across the entire source and ranks them against each other, so a moment three hours in competes on equal terms with one from the opening.

Fix

Every pick shows the evidence behind it

Instead of a model-written justification, a pick now shows what was measured — the reaction in chat, the transcript line that earned it, and where it sits against the rest of the stream. When you disagree with a pick you can see exactly why it was made.

New

A rebuilt homepage, and a rebuilt app

The marketing site and the signed-in app both went through a design pass: one shared visual system across every screen, a homepage that shows the crop a real render actually used rather than describing it, a feature grid cut to the six things people shop for, Live moved to its own page, and a command palette in the app.

New

Delete clips whose source has gone

Twitch and Kick expire VODs, which left clips pointing at a source that no longer exists and streams that could never be re-analysed. You can now delete both. Deleting a single clip also tells you about the grace window before it is permanently removed — previously only bulk deletes did.

New

Clip count scales with how long the stream was

A six-hour subathon and a forty-minute stream used to be asked for the same number of clips. The target now scales with source length, and it is a ceiling rather than a quota — Reelium will not pad the list with weak moments to reach a number.

Faster

Previews start playing sooner

Five separate defects sat behind one report of slow previews, including re-buying a video segment that was already staged and waiting on a download that had already finished. Preview playback now warms on arrival at the editor rather than on the play click.

Fix

Large clips upload to TikTok again

Clips over 64MB were sent to TikTok as a single chunk, which is above TikTok’s per-chunk ceiling, so the upload failed. Large files are now split across multiple chunks and go through.

New

Pricing is metered in hours of stream analysed

The old per-stream model punished you for clipping short streams and undercharged for eight-hour ones. Plans are now denominated in hours of stream analysed per month — Free 4, Creator 14, Pro 28, Power 56 — with no cap on how many VODs you run and no per-clip credits. Each tier also raises how long a single source may be: 4, 5, 6 and 8 hours, so a subathon fits on Power. The entry paid tier is now called Creator.

New

Find a Moment: search an analysed stream in plain English

Ask for what you remember — “the bit where chat lost it at the jumpscare” — and Reelium re-searches the stream you already analysed and returns the matching moments as new picks. No re-analysis, and it does not spend your hours a second time.

New

Your logo and handle on every clip

Upload a logo and set your handle under Settings → Look and Reelium paints them onto every clip it renders, with control over the corner, size and opacity. Available on Pro and Power.

New

Analysis starts when your stream ends

Automatic analysis ran on a schedule that could leave a finished stream sitting for over an hour before anything happened. It now begins when the stream ends, so the picks are usually waiting before you have finished packing up.

New

Reach a human from the help bot

The in-app help bot can now hand you to a person instead of dead-ending on a question it cannot answer. The request goes to a queue a human reads, and the reply comes back to you in the app.

New

Caption styling is gated; captions are not

Every plan gets word-by-word karaoke captions on every clip. What paid plans add is the style library — the preset looks, custom fonts, colours and outline. The locked presets are now shown rather than hidden, so you can see what a plan buys before paying for it.

New

Pick the cover frame for TikTok and Instagram

Reels and TikToks were published with frame zero as the cover, which is usually a blur of motion. Reelium now stores a cover per clip, chosen from that clip’s own peak rather than a flat one second in, and sends it with the post.

New

One publish panel everywhere

Publishing looked and behaved differently depending on whether you reached it from the clip page or the new-clip wizard. Both now use the same panel, so the destinations, the schedule picker and the error messages are identical wherever you publish from.

Fix

Scheduled posts say what, where and when

The schedule list showed a column of times with no way to tell which clip was going where. Each post now links to its clip, names the platform, shows the render state, and states times in your own timezone instead of UTC.

Fix

A rate-limited post waits instead of being written off

When TikTok or Instagram throttled us, a scheduled post was marked failed and stayed failed. Rate limits are now told apart from real errors and retried, media is checked against each platform’s size and length limits before the upload starts, and a post we cannot confirm is quarantined and reconciled against the platform rather than blindly published twice.

Security

Session replay is masked, and every analytics tool is disclosed

We record session replays to work out what went wrong for real users. All text in them is masked, so a replay cannot carry what you typed. The privacy policy now names both PostHog and Sentry as sub-processors, and analytics is behind a consent gate.

Fix

Keyboard and screen-reader fixes across the site

A pass over every public and signed-in page: “Skip to content” now genuinely skips the navigation on the pages where it did not, icon-only buttons have names a screen reader can announce, dialogs trap focus, close on Escape and hand focus back where it came from, and low-contrast grey text was raised to meet WCAG AA on the marketing pages, the calculators, the help bot and this changelog.

Fix

A failed analysis refunds its Studio minutes

If an analysis was charged and then failed, the minutes stayed spent. They are now refunded automatically, and reserved atomically, so two analyses starting at the same moment cannot both spend the last of your allowance.

Security

Suspended accounts no longer received unlimited quota

A suspended account was falling through the plan lookup into an unlimited allowance, and a Stripe renewal on such an account silently lifted the suspension. Both are closed.

New

Choose the privacy level of a TikTok post

Scheduling to TikTok now lets you pick the privacy level — public, followers, or private — from the options your own account actually offers, and carries the commercial-content disclosure TikTok requires when a post is branded content.

Fix

Free-tier exports are now genuinely un-watermarked

The Free plan has advertised an un-watermarked 1080p export since May, but exports were still carrying a small "Made with Reelium" overlay — the pricing copy changed and the render path didn't. That's now fixed at the source: every plan exports clean, Free included. This supersedes the 2026-04-25 entry below, which is kept as a record of what was true at the time.

New

Teams plans: Studio and Agency

Two new plans for teams: Studio (3 seats, £49/mo) and Agency (10 seats, £149/mo). Seats share one pooled stream quota instead of splitting it per person, and TikTok + Instagram connections are shared across the team instead of tied to one account. Admins can set who gets access via role-based permissions.

Fix

AI clip-picking restored on every Twitch source

Twitch streams without YouTube-style auto-captions were silently falling back to evenly-spaced clip suggestions instead of AI-picked moments. Fixed — every Twitch VOD or clip now gets proper AI-picked highlights with virality scores, hook lines, and the transcript snippet that earned each pick.

New

Cleaner clip previews on Twitch sources

Twitch's Follow / Gift a Sub / Subscribe overlay no longer covers the play button on clip preview cards. Previews now use a clean HTML5 player so you can scrub, pause, and review each pick without fighting the embedded player UI.

New

First-frame thumbnails on the clip picker

Cards on the AI clip picker now show the actual first frame of each clip as a poster image, so you can see what's in each moment before clicking play. Cards look like real video thumbnails instead of empty placeholders.

Faster

Faster Twitch analysis (~30% quicker)

Two changes shipped together that cut analyze time on Twitch sources from ~8 min down to ~5-6 min on a one-hour VOD: a faster transcription model that's both quicker and more accurate, and a more direct upload path that skips an intermediate storage hop.

New

Real progress bar during clip analysis

The "Working on your clips" screen now shows a real percentage progress bar that scales with your source video's length, so you can tell at a glance how much longer the analyze step has to run.

Fix

Connecting YouTube during onboarding keeps your place

When you click Connect YouTube on the onboarding wizard, you now land back on the next onboarding step with your channel connected — instead of getting dumped on the dashboard mid-flow.

Fix

Removed an outdated YouTube Shorts length warning

We had a warning telling users their 60-90 second and 90-120 second clips wouldn't qualify as YouTube Shorts. That cap got raised to 3 minutes back in October 2024 — every clip Reelium produces is now correctly Shorts-eligible, and the misleading warning is gone.

Platform

Twitch and Kick clips now render end-to-end

Paste any Twitch or Kick clip / VOD URL — Reelium pulls the source, runs your selected clip through the render pipeline, and produces a 9:16 short ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Live preview embeds the source platform's own player.

New

Public system status page

A new /status page shows the live state of every part of the service — database, render worker, configuration. We believe in being honest about uptime; if something's degraded you'll see it before your render hits an error.

Fix

Faster, more reliable YouTube source fetching

Replaced the third-party YouTube downloader API (which kept producing IP-locked URLs that failed at render time) with our own self-hosted yt-dlp service. Render success rate is back to ~100%.

New

Free-tier exports now include a Reelium watermark

Free-plan exports get a small "Made with Reelium" overlay. Any paid plan (Basic, Pro, Agency) exports clean, no watermark — including 7-day free trials. — Superseded: this was reversed. Every plan exports un-watermarked, Free included — see the later entry above.

New

Pro plan: 7-day free trial

New users can try Pro — including unlimited captions, 9:16 vertical export, and word-level karaoke captions — for 7 days, no charge. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you won't be billed.

New

Sidebar usage pills

Your monthly clip and render usage now shows in the sidebar, so you can see at a glance how close you are to your plan's cap.

New

Annual billing default + 20% off

All paid plans now default to annual billing, with two months free baked in. Switch to monthly any time on the billing page. — Superseded: the annual discount is now 25% (three months free), not 20%. See /pricing for the current rate.

New

Public showcase grid

Featured clips now appear on the homepage and a dedicated /showcase page, so visitors can see what Reelium creators are publishing.

Faster

Faster transcript generation

Transcripts are now cached per source video, so re-analysing a video you've already processed is instant and costs nothing.

New

Karaoke captions back on the editor

Word-level karaoke captions (each word lights up as it's said) are available again on the clip editor for any clip with audio.

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