What's new and what's improved. Most recent at the top.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
All paid plans now default to annual billing, with two months free baked in. Switch to monthly any time on the billing page.
Featured clips now appear on the homepage and a dedicated /showcase page, so visitors can see what Reelium creators are publishing.
Transcripts are now cached per source video, so re-analysing a video you've already processed is instant and costs nothing.
Word-level karaoke captions (each word lights up as it's said) are available again on the clip editor for any clip with audio.