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Changelog

Last updated: Saturday, October 31, 2026

What has shipped, newest first.

2.6.0

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Features

  • Your account pageEverything about your account in one place: your name and photo, language and theme, your plan and billing, update emails, signing out everywhere, downloading your data and deleting your account. Language and theme moved here from the editor's top bar.
  • Update emails, if you want themSwitch on “Product updates” in your account to get an occasional email when TapCraft gets something new. Off unless you turn it on, with an unsubscribe link in every email.
  • Affiliate programmeRecommend TapCraft and earn 30% of what the people you send pay for their first 12 months. Apply at tapcraft.app/affiliates; your dashboard shows visits, customers and what you have earned, and payouts go out monthly by PayPal or Payoneer.

Improvements

  • Clearer ways to add screensThe screenshot maker's empty page now offers its other sources as cards that say where the screens come from: the recording in the editor, a video file, or your uploads.

Fixes

  • Your Google name and photo, from the startSigning in with Google now brings your name and photo with it. Change either on your account page whenever you like.
  • The sample stays out of your Uploads“Try a sample clip” used to save a copy of our demo recording to your Uploads as if it were yours. It no longer does.
  • Clearer export countdownFast exports said “about 5s left” from halfway to the end. The last few seconds now read “almost done”.

2.5.1

Friday, October 30, 2026

Features

  • Find sensitive info, automaticallyIn Focus, “Find sensitive info” reads your video on your device and finds emails, card numbers, phone numbers, keys and passwords — even text that scrolls. Review what it found, untick anything that isn't private, and add the masks in one click. Nothing is uploaded. Part of Pro.
  • Masks that follow scrollingSwitch on “Follow scrolling” on a mask and it moves with what it covers as the screen scrolls, frame by frame. “Find sensitive info” does this by itself for text that moves, so a scrolling email is one mask, not a stack of them.
  • Slide taps along the timelineTaps now have their own lane on the timeline. Drag one to move it and the preview follows, so you see the exact frame it lands on. With a tap selected, ← and → move it by one frame, Shift + arrow by a tenth of a second.

Improvements

  • Faster and smootherUploads start the moment you drop a video, and the studio wakes the server as soon as it opens. Loading a recording no longer makes the editor stutter, “Find sensitive info” is about four times faster, and replaced videos are released from memory so long sessions stay quick.
  • Rounded masksMasks now have rounded corners — a pill over a single line of text — and are grown just enough that the rounding never uncovers a corner of what they hide.
  • A compact timelineEffects, lenses, masks, captions and sounds now share rows instead of each kind taking its own, and a new row opens only when two things overlap. Rows are slimmer and the timeline scrolls inside itself, so adding effects no longer shrinks the preview.
  • Effects that explain themselvesEach effect now says what it does, the panel shows how it works in three steps, and a new effect plays once the moment you add it, with its block selected on the timeline.

Fixes

  • New video starts fresh“New video” used to bring back the previous project's taps, so you had to delete them all by hand. It now starts clean, and dropping in a different recording clears the old taps and masks, with an Undo if you wanted them.
  • Magnify right up to the edgeA magnifier near the side of the screen couldn't show the first letters of a line, because the glass has to stay on the screen. Now you can aim it all the way to the edge: the glass stops at the side and the view inside keeps moving, so text like “Dry Lake” fits in full.
  • Nothing shows through a mask inside a magnifierOn some browsers a blur mask under a magnifier let the magnified text show through, faintly. Inside a magnifier every mask is now drawn solid.

2.4.1

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Features

  • Join several clips into one videoDrop more recordings on the trim bar, drag them in from Uploads, or press + Add clip. Each clip gets its own trim bar, so you can cut the end of one and the start of the next; reorder or remove them, and taps and effects stay on the footage they were placed on.
  • Zoom the timeline to trim preciselyZoom the trim bar up to 16× to set the start and end to the exact frame. The strip scrolls sideways, times show to the hundredth of a second, and Ctrl/⌘ + scroll zooms on a computer.
  • Sign in with emailCreate an account with your email and a password instead of Google, if you prefer. Forgot your password? Reset it from the sign-in window.
  • Feedback board and roadmapSuggest features and report bugs in public at tapcraft.app/feedback, upvote what you want most, and follow what's planned, in progress and done on the roadmap.

Improvements

  • A reminder to confirm your emailSigned up with email and haven't clicked the confirmation link yet? A small card now reminds you, with a button to send the email again. It goes away by itself once you've confirmed.

2.3.3

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Fixes

  • The floor light leaves with the phoneWhen an effect sent the phone down and out of the frame, like a lift or slide-out at the end, its glow, shadow and reflection stayed on the empty floor. They now fade as the phone sinks out.

2.3.2

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Improvements

  • Exporting is one tapThe Export panel now opens on one big button and tells you how many free exports you have left. Watermark and size sit under Options. On a phone, once you've made something, a small bar reminds you that exporting is free.
  • Google Play screenshots in an Android phoneStore assets now frames the App Store sizes in an iPhone and the Google Play sizes in an Android phone, each with its own picker, plus a Google Play preview.
  • See the phone while you editOn a phone, the section panels take under half the screen and the preview shrinks to fit above them, so the whole phone stays in view while you change its look.
  • Clearer controls on phonesDraw a mask and Draw a magnifier are icons on phones, so they always fit. Effect and sound settings float above the tabs with a close button, instead of pushing the preview out of the way.
  • AI drafts per dayAI headlines in Store assets: 3 drafts a day on the free plan, 20 on Pro. Each draft writes every screen at once.

Fixes

  • No more shake after a tapWhen the camera zoom eased back out after a tap, it overshot and the recording shrank inside the screen for a couple of frames, which looked like the screen shaking. It now settles cleanly in every export.
  • Taps land where you put themPlacing a tap on the preview now uses where the recording actually is on screen, so taps are accurate even while a zoom, lift or tilt is moving the phone.
  • The preview no longer disappearsOn phones, opening a section could shrink the preview to nothing when the timeline was tall. The preview now always keeps a usable size.
  • Phone fixesPlacing taps has a Done button right under the preview, instead of one scrolled off the edge. Trim handles are bigger on touch screens. The little "i" help buttons open on the first tap. After Style it for me, the preview shows the finished look instead of the first frame of the entrance. "1 tap", not "1 taps".
  • No blank page after an updateIf a page was open while we shipped an update, or a phone lost signal mid-load, part of the app could fail to load and leave the page blank. It now reloads itself once and picks up the current version.
  • The $1 code worksThe code shown when you run out of free exports was not a valid code. It is now the real launch offer, and the pricing page applies it for you.

2.3.1

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Fixes

  • Prices always showIf our server is slow or briefly down, the pricing page still shows the plans and a Try again button, instead of "Failed to fetch". The pricing page and FAQ no longer say "free forever": free is three watermarked exports.

2.3.0

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Features

  • Uploads libraryEverything you upload — recordings, screenshots, presenter videos, pictures and sounds — now stays in one Uploads library. Use any of it again in a new project without uploading it twice, or delete what you no longer need.
  • Store assets inside the studioStore assets opens right in the editor with your current clip, instead of in a new tab. The iPad frame shows as soon as you pick the size, before you add an iPad screenshot.

Improvements

  • Faster on laptops and phonesThe homepage loads about 40% less code and a hero video a quarter of the size, and the studio does much less work while a clip plays. Other languages load only when you pick one.
  • One style for every text boxCaptions, headlines and every text field share one clearer design. Captions are listed in the Text panel, each with its own remove button.
  • A taller editorThe trim bar and the timeline sit under the video and run to the bottom of the screen, and the side menu no longer scrolls.
  • The presenter is part of ProPresenter videos, including background removal, are now a Pro feature. A project that already has one can still remove it and export.

Fixes

  • Captions no longer stackA new caption no longer lands on top of one already showing, so typed text is never covered by "Your headline". Editing a caption shows one box, not two.
  • Presenter selected by what you seeWith the background removed, the presenter is outlined, placed and stood on the floor by the visible person, not by the empty rectangle around them.
  • Exports always use the clip you seePicking a second clip while the first was still uploading could export the first one. The newest clip now always wins.
  • Reopened projects keep their soundMusic and voice clips in a project reopened the next day no longer export silent.
  • Deleting a project keeps your uploadsDeleting a video in My videos no longer deletes the recording and files that other projects, or your Uploads library, still use.
  • Auto style fixesOn the free plan, auto style no longer turns on the Pro floor and blocks the export. Undo now reverts only the style, keeping captions and uploads added afterwards.
  • Store assets fixesDownload again without using another free set, sample text no longer ends up in downloads, and clearer messages when something fails. The editor's video pauses and its shortcuts stay off while Store assets is open.
  • Pro list correctedThe Pro plan listed a priority render queue, which never existed. The list now shows what Pro actually includes, and 4K rather than 2K.

2.2.0

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Features

  • Store assetsA new page for App Store and Google Play screenshots. Add your app's screens or grab frames from a recording, write a headline for each, pick a device, backdrop and layout, and download every size plus the Google Play feature graphic in one zip. Three free sets, unlimited on Pro.
  • Headlines written by AISay what your app does in a sentence and Store assets writes a headline and a short line for every screen, in your language. Notes you typed are used as hints, and everything stays editable. Ten drafts a day free, sixty on Pro.
  • iPad screenshotsThe 13-inch iPad size (2064 × 2752) is in the zip too. Add an iPad screenshot to a screen and it is drawn in an iPad Pro frame.
  • A clean status bar on screenshots9:41, full signal and battery, in the colour your app has there, painted over each screenshot's own bar. On by default.
  • Your own image as the backgroundUpload a picture as the video's backdrop. It fills the frame in 9:16, 16:9 and 4:5, you drag to choose what stays in view for each, and a dim slider keeps a busy photo behind the phone. Part of Pro.

Improvements

  • The watermark says tapcraft.appFree videos now carry the address instead of "Made with TapCraft", so anyone who likes a clip can find where it was made.
  • Fresh editor clips on the homepageThe editing and export loops were filmed again with the current watermark.

Fixes

  • Caption fonts loadCaptions were drawn in a fallback typeface whatever font was picked, in the editor and in exports. Inter, Montserrat, Playfair, Grotesk and Bebas now all draw as themselves.
  • The free tier is described correctlyThe pricing page, FAQ and terms said the free tier was unlimited. It is three watermarked exports once you sign in, and now every page says so.

2.1.0

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Features

  • Presenter videoPut a video of yourself beside the phone, in Feed 4:5 and Landscape 16:9. Remove the background in one click and you stand in front of the same backdrop as the phone. Its sound becomes a voice clip on the timeline.
  • Glass magnifierA magnifier can now be a glass sphere: a refracting rim, colour fringes at the edge and a milky haze, growing in as it opens. Flat is still one click away.
  • Edit on the videoSelect, move and resize masks, magnifiers and captions right on the preview. Draw new ones, select several at once, snap to guides, nudge with the arrow keys, copy, paste and reorder.
  • Type into captionsDouble-click a caption on the video to edit it where it is. The text wraps exactly as it will in the export.
  • Effects on the timelineMagnifiers, masks and captions are blocks on the timeline. Drag them to change when they happen instead of typing times into sliders.

Improvements

  • Faster exports without a graphics cardOn computers whose browser draws without graphics acceleration, exports are about three times faster. With a graphics card they were already quick and stay that way.
  • Magnifiers on the first frameA magnifier that starts at 0:00 is open on the very first frame, so it shows up in the thumbnail too.
  • Clear message when the browser stallsIf the browser never opens a video, the studio now says so after 15 seconds and suggests restarting it, instead of loading forever.

Fixes

  • Handles sit on what they editMask and magnifier handles now line up exactly with the overlay on screen, at any zoom, and follow it when the phone moves.
  • No more vanishing lettersTyping into a caption no longer hides the letters you just typed.
  • No lines across the previewThin lines no longer appear across the preview on browsers rendering without a graphics card.
  • Sample clip loads againThe sample recording is served with the site, so "Try a sample clip" always works.

2.0.0

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Features

  • MagnifierDrop a lens on the timeline and one part of the screen lifts out and enlarges in place while everything around it keeps playing.
  • MasksCover an email, a key or a name with a block or a blur. A mask never fades in, so there is no frame where the thing is visible.

Improvements

  • Time remaining on exportsThe export now says how much longer it has to run, smoothed so the number does not leap about.

Monday, September 28, 2026

Features

  • A feature tour you can watchThe feature list is grouped and each one plays a short loop rendered by TapCraft itself.

Improvements

  • Floor light follows a tiltA turned screen throws less of itself at the ground beneath it, so the pool dims. The contact shadow is unchanged, because the phone is still standing on the floor.

Fixes

  • Reflections stay on the floorLifting the phone used to carry its reflection up with it. The mirror now stays on the ground and the gap between them opens as the phone rises.
  • The status bar cuts instead of fadingIt was cross-fading between sampled colours and reading as though it lagged the app. It now changes in one frame, the way a phone does.

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Features

  • Drop in a screenshot, not just a recordingA PNG or JPEG now works anywhere a screen recording does. It gets the same handset, backdrop, floor light, reflection, status bar, text and entrance — you pick how long it runs, and everything animates over it. Taps, the camera and the trim handles are switched off, because a still has no moments to mark and nothing to cut.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Features

  • A status bar that follows your appThe bar at the top of the phone now changes colour with your recording rather than being read once on upload and held. A screen that turns white gets a white bar, and the clock and icons flip to dark so they stay readable. It follows any colour your app uses, not just black and white. Choose One colour if you would rather it sat still.
  • One click and the look is donePlace your taps, press Style it for me, and the backdrop, camera move, entrance and floor are filled in from your app's own colours and the rhythm of your taps. It happens instantly, it says what it changed, and Undo puts it back.
  • The free tier has a number on itThe editor stays free and needs no account: upload your own recording, place taps, try every effect and watch the whole preview. Exporting now asks for a Google sign-in and gives you three watermarked videos. Pro removes the watermark and the limit.

Improvements

  • A footer you can actually navigate fromPricing, the changelog, the FAQ and how to get in touch are now one click from the bottom of any page, next to the privacy, terms and cookie controls — which matters most in the studio, where there is no top bar to go back to.

Fixes

  • The status bar stays on screen during a zoomIt used to be positioned against the recording, so any camera push-in carried it off the top of the display and it was clipped away entirely — the bar kept its colour in the markup and painted nothing. It is now anchored to the glass, where a real phone draws it, in both the preview and the export.
  • No more dark wedges beside the reflectionThe handset's soft drop shadow was being mirrored along with the handset, landing on the floor either side of the reflection as a dark patch. The mirror is now clipped to the phone's own outline, so it shows the phone and not the shadow the phone casts.

September 2026

Features

  • Shape the floor light yourselfTwo new dials under Floor light: how far it reaches sideways, and how much of the phone the surface gives back. Both start where the floor already was.
  • Floor light that follows your appThe colour on the ground now changes with your recording instead of being read once and held, so a screen that goes from white to dark purple lights the floor accordingly. Pin a single colour if you would rather it sat still.
  • A second recording for an open foldableA foldable opens into a different shape of screen, so it can take a clip of its own. Add one filmed on the unfolded device and the hinge crossfades to it; both appear on the timeline. Without one the fold still works from a single recording.
  • Foldable phones, that openPixel 9 Pro Fold, Galaxy Z Fold 6 and the iPhone Duo. Drop an Unfold or Fold shut onto the timeline and the handset opens or closes where you put it, cover screen to inner screen. They use the 16:9 frame and are part of Pro.
  • Landscape and feed frames9:16 as before, plus 16:9 for YouTube and X, and 4:5 for the Instagram feed. In landscape the phone moves aside so a headline can sit next to it, and your library cards now show the shape you made.
  • Text on your videoCaptions in five typefaces, with colour, size, a glass finish, and an animation coming in and going out. Drag them where you want them on the preview. Part of Pro.
  • Stand the phone on a lit floorA surface under the handset, with a contact shadow and your app's own colour spilling onto it. Part of Pro.
  • A far bigger preview on a phoneThe editor now gives the video about three quarters of the screen. Effects and sound moved into their own tabs to make room.
  • Pro, monthly or yearly$15 a month, or $60 a year — which is $5 a month. The one-time credit pack is unchanged.
  • See your plan, and cancel it yourselfCredits left, or your renewal date and cadence, on the pricing page. Cancelling is a button there; you keep Pro until the period you have paid for ends.
  • 4K export2160 × 3840, alongside 1080 and 2K. It is only sharper if your recording is 4K too — the picker says so.
  • 2K exports on far more machinesThe video format is now matched to the frame being encoded, so 2K works where it previously fell back to a slower path.
  • Try it without a recordingOne click loads a real sample clip, so you can see it work before making your own.
  • Start without an account, sign in laterEverything you make before signing in stays yours — creating an account adds Google to the session you already had rather than starting a new one.

Improvements

  • Foldables, closer to the real thingThe iPhone Duo is the right shape shut — half the open panel rather than a tall slab. Recordings fill a cover screen instead of sitting between two bars, the crease is far fainter, and the camera only travels on the handset whose camera actually changes.
  • A warmer TapCraftButtons, sliders, selected items and the logo moved from purple to coral. Nothing changed about what any of them do.
  • Opens in your languageOn a first visit the interface picks from your browser's languages instead of starting in English. Your own choice still wins, and it is remembered.
  • Clearer errors on the dropzoneDrop something that is not a screen recording and it says so immediately, rather than letting you edit a file that could never export.

Fixes

  • Studio fixesColour pickers can be tapped on a phone. Effects on the timeline are named and colour-coded — warm for anything that moves the phone, violet for zoom — and slide, lift, spin and fold blocks are no longer invisible.

August 2026

Features

  • Privacy policy, terms, and a cookie bannerAnalytics now loads only if you accept it — nothing is added to the page before you choose, and the choice is reversible from the footer.
  • Your videosA library of everything you have exported, as a grid of thumbnails. One card per recording rather than per export, so re-rendering the same clip does not bury the page. Download it again, reopen it in the studio, cancel one that is still rendering, or delete it.
  • Eight languages, including ArabicEnglish, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Turkish and Chinese. Arabic switches the whole interface right-to-left; the tap pad and timeline deliberately do not mirror, since they represent positions in your video rather than reading order.
  • Light modeA theme switch in the top bar, remembered per browser.
  • 2K export1080 × 1920 and 1440 × 2560. 4K was removed at the time: a phone screen recording is 1080p or 1440p, so rendering above that upscaled your footage and only sharpened the device frame, while doubling render time and file size. It returned in September, with that caveat stated in the picker rather than left for you to discover.

Improvements

  • Renders are several times fasterOutput moved to 30 fps and the encoder settings were retuned. Frame count drives both render time and file size, and 60 fps was doubling each for footage that does not benefit — so exports finish sooner and download quicker.

Fixes

  • Bug fixesReliability work across sign-in, checkout and plan lookups.

Earlier

The studio itself: device frames for 15 handsets across 7 brands, real tap coordinates captured over adb, camera moves that cluster nearby taps into one deliberate push-in, 21 gradient backgrounds and 20 flat colours, status-bar clean-up, trimming, music and voiceover with ducking, and tap clicks.