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October 28, 2026b520Also b539, b524

Edit a podcast from its recording session

Drop a multi-camera recording on Home: the cameras line up by sound, you say who is who, and the episode cuts to whoever is talking.

New

  • Podcast edit: drop a recording session on Home and every camera lines up by sound.
  • Who's who names each person and picks their close-up; each one gets their own caption colour.
  • Name someone who is never on camera, like a host off screen, and their words get a name and colour too.
  • A session with no wide camera gets a wide shot made from the close-ups.

Improved

  • When an agent's account is out of credits, lapsed or not eligible, the card says why and what to do.
  • Undo says so when another preview is using the project, instead of failing.

Fixed

  • A Mac update that runs out of disk space says how much it needs and how much is free.
  • An agent's export keeps your last export settings after the video is moved.
  • A file dropped on Send feedback no longer lands in Home's prompt box.
  • What's new for a build that repeats earlier notes shows the right build.
October 28, 2026b510Also b515, b513

Script cuts leave b-roll alone

A Script cut no longer shortens a muted b-roll clip of the same recording, projects open without a jump, and Windows updates stay responsive.

Fixed

  • A Script cut no longer shortens a muted b-roll clip of the same recording.
  • Opening a project no longer shifts the screen while its timeline fills in.
  • A Windows update waits for its installer without freezing the app, and stops before it writes if another program holds a file.
  • A link import tries its download again when the file host has a hiccup.
October 28, 2026b503

A lighter Home and steadier Claude sign-in

Home opens lighter, a Claude sign-in waits for the right code, and failed installs say why.

New

  • Google fonts download once per computer.

Improved

  • Home loads light at launch, and its sidebar starts where a project's does.
  • The project screen no longer redraws on every project-list re-read during a run.

Fixed

  • A Claude sign-in keeps waiting when a code from an earlier attempt is pasted.
  • A Windows Codex install is done when Codex runs, not when the installer exits.
  • The Codex Full access card says its Windows sandbox is why.
  • A project folder the system will not let the app write in says so.
  • HeyGen declining a music prompt says so.
October 27, 2026b502

A quiet context ring, and steadier Windows folders

See how full the chat is at a glance, and get clear words when a Windows folder will not open.

New

  • One quiet context ring in the chat header, with Compact and Fork in its menu.

Improved

  • A cold start loads the app's packages in one read, so it opens faster.
  • An export the engine ends as stalled says so in plain words.

Fixed

  • Windows says plainly when it is holding Home's folder during an import.
  • On Windows a handed or recent folder matches in any letter case, with forward or trailing slashes.
  • A refused Claude sign-in code says so and reports why.
  • A model call Cloudflare's firewall blocks says so, with its Ray ID.
October 27, 2026b501
No stray Framey window on Linux

Resize mid-run, kit cards, a steadier agent

Resize panels while the agent works, and get fewer hangs.

New

  • Linux: Framey no longer leaves a stray window above other apps.
  • A kit the agent makes shows as a card in the chat, with Open kit.
  • The agent can suggest a chat of its own; Open forks it and sends the brief.

Improved

  • Panels resize while the agent works.
  • A failed site scan says why.
  • HyperFrames 0.8.209: no check or snapshot hangs, no preview 404s, no silent voiceovers.

Fixed

  • Hostile compressed files are stopped before they reach the app.
October 27, 2026
2 fix builds, b498 to b500

b500 Export saves, smoother previews and privacy fixes

  • On Mac, Export asks for access to Downloads when it starts, instead of waiting until the video is ready to save.
  • Reports remove account IDs and masked API key fragments from provider error messages.
  • Choppy previews can drop straight to a lower quality that makes playback lighter.
  • Picking a file again right after Undo in Replace media now swaps it.

b498 Steadier Codex runs on Windows

  • On Windows, Codex runs media and browser steps with your PATH, and the agent finds a video's transcript beside it.
  • Talking-head edits use the app's own HyperFrames, so they work when npm is refused.
  • While your machine is short of memory, a quiet window is kept open instead of reloading.
  • Dragging a picked layer keeps hold of it until you let go.
  • Clicking the open project mid-run no longer shows an error.
October 26, 2026b497

Brand logos and more time to sign in

Brand kits show their logos, Codex sign-in allows more time, and Windows setup handles briefly busy files.

Improved

  • Brand kits show their logo or website icon instead of just an initial.
  • Codex sign-in gives you 10 minutes to finish.

Fixed

  • On Windows, setup can finish when a file is briefly busy.
October 26, 2026b496

Your projects folder and more reliable chats

Choose where projects are saved, use clearer dropdowns, send messages more reliably, and cut pauses longer than 30 seconds.

New

  • Choose where projects are saved in Settings > Storage.

Improved

  • Dropdowns use the app's own thin arrow.
  • The agent can cut pauses longer than 30 seconds.

Fixed

  • On Windows, sending a message no longer fails when a temporary folder is busy. OpenCode chats start fresh after you rename the project folder.
October 26, 2026b494

Local voices and smoother scrubbing

Local voices work again, with smoother scrubbing, HEIC photos, Windows fixes, and clearer permission prompts.

Improved

  • Smoother scrubbing when you move back and forth through long videos.
  • The HyperFrames logo now appears in the center of the project top bar when there is room.
  • When Antigravity needs Full access, use "Allow and try again" to approve it and retry.
  • On supported Macs, asking the agent to cut out a video clip cuts out only the part used in your video.

Fixed

  • Local voices work again.
  • HEIC photos now import correctly.
  • Windows updates can finish when background processes from the old app are still running.
  • Creating a project on Windows no longer fails when another app briefly holds its folder open.
  • If sign-in cannot open your browser, you can copy the link and open it yourself.
October 26, 2026b493

Smoother scrubbing and Windows fixes

Scrub long videos more smoothly, import HEIC photos, and update or create projects more reliably on Windows.

Improved

  • Smoother scrubbing when you move back and forth through long videos.

Fixed

  • HEIC photos now import correctly.
  • Windows updates can finish when background processes from the old app are still running.
  • Creating a project on Windows no longer fails when another app briefly holds its folder open.
  • If sign-in cannot open your browser, you can copy the link and open it yourself.
  • On supported Macs, asking the agent to cut out a video clip cuts out only the part used in your video.
October 26, 2026
Fixes in b492

b492 Windows chats and project fixes

  • Claude chats with long prompts now start on Windows.
  • Fixed Windows agent installation failures.
  • An open project now tells you when its folder is missing or unreadable. Stop and Cancel still work.
  • Windows agent runs no longer fail when another app briefly has a file open.
October 26, 2026b491

Fork chats and a lighter preview

Choose a lighter preview, branch your chats, and keep Viral Clone moving to the next step.

New

  • Fork a chat to try another direction, and switch between chats in the sidebar.
  • Check your chat's context, or use Claude Code's Compact and usage controls.

Improved

  • Choose a lighter preview in Preview options when playback is choppy.

Fixed

  • Viral Clone keeps moving forward instead of repeating the same step.
October 26, 2026b490

Smoother scrubbing

Smoother scrubbing on long videos, better video reading, and exports that use space on your external drive.

Improved

  • Smoother scrubbing on long videos.

Fixed

  • Export to an external drive without needing free space on your computer.
  • Fixed video-reading errors when the audio lasts longer than the picture.
  • More accurate cut detection in videos with black borders.
  • Fixed export failures caused by placeholder media links in a project.
October 26, 2026b489

Quieter Home scans

Home scans your projects using far less CPU.

Improved

  • Home scans your projects using far less CPU.
October 26, 2026b488

Smoother videos and faster chats

Chat recovers after a restart, Fast speed is available, setup questions stay above the chat box, and exports remember your folder.

Improved

  • Long videos play smoothly right after opening, and change cards appear as the agent's edits reach the preview.
  • Chat starts again after a restart, and supported Codex and Claude models offer Fast speed.
  • Reference video setup questions stay above the chat box, accept typed answers and offer No voiceover.
  • Choose where exports are saved; the app remembers the folder.
October 25, 2026b487

Faster iPhone video checks and smoother long videos

Long videos preview faster, the app stays responsive with faster iPhone video checks, and project previews and export messages are clearer.

Improved

  • Long videos open in under a second and play smoother in the preview, using about half the memory.
  • The app stays responsive while the agent edits your video, with faster checks for projects using iPhone videos.
  • Hover a project in a sent message to see its preview. Framey stays in place while you scroll Home's reference videos.

Fixed

  • An export that can't save to Downloads says so and points to your video.
October 25, 2026b484

Smoother imports and long video copies

Import uses fewer resources, long transparent video copies finish, iPhone photos import upright, and Windows video checks and downloads work.

Improved

  • Long copies of transparent videos finish instead of stopping after five minutes.
  • Import shows previous results immediately, skips build folders, avoids rescans on unrelated file changes, and stops searching when its window closes or after ten minutes.

Fixed

  • HEIC photos from an iPhone import as upright JPEGs.
  • On Windows, Moments videos finish their checks, and lip sync, templates and video downloads unpack correctly.
October 25, 2026
3 fix builds, b479 to b482

b482 Clearer captions and fewer transcription errors

  • A recording still being saved, or a clip that was moved, no longer shows as a failed transcription.
  • English words and model numbers stay in the right order inside Arabic or Hebrew captions.
  • The Tools row in the + menu no longer shows a video preview.

b480 Windows Moments, music levels and 3D snapshots

  • Moments download and unpack correctly on Windows.
  • Viral Clone renders music at the level you set.
  • Snapshots wait for slow 3D scenes to finish building.

b479 Clearer messages for silent or blocked videos

  • Recordings with no audio say “no speech” instead of showing a transcription error.
  • When macOS blocks a video import, the message names the folder and tells you where to allow access.
October 25, 2026b478

Give a video new words with matching lips

Ask Framey to match a video clip’s lips to an audio file from your project.

New

  • Make a video clip’s lips follow speech from an audio file in your project.
October 25, 2026b477

Clearer chats, safer edits and smoother playback

Keep file references clear after sending, see how long each agent step takes, and play reference videos smoothly in Compare, with the latest app fixes.

New

  • Script can cut and put back words inside nested sections.
  • Pick your voice lists the voices you made on heygen.com and picks a HeyGen avatar's own voice by default.

Improved

  • Feedback can include your project, a screenshot and recent app details, so we can fix what you report faster.
  • A New chat button sits beside + in the chat box and keeps what you typed.
  • Framey tells you plainly when its browser is still downloading, instead of waiting in silence.
  • Sent file references keep numbered pills; created images keep their picture and open in the viewer after Framey renames the file.
  • The chat and timeline timers show how long the current agent step has been running.

Fixed

  • An agent run won't start if Framey can't save a restore point first.
  • Videos over 36 MB upload again, interrupted cloud uploads retry once, and failures explain why. Cloud renders no longer stop on another project's reference faces; refusals name the file.
  • Typing in Home stays quick even with a long feed.
  • Renders Framey starts now use your project's frame rate, like 60 fps.
  • Reference videos in Compare follow your playback speed without stuttering.
October 23, 2026
6 fix builds, b462 to b467

b467 Agent tools and update fixes

b466 Script word selection fix

b465 Video export fixes

b464 Tools and cost warnings

b463 Website capture and voiceover fixes

b462 Project pictures, captions and chat fixes

October 22, 2026b456Also b457

Voice library search and folders in chat

Search HeyGen's voice library and pick a voice, drop a folder into chat, and the agent can read a video and move time across it.

New

  • Search the HeyGen voice library and pick a voice, even while your own voice is still being made.
  • Drop a folder into the chat box and the agent can read everything in it.

Improved

  • The agent can read a video as text: its cuts, its shots and what is said.
  • The agent can insert, remove, stretch and move time across a video, checked in the preview.
October 22, 2026b455

Captions that fit, a smaller download and Share fixes

Captions on portrait and square videos fit the frame, the download is smaller, the app says when you're offline, and Share stays current.

Improved

  • Project rows show status and recent activity, with folders you can pin and sections you can fold.
  • Videos being made hold their place on the timeline until they are ready.
  • The app is a smaller download, and it says when you're offline and carries on when you're back.
  • Update has its own icon, so it no longer looks like Export.
  • Security update for the bundled tools

Fixed

  • Captions on portrait and square videos fit the frame instead of running off the bottom.
  • 4K MOV and WebM videos render in the cloud again when Cloud is on.
  • The Reference video link box names what it takes and shows the link you pasted.
  • Agents started right after the app opens still find the HyperFrames tools.
  • The Share popover shows a shared video's latest state right away and turns old links off.
October 21, 2026b450

Captions banner opens straight to Captions

Show me on the Captions banner now opens your project with the captions styles showing and the style picked.

Improved

  • Show me opens your project on Captions with the chosen style selected.
October 21, 2026b448

Model examples and clearer reference previews

See model examples before generating, keep pictures whole, and get clearer reference previews and more reliable video tools.

Improved

  • Generate media shows real examples from each image and video model
  • Generate media opens with its options and shows pictures whole in Look like and Start from.
  • Reference video remakes can follow the original's motion more closely.

Fixed

  • Generate media's shape picker shows clean shape icons.
  • The reference preview button says Show original or Hide original.
  • Reference video overviews cover the whole video, and rendering uses the app's tools.
  • Video continuations and higher-resolution finishes use the same checked clips throughout.
  • Caption styles in the @ menu fill the grid without empty gaps.
October 21, 2026b447

Reference setup and project fixes

Reference video keeps your setup answers. New installs open projects, previews load when tools are ready, and voiceover price checks do not create speech.

Fixed

  • Asking for a voiceover price no longer generates speech.
  • Video previews reload when their tools finish downloading.
  • Agent transcription works without trying to change the installed app.
  • Reference video keeps your setup answers when you open another project.
  • New installations open their first project without an authorization error.
October 21, 2026b446

Caption previews and cleaner project checks

Caption styles preview reliably, project checks avoid false errors, and new project names follow your words.

Improved

  • Video checks see nested scenes, thin lines and moving SVG shapes.

Fixed

  • Golden, Pop Purple and Spotlight caption styles preview correctly.
  • Newly applied HeyGen caption styles no longer trigger false project-check errors.
  • Projects started from Home take their names from your words, not an attached caption style.
  • Pictures the agent looked at appear in its chat card, including preview snapshots.
  • Reference video questions hide internal check IDs and the reference creator's name.
October 21, 2026b445

Skills ready and a clearer Storyboard

Agents can read shipped skills, Storyboard tools leave room for frame numbers, and Reference video setup starts fresh when you return.

Fixed

  • Agents can read every skill shipped with the app, including in custom agents.
  • Storyboard tools shrink to icons to keep frame numbers visible in narrow windows.
  • Leaving Reference video setup starts it fresh next time.
  • Agents see your Undo of their edits on their next turn.
October 21, 2026b444

Faster presenter choices and more reliable runs

HeyGen presenters appear while the rest load. Reference video asks for your voice, and agent runs handle tools and progress messages more reliably.

Fixed

  • HeyGen presenters appear before the full list finishes loading. Failed loads offer Retry.
  • Reference video asks which voice your video should have on every setup path.
  • Codex runs can use the app's tools when their approval reviewer is unavailable.
  • Claude runs keep working after a progress message.
  • Agent runs can use the API key from your HeyGen CLI login.
October 20, 2026b443

HeyGen caption styles on your recordings

Browse HeyGen caption styles in Captions and the @ menu, apply one to a recording, and change it from the timeline.

New

  • Browse HeyGen caption styles in Captions and the @ menu.
  • Put a HeyGen caption style on a recording, then change it from the timeline.

Improved

  • Video checks explain why a preview stopped and when a check does not apply.

Fixed

  • Edits stay on the selected part in its own file.
  • Transcription reports when neither HeyGen nor the local speech model finishes in time.
  • The Skills picker no longer fails while the app is setting up.
  • Claude runs stop and explain when the app's tools are missing.
October 20, 2026b440

Go back in chat, clearer choices and reliable updates

Go back before a turn, pick video models more easily, and get fixes for timeline handles, long chats, missing folders and updates.

New

  • Go back to before any turn directly in chat.

Improved

  • Generate media shows video models as cards, with choices open by default.
  • Pasting a reference link has more room and clearer source icons.
  • Framey uses the app’s transcription tool when a requested language needs it.
  • Projects started with portrait footage open in portrait.
  • Video checks stop at their time limit and say how far they got.

Fixed

  • Timeline handles stay put if Framey starts editing mid-drag.
  • Long chats show older requests again when you scroll up.
  • Missing project folders show empty media lists; Home offers Find it or Remove from Home.
  • A saved HeyGen key that cannot run explains why and offers Replace or Remove.
  • Large updates use the full download so they can finish reliably.
October 20, 2026b438

11 more A-roll styles for your next video

11 more A-roll styles, clearer reference setup, more reliable imports and a smaller Mac app.

New

  • Reference video adds 11 A-roll styles: talking-head explainers, tool demos, rankings and story reels.

Improved

  • Reference video setup shows every model’s price and lets you pick a ready-made voice.
  • Choose No brand kit and go back to pick another path.
  • An AI avatar video asks for a photo first.
  • Pick a reference shows creators in three columns.
  • The Mac app takes less space.

Fixed

  • A pasted Instagram post brings every item in order.
  • A reference video project keeps its name.
  • Upload stays usable after a reference link fails.
  • More textures download again.
October 20, 2026b436

Make a video from a reference

Use any video as a reference: copy its editing style, recreate it with your AI avatar, or start a motion graphics brief.

New

  • Use any video as a reference: copy its editing style, recreate it with your AI avatar, or start a motion graphics brief.

Improved

  • Projects without a poster show their own drawing.
  • Choose whether connected agents can start requests without asking each time.
  • The model picker tells you when Claude Code or Codex needs an update for newer models.

Fixed

  • Your reference video setup stays saved when the app restarts.
  • Removing the background from long videos finishes instead of stopping partway.
  • Captions in other languages and voiceovers use HeyGen when this computer can't make them, asking you first.
  • Video checks recognize titles split into individual letters.
October 20, 2026b435

Clearer preview tools and smoother project renaming

Find preview tools by name, keep previews playing when you rename projects, and manage folders from All projects.

New

  • All projects shows your folders and the sidebar's project menu.

Improved

  • Select, Draw and Comment show their names beside their icons.
  • Jump to latest floats over the chat without a band underneath.
  • Export's back button stays on one line.
  • Export offers 25, 50 and custom frame rates, starting at your video's own rate.

Fixed

  • Renaming the open project keeps its preview playing.
  • Picking a layer switches the preview to Select.
  • Selected tool names stay readable when you point at them.
  • Dialogs dim the page with a light veil in the light theme.
  • Video checks catch motion inside SVGs and small movements in large images.
October 19, 2026b434

Project folders and a media skill fix

Organize projects into folders, find pinned projects in their own section, and use the media skill without changing the app's files.

New

  • Organize sidebar projects into folders.

Improved

  • Pinned projects have their own section above Projects.
  • Choose how projects are sorted from the ... menu.

Fixed

  • The media skill leaves the app's files unchanged, so its signature stays valid.
October 19, 2026b433

A simpler start and clearer chats

Start with chat and the preview, paste social links on Home, move picked elements together, and get clearer project lists and reference questions.

Improved

  • Projects open with just chat and the preview; open media and the timeline when you need them.
  • Home now suggests pasting a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link.
  • Reference videos ask only the questions they need.
  • Reference projects show their structure first, then fill in as each part arrives.
  • Hide media sits at the top of the media tabs.

Fixed

  • The agent's video checks and stills work again inside its sandbox.
  • Picked elements move together, and the picks bar stays clear of them.
  • All projects opens as a list with sidebar filters; New folder shows a folder with a plus.
  • Looked at picture previews load correctly, and Jump to latest has no background.
  • Very long Codex chats stop and offer a fresh session when the server refuses them.
Oct 18 to Oct 19
8 fix builds, b423 to b430

b430 Faster projects, working links and media fixes

  • Snapshots of iPhone footage finish without hanging.
  • French and Spanish audio transcribes correctly.
  • Public hyperframes.dev links open in Desktop.
  • Unchanged projects reopen faster.
  • Home’s example carousel uses less energy and keeps demos playing after a long key press.

b429 Example refreshes and clearer key requests

  • Examples you opened without editing can refresh to the latest version again.
  • When a HeyGen API key is missing, the agent gets the app’s key instructions without a misleading “contact support” hint.

b428 Video requests and brand kit approvals

  • The agent is told to quote your words for talking videos and use the recording as a voice reference.
  • Paid videos appear in Media, the Mac stays awake while they generate, and stalled requests stop within their time limit.
  • The agent accepts Instagram video post links without editing the URL.
  • Approve brand kit changes on the kit’s page and save them together, including batches larger than 20.
  • Your chosen project order stays the same after restarting the app.

b427 Exports, video links and first launch

  • Exports use your network proxy to download the browser they need.
  • Skip all on first launch opens Home without creating an empty project.
  • Instagram video post links are accepted without editing the URL.
  • Sign in beside a video link and its import continues without pasting it again.
  • Your HeyGen sign-in keeps working, and chat asks for a key on the first paid run that needs one.

b426 Safer exports and project opening

  • MOV exports show the space they need before starting, and export errors explain what went wrong.
  • Open in desktop app opens the selected project on the first click.

b425 Clear errors in video checks

  • Video checks report a missing start or end time instead of crashing after the capture.

b424 Reliable checks and clear prices

  • Video checks no longer time out when another app has the project's history open.
  • Generate media shows current prices with the same rounding as the API wallet.

b423 Framey knows its way around

  • Framey can name and point to every part of the app and tell you where it is, without covering its words.
October 18, 2026b422

Clearer reference video setup

Reference video setup explains the wait and offers a notification. Video checks now start inside the agent's sandbox.

New

  • The reference video setup says it takes over 10 minutes and offers to notify you.

Fixed

  • The video check starts inside the agent's sandbox.
October 18, 2026b421

Your brand kit, laid out clearly

Your finished brand kit opens as a spec sheet, with a section for every part of your brand.

New

  • A finished brand kit opens as a spec sheet: logos, colours, text styles, backgrounds, shapes, components, screenshots and files, each in its own section.
October 18, 2026
Fixes in b420

b420 Cleaner reference video links

  • The line under a reference video link no longer repeats the site's icon.
October 18, 2026b419

Clearer reference video links

Paste a link, then choose Retrieve reference video. Clear the link to choose an upload or example instead.

New

  • A pasted reference video link pauses uploads and examples, with Retrieve reference video and Clear below the box.

Fixed

  • Video checks allow a final still to hold for about three seconds.
October 18, 2026b418

More reliable video checks and cloud export

Video checks work better inside agent runs. Export can render your video in the cloud, so your Mac stays free.

New

  • Export can render your video in the cloud, so your Mac stays free.

Fixed

  • Video checks start more reliably inside agent runs and explain when Chrome stops
  • Project npm scripts use the app’s own video tools during agent runs
  • Reference checks recognize the findings for Moments attached in the app
  • Background removal downloads the cutout tool the first time an agent needs it
  • Agents in the default access mode get search, background removal and transcription tools from the app
October 17, 2026
Fixes in b417

b417 Storyboard and offline brand kit fixes

  • Storyboard frames show the whole image in the project’s shape
  • Brand kits report a missing connection promptly instead of waiting through repeated retries
October 17, 2026b416

More control on Home, smoother updates

Pick your agent and preview clips from Home. Downloaded updates install when you quit, and first-run tips wait until you finish reading what changed.

New

  • Pick the agent, model and effort in Home's box, and the new project starts on it
  • Click a video pill in the prompt box to see the clip in a tile at the top right
  • Home's brand kit picker can start a kit from your own files
  • Sound effects from Openverse are free and need no sign-in

Improved

  • The app makes a playable copy of an HEVC or ProRes clip only when a video needs one

Fixed

  • The first-run tips no longer come back on later launches once you've seen them through
  • A downloaded update installs when you quit the app
  • The first-run tour waits until you close What’s new
  • Closing a project releases its view
  • New projects keep their skills when macOS clears its temporary files
Oct 15 to Oct 17
31 fix builds, b372 to b414

b414 Chat starts normally with Mods enabled

b413 Select all skills at once, and your connectors work again

b412 Agent checks accept images a variable supplies

b411 Scrubbing back across a scene no longer leaves it empty

b407 Dropped clips open as they are

b406 Smoother clip dragging on the timeline

b405 Picture tiles for files in the reference setup

b403 Step by step is back on Get inspired

b402 A-roll Cuts credit their format's creator

b401 Paste TikTok and Instagram reel links

b399 Long videos open on their first frame

b397 Home stays smooth while an agent works

b396 Make a brand kit without a website

b395 Paid voiceovers and music are no longer lost

b393 Brand kits load faster

b392 Generate media in place and on a new track

b390 Audio analysis finishes sooner

b389 Toolbar fits the default window

b388 Projects sit right under Brand kits

b387 Brand kit lists load without errors

b386 More polish ahead of today's launch

b385 Launch-day fixes across the app

b384 Smaller fixes across the app

b383 Projects go back to Home; Framey leaps into the kit forge

b381 Framey forges brand kits; clips show their whole outline

b379 Export remembers your settings; Framey's answers can change

b378 Home's tabs get new icons; long checks say what they found

b377 Long recordings transcribe without crashing

b376 Home types its title in; brand kit scans play as a sphere

b373 Brand kits ask you to sign in when they need to

b372 Big projects open reliably in Studio

October 15, 2026b364Also b367

Reference any video and make it yours

On Macs with Apple silicon, start from any video: upload it, paste an X link or pick one, then compare side by side. A website can now become your brand kit.

New

  • On Macs with Apple silicon, reference any video: upload one, paste an X link or pick an example, and Framey makes it yours
  • On Macs with Apple silicon, compare the reference with yours side by side
  • Name a website and it becomes a brand kit, with its badge when ready
  • Storyboard cards count their notes and send them from the board, and a file dropped on a frame stays pinned to it

Improved

  • Brand kits show in full, with Edit beside the name
  • All projects filters, sorts by date made and shows when each project was created
  • An image attached in the chat shows as itself
  • An update that skips builds downloads only the files that changed

Fixed

  • A sound opened from Media plays with its sound on
  • Renaming a project keeps its chat
  • A new blank project starts empty, without placeholder text
  • Editing or deleting one element no longer removes an audio clip by mistake
Oct 14 to Oct 15
4 fix builds, b346 to b363

b363 Reference video comes to Macs with Apple silicon

b356 New project always opens a new project, and OpenCode joins

b347 No false 'Failed to read' message

b346 Codex storyboards get their stills

October 14, 2026b345

Step through and play your Storyboard

Open a Storyboard frame and step through the rest, or press Play to watch each frame for its time. Every card is the same size, and stills show as they land.

New

  • Open a Storyboard frame and step to the next or previous one, with its comments and drawings
  • Play steps through the Storyboard on its own, each frame held for its time in the video
  • One live line under your message says what the agent is doing while it works

Improved

  • Storyboard cards all share one width, whatever the length of their titles
  • A Storyboard shows each still as soon as the agent makes it, without reopening the project
October 14, 2026
Fixes in b344

b344 Play your Storyboard and step through each frame

October 14, 2026b343

Launch videos start from three storylines

Ask for a launch, promo or demo video, with or without Moments: pick one of three storylines, then it builds from the Moments' own code.

New

  • A launch video offers three storylines to pick from before anything is built

Improved

  • Moments are studied through their code, so their motion carries over as it was made
Oct 12 to Oct 14
14 fix builds, b323 to b342

b342 Step through a Storyboard, faster Windows updates

b341 Brand kit fonts and defaults, Codex on Windows

b339 Fixes and polish

b337 Faster chat, Windows downloads fixed

b332 Smoother sharing and checkout

b331 Recover from a stuck project preview

b330 Framey stays in view while the agent works

b329 Smoother re-performs and fewer key prompts

b328 Start fresh with /clear, a clearer empty Files panel

b327 Send feedback from Help, clearer update notes

b326 Share to another space, steadier lip sync

b325 Voices shows a clear Add a key card when no key is set

b324 Small fixes and smoother loading

b323 Images you made show up after you rename or move them

October 12, 2026b322

Clearer steps to turn on notifications

While macOS asks about notifications, Settings says where Allow is, and opens System Settings if you close the prompt or pick Don't Allow.

Improved

  • While the macOS prompt waits, the Notifications row says to click Options, then Allow
  • If you close the prompt or pick Don't Allow, System Settings opens on HyperFrames' notifications
October 12, 2026
5 fix builds, b315 to b321

b321 Re-performed clips have fewer visible seams

b320 Archiving the open project takes you Home

  • Archiving the project you have open takes you back to Home
  • The # menu lists only the abilities you can use

b319 HyperFrames always quits when you ask it to

b316 Smoother Home

b315 Filter Moments by tag, and find the newest batch under New

October 12, 2026b313

Agent commands and Remove background on a Mac work again

The agent can run HyperFrames' own commands again, Remove background on a Mac keeps what it made, and new installs download less.

Improved

  • New installs download about 8 to 16% less on Mac, Windows and Linux: some tools fetch what they need the first time you use them
  • In the # menu, Enter adds the highlighted ability instead of sending, and abilities not on for you yet show as Coming soon

Fixed

  • The agent can run HyperFrames' own commands again
  • On a Mac, Remove background keeps the video it finished instead of saying it failed
  • A chat you're looking at no longer sends a notification when it finishes or asks you something
  • On the first sign-in screen, a failed sign-in says so on every try instead of waiting
October 11, 2026b311

Intel Macs export again, and hidden parts stay hidden

Exports work again on Intel Macs, MP4 and MOV exports keep sound and picture in sync, and what a video's script hides stays hidden in the preview.

New

  • What you pick in the preview shows in the prompt box, so you see what the agent gets
  • Turn on Show Framey on the desktop in Settings, then write to Framey from its pill: start a new video or send to a project
  • See how much of your Claude Code or Codex usage limit is left, next to the model picker
  • Pick a color when you draw on a frame
  • Make the app yours with a theme, accent and colors in Settings, Appearance, where light and dark mode now live

Improved

  • The chat shows each change by scene, with how it got there tucked away
  • A new Claude Code or Codex chat starts from HyperFrames' own guide, so the agent picks the right way to make your video
  • Click a file name in the agent's steps to show it in Finder, or File Explorer on Windows
  • One click on the chat header's folder chip copies the project's folder path
  • Smaller downloads, and smaller updates on Windows and Linux

Fixed

  • On Intel Macs, exports work again
  • An element a video's script hides stays hidden while the preview plays
  • MP4 and MOV exports keep sound and picture in sync when a clip's sound starts at a different moment
  • The shortcuts panel stays above the player controls and inside the window
  • On a slow network, Get inspired waits for its templates instead of showing an error
October 11, 2026
Fixes in b308

b308 File names show in chat steps in folders with spaces

  • The chat's work lines show a file's name, not its whole path, when its folder's name has a space
October 11, 2026b307

Abilities stack by the prompt; Send steers by default

Picked abilities stack at the prompt's bottom left, Send steers a working agent by default, and a stuck update check fails instead of sitting at 100%.

New

  • Abilities you pick with # stack at the bottom left of the prompt box

Improved

  • By default, Send steers a working agent with your words

Fixed

  • An update whose check stops answering reports a failure instead of sitting at 100%
October 10, 2026
Fixes in b305

b305 Exports finish with a clip placed after the end

  • Exports no longer fail when a video clip starts at or after the end of the video
  • A scene you split plays its videos from the right moment in the preview and timeline
October 10, 2026b304

Home always loads, and your own skills reach the agent

Home loads even when a project folder never answers, the chat agent sees all your skills, MP4 exports can use your GPU, and picked voices show as chips.

Improved

  • The chat agent sees all of your own skills, not only the ones you ticked
  • MP4 exports can use your GPU
  • Get inspired shows each video at its real shape, with nothing squashed or cropped
  • The Script keeps the ums and uhs it hears
  • Words you select in the Script show as a range on their clip in the timeline

Fixed

  • Home loads even when a project folder on its list never answers
  • On Windows, opening the app during an update no longer blocks the install
  • A voice you pick shows as a chip in the chat, never its id
  • Claude Code sign-in can finish with the code from your browser
  • When Get inspired cannot load its videos, it says so and offers Try again
October 10, 2026b302

New projects open on Windows again

On Windows, Send creates the project again, and agent installs on slow connections keep going until they finish, showing how long they have run.

Improved

  • Agent installs on a slow connection keep going until done or Cancel, and show how long they have run

Fixed

  • On Windows, pressing Send creates the project instead of failing
October 10, 2026
3 fix builds, b298 to b300

b300 Long exports finish, and Windows updates itself

  • Exports of long projects with many clips no longer time out
  • The Windows app updates itself, and agents and sign-in work on Windows
  • A quick Claude Code request no longer fails while the agent updates

b299 Image tools work on Linux

  • On Linux, snapshots, frame captures and background removal no longer crash

b298 More groundwork for what's coming

October 10, 2026b297

The change card lists each edit

When the agent makes several edits in one go, its change card lists each one on its own line, so you see exactly what changed.

Improved

  • The change card lists each edit the agent made, and a timing change shows its old and new start

Fixed

  • Export stays open while an agent edits, and Render waits for the run to finish
  • A video shows as ready only once its export matches the project as the run ended
  • You can update one agent while a different agent is running
  • An export that can't start says why in plain words, not a terminal command
  • Recent projects show the time you last edited them
October 9, 2026
Fixes in b296

b296 Groundwork for what's coming

October 9, 2026b295

Meet HeyGen Video 1, and speak in your own voice

Try HeyGen Video 1 right from Home, let the agent speak in your Voice 1 clones, and send several comments as one request.

New

  • Home introduces HeyGen Video 1: try an example or start from your own photo, with your HeyGen API key
  • The agent can speak in your HeyGen Voice 1 clones, or make an instant clone, with your HeyGen API key

Improved

  • Comments you send together reach the agent as one request, and ones sent while it works wait as one
  • A Video 1 clip over 15 seconds tells its story once across every piece, instead of restarting at each join
  • The Export button keeps showing a running export after you leave its project and come back
  • Out of HeyGen API credits, a run stops and waits for you; a Claude API key out of credit says where to add more
  • Setup lists agents you already have as Use, and a waiting message goes only to the agent you pick

Fixed

  • Projects with pictures open without freezing the app
  • A run card ends with the agent's answer, never hidden above a long list of files
  • When the check after an agent's edit can't finish, the card says so instead of vanishing
  • When an agent changes a text's words, the preview keeps that text where it was
  • A Sessions row says Done: the video is ready only when it is, not when the agent only replied
October 9, 2026b293

See what a click picks, and know when an agent needs you

Hover the preview to see what a click will select as you zoom and pan. Sessions rows show when an agent needs you or a run failed.

New

  • Hovering the preview outlines what a click will pick, at any zoom
  • Sessions rows say Needs you while an agent waits on you, and Failed after a failed run
  • TikTok moments show on Home, credited to their post
  • With no agent installed, setup offers Claude Code, Codex and Grok as equal choices

Improved

  • The selection toolbar stays above what you picked whenever it fits
  • Cmd+Z right after a rename takes back the rename
  • Update for Claude Code and Codex really updates, and says what happened
  • Quitting hides the app at once, and reopening during a quit works
  • Framey's tips wait until you can read them before a click or Escape puts them away

Fixed

  • Claude runs work on networks that need a system proxy, like a VPN in proxy mode
  • A Claude run ends with its work, never with a job still going in the background
  • ProRes footage shows its picture in Files and the @ menu
  • Long exports no longer stall when the Mac would go to sleep
  • Menus and tooltips draw above Framey, and Framey keeps clear of Continue with HeyGen
October 8, 2026b290

Follow each edit as Framey makes it

Framey reveals each edit as it reaches it, even with your pointer resting on the preview, and Stop ends a run while its skills load.

Improved

  • Framey follows edits while your pointer rests on the preview or timeline
  • Several edits in one run each get their own preview, in order
  • Pressing Undo during Framey's zoom reaches the button without moving it

Fixed

  • Update checks and downloads connect on hotspots with broken IPv6
  • Edits no longer flash before Framey reveals them
  • Stop ends a run while its skills are loading
October 8, 2026b287

See what's new in Get inspired

Get inspired marks moments added in the last two weeks New, and a New tab, first in its list, gathers them with a count.

New

  • A New tab in Get inspired lists moments added in the last two weeks, with a count
  • Those moments carry a New mark on Home
October 8, 2026b286

Edit a failed request, and scroll the chat up anytime

When a request you just typed fails, Edit puts it back in the box to change and send again. The chat scrolls up even while an answer streams.

New

  • When a request you just typed fails, Edit puts its words and files back in the box

Improved

  • You can always scroll the chat up, even while an answer streams
  • The corner update button now says Update the app

Fixed

  • Signing in works behind company networks that inspect HTTPS
October 7, 2026b284

Skip back and forward, and Get inspired opens on All

Skip back or forward a set number of seconds from the preview bar or with Shift+arrows. Get inspired opens on All, with every kind of card mixed in.

New

  • Skip back or forward from the preview bar, or with Shift+arrows
  • Choose how far a skip jumps in Settings, General

Improved

  • Get inspired's cards fill Home down to its bottom edge
  • Music and sound search says why it failed
October 7, 2026b283

Replace media from the preview, and a clearer export

Swap a picture or video right from the preview, follow your export through each stage on one bar, and see your message the moment you press Enter.

Improved

  • Replace media keeps the clip's place, size, crop and timing
  • Export shows one bar and names the stage it is in
  • Your message shows the moment you press Enter
  • Posters and hover frames stay in the app's own folder, not your project

Fixed

  • Renaming the open project keeps it editable
  • Deleting the last clip keeps the timeline's ruler and track column
  • The Grok and Hermes marks show on the dark clip bar
  • The folder hover card no longer covers the This project row
  • Background removal cards show their whole names
October 7, 2026b282

Background removal and Viral Clone

Remove the background from any clip in one click, start from four background removal templates, and clone a viral video's style.

Improved

  • Remove a clip's background from its hover bar, on this computer
  • Get inspired has four background removal templates with 3D caption looks
  • Clone a viral video's style from Home with your HeyGen API key
  • With a saved API key, background removal can use Bria for a sharper cut

Fixed

  • A picked element keeps its text as the video shows it after a reload
October 7, 2026b281

Shaders in Get inspired

Explore six animated shader backgrounds in Get inspired. Big media folders stay light, and sign-in works behind a system proxy.

Improved

  • Get inspired has a Shaders section with six animated backgrounds
  • An edit to one scene updates the preview without reloading the whole video

Fixed

  • The chat working row no longer covers the thread
  • A folder with many videos no longer runs the app out of memory
  • Sign-in works behind a system proxy
  • The chat header fits on one row and never cuts a word
Oct 6 to Oct 7
2 fix builds, b279 to b280

b280 Shaders in Get inspired, and runs resume after limits

b279 Grok shows its own icon

October 6, 2026b276

Faster new projects, and a Claude Code that updates itself

New project opens twice as fast, Claude Code updates itself before a run, and a run that loses its connection tries once more.

Improved

  • New project opens twice as fast with its prompt ready
  • A Claude Code too old for the picked model updates itself before the run
  • A run cut off by a server or network error tries once more by itself
  • Update installs the newest build with one restart, even if another lands meanwhile
  • What's new shows every build since your last update, not just the newest
October 6, 2026
Fixes in b275

b275 Fixes and polish

October 6, 2026b274

Import hundreds of projects at once, and edit at any zoom

Import all asks once with a count, counts up while it runs, and can be undone. A picked element keeps its handles at any zoom.

Improved

  • Import all asks once with how many projects, and counts up while it imports
  • Each project stays in the list while it imports, then offers Open
  • Undo after Import all takes the projects back out and leaves their folders alone

Fixed

  • Import all with hundreds of projects no longer runs its buttons off the screen
  • A picked element keeps its handles at any zoom, as in Studio
  • The element toolbar keeps clear of a picked element's handles
October 6, 2026b273

Abilities with #, skills with /, and runs that carry on

Type # to add an ability or / to use a skill, in Home and in chat. A run cut off by a crash or a quit picks up where it stopped.

New

  • Type # in Home or chat to add an ability, like Remove background
  • Type / in Home or chat to pick a skill, and the agent uses it

Improved

  • A message sent while Claude Code is signed out waits, and sends once you sign in
  • A long run that goes quiet keeps going instead of being stopped

Fixed

  • A comment closed before you press Send is sent, instead of the card failing
  • A skill pick that fails no longer warns in a chat you already left
  • On a Linux .deb install, Update says when there is no new .deb yet
October 6, 2026b272

Sign-in finishes even if your browser blocks the app link

Signing in now finishes when your browser blocks the link back to HyperFrames, or when another copy of the app is open.

Fixed

  • Sign-in finishes when your browser blocks the link back to the app
  • Sign-in reaches the copy you started it from when another copy is open
October 6, 2026b271

Grok joins your agents, and failed updates say why

Pick Grok as your agent. A failed update's badge says why, and a blocked Claude Code install says why in plain words and how to finish it yourself.

New

  • Grok is an agent you can pick beside Claude Code
  • Linux has a .deb package; on a .deb install, Update opens the newest .deb in your browser

Improved

  • In a wide window, Framey rests beside Comment in your project and beside Send on Home
  • Choosing Comment gets it ready; your next click on the video places the note
  • Your first edit shows you once where Send is
  • Framey can't be dragged, and a click on him reaches the control underneath

Fixed

  • The update badge says why an update failed when you hover or click it
  • A blocked Claude Code install no longer shows the installer's raw output
  • Framey stays off the update card
October 5, 2026b270

Sign in and keep making your video

Mac and Linux sign-in fixes, fewer repeated errors, and music and sound effects for your video. Plus clearer agent setup and a choice about usage data.

New

  • When signed in to HeyGen, ask your agent for music and sound effects for your video
  • Share usage data is On by default; you can turn it Off in Settings

Improved

  • Dropping a folder into your project copies the folder and its contents
  • Chat replies no longer show before-and-after panels
  • The volume control opens beside the speaker, away from the seek bar
  • Sign in, install or update an agent from its page in the picker

Fixed

  • Signing in still works when the link opens a second copy of the Mac app
  • The app stops a repeating error loop while you work on your video
  • Linux sign-in works even when the app is in a folder with spaces in its name
October 5, 2026b269

Linux signs in with HeyGen and updates itself

The Linux app signs in with HeyGen and updates itself. Framey's tour plays in your project, with fixes for downloads, file names, layers, dragging and chats.

New

  • The Linux app signs in with HeyGen and updates itself

Improved

  • Skip on the first launch goes straight to your new video, and Framey's tour plays in that project
  • Long file names keep their ending when shortened, starting at a whole word

Fixed

  • A download no longer crashes the app when its server closes the connection early
  • A clip moved to a higher timeline row now draws in front
  • The stage scrubber lets go when a drag loses the pointer, so playback and seeking keep working
  • A stale Claude chat recovers after Claude updates, keeping your request and conversation
October 5, 2026b268

Framey says welcome, and a stuck update tells you so

Framey welcomes you right after the sign-up questions, a stuck update says so and offers Try again, and the agent knows the time and picture you pinned.

Improved

  • The agent knows the time and frame picture of an edit you pinned, and where the playhead was when you sent it
  • A new project's chat shows only the prompt box: text to your agent and make something cool
  • Framey welcomes you to HyperFrames Studio once, right after the sign-up questions
  • The first sign-up question shows four kinds of video
  • Each sign-up step and the step by step open at their top in a small window

Fixed

  • The preview draws the same fonts the exported video uses, so text keeps its width when you export
  • A drop, or a file replaced on disk, undoes with one Cmd+Z again
  • A file dropped on Files that the project already has says Already in this project, every time
  • An update that gets stuck says so and offers Try again or the download, instead of sitting at 100%
  • A stray "<!-" no longer shows in the agent's run
October 5, 2026b266

Import says what it skipped, and long names say so

Picking your home folder names the Desktop, Documents and Downloads it skipped, a folder that isn't a project gets a short alert, and long names say so.

Improved

  • Picking your home folder names the Desktop, Documents and Downloads that Import skipped
  • A folder that isn't a project gets a short sidebar alert with Choose another folder

Fixed

  • Import no longer sets off a macOS prompt for Apple Music while it looks for projects
  • A project name too long for a folder says so plainly instead of a system error
October 5, 2026b265

Pan a zoomed preview like Studio

A zoomed preview pans like Studio with a two-finger scroll or a middle drag, its zoom readout stays readable, and Motion graphics opens on All everywhere.

Improved

  • A zoomed preview pans with a two-finger scroll or a middle drag, and your marks follow
  • The zoom readout on a zoomed preview stays readable
  • Motion graphics shows All as its first chip wherever ideas show
October 5, 2026b264

Updates restart into the new build again

Updates restart into the new build again, each new project starts its own agent session, and leaving a project mid-run no longer shows a failure.

Improved

  • Every new project starts its own agent session, never an earlier project's

Fixed

  • An update restarts into the new build again instead of giving up
  • Leaving a project right after you send no longer shows the change as failed
October 5, 2026b263

Exports take your project's name; the theme follows your Mac

An export is named after your project's title, a first launch follows your Mac's light or dark setting, and text clips keep their look as the timeline moves.

Fixed

  • An export is named after the project's title, not its folder
  • A first launch follows your Mac's light or dark setting
  • Text clips keep their look while the timeline scrolls; clip names stay in view zoomed in
October 5, 2026b262

Go straight to your first video; every project runs at once

The survey goes straight into your first video, runs in different projects all start at once, the clip bar is bigger, and Framey walks you to updates.

New

  • When an update is ready, Framey walks you to it, and it installs once nothing is running
  • Ask where a control is and Framey points at it; new buttons need no setup

Improved

  • Runs in different projects all start at once, with no limit and no Waiting
  • The survey goes straight into making your first video, with no summary screen
  • The clip bar is bigger and stays in view when you zoom far in
  • Dragging a file onto the timeline shows a New track target
  • An empty timeline shows Import files

Fixed

  • Your video is ready no longer shows before your first video is done
  • Framey's chip says Building while your video is made, and Ready only once it is done
  • An old Claude Code is caught before you send; Update Claude Code runs the update for you
October 5, 2026b261

Quitting never hangs, and a file's name fills its row

Quitting HyperFrames ends promptly even when the network is slow, a file's name gets its whole row, and Settings shows Framey on the desktop row.

Improved

  • A file's name gets the whole row; Use and its menu show on hover or keyboard focus
  • Settings > Permissions shows Framey on the Framey on your desktop row
  • Framey's tag keeps clear of the controls next to it

Fixed

  • Quitting ends promptly even when the network is slow, instead of hanging for 30 seconds
  • A quit stops the blank projects being set up, so nothing it started keeps running
October 5, 2026b260

The first launch shows what you can make, and plays it

The first launch's tiles play their videos on hover, Social clips shows three vertical frames, and motion paths draw every time a project opens.

New

  • Hover or focus a tile in What do you want to make? and its videos play in place

Improved

  • Each first-launch tile shows the right picture; Social clips shows three vertical frames
  • Long clips at full zoom stay light: the timeline loads only the pictures in view
  • Undo shows a resize or rotate undone at once; a cropped edge stays exact while it moves

Fixed

  • A motion path draws every time a project opens
  • A video's scripts run in the order they are written, in the preview and in exports
October 4, 2026b259

A first launch that asks, and every video opens at 0:00

A first launch asks what you make, all optional, Framey says when a run waits for you, every video opens at 0:00, and Home's ideas show in every project.

New

  • A first launch asks four optional questions, and Home opens on the kind of video you make
  • Framey's tag says Waiting for you when a run needs your answer
  • A project's Inspirations tab and a new project's Get inspired show Home's sections, Mobile Ads included, with More below when there are more ideas
  • One way to set up Claude Code: the agent picker and a send open the same Connect sheet to install, reinstall or sign in
  • Settings shows HyperFrames is open source under Apache 2.0, with links to GitHub and the licenses

Improved

  • The launch after HyperFrames closed unexpectedly says so once, with Dismiss
  • The sign-in window names what you asked for and starts on it right after you sign in
  • An agent CLI that will not start offers a reinstall, and a Claude Code you install in Terminal is found when you come back
  • Video clips show their sound as a strip on the timeline
  • The first-run replay opens at the video's own size and stays there, with no snap and no flash of the music bar

Fixed

  • Every video opens at 0:00 instead of 0:03
  • Clips with a transparent background draw their pictures on the timeline
  • An unexpected error closes the app cleanly instead of leaving a stuck error box
  • On macOS, Exit or F pressed while the video is still going full screen now always takes effect
  • Talk to the team always shows its words in the project and Home bars
October 4, 2026b258

Ideas in every project, and an easier Claude Code setup

A project's Inspirations show Home's sections, Mobile Ads included, Claude Code has one clear way to set up, and Settings shows HyperFrames is open source.

New

  • A project's Inspirations tab and a new project's Get inspired show Home's sections, Mobile Ads included, with More below when there are more ideas
  • One way to set up Claude Code: the agent picker and a send open the same Connect sheet to install, reinstall or sign in
  • Settings shows HyperFrames is open source under Apache 2.0, with links to GitHub and the licenses

Improved

  • An agent CLI that will not start says so in plain words and offers a reinstall, and a failed install says what happened
  • After you install Claude Code in Terminal, coming back to the app finds it and the next Send goes through
  • Talk to the team always shows its words in the project and Home bars
  • Video clips show their sound as a strip on the timeline
  • The first-run replay opens at the video's own size and stays there, with no snap and no flash of the music bar

Fixed

  • An unexpected error closes the app cleanly instead of leaving a stuck error box
  • On macOS, Exit or F pressed while the video is still going full screen now always takes effect
October 4, 2026b257

A smoother first run, and clean up a script in one click

Framey lays every clip of your first video, music included, Use this cut starts it in one click, you draw once with one note, and Clean up trims ums and pauses.

New

  • The first-run replay is smoother: Framey lays every clip, music included, and your video is ready in under 30 seconds
  • Use this cut starts your first video in one click
  • Draw on the video as many strokes as you like, then say what to change once: one drawing, one note, no note per mark
  • Clean up in the Script panel cuts every um and shortens long pauses in one click, as one undo step; each one can be put back
  • Playback stays live while the agent edits your project: play, loop, speed and volume all work during a run

Improved

  • Stop keeps the chat ready, and a stopped run has Continue to carry on from where it stopped
  • Fix words in the Script panel: retype words and they are spoken in the recording's own voice
  • A right-click on an empty stretch of the timeline reads what plays there
  • Feedback you send from the app carries your HeyGen email when you are signed in, so the team can reply
  • On Windows and Linux, a folder passed on the command line opens in Home

Fixed

  • A Claude sign-in left unfinished in the browser no longer spins forever: the chat and the sign-in screen offer Try again and Cancel, and Settings can cancel it
  • Full screen shows the video alone: the drawing and its note box hide and come back where they were, and leaving full screen always works on macOS
  • Every shortcut hint does what it says
  • The timeline's frame preview and ruler clicks no longer reach through the script panel beside the tracks
  • A picked tool's tip no longer covers the scrubber, and Framey's tag no longer covers the hint
October 4, 2026b256

The agent can ask you a question while it works

When the agent needs a choice it asks in the chat, the menu bar puts what needs you first, and a new project is named after its subject.

New

  • When the agent needs a choice, it asks in the chat with a card: pick an answer or type your own, and the run carries on
  • The menu bar groups your runs by what they need: Needs you first, then Working and Recent, each with its project, prompt and time
  • Signed out, the sign-in window names your project, template or the idea you typed, never the button you pressed
  • A new project is named after its subject from the first second, like Bakery Promo
  • Open in Studio shows its progress in the window: the download, unpacking, then adding it to Home

Improved

  • While the agent works, its row shows moving dots and the current step, and a note that a long run can take a few minutes
  • Timeline tool buttons have round corners, and their thin focus ring follows them
  • The first run never takes over a folder of yours, and no longer fails when a Your first video project already exists
  • Updates check every download and fetch it again when one comes in short
  • Undoing a freeze frame works even when it is slow to make
October 4, 2026b255

A 30 second first run, and ideas in every new chat

The first-run replay builds a new 30 second video, Home offers Mobile Ads templates, and a new project's chat shows ideas to start from.

New

  • The first-run replay builds a new 30 second video, shot by shot, in its own Your first video project, so the HyperFrames launch example stays as it was
  • Get inspired on Home has a Mobile Ads tab: pick a phone ad template, add your words, and the agent adapts it
  • A new project's empty chat shows Get inspired: real videos by story role, ready to add to the box
  • A feedback icon in the corner opens a short note; ask the agent to help word it, then send it yourself

Improved

  • Drop Framey somewhere he cannot sit and he moves to the nearest free spot instead of jumping home
  • Create your first video cards show their picture until you move the pointer over them, with no blank paused clip
  • Get inspired shuffles All each time it opens and keeps the order while you look
October 4, 2026b254

Make several videos at once, and Framey shows the way

Ask for several videos in one message and each gets its own project, Framey points at the controls a reply names, and a failed run says what happened.

New

  • Ask for several videos in one message, press Start, and each becomes its own project with its own chat
  • Ask how to do something in the app and Framey points at each control the reply names
  • A failed run says what happened in one plain line with one fix, and a usage limit says when it resets

Improved

  • One Cmd+Z undoes a whole drop or Replace from disk, the file and its clip together
  • Undo an agent's build and the timeline matches the file at once, with no long wait
  • The first-run replay moves at Framey's pace and gets you to your own video much sooner
  • Undoing a freeze frame also removes the still image it made
  • Rename a folder in the media panel the way you rename a file, and every reference to it follows
October 4, 2026b253

Framey rests by the comment tool, and a simpler clip menu

Framey waits beside the comment tool and can be dragged out of the way, the clip menu keeps to the basics, and the @ menu previews only the row you move to.

New

  • Framey rests beside the comment tool on the preview, clear of Send and Show chat
  • Drag Framey out of the way and it stays there, even after a run; double-click it to send it home
  • A click on Framey still reaches the control under it, so the scrubber still seeks

Improved

  • The clip menu keeps to Ask, Quick edit, Split and Delete; fade handles and volume still work as before
  • Opening the @ menu or switching its tabs no longer pops a preview over the video; only a row you move to shows one
  • Closing a project, signing out or quitting no longer leaves a tool running in the background
October 3, 2026b252

Undo a whole drop, and split with Option+S

One Cmd+Z takes back a drop on the timeline, file and all, Option+S splits at the playhead, audio meters start off, and quitting is steadier.

New

  • One Cmd+Z undoes a drop on the timeline: the clip and the file it added both go, and one Redo brings both back
  • Option+S splits the clip at the playhead; a bare S no longer splits, and B still picks the Split tool
  • Cmd+Z right after you move something in the picture snaps it back at once, even while it is still saving
  • [ and ] act on what has focus: clips on the timeline, or the brush size while you edit the picture

Improved

  • Quitting the app no longer hangs on its own cleanup or crashes at the last moment
  • The app follows your Mac switching between light and dark more reliably
  • Audio meters start off; the meter button or Shift+M turns them on, and the app remembers your choice
October 3, 2026b251

Open any changed picture full screen

A changed image, video or font opens full screen from its card, Use puts a file in the chat box, and long prompts fold so the chat stays easy to read.

New

  • Press the picture on a changed image, video or font in the chat to open it full screen, the same viewer your attachments use
  • Use in chat on a file in Files or the library puts it in the chat box, the way a drop does, ready for your words
  • A long prompt you sent folds to a few lines with Show more

Improved

  • Chat text reads one size bigger
  • Thinking folds to one line once that step is done, and stays open if you open it
  • Sessions opens only from its own toggle
  • The @ menu has a close button and keeps one size
October 3, 2026b250

Ask opens right above your clip

Ask from the timeline is a one-line command bar above the clip, Quick edit opens only when you ask for it, and clips lose Copy, Paste, Cut and Duplicate.

New

  • Ask from the timeline opens a one-line command bar just above the clip or your selection, with the target, your words and Send, so it stays off the picture
  • Several picks fold into one button that lists them, drag the bar to move it, and Escape closes it
  • Quick edit opens only when you choose it, from the clip menu or the speed button on a clip, and it holds speed and volume

Improved

  • Copy, Paste, Cut and Duplicate are gone from clips, including Cmd+C, V, X and D; copy and paste in text fields still work
  • Ask from the preview uses the same bar and still opens in the picture
  • Use on an idea in the Inspirations tab now fills the chat box and waits for you to add words and press Send, instead of sending at once
October 3, 2026b249

Home in steps, edited-file cards, a smaller Mac app

Home walks you through a video part by part, edited files show as cards, and each Mac gets a download built for its own chip.

New

  • Home is rebuilt around tabs and parts: pick Motion graphics or A-roll Cuts, add a Hook, Proof, Turn and Call to action, or take the step by step tour
  • Click anywhere on a Get inspired card to add it, and the Inspirations tab in a project lists the same ideas, ready to use on the clip you are on
  • Each file your assistant edits is a card in the chat with its own preview
  • Freeze frame, Link and Detach, and Duck are in the clip menu, and G opens a clip's gain, with Normalize inside
  • The @ menu has tabs and shows a preview of what you hover

Improved

  • From the next update, each Mac downloads an app built for its own chip, about 40% smaller
  • Previews show the whole frame at any shape, and a click anywhere on a project opens it
  • Exports land in your Downloads folder, named with the project and the time
  • An A-roll Cut's name reaches the agent whole, even with brackets or quotes, and Send waits until the Talking-head video is in
  • Replies start at the chat edge, an open Thinking block stops growing past a few lines, and Framey stays off the chat and the all-projects grid
October 3, 2026b248

One + menu, and Framey everywhere

The + in the chat box opens the same @ menu, with an Add files row, and your assistant is now Framey in every place and in your old history.

New

  • The + in the chat box and Home's add tiles open the same @ menu that typing @ opens
  • The menu ends with an Add files from your Mac row for anything on your computer

Improved

  • Old project history now shows Framey too, so past edits read the same as new ones
  • The Skills menu now works with Codex too, not only Claude Code
October 2, 2026b247

A first video from your first launch

New people open on Home with a four-part cut and tips, sign in if needed on their first click, and are carried to their own video.

New

  • A brand-new person opens on Home with a welcome, the cut builder and three tips
  • If you are signed out, your first click asks you to sign in, then carries on where you left off
  • Your mascot carries you to your new video when the launch video's tour ends

Improved

  • A-roll Cuts you add as inspiration send the agent the cut's clip and style, and show as a pill in your message

Fixed

  • Home no longer slides sideways after you add an A-roll Cut
October 2, 2026b246

Update agents in the app, steadier Nib

Claude Code and Codex show an Update button, and you choose what each run bills. Nib rests on Show chat, and the release video wears the HyperFrames brand.

New

  • Claude Code and Codex show an Update button in the chat and Settings
  • Choose what each run bills: your plan or an API key

Improved

  • The release video wears the HyperFrames brand and mark

Fixed

  • Nib rests on Show chat when the chat is folded, never on Export
  • Picking a motion option works on the first click while previews play
October 2, 2026b245

In-place previews, reply icons and smaller updates

Hover to preview projects in place. Reply actions are icon buttons, section navigation moves above the video, and updates can download only what changed.

New

  • Updates download only what changed when possible
  • Six talking-head formats ship with the app; pick one in Skills and it shapes your next video

Improved

  • Project tiles play their preview in place on hover
  • Reply actions are icon buttons: Copy, Show and Run again
  • Section navigation sits above the video

Fixed

  • Pressing Control mid-click on a picked element selects its parent
  • Storyboard previews load their own fonts and scripts
October 2, 2026b244

Graphite colours, typed sizes and @ anywhere

Graphite brings a lighter black and built-in contrast. Type a font size in the strip, copy the chat header path, and use @ anywhere in the prompt box.

New

  • Click the font size in the strip to type a value, then press Enter to save it

Improved

  • Graphite colours bring a lighter black, with contrast built into every surface
  • The chat header path stays readable; hover or focus it to copy the full path

Fixed

  • @ works anywhere in the prompt box, keeping the words on either side when you pick a mention
October 2, 2026b243

Draw keeps going, and your sign-in survives quitting

Drawing keeps the Draw tool on and sends every mark with its note as pending edits. A sign-in is saved after a storage hiccup, so quitting never loses it.

New

  • Drawing stays on after you send: every mark goes to your pending edits with its own note

Improved

  • The drawing's words go in a card by the marks, and Escape clears the marks but keeps Draw on

Fixed

  • A sign-in held in memory is saved once secure storage answers, so quitting no longer loses it
October 2, 2026b242

HyperFrames Desktop now runs on Intel Macs too

One download now runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Videos you open full screen start muted, and a text clip's name updates when you edit its words.

New

  • The Mac app is one download that runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs

Improved

  • A video or audio opened full screen starts muted; the sound control unmutes it

Fixed

  • A text clip's name on the timeline updates when you edit its words
October 2, 2026b241

A sent drawing keeps its marks, plus A-roll Cuts on Home

A drawing you send keeps its frame and numbered marks in the chat and full screen. Home gets an A-roll Cuts tab, and attachments are easy to remove.

New

  • Home has an A-roll Cuts tab, and every video card shows the whole video with one Add

Improved

  • A sent drawing shows its frame and numbered marks in the chat and full screen
  • Each attachment has a visible X in its corner, on Home and in the chat

Fixed

  • A dialog's top edge and close X click instead of dragging the window
October 2, 2026b240

Import as a table, and Codex picks up where it left off

Import lists your projects as a searchable, sortable table. Codex chats pick up where they left off, and a Home send keeps its pills as typed.

New

  • Import lists your projects as a searchable table you can sort by path or name

Improved

  • Codex chats pick up where they left off and stop when you press Stop
  • A chat that stalls or loses its session keeps working
  • After a timeline edit the pointer goes back to Select, and a clip's menu opens quick edit

Fixed

  • A Home send shows its moment pills as you typed them, and the agent finds each moment
October 2, 2026b239

Style any pick, and Nib picks what you click

Style gives a pick its fill, stroke, corners and shadow. Nib picks what you click in seconds, and a chat keeps its conversation when you switch agents.

New

  • Style on the pick bar edits fill, stroke, corners and shadow

Improved

  • Nib picks what you clicked, in seconds
  • Cutouts take an outline, a shadow and a texture
  • A chat keeps its conversation when you switch agents, and reads only the projects you mention
  • Add on a Home inspiration puts it at the cursor and never sends

Fixed

  • Checking ends when the next run starts, so it never lingers
  • On a short window, a pending edit shows whole and can be deleted
October 2, 2026b238

Cut out and remove in pictures, and shape your media

Pick a picture to cut something out or remove it. Set an image or video's fit, position and shape. After each chat turn, the app checks the changed video.

New

  • Cut out or remove things in a picture: pick it, then choose Cut out or Remove
  • Pick an image or video to set its fit, position and shape

Improved

  • Remove fills the gap at once, and takes out more than one thing
  • After each chat turn, the app checks the changed video and flags new problems with Fix it
  • The download is about 100 MB smaller

Fixed

  • As a video opens, the playhead rests on its poster moment, not on the first edit
October 2, 2026b237

Your plan bills your runs, the playhead stays put

A signed-in Claude Code bills your plan, even if your shell sets an API key. After your first video, only you move the playhead. What's new no longer flashes.

Improved

  • After your first video, Nib no longer moves the playhead: only you do

Fixed

  • A signed-in Claude Code bills your plan, even when your shell sets an Anthropic API key
  • What's new videos no longer flash between scenes
October 1, 2026b236

Drop on the preview to add to the timeline

A file dropped on the preview lands on the timeline at the playhead, on a new row. An installing update shows just its disc.

Improved

  • Drop images, video or sound on the preview to place them on the timeline at the playhead
  • An installing update shows only its disc, in the corner and in Settings

Fixed

  • A file dropped on the preview no longer lands in the chat
October 1, 2026b235

Reorder and Hide at once, files by folder

Reorder and Hide from the preview menu apply right away. Files opens on a folder tree, and pages the agent writes show a picture in their chat card.

New

  • A page the agent writes shows a picture of itself in its chat card; press it to open the page
  • Files opens on a folder tree; hover a folder to preview what is inside

Improved

  • Bring to front, forward, backward and Send to back in the preview menu reorder right away
  • Hide on a clip hides it right away; its clip stays on the timeline, striped, with Show to bring it back
  • @Moment and Remix this give the agent the moment's prompt and editable code, for a closer remix

Fixed

  • Steering a run and queued requests show only your words, never raw moment lines
October 1, 2026b234

Get inspired on Home, and moments show as cards

Home's moments read Get inspired, with quieter cards and Add on hover. Moments you send show as cards in the chat, and runs list the lines they changed.

New

  • A finished run's Files list shows the lines each file gained and lost
  • Hover a moment in the box to play its clip

Improved

  • Home's moments read Get inspired: quieter cards, with Created by and Add when you hover
  • On Home, the @ menu sits on the box as in the chat, and each @ project shows its poster

Fixed

  • Moments sent from Home show as cards in the chat, and the project is named from your words
  • Double-clicking a text puts the cursor where you click, and dragging selects letters instead of moving it
October 1, 2026b233

Chat looks like messages again, and more text controls

The chat is back to message bubbles with Stop in the box. Picked text gets opacity, weight, alignment and spacing, and its bar stays clear of your video.

New

  • The text bar edits opacity, weight, alignment and spacing

Improved

  • The text bar sits on whichever side of your pick covers nothing else in the video
  • The video's tools read Select, Draw, Comment, with Select on the left

Fixed

  • The chat shows each run under your message again, with Stop in the box
  • See all keeps the same Sessions header, button and search
  • A run locks the timeline from its first change, even while you work in another project
October 1, 2026b232

Long skill lists fit, and Draw says what it's for

The Skills list scrolls cleanly however many skills you have. Draw tells you what it's for, and moving things by hand keeps your place in the video.

Improved

  • Under Draw, the bar says what drawing is for until your first mark

Fixed

  • A long Skills list scrolls on its own and no longer runs over the rows around it
  • Moving, resizing or restyling something by hand keeps the playhead, your pick and the text bar
October 1, 2026b231

Pick your chat's skills, and Import shows each still

Pick which of your skills and plugins the chat uses, with HyperFrames skills always on. Import's cards show each folder's own still, playing on hover.

New

  • Pick which of your skills and plugins the chat uses; HyperFrames skills are always on

Improved

  • Export opens in the media column and leaves the chat as it was
  • Import cards show each folder's own still, playing on hover
  • Import shows the projects it has found while a slow folder is still being read

Fixed

  • Every screen says video, and Enter presses Next in the first-video tour
October 1, 2026b230

A new Home with moments, a cleaner play row, and Cmd+K

Home has a new design with moments to remix. Tools sit left of Play, the agent starts without a storyboard, and you can drag to move or press Cmd+K.

New

  • Home has a new design, with moments from real launch videos in Inspiration, sorted by role and mechanic, ready to remix
  • The agent starts on a new video right away, without asking for a storyboard; its steps, time and Stop sit in a dock above the chat box
  • Drag an element Studio can edit by hand to move it, as in Studio; Cmd+Z undoes each move
  • Cmd+K finds and opens any project; Search projects sits at the top of Sessions
  • Right-click any empty spot on the timeline to ask for something right there

Improved

  • The play row has the tools on the left with Draw first, and Play and the time in the middle
  • Rest on a video or sound clip to open its quick edit card, which never covers a panel
  • Import projects stays reachable even when no projects are found yet
  • Catalog tiles show their real still, with two-line names
  • Import projects finds the projects on your Mac and leaves out test projects inside code folders

Fixed

  • An expired Claude login asks you to sign in right in the chat, instead of showing a raw error
  • A project name HyperFrames can't use gets a plain notice naming the character, instead of closing the window
  • Switching projects closes the All projects picker the old project had open
October 1, 2026b229

Draw first, agent pickers up top, projects that need you

Draw is the player's first tool, the agent pickers sit at the chat's top, the sidebar is one list with Import projects, and projects that need you get a mark.

New

  • A new project takes its name from your first request
  • The agent, model and effort pickers sit at the top of the chat, so the box keeps only + and Send
  • The sidebar is one list with pinned projects first; Import projects shows the projects on your Mac not yet in HyperFrames
  • In the player, Draw is the first and default tool; the tools read Draw, Pick, Comment
  • Projects that need you or have finished show a mark, and the open project notifies you too

Improved

  • Your sent messages have a tail, like a chat app, on the last message of a run
  • A file you drop lights up in Files and scrolls into view
  • Home's box shows its caret, takes a click anywhere, and holds dropped files as pills
  • A work line opens to its tool calls, one row each
  • The change card folds its edits behind Edits, like Files

Fixed

  • The update button no longer covers controls at the page's bottom right
  • The video's tab joins the panel under it, with no focus ring after a click
  • The Sessions list stays open once you open it, and pushes the other panels aside instead of covering them
  • Hover, pressed, focus and selected states read clearly in both themes
  • After the video reloads, picked text keeps its bar and its open menu
October 1, 2026b228

Faster chat, every Google font, gaps fill from one menu

Chat replies start sooner from one Claude Code process per project. The font menu lists every Google font, and Studio 0.8.99 makes moves land exactly.

New

  • Chat sends go to one Claude Code process that starts when the project opens, so replies start sooner
  • The text bar's font menu lists every Google font
  • Right-click a gap in the timeline and ask for the whole gap from one menu

Improved

  • HyperFrames Studio 0.8.99: dragged and rotated elements follow the pointer exactly, and resizing a cropped element keeps the same part in view
  • Moving a clip on the timeline moves its inner animations too
  • The prompt box shows a clear caret and focus

Fixed

  • The all-projects arrow folds the sessions list, as the list's own button does
September 30, 2026b227

The agent's work reads as short lines, with Undo

The chat shows each run as short summary lines and a tree of its changes you can undo. Panels open at settled sizes and the timeline fits its tracks.

New

  • The chat shows the agent's work as short summary lines, keeps its thinking open, and ends each run with a tree of its changes and an Undo
  • The update button stays one round button: its disc fills as the update downloads, and a red ! opens the reason if it fails
  • The speed and volume pill in the preview opens the clip's own quick edit card, opening the timeline first when it is hidden

Improved

  • The chat opens at 34% of the window and media at 20%, and the player never gets narrower than square
  • The timeline opens tall enough for its tracks, and a project opens at its settled layout with no jump
  • The timeline tool menu shows only Select and Split; the [ and ] keys still select around the playhead, now with the clip under it
  • Export ready means the file matches the project now; an older one shows Last export and its age

Fixed

  • A copied or duplicated clip keeps its look and motion, and a duplicated section keeps its name
  • Undoing an agent's build takes its sections off the timeline too
  • Comments never shrink the film, and their popovers stay inside the window
  • The media count no longer flickers while files are read
September 30, 2026b226

The agent's work reads as short lines, with Undo

The chat shows each run as short summary lines and a tree of its changes you can undo. Panels open at settled sizes and the timeline fits its tracks.

New

  • The chat shows the agent's work as short summary lines, keeps its thinking open, and ends each run with a tree of its changes and an Undo
  • The update button stays one round button: its disc fills as the update downloads, and a red ! opens the reason if it fails
  • The speed and volume pill in the preview opens the clip's own quick edit card, opening the timeline first when it is hidden

Improved

  • The chat opens at 34% of the window and media at 20%, and the player never gets narrower than square
  • The timeline opens tall enough for its tracks, and a project opens at its settled layout with no jump
  • The timeline tool menu shows only Select and Split; the [ and ] keys still select around the playhead, now with the clip under it
  • Export ready means the file matches the project now; an older one shows Last export and its age

Fixed

  • A copied or duplicated clip keeps its look and motion, and a duplicated section keeps its name
  • Undoing an agent's build takes its sections off the timeline too
  • Comments never shrink the film, and their popovers stay inside the window
  • The media count no longer flickers while files are read
September 30, 2026b225

The chat leads on the left, with a bigger player

The chat takes the left 40% of the window, the player grows, and media sits in a narrow column on the right. The film alone shows no Preview tab.

New

  • The chat leads on the left at 40% of the window, the player takes the middle and media sits narrow on the right; a width you drag is kept
  • Dragging a picked element draws the move arrow; its handles still resize, rotate and crop
  • The timeline's empty space is a dashed lane you can drop media into

Improved

  • The film alone shows no Preview tab, so the player takes that room; the tab comes back when a page opens
  • The timeline row fits narrow windows, and Tab reaches its tools before the lock and volume
  • A narrow media column shows its tabs and Import as icons, with their names in tooltips
  • The [ and ] keys select every clip before or after the playhead

Fixed

  • The first-run tour ends with the film; no gray overlay is left waiting for a message
  • A run's after pictures are frozen when it ends, so your own edits during its wait never show up in them
September 30, 2026b224

Chat takes a new look, and quick edit leaves ramps alone

Messages read bigger, with a small pinned picture and Copy first. Quick edit never writes over a speed ramp, and an undo reloads the picture once.

New

  • Chat messages take a new look: bigger text, a small pinned picture with its time, and Copy first
  • Quick edit shows Ramped for a speed ramp or volume lane and never writes a single value over it
  • A slowed clip that runs into the next one is striped where they overlap
  • The drawing box moves with the arrow keys

Improved

  • The timeline's own top row is gone: its buttons sit in the toolbar, with no Undo and Redo buttons and no scrollbars
  • An undo reloads the picture once, so it no longer flashes twice
  • Escape shuts a pill or tile card first, and a passing pointer leaves the focused card open
  • Thinking reads as formatted text, and a running reply says how long it has worked
  • Notifications keep code out of a reply's question and open your system's own settings

Fixed

  • A late edit at the end of a run gets its before and after pictures, even after a rename
  • A drawing whose post partly fails never sends a comment twice
  • Claude Code setup in Settings never starts a second sign-in
  • Quitting stops the catalog read, so nothing is written after the app has gone
September 30, 2026b223

Delete and Remove act at once, and one undo brings it back

Delete and Remove take a clip out straight away, and Cmd+Z puts it back. A reply that ends on a question now shows as needing you.

New

  • Delete, Backspace and the clip menu's Remove take a clip out at once, and one Cmd+Z puts it back exactly
  • A finished reply that ends on a question shows as needing you, in the menu bar and in the notification
  • A project or file picked with @ on Home sits in your words as a pill
  • When you ask vaguely how something should move, or ask for options, the agent offers a motion card: hover a tile to watch the move on your clip, click to use it
  • Settings has a Permissions section: what needs you to turn on comes first, each with the one button that does it

Improved

  • The chat follows the newest words until you scroll up, and Jump to latest brings you back
  • Codex's messages in a row read as one block, and cut command output says it was cut
  • The chat's attach tiles sit on the prompt box's top edge, and queued messages fold so Send stays in view in a small window

Fixed

  • Play pressed before the film is ready now starts it as soon as it is
  • A run's change cards show when it ends, even if you were in another app while it worked
  • Quick edit takes a typed speed past the slider's ends, and keeps focus when a change is refused
September 30, 2026b221

Storyboards laid out by act, and a leaf that breathes

Storyboard and contact sheet tabs show one row of frames per act, with a list that marks what changed. A project's sidebar leaf breathes while its run works.

New

  • Storyboard and contact sheet tabs lay the frames out by act, with a frame list that marks what changed and what is not sketched yet
  • A project's leaf in the sidebar breathes while its run works and stops the moment the run ends

Improved

  • Resizing a faded or moving element sets its size instead of adding keyframes
  • A corner drag on a small element resizes it instead of starting a crop
  • Selecting words while you edit text keeps the edit open

Fixed

  • The chat keeps the agent's whole answer, however long, and a run the app closed on comes back as Stopped
  • Paste, cut, duplicate and split wait while a run is building the film, and say why
  • Comments, split and Place use where the film is while it plays
  • The menu bar list stays current when you open it from the keyboard or VoiceOver, or while a run finishes
  • Importing from On this Mac always says when it fails, and a big home folder no longer makes a project look moved
September 30, 2026b220

Quick edit, a menu bar task list, and projects on this Mac

Change a clip's speed, volume and fades on the timeline. A menu bar list shows the runs that need you, and projects on this Mac wait in the sidebar.

New

  • Quick edit a clip from its chip on the timeline: speed from 0.25x to 4x, volume up to 200%, and fades
  • A menu bar icon lists your runs: what needs you, what is working and what just finished, and opens any of them
  • Projects found on this Mac sit in a new On this Mac section of the sidebar, with a search and Import all
  • Draw several marks on the preview and send them to the agent with your words, from a box that floats beside them
  • The preview shows the agent's storyboard and contact sheet in their own tabs

Improved

  • The timeline's tool picker reads clearly on the light theme instead of looking switched off
  • Codex runs show their words as they work, and a failed command keeps its output

Fixed

  • In Mission Control, Nib stays out of the window grid and keeps its size
  • The speech tools notice no longer takes the keyboard from what you are doing
  • A video added to a project just as it opens now gets its transcript
  • The model menu's default is the model a run uses when you pick none
  • On this Mac says when its search stopped early, instead of saying there are no projects
September 30, 2026b219

The agent plans when you ask, and clips copy and paste

Ask for a plan or a question and the agent answers in words without touching your film. Copy, paste, cut and duplicate clips on the timeline.

New

  • Copy, paste, cut and duplicate clips, and close gaps on the timeline
  • The harness, model and mode pickers fold into one pill when the chat is narrow

Improved

  • Ask for a plan, an outline or an explanation and the agent answers in text, changing no files until you say go ahead
  • The preview tools sit back in the bar under the film
  • Empty attach tiles sit at the top left of the chat box
  • The Cmd+1 to 9 project shortcuts are gone

Fixed

  • The Comment tool's hint fits a narrow preview and no longer covers the tools
  • A long session name ends in an ellipsis instead of scrolling
September 29, 2026b218

The agent plans when you ask, and clips copy and paste

Ask for a plan or a question and the agent answers in words without touching your film. Copy, paste, cut and duplicate clips on the timeline.

New

  • Copy, paste, cut and duplicate clips, and close gaps on the timeline
  • The harness, model and mode pickers fold into one pill when the chat is narrow

Improved

  • Ask for a plan, an outline or an explanation and the agent answers in text, changing no files until you say go ahead
  • The preview tools sit back in the bar under the film
  • Empty attach tiles sit at the top left of the chat box
  • The Cmd+1 to 9 project shortcuts are gone

Fixed

  • The Comment tool's hint fits a narrow preview and no longer covers the tools
  • A long session name ends in an ellipsis instead of scrolling
September 29, 2026b216

Comment on your film, and swap a picture in one click

Leave comments on the preview that go with your edits, replace a picked image or video from its menu, and export at 1080p or 4K.

New

  • The Comment tool (C) pins a comment on the preview or its bar, and it waits in your pending edits until you press Send
  • Right-click a picked image or video and choose Replace with to swap in another file, and one Undo brings the old one back
  • Export opens where the chat is, with one Quality choice: 1080p or 4K

Improved

  • Comments show as numbered markers on the preview bar, in place of the Comments panel
  • The sidebar has Pinned and Projects sections, and each one folds away
  • The model list shows the models your Claude Code offers
  • A click on something in the preview shows Prompt to edit, and A opens it
September 29, 2026b215

All your projects in one place

A view of every project, Browse all projects in the @ menu, and files you add on Home wait in the prompt box until you press Send.

New

  • An All projects view shows every project, open it from the sidebar
  • Browse all projects in the @ menu finds any project to reference
  • Stagehand cards say what changed in each step

Improved

  • Files added on Home wait in the prompt box until you press Send

Fixed

  • A clip made from a dropped file is named after the file
September 29, 2026b212

Stacked edits, agentic undo and a roomier project

Edits wait as rows on one card and send together, Undo asks Nib about the last change, and Sessions runs the full height of the window.

New

  • Edits you make wait as rows on one Pending edits card and send together
  • Undo and Redo open a prompt box about the change instead of reverting it
  • Settings shows Nib itself, in your colour and size
  • The model picker leads with Opus 5.5, with the rest under More

Improved

  • The Sessions sidebar runs the full height and the media panel makes room
  • The timeline opens shorter on small windows so the film keeps room
  • Import all brings every project in one batch without spiking the CPU
  • A wider chat panel, and the HyperFrames logo in the project header

Fixed

  • The timeline speed menu shows its choices again
  • A click on the empty film no longer picks the whole film
  • Archived projects no longer show a pin button
September 28, 2026b211

Nib floats on your desktop, and the preview gets room

Nib tells you when a run in another project is done, the preview has one play bar below the film, and Home makes importing a project obvious.

New

  • Nib floats on your desktop and tells you when a run in another project finishes
  • Chat runs use your own Claude Code setup: your settings, hooks, skills and MCP servers
  • Claude Code plans and storyboards a new film before it builds anything
  • Strike words in the Script tab to cut them in one request

Improved

  • One time and play bar below the film, tools on top, and the slider stays in full screen
  • The timeline opens at half the window, resizes from a handle, and shows tracks first
  • Home is redesigned so importing a project from this Mac is obvious
  • Font files show as tiles set in their own face

Fixed

  • Skip in the first film keeps every section instead of leaving 15 missing
  • An unclosed style, comment or script tag no longer freezes the media list
  • Canary shows every example film with its own name
September 28, 2026b209

Connect Claude Code in onboarding, and get run alerts

Install and sign in to Claude Code from onboarding with two buttons, and get a Mac notification when a run finishes while you are elsewhere.

New

  • Onboarding installs Claude Code and signs you in with two buttons, no Terminal needed
  • A Mac notification tells you when a run finishes, fails or needs you while HyperFrames is in the background

Improved

  • The frame-rate pill is gone from the project screen

Fixed

  • Main's found projects walk passes again, so fixes reach you faster
September 28, 2026b206

A Script tab for your film's words, and undo a whole run

A Script tab shows the words your film plays, a finished run undoes in one click, media opens full screen, and Claude runs on Opus 5.5 by default.

New

  • A Script tab beside Media and Audio shows the words your film plays; click a word to jump there
  • Undo on a finished run's card puts back everything that run changed, in one step
  • Press D and draw across the words lane to ask the agent about those words
  • Click a tile in the media panel to open it full screen, then step through with the arrow keys
  • Import a project from the sidebar, or drop its folder there

Improved

  • Claude runs on Opus 5.5 unless you pick another model, and the model menu marks it Best
  • Agents run in auto mode, which refuses risky steps; Full access is one switch in Settings, Agent
  • An example film you never changed updates itself at launch; one you changed stays as it is
  • New projects go in a hidden .hyperframes-studio folder in your home folder; existing projects stay put
  • Nib types added text in, spreads a new colour from its touch, and marks the old spot clearly on dark films

Fixed

  • A failed export names the missing or empty file and the clip that uses it
  • Quitting stops every agent run and the tools it started, so no project is left half changed
  • Backspace and Delete act on the selected clip wherever focus is, and on Linux undo and other shortcuts answer Ctrl
  • A project name with a colon or slash no longer blanks the window; the app asks you to rename it
  • A Claude or Codex session outside the app locks a hidden timeline without opening it
September 27, 2026b204

Nib works the timeline, and a finished run stays in view

Nib lifts, trims and grows clips on the timeline, a finished run folds its cards and keeps its header in view, and chip rows show where more chips hide.

New

  • Nib lifts a clip, pulls its trim handle or grows a new clip in on the timeline, then waits at the change
  • Chip rows that scroll sideways show arrows where more chips are hidden

Improved

  • A finished run's cards stay above the answer for a moment, then fold into a stack

Fixed

  • Opening a finished run keeps its header in view, even when the run is taller than the chat
  • A change card's picture keeps its shape while it loads
  • On Linux, HEVC and ProRes videos in the Library show a still instead of a file icon
September 26, 2026b198

Nib plays each change back, and the preview keeps its room

Nib paces an agent's edits and replays the change at the end, change cards open as a before and after wipe, and side columns resize to leave the preview room.

New

  • Nib takes an agent's edits one at a time, steps aside while you work, and plays the change at the end
  • A change card shows its picture and opens as a before and after wipe
  • Opening a change card loops its stretch of the film and marks it on the timeline
  • The chat and media columns resize, and fold to rails so the preview keeps its room

Improved

  • The first film opens without a flash of Home and lands a section every second
  • Catalog cards show saved stills instead of each running a player

Fixed

  • A stalled agent check says it could not check instead of hanging the agent list
September 26, 2026b196

Media gets its own column, and editing needs no agent

Media sits in a column beside the chat, you can delete, split and set a clip's volume with no agent connected, and the window keeps its size.

New

  • Media has its own column beside the chat, with Import and Search always on screen
  • S splits the selected clip at the playhead, and a Snap switch sits by the zoom
  • A selected clip with sound shows a volume slider, and audio lanes can be muted
  • Each release ships a signed Mac installer you can download
  • Updates install only after the app checks that HeyGen signed them

Improved

  • The window remembers its size and place, and first opens to fit your screen
  • Check for updates says it is checking, then which build you are on
  • Export says Finishing the file after the last frame instead of sitting at 100%
  • Connect for Claude Desktop and Codex says which file it edits before it does
  • The first film says it is a replay, and the tour has one Skip

Fixed

  • Delete, comments and Space work with no agent connected
  • Rename works for any project Home lists, and undo follows a renamed project
  • A long request reaches the agent instead of failing to start
  • The SFX and Music and Inspector examples play their sound
  • Shift-clicking the film no longer selects the page text
September 25, 2026b193

Every change gets its own card

After a run, the chat shows one card per change with a before and after, the first film says what it is doing, and catalog versions sit in one tile.

New

  • After a run, each change gets its own card with a before and after picture
  • A catalog family is one tile, with arrows to flip through its versions

Improved

  • While the first film builds, the timeline says clips land as they are written
  • At the hand-back the media shelf starts folded, so Done stays in view
  • The chat box no longer carries a run status line

Fixed

  • A project folder replaced by a rename stays watched
September 25, 2026b192

A tour that picks real things, and an app that never blanks

The first film waits for you to look before it plays, the tour points at real titles and pictures, and a crash in one panel no longer takes the app down.

New

  • A panel that crashes shows one line with Reload, and the rest of the app keeps working

Improved

  • The first film plays at the hand-back only once the window is in front of you
  • In the tour, Nib picks a real title or picture to edit, never an empty frame
  • Chats in a folder you imported read the app's own HyperFrames guide

Fixed

  • A caption timer no longer fires after its clip is gone
September 25, 2026b190

Outside agents, right in your film

An agent you connect from outside now plays its turn in the app like one you started here, and the catalog opens on its best blocks.

New

  • A turn from Claude Code or Codex over MCP shows in the chat and on your timeline like a run you started, without locking your timeline

Improved

  • The catalog opens with its richest blocks first
  • A finished run folds to one line, 2 changes 3 commands, and shows its files once you open it

Fixed

  • A hovered catalog tile shows its whole ring and Add button, even in the first and last column
September 25, 2026b189

Faster films, steadier runs

Films open faster on HyperFrames 0.8.77, their sound plays cleanly, and a run that cannot start now says so and frees its place.

New

  • Films open faster, and your first film is ready to edit the moment it finishes

Improved

  • The launch film and the bundled examples play their sound cleanly, with no skips
  • Cmd+Z reaches every edit, including ones split by an agent's turn
  • A run that cannot start ends as failed with the reason, and frees its place

Fixed

  • A save after an outside edit lands on the clip you picked
  • Opening a project while an agent writes to it never undoes the agent's work
  • Stop always ends a starting run, and the run's files are numbered in order
September 25, 2026b188

Watch Nib work, clip by clip

Nib moves, trims and drops clips on the timeline as it edits, the chat shows each command and file as it happens, and Catalog tiles keep playing.

New

  • Nib carries, trims and drops clips on the timeline while it edits, with a short caption under the ruler
  • While Nib works, the chat shows each command and each file it changes, then folds them into one line
  • Catalog tiles keep playing, and a slow block tries again

Improved

  • The before and after card shows the part of the picture that changed
  • A click anywhere on an agent row in Settings picks that agent
  • A comment staged in the chat box waits for Send

Fixed

  • Retry preview works again after a failed load
  • Cmd+Z undoes a timeline edit even when focus has left the project
  • Shortcuts stay off while a dialog is open and work in the project's own boxes
September 25, 2026b187

Queue your next idea, see blocks play

Send a message while Nib works and it waits its turn, Catalog tiles play their blocks live, and the first film settles without a blank frame.

New

  • A message sent while Nib works waits in a small tray above the chat box; edit it, remove it or send it now
  • Catalog tiles play a live preview of each block, 3D blocks included
  • The media shelf has its own menu for adding files and opening the Library

Improved

  • The first film plays through without a grey loading panel and rests on a real frame when it ends
  • A finished export shows the film's resting frame
  • Agent labels follow the picture when you pan and never close a card you left open
  • An agent's edit is followed again when the preview reloads in the background

Fixed

  • Edit on a queued message gives back its words, chips and attachments
  • Taking a queued message back never stops a run that just started
  • Your chat bubble shows only the words you typed
  • The playback bar's fill ends at the knob, and a drag scrubs instead of marking a stretch
September 25, 2026b186

Safer edits, steadier screens

Deleting a clip now asks first, Settings stays put when you open a picker, and files land exactly where you drop them.

New

  • Deleting a timeline clip opens a box on that clip; the clip goes only when you send the request

Improved

  • A file added from the Library lands exactly on its tile in the chat box, showing the same picture
  • Opening a file in the chat shows audio, video, images and other files each in their own clean view
  • Agents see and undo their own changes in the project history

Fixed

  • Opening a picker in Settings no longer moves the window
  • A finished request no longer shows a Details list
  • The more button in the Library no longer covers a file name
September 25, 2026b185

Files fly into the chat

Adding a file from your Library now shows where it went, agents keep a history of what they changed, and What's new always reaches you after an update.

New

  • Adding a Library or Catalog file lifts its row and flies it into the chat box
  • Agents connected over MCP label their turn, see what changed since, and undo their own change

Improved

  • Every Nib request and outside edit is kept in the project's history

Fixed

  • What's new opens after an update even when its notes arrive late
  • Picking a Catalog tag no longer slides the shelf sideways
September 24, 2026b184

The shelf, finished

The media shelf fits the chat column and scrolls only its list, the Catalog tab lists every block, and two gestures in one request keep their outlines.

New

  • A Catalog tab in the media shelf: every block and component, with search and tags; Add puts one in your project

Improved

  • The shelf's tabs fit the chat column, and only the list scrolls
  • Two gestures in one request each keep their outline, with numbered notes
  • The first film opens straight on its scene, with no grey flash

Fixed

  • Videos land on the right frame when you seek while paused
  • What's new list lines wrap instead of being cut
September 24, 2026b183

A new media shelf

Your project's media, your Library and the Catalog in one shelf, the Home prompt box stays in reach, and the app's local server refuses other websites.

New

  • A media shelf in the chat column: This project, Library and Catalog in one row, with a grid that scrubs on hover

Improved

  • The Home prompt box stays pinned while you scroll, on any window size
  • An empty project shows your Library files beside the drop area

Fixed

  • Other websites can no longer write into your projects through the app
September 24, 2026b182

See what changed

After an update, What's new shows what shipped with a short film. Replies stay in their comment thread, and update checks never hang.

New

  • What's new opens once after an update, with a short film; open it again from Settings, Updates

Improved

  • A Reply stays in its comment's thread and reruns that comment

Fixed

  • Check for updates gives up after 20 seconds instead of spinning
  • The app window stays on the app
September 24, 2026b181

The film keeps playing

The first film keeps playing after Nib presses Play, Try again resumes a failed update, and Comments stays open while Nib works.

Improved

  • Try again after a failed update installs it again and resumes the download
  • Comments stays open and usable while Nib works
  • Dots at the same moment sit side by side

Fixed

  • The first film keeps playing after Nib presses Play
  • Hover pictures show the right frame the first time
  • A steered request keeps one pin
September 24, 2026b180

Connect reads the right Codex

Connect shows Codex as connected even when your Codex lives in its own folder, and a steered request keeps one pin.

Improved

  • A steered request keeps a single pin on the preview

Fixed

  • Connect shows Codex as connected when CODEX_HOME points to your Codex folder
September 24, 2026b179

Your words land in the chat box

Words typed in any inline box now wait in the chat box for your Send, and Nib's status reads in plain words.

New

  • Words typed in a pick, drawing, pin or timeline box go into the chat box, where you can edit them

Improved

  • Nib's status reads in plain words, like Running a command
  • The typing bubble points at Nib
September 24, 2026b178

Agent requests wait for you

Requests from Codex or Claude over MCP now wait in the chat until you address them, and a scrubber dot takes you to its request.

New

  • Requests from your agents over MCP wait in the chat until you address them

Improved

  • Clicking a numbered dot under the preview scrolls the chat to that request
  • Clicking an element Nib is working on offers Steer or Wait
September 24, 2026b177

See what you drew before you send

Hovering a staged chip shows its picture, and updates recover from a dropped connection on their own.

New

  • Hovering a staged drawing, pick or comment chip shows the frame with what you marked

Improved

  • An update's download resumes where it stopped after a Wi-Fi switch or a stall
September 24, 2026b176

Everything waits for your Send

Comments, picks and typed notes now land in the chat box first, and the chat and preview stay open while Nib works.

New

  • Comments, Reply and Reopen put a chip in the chat; only Send starts Nib
  • A Move's typed note lands in the chat box, where you can edit it

Improved

  • The chat and preview stay open while Nib works, so you can queue, steer and pick
  • A transition next to a very short clip is long enough to see
  • The download ring's number fits inside it

Fixed

  • A removed message leaves no card or number behind
  • A failed update stays on screen and logs the installer's real exit
  • A playing Home tile's Mute sits beside its actions button
September 24, 2026b175

Type while Nib works

Queue and steer requests mid-run, big attachment tiles, and faster transitions.

New

  • Type while Nib works: Send queues, Steer redirects the running request
  • MCP requests wait in the chat until you address them

Improved

  • Transitions fit their clips and take minutes, not twenty
  • Attachment tiles rest at full size again

Fixed

  • Frame captures always show the right moment
  • Home's @ menu leaves only the chip