What's new.
Features, improvements, and fixes — what we shipped, when, and why it matters.
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Help center and in-app walkthroughs
Launched a Resource Center at /help with 14 in-depth articles covering staging, video generation, MLS compliance, and billing. Three guided walkthroughs (Create Project, Getting Started, AI Editing) are accessible from the Help button in the editor topbar and from each help article.
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Upgrade prompt on the video preview page
Free users now see an upgrade modal the first time they view a watermarked video. It shows the target plan's price, top features, and any active promo code pre-applied at checkout so the click-to-discounted-checkout path is a single hop.
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Refreshed landing page
Marketing site reworked with a live editor demo in the hero, a 4-step "How it works" section, refreshed pricing cards showing credits per plan, the navbar converted to a full-width sticky bar, and a CTO bio on the About page.
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Title card toggle persists across reloads
If you disabled a title card and reloaded the project, the toggle was silently snapping back to enabled and losing your edit. It now persists correctly via the project's settings.
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Kids Room staging styles
Pick Kids Room as the room type and the Style dropdown swaps to age-appropriate options: Whimsical, Modern Kids, Adventure, Nursery, and Pre-Teen.
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AI Edit panel remembers the active version
Opening the AI Edit panel on an image with edited versions now pre-fills the panel with the active version's settings instead of resetting to defaults. Re-running the same edit (or tweaking it) is one click.
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Smoother color picker on heavy projects
Dragging the color slider on a project with a long timeline no longer jitters or piles up a long undo trail. Each adjustment commits once, when you settle on a color.
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Gradient, stroke, and shadow for text overlays
Studio text panel now supports gradient fills, strokes, and drop shadows. The overlay was also restructured to separate the box, text fill, and highlight layer so each can be styled independently.
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Faster, less cluttered font picker
Trimmed the font catalog to 10 well-loved options and clamped weights so the picker dropdown loads instantly. Existing projects that used one of the previous fonts still work; they're restored on demand when their project opens.
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Quick-remove background fill on text pills
Added a single-click 'Background fill: none' option for preset pill backgrounds so removing them no longer takes a trip through three sub-panels.
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Editor reliability fixes
Four bugs squashed in one batch: client-side compression for large phone photos before upload, clips that got stuck on "processing" after a network blip, duplicate completion notifications, and wrong image being assigned to newly added timeline clips.
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Text opacity respects animations + highlights
Text overlays with both an animation and a highlight applied were ignoring the opacity slider during the animated portion. Fixed.
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Reliable rendering for large videos
Final video renders over 100MB were failing silently. Resolved so any project you can build in the editor renders end-to-end regardless of output size.
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Site-wide announcement banner
Added a banner across the top of the marketing site for launches, scheduled maintenance, and limited-time promos.
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Download Video actually downloads
The Download Video button was opening the MP4 in a new browser tab on some browsers instead of triggering a save dialog. Fixed across Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
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Non-destructive image removal
Deleted images were causing render failures when they were still referenced by a video on the timeline. Removing an image from your library now hides it from view but keeps it available to any historical render that needs it. Your finished videos don't break.
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Exterior effects, 4K upscaling, and motion presets
Six one-click exterior re-lighting and seasonal effects (Twilight, Winter, Halloween, Christmas, Green Grass, Bright Day) for front-of-house, backyard, patio, and pool shots. Plus a 4K upscaler for hero photos and a refreshed library of motion presets for the timeline.
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Credit top-ups, free-user limits, and room-type filtering
Agent and Pro plans can now buy credit top-ups mid-cycle without waiting for renewal. Free-tier limits are explicit and enforced. The image library got a room-type filter so you can jump straight to "kitchens" or "exteriors" in a long photo set.
- ·Improvement
Close the tab during a render
Video generation no longer ties up your editor session. Click Generate, close the tab, and we'll email you when the render is ready. The new version shows up under the project's Versions tab automatically.
- ·Fix
Resolution limits enforced with feedback
Selecting 1080p on a plan that does not include it used to silently fall back to 720p at render time. Now the picker disables 1080p with a clear "Upgrade to unlock" hint, and the Generate Video modal calls it out explicitly.
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Interior holiday effects
Added Christmas and Halloween interior variants alongside Interior Twilight in the Style dropdown of the One-click Staging section. Use them for seasonal social posts where you don't want to restage the whole room.
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AI Image Editing launched
One-click AI staging is live. Add furniture and decor to empty rooms, destage cluttered rooms, or transform photos with 13 design styles. Shipped alongside the 3x credit system that prices staging at 1 credit and video clips at 3 credits.
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Reuse clips across projects
Generate a video clip once, drop it into any future project at zero credit cost. Your library of generated clips grows with every project; the costs go down with every reuse.
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Free tier gets watermarked exports
Free accounts can now generate full videos with a Reel Estate watermark instead of being limited to previews. You see exactly what the platform produces before committing to a paid plan.
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Project duplication
Duplicate any project from your dashboard to start a new listing video with the same timeline, settings, and overlays. Useful for spinning up a vertical-social variant from a finished horizontal listing video.
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Yearly subscription pricing
Pay for a year up front and save versus monthly billing. Yearly plans receive the full annual credit allotment up front with the same per-action costs.