---
title: What's new
description: A running list of notable changes to BitterClip, newest first.
navigation:
  label: What's new
  order: 1
section: changelog
updated: '2026-07-08'
tags:
  - changelog
  - updates
---

# What's new

This is a running list of the changes worth knowing about. Newest is at the top, and we keep each entry short so you can skim the page in a minute.

## Recent updates

### Give your show a signature look

Every project now has an FX tab. Pick a signature effect, add your logo and
colors as a dark or light brand pack, and your clips open and close with a
branded title card — with the episode's own title rendered right into the
video. The full-screen Signature Studio lets you audition motion and sound
together and save looks to your library, so your whole catalog stays
consistent. Read the [Identity Studio launch post](/blog/your-show-has-a-signature-now)
for the full story.

### Your assistant can design your opener

Hand ChatGPT or Claude your logo and describe the feel you want. It builds
your brand pack, designs the opening animation itself, previews frames of its
own work, and refines until it looks right — then saves it as your project's
opener. See the [assistants overview](/docs/assistants/overview) to get
connected.

### Public download links for finished clips

You can now create a public link to any rendered video — a direct MP4
download that works anywhere and expires on its own (7 days by default, up to
14). Use it to hand a clip to a client or pass it into other tools like
Zapier without exporting and re-uploading. Ask your assistant for "a public
link to that render."

### Fix a speaker's name from chat

Spotted a mislabeled speaker? Ask your assistant to rename them. The
transcript and the captions on future renders pick up the correction.

### Cut several moments into one video

Ask your assistant for a montage: give it the moments in order and it builds
a single video, with branded intro and outro blocks if your project has them.
It will warn you if a cut lands mid-word so you can fix the edge before
rendering.

### See what's on screen, right in chat

Ask your assistant to pull frames from a moment and a small gallery appears
in the conversation. Pick the frame you mean and download it — useful for
thumbnails and for checking what the camera saw.

### Sharper automatic titles and descriptions

On paid plans, new uploads get titles, descriptions, and chapters written by
a stronger pipeline that reads the whole recording — not just the first few
minutes.

### Uploads that tell you the truth

The uploader now shows your plan's limits up front and reports problems in
the upload tile itself instead of failing quietly. Project tabs are also
proper links now — back, refresh, and sharing a tab URL all behave.

### A guide site for creators
These help pages are new. They walk you through making your first clip, connecting ChatGPT or Claude, and getting clips out to YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Plain language, written for creators. Start with [your first clip](/docs/getting-started/your-first-clip).

### Free to start
Signing up is free, and you land in a workspace you can use right away. There's no checkout before you can start, and no clock counting down on you. See the [signup page](/docs/getting-started/your-first-clip) for what a free account covers.

### Post clips to your channels
You can connect YouTube, X, and LinkedIn and send finished clips straight to them. Per project, you choose whether a clip waits for your approval or goes out automatically once it's ready. See the connect guides for [YouTube](/docs/connect/youtube), [X](/docs/connect/x), and [LinkedIn](/docs/connect/linkedin).

::callout{type="note"}
Instagram is a special case. You'll see a Connect button, but auto-posting to your feed is limited by Meta's rules. See the [Connect Instagram](/docs/connect/instagram) guide for the working path.
::

### Clip right inside your AI assistant
BitterClip connects to ChatGPT and Claude. Ask for the strongest moment in a recording, and your assistant opens the transcript editor with a clip already picked out, ready for you to review and tune. The [assistants overview](/docs/assistants/overview) shows you how to set it up.

### Captions, built in
Clips export with captions burned right into the video, styled to sit cleanly in the frame. That's the default. If you turn captions off before you export, the video comes out without them.

## A note on subscribing

For now, this is a single page we update by hand. We may add a subscribable feed later; until then, this page is the place to look.