Changelog

Eighteen new breathing sound effects for films, games and songs, each shaped by the mouth and the nose and kept apart by a measurement.

• NewBreath: 18 sound effects in the free library and the Audio Effects Generator, from a calm breath in and out and a sigh of relief to a sharp gasp, panting after a run, breathing hard after a fight, a held breath let go, breath in the cold with a shiver, a sleeper's breathing, a gentle snore, a singer's quick breath, a sniff, a yawn, breathing through a mask, nervous breathing, a candle blown out, warming cold hands and a diver's breath underwater. Every one is synthesized, with no recording, and renders the same every time.
• ImprovedAI Generate in the Audio Effects Generator opens a finished breath from your words, such as "sigh of relief" or "breathing hard after a fight", and a test measures every breath so no two of them sound alike.

Light a whole scene, each Timeline part or any picture, logo, shape or line of words, in Classic, Studio and the Video Studio.

• NewLighting for every scene: twelve ready-made lights (a studio key light, golden hour, blue hour, moonlight, a spotlight, candlelight, neon night, club lights, sunrise rays, overcast, a stage wash and film noir), each with its own direction, shadow, spotlight, warmth, colour, rays, flicker and turn, lighting everything under it, the visualizer included.
• NewEach Timeline part can have its own light, and in the Video Studio a Lighting clip lights everything under it for its stretch of the video, fading in and out with the clip.
• NewAny picture, logo, shape or line of words can have its own light: shading from one side, a rim of light, a shadow cast away from the light and a glow. Every setting animates over time or follows the music, and the preview and the export light it the same.
• NewSW Agent lights a project from your words: "light it like golden hour", "give it moonlight", "put a spotlight on it" or "turn the lighting off".
• FixedThe studios' libraries load once the page is ready, so the Music studio's starters answer the first tap, and the library's tabs read correctly to a screen reader.

The pistol, revolver, rifle, automatic, shotgun and suppressed shot are each built from their own sound now, and a measurement keeps them apart.

• ImprovedFilm Gunfire's six kinds of gun are each their own recipe: a pistol's short, hard pop with the slide straight after; a revolver's darker boom with the hiss of its cylinder and the hammer cocked again; a rifle's sharp crack ahead of a long boom rolling away; an automatic's lighter rounds with the bolt ringing on each; a shotgun's slow, low push and the pump worked after it; and a suppressed shot's soft puff with the slide the loudest part.
• ImprovedThe same sounds play in the Audio Effects Generator, the free library and the shots placed in the Video Studio, so a scene's pistol and rifle no longer sound alike.
• FixedOn a phone, the Video Studio's toolbar keeps to one row: Words, Shape and the clip's actions are in Add clip's menu and the picked clip's bar, as intended.

The music, sound effects, overlays, transitions, intros and outros the site already has are now one tap away in both studios.

• NewThe Video Studio has a Library: a sound effect lands at the playhead, a piece of music can start a new part on the Song track, a transition goes on the change into the part you picked, and an intro or an outro becomes the video's own.
• NewThe Music studio has a Sound library: every sound effect and piece of music on the site can be added as its own track or played on the keys in the piano roll, and it plays in the WAV, the stems and the Timeline's mix.
• NewA song can start a new part from the Video Studio itself, without going to Classic's Timeline first.

Picking, moving, trimming, splitting and selecting clips on the Video Studio's tracks now works the way a finger expects.

• ImprovedTap a clip to pick it, then drag it or its round grips: sliding along the tracks scrolls them instead of moving the clips under your finger, and the grips are big enough for a thumb even on a short clip.
• ImprovedThe tracks follow a clip dragged to their edge, two fingers zoom them, the time ruler scrubs, and holding a finger on a picked clip puts the playhead there.
• NewSelect picks several clips without a keyboard, and a picked clip's actions (Split here, Duplicate, Copy, Paste, Delete, Close the gap, Settings) sit in a bar over the tracks, so the toolbar is no longer six rows deep on a phone.

A new visualizer that walks you through an old house on the hill after the Circus's show, a step a beat, with the clowns springing out on the drop.

• NewHaunted House Walk: six rooms of one walk, seen as you walk them with a candle in your hand. The front door, whose path never gets any shorter; a long hall whose portraits watch you pass and whose doors slam on the downbeats; a parlour with a music box, a ticking clock and a jack-in-the-box; a mirror that shows a clown behind you; stairs that never end; and the entrance hall, where the Circus's clowns take their bow and the door opens on the fairground's lights, so the walk loops back to the front door.
• NewFun-house scares, never gore: every scare is a movement, a clown springing up or a door swinging, never a burst of light, and the candles, the lightning and the opened doors stay inside the site's flash limits. Its own settings set the candlelight, the gloom, the dust, the lightning, how often things spring at you, how many clowns come along and how fast you walk.

A new visualizer of satellites on real orbits round an Earth drawn with code, seen six ways, from the Earth from space and a world map of ground tracks to a mission control room and a night sky.

• NewSatellite: one system of real orbits seen six ways. The Earth from space with its shells of satellites, each satellite's ground track drifting west on a world map, a mega-constellation of hundreds round a night globe, a mission control room's wall with live telemetry and a pass clock, a satellite leaving its upper stage as its solar panels unfold bar by bar, and a night sky from a hillside with satellites crossing among the real stars.
• NewEvery orbit is solved from Kepler's equation and takes a whole number of bars, so satellites pass on the downbeat, the build launches new ones into their shell and every link lights on the drop. Its own settings set the orbit rings, how many satellites, the links, the trails, the Earth's style, the clouds, the city lights, the sun's flare and the labels. Every glint and flare stays inside the site's flash limits.

A new visualizer of masks, from a masquerade ball and a wall of masks to a shell game, a theatre, a carnival parade and the unmasking on the drop.

• NewMasks: six moments for the mask you choose in the Mask picker. A masquerade ball whose couples waltz in three when your song is in three, a wall of masks that smile in turn as a ripple runs out on the beat, a shell game of masks that swap places and reveal a hidden light, a theatre stage, a carnival parade at night and the unmasking, where the mask lifts away on the drop.
• NewEvery mask is drawn from its tradition's shape, material and ornament, and its face moves with the song's mood. Every light that rises on the drop is kept inside the site's flash limits.

A new visualizer of a rollercoaster seen six ways, from the lift hill at dusk and the front seat to a night park, the loop, a blueprint and opening night.

• NewRollercoaster: one ride on real physics seen six ways. The lift hill and the first drop at dusk, the front seat over the crest and through the loop, the whole park from above at night, the loop and the corkscrew in the late sun, an engineer's blueprint with the speed and g-force plotted live, and opening night with fireworks. The chain lifts the train through the build and it goes over the crest on the drop.
• NewIts own settings set the park's lights, the fireworks, the clouds, the riders and how level the front seat keeps the horizon. Every view stays inside the site's flash limits, the front seat's crests included.

Film effects for your own action scenes: a shot placed on the Video Studio's tracks brings its muzzle flash, smoke and synthesized sound together.

• NewFilm Gunfire in the Video Studio: Add clip, then Gunfire (film effect), puts a shot at the playhead with its muzzle flash, smoke, ejected shell, tracer, sparks and dust where the rounds hit, a bullet hole and a recoil shake, and its sound in the mix from the same moment. Choose a pistol, revolver, rifle, automatic burst, shotgun or suppressed shot, fired outdoors, indoors or far away, the rounds and their rate; move, copy, delete and undo it like any clip, and it saves and exports as you see it. Every flash stays inside the site's flash limits.
• NewFilm Gunfire sounds: 18 synthesized sound effects in the free library and the Audio Effects Generator, from a pistol shot and a shotgun indoors to a magazine change, casings landing, a ricochet and impacts on metal, wood and concrete. SW Agent adds a shot from your words, such as "add a gunshot at 0:12".

A new visualizer of the circus at night, from the big top lit with bulbs to a flying trapeze, a juggler, the high wire and a grand finale.

• NewCircus: six acts of the show. The big top at night with its searchlights and strings of bulbs, the ring under the follow spots, a flying trapeze whose catch lands on the downbeat, a juggler throwing real juggling patterns, a walker on the high wire who balances as the song moves, and a grand finale with every act and the confetti on the drop. Performers only, no animal acts.
• NewReal mechanics under every act: the trapeze swings as pendulums, the wire walker balances with the pole, the juggler's throws follow true patterns and the tent's canvas hangs as it would. Its own settings choose the props, the confetti, the crowd and how daring the acts are, and every act has its layers in the Layers panel.

A new visualizer of railways on a real signalling system, from a signal box panel whose track lights up in each train's colour to a cab ride at night.

• NewRailway Vision: six railways that run to your song on a real signalling system. A signal box panel whose track circuits light in each train's colour as it runs the loop, a night line of lit trains on a viaduct, an invented city's metro map, a busy junction, a cab ride at night and a model railway on a table. Trains depart on the beat, routes set on the bar, signals clear on the downbeat, the build brings more trains out and the drop lights every route at once.
• NewReal railway systems under it: trains ride on their bogies and swing out on curves, accelerate with the music's energy and brake to red signals, and a weigh-in-motion site shows each axle's load as it crosses. Its own settings choose the highlight colours, how brightly the route ahead lights, the train codes, the panel style and the train speed, and every railway loops cleanly.

A new visualizer of a tree whose crown, boughs and bark hold faces that come forward as the song builds and show themselves whole on the drop.

• NewTree of Faces: six looks of a tree that hides faces, from two profiles meeting in a moonlit crown to a grove of trees whispering to each other, a face in the bark, the four seasons turning with the song's sections, a sunset silhouette and a tree reflected in a still lake. The wind moves with the bass, fireflies drift, and the faces lean forward through a build and appear whole on the drop.
• NewIts own controls: how strongly the faces show, the season, the light along the branches, the fireflies and a new tree for every Tree setting. Every look loops cleanly and has its layers in the Layers panel.
• ImprovedCasino, Tree of Faces and Constellations have their 8 second preview clips on the templates wall again.

Eighteen new sound effects of knives, cutlery, plates, glasses and pots, synthesized from how each thing really rings, rubs and repeats.

• NewKitchen & Cutlery: 18 sound effects in the free library and the Audio Effects Generator, from a fork on a plate and a toast of two glasses to chopping, a knife on a sharpening steel, a whetstone, a bread knife sawing and a whisk in a bowl. Every one is synthesized, with no recording, and renders the same every time.
• ImprovedAI Generate in the Audio Effects Generator opens a finished kitchen sound from your words, such as "knife on a sharpening steel" or "a toast of two glasses".

A new visualizer that sets your music in a casino room, with a Game picker so more table games can join the same template.

• NewCasino: a roulette wheel that spins to the music in six moments (The Table, The Play, Neon Floor, High Roller, Jackpot and Dealer's View). The ball lands on the drop and its number lights up. It is a visual theme only: nothing takes a bet or shows odds or prizes.
• NewA Game picker for Casino in the editors, Studio, the Timeline, the template page and site search, with roulette the first game and more table games to come in the same template.
• ImprovedCasino's wheel turns a whole number of times every phrase when a song has no analysis yet, so a looped clip closes without a jump.

The 24/7 stream now shows only things that move, and changes picture every phrase of the music instead of about every half minute.

• ImprovedSonic Weaver Live and the Stream studio's Asset libraries show only what moves: overlays and 3D models drawn live on the song, and loops. Still pictures (backgrounds, photos, music video template stills, and thumbnail and banner templates) stay in their libraries, and a 3D model that cannot be drawn no longer leaves its picture standing on screen.
• ImprovedThe picture on Live changes every phrase, four bars of the song or about 5 to 12 seconds, where it used to hold for about 30, with quicker transitions between shots. A story's title card shows for a moment before the story plays, and "Up next" appears in a shot's last seconds.
• FixedSW Agent no longer answers with adult content: a question that happened to share a word with an adult performer's encyclopedia article could quote it. SW Agent's knowledge no longer holds articles about pornography or the adult industry, every answer it reads from Wikipedia, journals or its knowledge is checked, and a request for adult content is politely declined.
• ImprovedFewer repeats on Live: every visualizer, layer, motion graphic, scene, story and asset now comes round about equally often, four or five times a day. Visualizers used to take two turns in three and play about eleven times a day each while most layers played once, and two looks of one visualizer, or a look and its earlier version, no longer play back to back.

Optical illusions are now a choice of their own, shown in six moments with the music, with a page of every illusion; and every country, sport and other subject can be picked wherever a look is.

• NewOptical Illusions 2: pick the illusion with the Illusion control (peripheral drift, the lilac chaser, the Fraser spiral, endless stairs, the hypnotic spiral, moiré waves) and show it in six moments with the music: The Illusion, The Reveal (the loud parts show the truth), Gallery, Op Art Wall, Projection on a stage, and the Stare Challenge. Every one stays within broadcast limits for flashes and patterns, and a lower Contrast calms it further.
• NewA page of every optical illusion, by family, with how each one works, who described it, and buttons that open it in Classic or Studio, under a safe-viewing note.
• ImprovedThe first Optical Illusions looks are kept under Earlier versions on the template page, and a project made with one keeps its look.
• NewPick the country, the sport, the animal, the creature, the sign, the constellation or the illusion wherever you pick a look: in Classic's Template section, before adding a layer in Studio, on Generate visualizer's layers, when setting up a Layer asset, in the Video studio and in Background Motion. Before, those looks always started on Canada, ice hockey and the other defaults.
• ImprovedSearch for a country or a sport ("basketball", "Japan") in the editors' Templates tab, the templates page, site search and motion graphics, and it finds the look set to it; the Templates tab shows the newest visualizers first.
• ImprovedAsk SW Agent for "a basketball visualizer" or "an endless stairs visualizer" and it opens the look on that sport or illusion; in an open project it changes the sport or the illusion on the look you have.
• ImprovedThe template pages' sports block, playlist packages, the screensaver's starter looks, the showcase and the overlay previews now include the newer visualizers.
• ImprovedEvery optical illusion now plays on its own lit stage: peripheral drift under a warm studio key light with soft shadows, the lilac chaser on an even grey whose edges breathe with the bass, the Fraser spiral as a medallion on velvet, the endless stairs in a moonlit courtyard, the spiral as a tunnel and the moiré on silk. The stage's lights pulse with the kick and swell on a drop, and every figure is drawn larger, filling the frame at every shape from 9:16 to 21:9.
• ImprovedThe moments now differ from the first bar: The Reveal answers each phrase with the truth and a caption, longest through the loud parts; the Stare Challenge shows a countdown in bars to the drop; the Gallery pulls back between frames with visitors passing; the Op Art Wall lights one tile at a time on the bar; Projection fills the frame with the screen, its beam taking the beat, and cuts on each phrase.
• ImprovedThe lilac chaser steps at its classic eight steps a second on the beat grid, with soft lilac discs at the grey's own brightness; the Fraser spiral's light now runs along the spiral you see, never round a true circle; the flowing illusions turn at a pace set by the song's tempo and your Speed.
• FixedShape and symmetry (Tile, Kaleidoscope, Mirror) and the warps on an optical illusion could repeat or mirror its pattern past the broadcast pattern limits. While they are on, the illusion is now drawn as a calm, low-contrast figure.

Eleven new overlays made for maps and travel, any of the 195 countries as a 3D shape in the 3D workspace, and search that reaches every effect, transition, intro and outro.

• NewA Map category on the overlays page, each one offered on every country's page: Map Graticule, Compass Rose, Coordinates Readout, Route Line, Topographic Contours, Radar Sweep, Map Pins, Flight Paths and Atlas Border. Two more suit maps too: the Old Map Paper colour grade and the Drifting Clouds ambient layer.
• NewCountry maps in the 3D workspace's library: any of the 195 countries as a flat or raised 3D map, with the same looks, lighting and camera moves as every other model.
• ImprovedSearch finds the Timeline effects, the motion graphics, the banner templates and the Generate visualizer starters, and opens each transition, intro and outro on its own page.
• FixedOn phones, opening an editor or another workspace from a template page no longer brings up Google's full-screen ad first; the ads between other pages are unchanged.
• FixedOn the templates page, the Background Motion recipes and Starter loop creations buttons open their library again, and "See every template, newest first" sorts the wall; before, they changed the address and the wall stayed as it was.

The site stays free because its pages show ads; the longer pages now carry one between two of their sections, on phones and computers alike.

• ImprovedTemplate pages, help articles and the zodiac, constellation and country pages show an ad between two of their sections, labelled Advertisement, never inside a card, a list or beside a button, and loaded only as you scroll near it. Short help articles show none.
• ImprovedOn laptop screens from 1280 pixels wide, the ad column beside the page now appears too; before, it needed 1536 pixels. Turn ads off still stops every one of them.
• ImprovedWhen an ad strip is pinned to the bottom of the screen, the tab bar and the floating buttons move above it, and the header moves below one pinned to the top, so the ad never covers the site's own controls.
• FixedThe ad at the end of the templates wall shows again; it had been blocked by the one at the top of the page.

The last downloads are in: 9,020 more word meanings and 4,887 more articles on music, audio, video and design, and SW Agent picks the right kind of page to answer with.

• ImprovedSW Agent: 9,020 more word meanings from Wiktionary, 4,887 more Wikipedia articles on music, audio, video, design and the music business, and 350 more of the articles people read most, each with its source and licence.
• ImprovedThe AI policy and robots.txt name xAI's Grok (GrokBot, xAI-Grok, xAI-SearchBot and Grok-DeepSearch), welcomed like every other AI service, and its visits are counted under xAI.
• FixedSW Agent: asked to plan something or how to do it, it no longer answers with a dictionary entry ("plan: to make a plan") or with a film or video game that shares a word with the question; a dictionary still answers what a word means, and a game or a film when you ask about one.

The sky round every constellation comes alive: thousands of fainter stars, variable and double stars, satellites, and a meteor shower from the figure's own radiant on the big moments.

• ImprovedConstellations: thousands of fainter stars in star clouds and dark patches that drift in depth, variable stars that pulse with the bars, double stars that orbit, satellites gliding over, and on the big moments a meteor shower out of the figure's own radiant (the Leonids from Leo, the Perseids from Perseus) and a nova. Through the telescope the sky fills with stars the eye never sees, and more come into view as it zooms.
• NewConstellations: a Sky life control sets how alive the sky is, from the real stars alone to a crowded, busy sky, and the Layers tool lists the faint stars and the sky's events as layers of their own.
• ImprovedThe look it replaces is kept as Constellations 2 under Earlier versions on the template page, and projects made with it keep their look.

Add your own song or recording as a track, make a sound of yours an instrument for the keys, or open a MIDI file as the song. Your files stay on your device.

• NewMusic studio: Add your song or recording puts a sound file on its own track, in the WAV and the stems too; Add a sound to play on the keys makes a short sound an instrument for the piano roll; Import a MIDI file opens one as the song, with Undo back. Your files are kept on this device and never uploaded.
• NewSend to the Music studio: a master, a stem or a converted sound from Mastering, the Stem splitter or Convert joins the song you were working on as its own track.

Put your own videos, pictures and any visualizer on the Video studio's tracks, place and time them, add sounds, and edit with the tools a video editor expects.

• NewVideo studio: put your own videos, pictures and any visualizer on its tracks (kept on your device), place, size and turn them on the picture, set speed, fades, crossfades and a subject for each frame shape, add and mix sounds, snap, copy, paste, ripple delete and use the keys; Send to lands a file from any tool on a track.
• FixedA link that asks for a 16:9 frame now opens Classic at 16:9 instead of square.

Making a video on a phone no longer gets stuck: the screen stays on while it works, and an export that cannot finish stops with a plain reason and Retry.

• FixedExports on phones no longer get stuck: the screen stays on while a video is made, every wait on the encoder, the recorder, the song and the files has a limit, Cancel ends it at once, and an export that cannot finish stops with one plain sentence and Retry (and says so if the phone closed the page).

Edit your video on tracks in the new Video studio, cut it on your song's parts, its bars or a track's notes, and ask SW Agent to set it up for you, from a beat to its video.

• NewVideo studio: edit your video on tracks at /video-studio. Words and shapes go on video tracks over the song's parts and can be moved, trimmed, split, hidden and locked by mouse, touch or keyboard, and the deliverables panel makes the edit each platform's shape with its safe area before you export it.
• NewCut to the music: cut a Timeline on its song's parts, every few bars, or on a track's notes (a flash, a zoom punch, a shake, a glitch or a palette change on each snare or kick), counted before you apply it and undone in one step. A song from the Music studio is cut on its own notes, exactly, and flashes stay at three a second at most.
• NewSW Agent opens the Video studio already set up from your words ("make a Spotify Canvas from my beat", "flash on every kick", "cut every 2 bars") and makes a beat and its video in one ask; AI assistants on the MCP server can set up an edit for a platform with its rules.
• FixedA music video remade at another shape keeps its intro and outro cards, each stem plays until its own echo and reverb have died away, and words that start with "data:" are allowed on a text layer.

Sonic Weaver now counts, per day, how SW Agent, AI services and AI assistants use the site, and the privacy policy says exactly what is counted.

• NewAI usage: Sonic Weaver now counts, per day, how SW Agent, AI services and AI assistants on the MCP server use the site, with nothing about you; the privacy policy says what is counted.

Turn a Music studio loop into a whole song, take it to the Timeline, Mastering or the music video maker with its parts intact, and export your video for Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Apple Music at each one's own shape.

• NewMusic studio: Make it a song turns your loop into a whole song (intro, verses, choruses and outro, lighter drums at the ends, a crash on each chorus), and the new Arrange view lays it out along its bars: tap a section to loop it, tap a clip to open its steps or notes, and move, copy, split, resize or repeat clips and sections with buttons or a drag, all on a phone.
• NewMusic studio songs go further: put one on Classic's Timeline from beside Add song, where it plays from its own notes with its tempo and parts; Send to Mastering; export stems as WAVs in one ZIP; and Make a music video cut exactly on the song's own parts and bars. Every stem notes it was made in Sonic Weaver's Music studio with nothing generated.
• NewExport for every platform: in Classic's Timeline and the music video's cut-downs, one menu makes your edit as a Spotify Canvas, Clip or Countdown video, a song preview, a YouTube Short, an Instagram Reel, a TikTok, Apple Music motion art or a 16:9 music video, each at its own shape and length, then reads the file back and checks it against the platform's rules; turn on the safe area to see where each app's buttons cover the picture, and ask SW Agent "will Spotify take this video?"

A new Music studio: start from a beat that plays at once, change it on a step sequencer and a piano roll, and keep it in your library or export it as WAV or MIDI.

• NewThe Music studio is here: tap a starter beat to hear it at once, change the drums on a step sequencer, pick each track's sound, set the tempo, key and swing, and keep your song on your device, in My library, or as WAV or MIDI.
• NewThe Music studio has a piano roll: write notes by tapping, clicking or typing, keep them in your song's key, add chords from the key, play notes from your computer's letter keys, and edit by touch, mouse or keyboard with every action also on a button.
• NewAsk SW Agent for a beat and open it in the Music studio, or open the studio as a tab in Classic and Studio and use your song as the project's music.

The groundwork for the coming Music workspace is built and tested: our own instruments, mixer, music theory, MIDI files and a player whose playback sounds the same as the export.

• NewGroundwork for the coming Music workspace: our own music theory (scales, chords and progressions), a tempo map with swing and time signature changes, a song format, MIDI import and export, and a player that sounds the same as the export, note for note.
• NewThe music studio's first instruments, built and tested ahead of their workspace: a polyphonic synth with 15 presets, a drum machine with four synthesised kits, a sampler for your own sounds, and a mixer with buses and six effects that can hand a finished song straight to Mastering.
• ImprovedThe Sound effects maker now shares its synth voice with the music studio's instruments, and sounds exactly as it did.

Every star sign and Chinese zodiac animal has its own page, every template page plays a short preview video, and the holiday templates each have a guide.

• NewEvery zodiac sign has its own page: all 12 star signs and the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, each in its six looks with its dates or years and a Make a video for your sign button, starting with the Year of the Goat for Lunar New Year 2027.
• NewEvery visualizer's template page now plays an 8 second preview video of the look it opens with (and a few looks have their own), and the clips are listed in a video sitemap so search engines can find them.
• NewGuides for the 2026 holiday season: how to make a music video for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve with each one's template, and the four templates linked to each other.

Accounts are harder to take over, the site's own defences are tighter, and members are safer from each other and from what is uploaded.

• ImprovedAccounts are safer: connecting Google needs a recent sign-in, a password change signs out every other device, a changed password, a new passkey and Google being connected or removed are each told to you, wrong passwords are capped per account, and passwords already found in data breaches are refused.
• ImprovedPictures you post never say where a photo was taken: location and camera details are removed before upload, and pictures posted before are served without them.
• ImprovedA creator's Instagram, YouTube and TikTok links must go to those sites, a link to a site nobody checked asks once before it opens, new accounts have a daily limit on posts, comments, follows and reports, comments ask for the 13 and over confirmation as posting does, and Settings, Privacy lists everyone you blocked, with Unblock.
• ImprovedThe sign-in, sign-up, recovery and admin screens can no longer be controlled by another site's window, your account's answers cannot be loaded by other sites, ads cannot ask for your devices, a failed upload no longer shows server text, and the sign-in library is updated.

The terms, the community guidelines, the privacy and cookie policies, the licences page and the accessibility page now say exactly what the site does, and the copyright notice form says on screen what happened to a notice.

• ImprovedThe terms say what you keep and what we may do with what you post, how strikes and appeals work from Account standing, how copyright notices and repeat infringers are handled, how support links work, and what SW Agent's answers are. The community guidelines say which automatic checks run on comments and uploads.
• ImprovedThe privacy policy names every service that receives information and what it receives, why each kind of information is used, how long it is kept, how to complain in Canada, Quebec, the EU and the UK, and what happens after a breach; the cookie page and cookie bar name every analytics tag.
• ImprovedThe copyright notice form says on screen whether your notice was forwarded to the member; the licences page carries the notices of every open source package the site uses and of its star catalogue.
• ImprovedThe accessibility page says how to report a barrier and how it is answered, the Turn ads off switch names every ad network it stops, and the vision page says the money for creators is planned and the ad income published will be the gross amount.

Creators can add their own support links, the editors and uploads are safer, and the admin's status updates work from a phone.

• NewSupport links on creator profiles: add your own PayPal.me, Stripe Payment Link, Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee or Patreon link in Settings and it shows as Support with your name on your channel and your posts. Supporters pay you directly; no money passes through Sonic Weaver and nothing is taken.
• ImprovedClassic no longer makes changes from a link that opens one of your saved projects: a link can start new work, but your saved work only changes when you change it.
• ImprovedUploaded SVG files are checked more strictly and download instead of opening as a page, and downloads of your own files have a daily ceiling per account.
• FixedStatus page updates from the admin keep what was written through the security check and say plainly what is missing, so an update is never lost on a phone; the admin pages fit a phone screen.

Three more visualizers drawn by a pen of light and alive instead of pulsing, and the looks they replaced, with the Zodiac's and Constellations' first looks, kept under Earlier versions.

• ImprovedValentine's now draws itself: a heart traced by racing pens, a long-stemmed rose drawn stroke by stroke that blooms and drops its petals, a heart laid petal by petal, ribbons that unspool with your names written on, a frame drawn in light as your art pours in, and a neon heart that strikes, flickers and takes an arrow, all redrawn every loop.
• ImprovedNew Year's Eve now draws itself: the countdown, clock and greeting are written by a pen of light, fireworks climb on ember trails and burst into shapes that fall, the ball steps down its mast to midnight, and the champagne is poured and clinked every phrase.
• ImprovedCountries & Flags now draws itself: every flag is hoisted up its pole and waves like real cloth with a ripple on every beat, and a pen of light draws the country's map, the round flag and the greeting card again on every phrase, for all 195 countries.
• ImprovedEvery look these updates replaced is kept: Valentine's 1, New Year's Eve 1, Countries & Flags 1, and the first Zodiac and Constellations looks are under Earlier versions on their template pages, and projects made with them keep their look.

Every Zodiac sign is drawn by a pen of light and moves like the animal or figure it is, and every constellation draws its figure, filling the sky.

• ImprovedZodiac & Horoscopes: all 24 signs redrawn as real drawings (the rat's snout, whiskers and long tail, the rooster's comb, a centaur archer) and drawn by a pen of light at the top of each loop in every look. Legs stride, tails whip, wings and fins beat and the head lifts on the beat, instead of a fixed outline that only pulsed.
• ImprovedConstellations: each figure is drawn on as the music plays, with old star atlas drawings for the archer, the fishes, the scales, the serpent and more; the figure fills the sky in every shape; and the Telescope shows the whole figure being drawn as it tours the stars.

All 88 constellations and twenty famous star patterns from real star positions, a way to clean up a recording from your own microphone on your device, homepage previews that play, and every template's looks on the templates page.

• NewClean up a recording, in Mastering: record a take with your phone's or laptop's own microphone (or bring one) and clean it on your device. A coach measures the take and says what to change; the cleanup lowers noise learned from your room, mains hum, clicks and room echo, rebuilds short clips, turns harsh s sounds down, evens the tone and sets the loudness for a podcast or streaming, showing every measure before and after. It says plainly when a take is past saving. Your recording never leaves your device.
• ImprovedAsk SW Agent to "clean up my recording" or "make my voice sound like a studio" and it opens Clean up set for your voice or your instrument.
• ImprovedThe homepage's previews play: every template, new visualizer, motion graphic, layer, overlay, transition, intro and Background Motion loop plays its own preview when you rest the mouse on it, or tap it once on a phone (tap again to open it). The rows turn through more looks on phones and computers, only while you can see them, and hold still if you ask for less motion. Music video and Playlist now show their own templates and looks.
• ImprovedEvery template on the templates page shows all of its looks: pick one right on the card to see it, use it in the editor, or open the template's page on that look.
• ImprovedZodiac & Horoscopes' Starlight look draws each Western sign's real constellation, its stars as bright as they are in the sky.
• ImprovedSonic Weaver speaks as what it is, one person: your messages go to Sonic Weaver, and reports and notices are reviewed by hand.
• NewConstellations: all 88 constellations and twenty famous star patterns (the Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, the Southern Cross, the Pleiades and more) in one visualizer with six looks. The stars sit where they are in the sky, from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and light up with the music.
• NewA page for every figure at /constellations, with its stars and facts, and a picker on the template page to open any of them in Classic or Studio. Ask SW Agent for "an Orion visualizer" and it builds one.
• ImprovedZodiac & Horoscopes and Constellations work side by side in the editors: "switch the sign to leo" or "set the constellation to the plough" changes the open look.

A new visualizer for every star sign and Chinese zodiac animal, 3D models that bend and dance like a body, SW Agent creating a new look when you ask it to, Animation Speed that sets the pace, and videos at 24 and 30 fps that keep every beat.

• NewZodiac & Horoscopes: the twelve Western star signs and the twelve Chinese zodiac animals in one visualizer, each with its own figure, constellation and colours, a Sign picker on the template page and a horoscope card for fun. Make the sign shine or send a shooting star on your own moments with Scene actions, in Classic, Studio, SW Agent and MCP.
• New3D models get a real skeleton. A character from Blender or Mixamo keeps its own bones and animations; any other model gets one fitted to its shape (a person, a four-legged animal, a bird or a bending chain), so it bends at its elbows, knees and wings instead of swinging in stiff pieces.
• NewThe skeleton dances to the beat: a person bobs and steps, an animal trots and wags its tail, a bird beats its wings on every beat. Or play the model's own animation fitted to the bars of your song. Point at a part of the body (head, arms, wings, legs, tail) to give it its own move, and drag any joint to where the body bends.
• ImprovedAsk SW Agent to create a custom visualizer, invent one nobody has seen or surprise you, and it makes a new look for you: a visualizer that fits any mood you name, a palette, colours that follow the music and a name, with the idea in one sentence. "My custom visualizer" still opens your own.
• ImprovedAnimation Speed sets a visualizer's pace: it speeds the look's motion up or slows it down, in the editor and the video, while the beats stay with the music. On the few looks with nothing on a clock to speed up, it is no longer shown.
• FixedVideos at 30 and 24 frames a second keep every beat: a hit that landed between two frames no longer goes missing from the video.
• FixedRepair keeps a rigged model's skeleton: standing it upright or centring it moves the bones with it.
• FixedIn an editor, "switch the animal to a lion" or "change the country to brazil" changes the open look's animal or country again.

Your custom visualizer exports from every way you open it, Classic plays as smoothly on a phone as the template page, community posts fit a desktop screen, and SW Agent now understands everyday editing words.

• FixedYour own custom visualizer exports again. Opened from its page, from SW Agent, from Studio, from a saved project or on a Timeline, the export no longer says it is not yours. Another member's visualizer still never goes into your video.
• FixedCommunity posts fit a desktop screen: a post's video is no taller than most of the window, centred, at its own shape. Phones are unchanged.
• FixedSmoother playback in Classic on a phone: the editor draws each frame once, as the template page does, so VJ Deck and every visualizer keep an even pulse and show the frame each beat lands on.
• FixedA stacked layer's Chromatic Aberration is drawn once, in the editor and in the video, instead of split twice when you raise it.
• ImprovedSW Agent changes the open project in everyday words: "make it more purple", "make it pink and blue", "turn off the glow", "less shaking", "slow everything down", "make the bass hit harder", "cut the first 10 seconds" and "switch to the timeline" now work in Classic and Studio.
• FixedIn an editor, naming a look, a country, an animal or a creature ("add a wolf", "use the canada flag one", "try the tunnel one") now changes the open project instead of building a new one, and "put some smoke over my visualizer" adds a smoke layer instead of opening your own custom visualizer.
• ImprovedAsking SW Agent to export in 4K or as an MP4 sets it and offers Start the export in one tap, with its time and size first.

A look opened in Classic no longer shakes, tilts, pulses, strobes or speeds up and slows down on its own: it starts exactly as its template page plays it, and the beat effects are yours to turn on.

• FixedA visualizer picked in Classic used to start with the whole frame shaking, tilting, drifting and pulsing on every beat, a white strobe, and its own speed jumping with the music every frame. Every look now opens with those effects off, as its template page plays it, in the editor and in the video you export. Turn any of them on from the Beat FX library or the sliders.
• FixedPicking a new look in Classic no longer gives it the previous look's pulse, glow, motion and camera settings: it starts with its own, while any setting you changed yourself still comes with you.
• Fixed3D looks picked in Classic no longer orbit and tilt their camera more than three times as far as on their template page.
• FixedScene Clips no longer gets its film grain twice in the editor and the export, a June V2 look with its own strobe no longer flashes the whole frame a second time, and a raised Chromatic Aberration no longer splits the colours twice.

The two editors can now be found in search, each saying everything it can do, and the visualizer, country, help, tutorial and blog pages each say what they are in a search result that is never cut short.

• NewClassic and Creator Studio can now be found in search: each page names everything the editor can do, from stems, keyframes and the Timeline to the node graph and character rigs, with a link to where each is explained.
• ImprovedEvery visualizer's template page has a search title and description of its own, naming its looks, such as the Christmas lights' snow globe or the disco's mirror ball.
• ImprovedEach country's page names its national day where we are sure of it and its flag's colours, each engine's guide says how to use it, and help articles, tutorials and blog posts now fit a search result without being cut mid-word.
• ImprovedBlog posts link to the tools they describe: the converters, the YouTube thumbnail sizes, BPM to seconds, Spotify Canvas and the background remover.
• ImprovedFor AI assistants, llms.txt now describes both editors and everything each one can do.

Fourteen jobs the workspaces already do now have pages of their own, each with the tool on it, and every workspace says plainly in search what it does, so you can find them by name.

• NewFree Background Remover: the Image editor on a page for cutting a photo out of its background and saving a transparent PNG, on your own device.
• NewFree Vocal Remover: the Stem Splitter, starting on vocals and instrumental, for karaoke and practice tracks or a cappella parts.
• NewMP4 to MP3: the converter, starting on MP3 at 320 kbps, for keeping the sound of any video.
• NewBPM to Seconds: the calculator with beats, bars and frames worked out for you, and a table of common tempos.
• NewConverters with their own pages: video to GIF, compress a video (under 10 MB for Discord too), MOV to MP4, a Spotify Canvas from any video, and audio normalised to -14 LUFS.
• NewYouTube, Twitch and Kick banner makers, and the YouTube thumbnail sizes, each opening the maker at that size with its safe area marked.
• NewBPM to Milliseconds: delay and reverb times at any tempo, with a table of note lengths.
• ImprovedEvery workspace now says plainly in search results what it does, from the stem splitter and the screensaver maker to the thumbnail, banner and watermark makers.
• ImprovedSW Agent's replies set their key words in bold: the tools to open, file formats, and figures with their units, such as 1920×1080, 30 fps or -14 LUFS.
• NewSW Agent's Writer puts two studies side by side: ask for a post combining two studies on a topic, or attach two articles, and it reads each one whole and writes where they meet, where they part ways and what they suggest together, every finding in the authors' own words and credited.
• ImprovedSW Agent weighs its sources against each other: its deeper answers and documents say where two sources point the same way, part ways or fill each other in, the human thinking mode shows two that part ways side by side, and two sentences that say opposite things are never merged into one or dropped as a repeat.
• ImprovedSW Agent's blog posts ask about every one of their sections, read open-access journal articles for each (their discussion and conclusions as well as the abstract), give a study's findings a section of their own, and ask again for a section that came back thin, so fewer sections are left out.
• FixedOn a phone, pages no longer slide sideways after a page change or a refresh.
• FixedOn a phone, SW Agent's buttons stay at the top of its chat in the editors instead of sliding under the panel's header, and the panel is SW Agent's chat: hiding it shows the preview, and the Chat button brings it back.

SW Agent runs scripts of Sonic Weaver itself, checked step by step so it never invents one, makes After Effects scripts from your exports, and a round of fixes closes the gaps members met. A security update keeps the site safe.

• NewSW Agent 1.0.3: ask for several things at once and it runs them as one script across the workspaces and editors. Each step is checked against everything Sonic Weaver can do before it runs, and a change to your project waits for Apply or Cancel.
• ImprovedSW Agent never runs a tool for a request from another field: it answers it, or says it does not know.
• NewAfter Effects scripts: under every Classic export, save a script that builds the export's composition in After Effects, with the export, your song and a marker on every beat, phrase and section. The new After Effects page makes one from any Sonic Weaver export, or a plan for Premiere Pro.
• NewAsk SW Agent to "make an after effects script with beat markers for this export".
• FixedStudio: choosing Project closes the Tools panel and brings your layers and assets back, and Import opens an older .novusvis pack in Classic for you.
• FixedClassic's Timeline: a stream screen picked from the library starts with its own words, and one Undo brings the last one back.
• Fixed3D models open in the editor you sent them to, and SW Agent's older .novusvis packs open from the link you press.
• ImprovedLayer assets in the editors: set a layer's amount, colour and beat sync before you add it, and the note names the layer it added.
• ImprovedMastering keeps your song's own sample rate and has Undo and Redo, and Mastering and the Image editor both answer Ctrl+Z inside Classic and Studio.
• FixedStem Splitter: a song sent while a split runs waits its turn. Stream recordings are named for your channel and your own time.
• ImprovedThumbnails, banners, Generate visualizer downloads, Music video presets and your saved background loops and stills keep their names in any language.
• FixedThe Spotify Canvas card says what Spotify takes: a loop of 3 to 8 seconds.
• FixedA brief drop in the database connection no longer shows an error or signs you out for a moment: the read is tried again.
• ImprovedA security update for the site's framework and libraries.

Cover art files match the preview at full size, layer assets and overlays open in the editors with every setting, Studio opens the project sent to it every time, and SW Agent reads you more closely.

• FixedCover Art and Canvas: your 3000 px cover, the JPEG and Add to project now look exactly like the preview, titles and shadows included. Pictures keep their shape on any size, and a vertical Canvas downloads vertical.
• ImprovedCover Art and Canvas: send your cover or your Canvas loop on to the Image editor, Convert, the Thumbnail and Banner makers, a music video and more. A device that cannot finish the MP4 loop gets a WebM instead of an error, files are named for your release in any language, and a reopened Canvas loop keeps its name.
• FixedLayer assets: Open in Classic or Studio keeps every setting you made, including beat sync, speed, glow and the background. Layers download at 24 fps too, and the PNG still has Send to.
• Improved3D models: loops at 30 or 24 fps, a WebM when your device cannot make the MP4, files named in any language, and SW Agent can set up a vertical or square still and loop.
• FixedOverlays open in Classic from every link (SW Agent's stream screens, the overlay page, a community post) with your opacity and your stream screen's words, and a screen given only a headline keeps the line under it.
• ImprovedOverlays: the editors' tab sets the opacity and a stream screen's words and finds the same overlays as the gallery. The overlay page sets the words, downloads at 30 or 24 fps and gives its own OBS address at your opacity.
• FixedBackground Motion: a picture you send starts a scene of its own instead of stacking over the starter, files are named for the scene in any language, and SW Agent and MCP set the shape, loop length and frame rate.
• NewStream: Send to puts a song into the Stream studio, or the song your project streams with. The be right back screen takes your own words, and a recorded show has Send to.
• FixedScreensaver: a link sets the order, timing and mode over your last screensaver, Send to puts a picture into its rotation, and the screensaver file is named in any language.
• FixedStudio opens the project sent to it every time, from Classic, Generate visualizer, Motion graphics or SW Agent. After you sign in, it no longer replaces the template you opened with older work waiting in the tab.
• FixedOpening a template in Classic no longer puts the template's name in Song Title, so visualizers that draw your title wait for your song's name, as on the template page.
• ImprovedClassic has Snapshot and Publish for a saved project, as Studio does. A project link that cannot open now says why in both editors, and Studio no longer asks "Leave site?" when you press Classic, Thumbnail or Sign in.
• FixedA project file opened in Classic, or through SW Agent in either editor, shows another member's custom visualizer locked. Project files download under your project's name in any language, and Classic plays a free library song from any link that carries one.
• FixedPlaylist: the page and the editors' Playlist tab offer the same transitions between songs, and the playlist is built with the one the picker shows.
• ImprovedSW Agent picks the right kind of page for how you ask: the 3D model itself for "is there a ...", the look for "what does ... look like", and a tool's own guide for "how do I".
• FixedSW Agent: "a ramadan visualizer for instagram stories" builds the Ramadan & Eid look in 9:16, "a mov for final cut" converts your clip, "visualize my monthly sales" draws a chart, "wolf should howl each phrase" directs the scene, and "how many teams are in the NHL" is answered first.

A project sent from Studio, SW Agent or the music video maker opens in Classic with everything in it every time, visualizers no longer draw the editor's placeholder title in your videos, and Fluid Ink builds its ink smoothly.

• FixedStudio to Classic always opens the project you sent. Before, an editor page still loading in the same tab could take it first, and Classic opened a blank project.
• FixedSW Agent's project links in Classic and Studio open your project in the new tab. They opened a blank project there.
• FixedVisualizers that draw their own title (Release Ring, Animals, Now Playing, the seasonal set and more) no longer draw the editor's placeholder "Track Title" and "Unknown Artist" in the preview and your exports. They show your song's title once you name it, as on the template page.
• ImprovedFluid Ink's ink builds up smoothly in the editor and in exports, instead of starting over every half second as its camera drifted.
• FixedAn export whose video encoder fails part way now releases its frames at once, so the real-time recording that takes over is not slowed by them.

Mix & Master now masters through the Mastering chain and holds its ceiling, Audio Effects hands the editors the whole sound and makes a real M4A everywhere, Convert, Motion graphics, Transitions and Intros and Outros carry every setting into the editors, downloads fall back to WebM where a device cannot finish an MP4, and Studio keeps a caption file's times.

• FixedMix & Master now runs the Mastering tool's own chain: the limiter holds the ceiling you set and there is no hidden gain. It takes videos too, shows its progress, can be cancelled, and Send to carries the master on.
• ImprovedMastering masters the project's own song in Studio as well as Classic, under the song's name, and when your device cannot make the MP3 it hands you the 24-bit WAV and says so. A song sent to the Stem Splitter arrives even with Mix & Master open, each split choice shows the longest track it takes, and saving a stem or a master to My Assets asks you to sign in first.
• FixedAudio Effects: Copy to Editor brings the sound you made (your changes, loops and quality, generated sounds too), the M4A is a real AAC file in every browser, sound files are named for the sound in any language, and the page now has M4A, Post and Send to.
• ImprovedFree music shows what happened and the song's credit when you use a track, and in the Playlist the button reads Add to the playlist. Convert puts a converted GIF into your project as a picture, with one Add to the project per result.
• FixedMotion graphics: a design whose colour follows the music saves to My library, downloads come at 24, 30 or 60 fps and at 1440p and 4K on a computer, and a phone that cannot finish the MP4 gets a WebM with a note.
• ImprovedMotion graphics: Open in Classic and Open in Studio start a project with the whole motion graphic (title, colours, words, layers, colour binding, shape, length and frame rate), a design opens in the shape you filtered the gallery by, a song sent from another tool becomes its soundtrack, and the file is named for your title in any script.
• FixedTransitions keep their full length in Classic's Timeline (they stopped at 3 seconds) and Preview & download keeps the length and direction you set. Intros and outros: Use in Classic brings the whole card and every setting.
• ImprovedTransition and intro downloads come at 30 or 24 fps for film footage, as a WebM when the MP4 encoder gives up, named in any script, with Send to.
• ImprovedThe vision page names two plans for giving back: a monthly creator grant to one member for their creations, the first planned for December with its rules published before it opens, and earn while you create, being worked out with a lawyer first.
• FixedExports of heavy looks, such as VJ Deck in Classic on a busy computer, no longer stop part way and fall back to a real-time recording: a video encoder that falls behind now gets time to catch up.
• FixedStudio's Lyrics tab keeps a pasted SRT, LRC or WebVTT file's times: each line becomes a title at its own time, not a row of numbers and time codes.
• ImprovedSW Agent's human thinking reads more: 23,386 more Wikipedia articles on music, audio, video, design, streaming and the music business, and 3,536 more word meanings from Wiktionary.
• ImprovedSW Agent makes a lyric video in the shape you name (16:9 for YouTube, square for a feed, 9:16 when you name none), opens Mastering set up from words like "for Spotify" or "for the radio", opens Convert on the format you ask for, and sets a motion graphic's title, artist and length from your words.

Make any visualizer's colours, or one part's, follow the bass, the beat, the highs, the sections or the energy, flash-guarded in every editor and workspace; and ask SW Agent to write lyrics, split stems, translate, cut out a picture or measure its depth with the same on-device models the workspaces use, after you say yes to the download.

• NewColour follows the music: on every visualizer, make the colours follow the bass, the beat, the highs, the song's sections or its energy. Sweep between two to four colours, turn the hue, or flash a colour on the beat, for the whole look or just one part, like the snow or the lights.
• NewFind it in Classic under Visualizer Controls, Colour (the whole look) and Visualizer Layers (each part), in Studio's inspector, and in Background Motion, Generate visualizer, Motion graphics, the Screensaver, Layer assets and the Stream. Playlist's Club night now sweeps its colours with the bass.
• ImprovedProjects that used the older colour shift play exactly as before, and move to the new control the first time you change it. Every colour that follows the music is flash-guarded: never more than three flashes a second.
• NewAsk SW Agent "make the colours follow the bass", "flash the snow red on the beat" or "let the colour drift with the song", and AI assistants connected to Sonic Weaver can set it too.
• NewSW Agent runs the on-device models for you: ask it to write and time your song's lyrics, split it into stems, translate the lyrics, take a picture's background out or measure its depth, and it runs the same job the workspace's own button runs, with its progress and Stop in the chat, then hands you the files it made.
• NewNothing downloads without your tap: SW Agent says the model's size first, offers a smaller or larger model where there is one, and only asks to run a model already kept on your device. Your song or picture never leaves it.
• ImprovedSettings lists the AI models kept on this device, by name, with the space each takes and a Remove, and SW Agent answers "which on-device models do I have". Make captions and Send to's cut-out now ask the same way before a model downloads.

VJ Deck stacks up to four blended layers with a master effect, clips that change on the bar and a flash-safe beat strobe, in six looks made for club screens, streams and DJ sets, and every deck setting reaches the editors, the workspaces and SW Agent.

• NewVJ Deck, the first visualizer of our v6.0 generation: a live VJ deck in six looks, with up to four blended layers, a master effect (mirror, kaleidoscope, RGB split or feedback trails), clips that change every 4, 8 or 16 bars or on the song's own sections, and a beat strobe held to safe flash limits.
• NewNeon Tunnel flies down a curving tunnel of neon strips with a pulse on every kick; LED Wall plays plasma, a spectrum skyline and kick ripples across a stage wall of glowing diodes; Isometric Pulse raises a field of neon-edged blocks in ripples, spirals and beat towers.
• NewChromatic Wireframe spins a knot, sphere, torus or lattice split into red, green and blue that the snare pulls apart; Particle Plexus turns a 3D network of linked points with data racing along its links; Glitch Circuitry routes a new circuit board every clip, its processor flaring on the kick.
• NewEvery deck setting, from the layer count and each layer's blend and opacity to the clip crossfade, the hue drift and the trail length, is in Classic, Studio, the Timeline, the Layers tool, Background Motion, Generate visualizer and Motion graphics' Customize, and SW Agent and AI assistants set them by name.
• NewSay it like a VJ: in an open project "mirror the deck", "strobe on the beat", "change clips every 8 bars" or "drive it from the bass" sets the deck, and asking SW Agent for a neon tunnel VJ loop opens it that way and checks it did.
• NewScreensaver: every look in the rotation has its own Settings, and a new VJ wall starter for a club screen. Playlist: a VJ set package, and any playlist look can carry its own settings. Make a Music Video puts the deck on screen when your words ask for VJ loops or an LED wall, with no strobe on quiet parts.
• NewLayer assets: every VJ Deck layer (backdrop, main, overlay, master effect and beat strobe) for every look, found by "vj", "plexus" or "strobe"; the templates wall, Generate visualizer and the FAQ now count the versions from V1 to V6; a help article covers every look and setting.
• FixedTemplate cards and the editor's project description no longer show a doubled full stop where the look's sentence meets the visualizer's.
• FixedLyric overlay videos are named for your song in any language, as its caption files are, and on Song to SRT the message when AI lyrics cannot run names the boxes the page and Classic's Captions panel really have.
• FixedSW Agent reads a WebVTT caption file as a WebVTT and keeps its end times; a chat reopened from your account history keeps how each reply was made, so rating it still says so; and "switch clips every 16 bars" changes the open deck.

A whole song's lyrics and every choice in the lyric wizard reach the editor, caption files are named for your song, a WebVTT keeps its times, lyric overlays come at 24 or 30 fps with a WebM fallback, and your thumbs on SW Agent's human thinking answers now change how it answers.

• FixedLyric videos: the wizard now hands the editor your whole song's lyrics and every choice, in any language (they were cut at 2,000 characters), also when you press Transcribe Audio in Editor, and its colour and size apply to every caption.
• FixedOn the Lyric Videos page, Start a Lyric Video and Open the Lyric Editor open the editor ready for lyrics, and Browse Lyric Templates shows the looks made for lyric videos.
• ImprovedCaption files (SRT, WebVTT, LRC and translations) and the overlay maker's timing are saved under your song's name, in any language.
• FixedLyric overlays and Make a Music Video: a WebVTT file, YouTube's too, keeps its own times.
• ImprovedLyric and title overlays: choosing your song fills in its length, overlays can be made at 24 fps for film footage, and an MP4 your device cannot finish comes out as a WebM on the same green or black.
• FixedIn Classic, the Lyric Videos tab keeps its own captions panel while the lyric wizard writes your lyrics, and each Translate the lyrics keeps its own layout choice.
• FixedThe lyric video tutorial gives the AI models' real download sizes (41, 77 and 249 MB), and when AI lyrics cannot run, the message names the caption boxes as the panel shows them.
• NewSW Agent learns from your ratings: each rating now says what kind of question SW Agent read it as and, in human thinking, which model answers it was planned from.
• ImprovedWhen at least 20 different members rate a kind of answer under 70% liked over 30 days, human thinking answers that kind in a safer shape: it opens with what its sources say, keeps every part to two sentences and lists every source it read. A model answer members dislike stops being planned from while another of its kind is not.
• ImprovedEach member counts once, by their latest rating, and ratings sent signed out never decide anything; ratings never change an answer's words or SW Agent's benchmarks. Settings, SW Agent shows what each of your ratings was answered as, and the Privacy Policy says what a rating now holds.

SW Agent's human thinking now reads 6,019 Wikipedia articles on music, audio, video, design, streaming and the music business, and 2,553 word meanings from Wiktionary, so more of each answer comes from a source.

• ImprovedSW Agent's human thinking answers more of each answer from its sources: it now reads 6,019 Wikipedia articles on music, audio, video, design, streaming and the music business, and 2,553 word meanings from Wiktionary.

A Timeline or playlist now exports as one video up to three hours long, Generate visualizer can keep only its redraw, Make a Music Video keeps your motion and notes, and SW Agent reads two more free sources.

• ImprovedA Timeline, and so a playlist, now exports as one video up to 3 hours long in Chrome, Edge and the other browsers that make the video on your device: the sound is read, analysed and encoded a few seconds at a time, so a long mix no longer runs out of memory. Browsers that record the export as it plays, such as an iPhone before iOS 26, keep the 30-minute limit, and the Export panel says which one applies.
• NewGenerate visualizer can take the picture itself out and keep only the redraw: choose "Only the redraw, picture taken out", or remove the picture's layer in Layers. A layer you remove now stays out through every change, in saves, in Classic and Studio and in your export, and Layers lists what you took out with Bring back.
• FixedGenerate visualizer: a look made from a Motion reference keeps its settings when saved, a redrawn look stays the redraw after a cut-out, and Open in Classic or Studio brings the look with its settings and Edit in Generate visualizer.
• ImprovedMake a Music Video remembers how your pictures move and the Director's notes when you save or reopen, keeps every export in My library, cuts the vertical video, Canvas loop and Shorts hook at your project's frame rate, and in Studio uses Studio's song. A picture, clip or 3D model can be sent to it from any tool.
• ImprovedSW Agent learns from two more free sources between sessions: Wikipedia's articles on music, audio, video, design and streaming, and Wiktionary's word meanings, one meaning at a time.

Downloads on an iPhone open View in a new tab that keeps working, the Image editor makes every post, header and banner size the Thumbnail and Banner makers do, a watermark can go straight into another tool, and a picture sent to the Thumbnail maker no longer arrives with a made-up title.

• NewThe Image editor has every post, header, banner and profile picture size the Thumbnail and Banner makers have: Facebook cover, X, Bluesky and Mastodon header, LinkedIn, Twitch, Kick, SoundCloud, Spotify, Discord, Reddit and Patreon banners, Pinterest pin, portrait post and profile picture. Ask SW Agent for "a facebook cover" and it opens at that size.
• NewWatermarks can send your watermark straight to another tool, as the other picture tools can: into the Image editor as a layer, onto an intro or outro card, into Cover art and more.
• FixedA picture sent from the Image editor to the Thumbnail maker no longer arrives titled with its canvas size's name ("visualizer background 1080p"); camera file names no longer become a title either.
• FixedOn an iPhone, tapping View after a download (a picture, a sound, a caption file, recovery codes, a preset) no longer opens a page that cannot load and leaves Back stuck: the file opens in a new tab and stays there until you are done with it.
• FixedThe Image editor's Looks showed Original twice; each look shows once, and the one your picture has is highlighted.

An iPhone that records its export live now keeps the background, beat flash, shake, look filters, vignette, grain, colour grade and watermark the preview shows, and the beat effects move the same in the preview and the video at any frame rate.

• FixedOn an iPhone before iOS 26, which records its export live, or whenever the usual exporter cannot finish, the video now keeps everything the preview shows: the background picture or video, the beat flash, strobe and shake, the canvas size and position, the look's colour filters, the vignette, film grain and letterbox, the colour-grade overlay, your watermark and the saturation and brightness grade. A hidden layer is no longer recorded.
• FixedReview export now lists every effect the export puts in the video, so each can be left out: the chromatic aberration, the background picture or video, the underlay and overlay pictures, your watermark and the canvas shift had no switch there before. On an iPhone that records its export live, an effect you switch off there is now left out of the video too; the preview shows it off while it records.
• FixedOn SW Agent's page, screen readers no longer hear the view buttons point at views that are not open or the conversation read as loose list items, and the "History and memory" link is underlined.
• ImprovedSW Agent's human thinking, in preview, keeps a sentence only when it is about what you asked, not merely sharing a word with it: a game engine's audio recording no longer answers a question on recording vocals, and every part of an answer takes its best sentence before any part is filled out. A page named for exactly what you asked now gives more of its sentences to every deeper answer.
• FixedThe beat flash, strobe, shake, pulse, zoom, tilt and glow move by time, so they look the same in the preview on a slower phone, in a 24 or 30 fps export and at 60 fps, instead of the flash staying lit between beats and the shake lasting longer when fewer frames are drawn.

On a phone, Play in Classic now plays your song from any tab and the preview stays with it, a picture or video can go straight to the Banner maker and stays a banner there, SW Agent keeps a request what it is when it ends with a question mark, and it can answer from more of the articles people read most.

• FixedOn a phone, Play in Classic plays your song from every tab, not only Preview, and the song's time, trim and end are kept when you switch tabs, so the preview is still on the beat when you come back to it.
• FixedOn an iPhone before iOS 26, which records its export live, or whenever the usual exporter cannot finish, the video now has your song title, artist, logo, overlay picture and captions, as the preview does.
• FixedA page error some browsers showed when they refused the site's offline helper ("Cannot read properties of undefined") is gone.
• NewSend to now offers the Banner maker: a picture or video goes straight to a channel banner. In Classic and Studio the Thumbnails tab opens, set to the banner.
• NewThe Thumbnail and Banner makers can hand what you made to another tool: under the downloads, "Use it in another tool" sends the picture to the image editor, cover art, watermarks and the other places a picture can go.
• FixedOn the Banner maker, choosing a picture or a video keeps the banner or header you picked, instead of turning it into a YouTube thumbnail. A picture sent to the Thumbnail maker still makes a thumbnail.
• ImprovedSW Agent keeps a request what it is when it ends in a question mark: "where's the watermark maker, open it?" opens it, and "is my title written correctly: ...?" checks the writing.
• Fixed"Answer it as ... instead" under an SW Agent answer now answers it that way; it answered the usual way before.
• NewSW Agent can answer from 17,827 more of the most-read Wikipedia articles, 35,870 in all.
• ImprovedOver a video, Generate visualizer's drawings follow the clip when the layer they were drawn on is left out.
• ImprovedThe homepage has chapters for the screensaver, its creation zone, the image editor and the embed page.
• FixedThe engine page and share card of an older (V2) visualizer show its own picture instead of an empty one.
• FixedA few sentences in the privacy policy, the terms and SW Agent's pages had lost the space before an apostrophe or a quote mark.

Medusa with a snake of her hair for every part of your song, ten more creatures of myth, a bronze-shield scene for all of them, each power answering its own beat, and the creatures grouped by the myths they come from.

• NewMedusa on her isle of stone: every snake of her hair is one band of your song, coiling with it and striking when it hits, and on the drop her gaze turns the scenery to stone until it thaws through the next bar. Her snake hair is its own layer, so you can hide it, resize it or recolour it on its own.
• NewTen more creatures, each in its own realm: the centaur on Mount Pelion, the sphinx before the pyramids, the cyclops on his island, the harpy over the Strophades, a siren on the rocks of a moonlit sea, Fenrir in the Iron Wood, Jormungandr in a ring round the northern sea, the Leviathan rising from the abyss, the golem in an old town and the roc over its cliffs.
• NewMirror Shield, a new scene for every creature: its realm seen in a hero's polished bronze shield, the way Perseus looked on Medusa.
• ImprovedEach creature's power answers its own part of the song between the big moments: the dragon's fire the kick, the storm bird's lightning the snare, the kraken's arms the bass.
• ImprovedThe Creature picker groups the creatures by the myths they come from (Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese and more), and SW Agent builds one from a myth's name: "make a Norse myth video".
• ImprovedThe thunderbird is now the storm bird, a bird of the storm legends of many lands, out of respect for the Indigenous nations to whom the thunderbird is sacred. Projects and links made with it open on the storm bird.
• ImprovedThe Minotaur stands bigger and better lit in its frame.

A new way for SW Agent to answer, in preview: with human thinking on, SW Agent plans an explanation, a how-to, a plan, research or a blog post from a model answer, reads every source it has for each part, and checks every sentence against its source before you see it.

• NewHuman thinking, in preview: a switch beside Auto and Manual under SW Agent's message box. An explanation, a how-to, a plan, research or a blog post is planned part by part from the closest model answer, and the thinking steps show each part with the questions it answers.
• NewThe model answers SW Agent plans from, filed by kind of ask, subject, length, reader and form. Every sentence of them is traced to the openly licensed records and help pages it came from, and SW Agent copies only their shape, never their words.
• NewEvery sentence of a human thinking answer is checked against its source before you see it: a number, date or name its source does not give is cut, never reworded, two sources that give different numbers are both shown, and a part with nothing reliable says so, with what to try next.
• ImprovedWhen two of SW Agent's sources give different numbers for the same thing, its answers and documents now keep both, each cited to its own source, instead of one sentence cited to both.
• NewSW Agent suggests thinking it through, part by part, under an answer that would gain from it, and the status page has a new benchmark for the human thinking mode.

SW Agent reads a typo as the word you meant and a request with a question mark as a request, it has 18,043 of the most-read Wikipedia articles to answer from, scheduled posts go out within 10 minutes of their time, and the Windows screensaver download is fixed.

• ImprovedSW Agent reads a typo as the word you meant before it decides what to do: "open the asset libary" goes to the built-in assets, as "open the asset library" does.
• ImprovedA request that ends in a question mark is still a request: "a few how to titles about learning guitar?" writes the titles, and "quick one: open the music video maker" opens it, instead of answering from the help pages.
• NewSW Agent can answer from 18,043 of the Wikipedia articles people have read most in recent days, and more are added with each update.
• ImprovedScheduled community posts now go out within 10 minutes of the time you pick (the composer says so when you schedule), and the status page checks the site every 10 minutes.
• ImprovedThe music on community posts starts sooner when it is played or skipped through again, and still stops at once when a post is removed, hidden or made private.
• ImprovedSharing SW Agent's command list now shows a card of its own.
• FixedThe Windows screensaver download is now version 0.1.1: no JavaScript error when the live background stops, every monitor is covered, and the saver no longer crashes when its player closes.

A new visualizer of creatures from myth and legend, each in its own realm and moving with your song. Pick the creature from one list, the way you pick a country or an animal.

• NewThe Mythological Creatures visualizer: a dragon on its volcano, a phoenix over a sun temple, a unicorn, griffin, Pegasus, kraken, hydra, Minotaur, nine-tailed kitsune, storm bird, basilisk, sea serpent, Cerberus, chimera, wyvern and qilin. Each has its own body, colours and realm, breathes and moves with the beat, and calls up its power (fire, lightning, frost, foxfire and more) on each phrase of the song.
• NewSix scenes for every creature: Mythic Realm, On the Wing, Moonlit Legend, Summon the Storm, Legend Portrait and The Guardian, with controls for the creature's size, how much it moves, its mythic power, the time of day, the wind, the weather and the scenery.
• NewThe Creature picker everywhere a look's settings are: Classic, Creator Studio, the Timeline's clips, the Layers tool, Background Motion and the visualizer generator, with each creature's own stills on the template page and in Layer assets.
• NewSW Agent knows every creature by name and its other names: "make a phoenix visualizer", "find a dragon template", "switch the creature to a kraken", "make the creature bigger" or "set the creature scene to Moonlit Legend". The MCP tools open the editors on the creature you name.
• ImprovedIn a project, SW Agent's "switch the animal to a lion" or "change the country to Brazil" now changes the open look instead of starting a new project, and "make the animal bigger" changes the animal's own size.

Ask a question, report a bug or share an idea with the people who make Sonic Weaver, from your account, and find our answer in your notifications.

• NewMessage the team: choose a question, a bug report, a feature idea or anything else, give it a subject and write to us. It is on the contact page (first when you are signed in), in Settings under Messages to the team, and in your account menu.
• NewA bug report can carry the page you were on, your browser and system, your screen size and the site's version. Each has its own checkbox, so you see all of it and choose what is sent.
• NewOur answer arrives in your notifications and in Settings, Messages to the team, where every conversation shows whether it is waiting for us, answered or closed, and you can write again while it is open.
• NewSW Agent understands "report a bug" and "message the team": it opens the form filled in with what you said, and nothing is sent until you press Send.

Type / in SW Agent to see the commands it recommends, and attach a song with one message to add it to your project from the time you choose.

• NewType / at the start of SW Agent's box to see the recommended commands, filtered as you type; pick one with the arrow keys and Enter, Tab or a tap, and its starter words fill the box for you to edit and send.
• NewAttach a song and say "add this to my project and trim it from 0:15 to 1:45", "use this song, start at 0:30" or "cut the first 10 seconds": SW Agent adds it and sets its times in one go, and tells you plainly when a time is past the song's end.
• ImprovedSW Agent picks the right place more often: "open the asset library" searches the built-in assets, a template for your project is a template, and your own saved things are found as yours.
• FixedPhone exports of a custom visualizer stop with a clear message instead of recording a locked card, and several screens read better in the dark theme.

Exports did not work for about three days, and we are sorry. Every member who had an account by October 24 gets a visualizer of their own, made for them alone, and from now on every new member gets one too.

• NewYour custom visualizer: one visualizer made for you alone, listed first by its own name in the Classic template library and template builder, the Timeline's looks, the Layers tool (as a layer over your look), Creator Studio's layers, the Playlist and SW Agent. Only you can open it, use it and export with it while signed in; the videos you make with it are yours to post anywhere, and an export that could not check it is yours stops and says so instead of making a video with a locked card.
• NewEvery new member gets a custom visualizer of their own when they sign up, unique to their account, with a welcome message.
• NewA one-time message with its name and a preview, its own page, and a Custom view in your creator library with Open in the editor, Open in Studio and Make a video with SW Agent.
• NewSW Agent understands "use my custom visualizer" and "make a video with my visualizer", by its name or its id, in a project or from any page.

A finished export now plays right in the Export panel, phone recordings follow the music with their sound, and older iPhones can export MP4.

• NewYour finished video plays in the Export panel, with Save or share and Download. On an iPhone or iPad this is how the export arrives, so you can watch it even when your phone has no room to save it, and View no longer opens an empty page.
• FixedPhones that record the export as it plays (iPhones before iOS 26, or any export the high-quality encoder could not finish) now play your song through the visualizer while recording, so the video moves with the beat and has its sound. iPhones before iOS 18.4 can export again, as MP4.
• FixedA phone that runs out of storage now stops the export straight away with what to do, instead of rendering the whole song first. An MP4 your device's encoder cannot finish is made as a WebM instead, and a video with a missing picture or sound track is never reported as complete.
• FixedExports of a look with a see-through background, including the editor's starting look, no longer fade to solid white after a few seconds: each frame starts clean on a dark backdrop, as the preview shows it.
• FixedLogos and captions in phone exports keep the size you gave them in the preview, and leaving the Export tab during an export keeps its progress, Cancel and the finished video.

Classic and Studio show their one labelled banner in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and on Android too, not only in Safari.

• ImprovedClassic, Studio and the tools they open no longer run in the browser's cross-origin isolation mode, which kept the workspace banner from loading in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and on Android. AI lyrics and captions still run in the background: on your graphics chip where the browser supports WebGPU, otherwise on one processor thread, which can take a little longer.

The editors and SW Agent show a single labelled Google banner at the top, never over the canvas, panels or controls.

• ImprovedClassic, Studio, SW Agent, Cover Art, Canvas and the image editor carry one Google banner at the top of the workspace, labelled Advertisement and kept apart from every control. Workspaces never get pop-up, anchor or full-screen ads, an editor opened inside SW Agent shows no second ad, and your dashboard and saved templates stay ad free.
• FixedThe Sonic Weaver desktop app no longer requests ads on the site pages it opens.

Video exports no longer stall and turn white partway through, and editor and phone previews react to the music again.

• FixedExports could stall a few seconds in and turn white, especially with several layers or a full-length song. The export's audio analysis is computed once again, so long exports finish at their usual speed with the full soundtrack and beat-matched motion.
• FixedEditor and phone previews stopped reacting to the music after the 2026-10-22 update: the song played, but the visualizer did not hear it. Every preview connects its audio to the analysis again, so the beat sync is back in Classic, Studio, templates and on phones.

Visualizer layer rebuilds no longer own the playing audio connection, and SW-Agent's first session achievement names its chat scope.

• FixedClassic and embedded SW-Agent previews keep the audio analyzer connection with the audio track while visualizer engines rebuild after layer changes, preventing engine teardown from silencing the playing song. Export audio/render paths are unchanged.
• ImprovedThe SW-Agent session achievement now reads ‘First creation in this chat,’ making clear that points and achievements start fresh for each chat as designed.

AdSense retries a stalled loader once and requests a fresh manual slot for each eligible page transition.

• FixedAfter advertising consent is granted, a failed or stalled AdSense loader gets one automatic retry. Site-wide manual ad placements also request a fresh slot on eligible in-app page changes, instead of reusing a slot already requested on the previous page.

SW Agent distinguishes changing the main visualizer, adding one layer, browsing choices and adding a full look's layers.

• ImprovedIn Classic and Studio, explicit requests to change the visualizer update the main look, while ‘add [visualizer]’ remains a separate layer. SW Agent can add all eligible current parts for one explicitly named visualizer look; it asks for a specific look when missing, keeps browsing read-only, and refuses oversized batches before making changes.

Sports, animal and country layers now carry the right subject names across editors and asset libraries.

• FixedLayer assets now use the active sport, animal or country when added to a matching project, so a basketball scene is labeled with its court rather than hockey ice. Shared names also appear in Classic, Studio, music-video layer lists and asset pickers; visuals and asset IDs are unchanged.

Add visualizer layers by engine name without needing to say “layer.”

• FixedIn an open Classic or Studio project, SW-Agent reads commands such as “add particles” and “add particles to project” as a request to add that visualizer layer. Every registered visualizer engine is covered; control changes such as making speed faster continue through the editor command path.

SW-Agent routes named visualizer questions to the right engine guide and explains browser-dependent video formats.

• ImprovedWhen a question explicitly names a visualizer engine, SW-Agent prioritizes that engine's own reference over similarly named mode articles.
• ImprovedExport help explains why some browsers export WebM instead of MP4 and that MP4 appears only when compatible video and audio encoders are available.
• ImprovedGeneral how-to questions can lead with the matching method-library workflow when its evidence is close to the first general page result.
• FixedFactual help answers no longer treat a passing example in an unrelated guide as evidence for the requested fact.

SW-Agent validates interrupted-job notes, while video redraws follow confident motion across sampled frames.

• ImprovedRecovery discards malformed, duplicate or oversized session notes and only shows safe on-site or HTTPS links. Work still runs in the browser: a reload stops the job, and files held only in the closed tab are not restored.
• ImprovedGenerate Visualizer matches confident region movement between adjacent sampled frames, so small per-frame movements can accumulate into longer editable motion paths. Still intervals can be crossed safely; ambiguous matches and scene cuts stop tracking.
• ImprovedGenerate Visualizer warns when a project contains device-local media, so its scene settings are not mistaken for cross-device media sync. Keep a copy of the original and upload it on the other device; images in My Assets can be selected there. Exact generated media portability remains a follow-up.
• ImprovedThe Generate Visualizer guide now distinguishes music-driven beat bands from motion reconstructed from video, and explains the limits of the on-device reconstruction.

AI assistants can find the same public visualizer parts and effect presets that SW-Agent searches.

• NewThe read-only find_layer_assets tool searches by subject, engine, mode, layer role or effect category, including animal, sport and country variants. Results include stable ids, subject-setting hints, bounded pagination and a link to the Layer Assets browser. MCP never adds assets to a private project; use SW-Agent inside an open Classic or Studio project to make changes.

Generate Visualizer now separates footage overlays, one-frame redraws, and on-device region-motion reconstruction.

• NewChoose to reconstruct video movement as editable artwork. The browser samples up to 16 small frames, tracks only small, confident region translations, saves them as scene keyframes, and does not keep a video layer underneath. Only footage mode stores the source clip locally; redraw modes keep the generated still. Still images continue to use the existing synthesized-motion controls; the same generation path is available to SW-Agent.
• ImprovedIf movement cannot be matched confidently, Generate Visualizer says so and keeps a beat-reactive still in the selected original-pixel or redraw treatment. Fast or large movement, rotation, deformation, occlusion, and camera moves may not be recovered; use footage mode when preserving the original clip is important.

Restores music visualizers as Sonic Weaver's primary description while keeping the expanded creation tools discoverable.

• ImprovedThe homepage, page titles, social previews, and crawler-facing summaries lead with Sonic Weaver's free music visualizer and audio-reactive video maker. Detailed descriptions and /llms.txt continue to list the broader studio, editor, asset, and SW-Agent capabilities; this copy change does not guarantee a search or AI-traffic recovery.

SW-Agent distinguishes Sonic Weaver's built-in catalog, external Free Library, and editable visualizer layers, with source choices for ambiguous searches and clearer filters.

• ImprovedSW-Agent now names and routes Sonic Weaver's built-in /assets catalog, the source-attributed external Free Library, and editable visualizer Layer Assets as three different libraries with different reuse rules. Searches that do not identify a source ask which catalog to use rather than silently guessing. Its Library agent, follow-up choices, source citations, offline notices and Free Library workspace identify external resources explicitly. External Free Library results can be narrowed by media kind, source, licence and reuse tier; filters apply to the results returned for the current search. The shared layer picker adds an added-layer category filter and uses the same animal, sport, country and alias search as SW-Agent and the public layer library, retaining look-part layers when narrowing added layers. MCP tool descriptions now identify the public built-in and external catalogs and explicitly disclose that editable Layer Assets are not yet exposed through MCP.

Generate Visualizer turns source pictures into palette-redrawn, editable scenes and gives SW-Agent an honest video-frame choice.

• ImprovedGenerate Visualizer now defaults to a local palette-based redraw, composes editable regions over a filled plate, and animates traced outlines instead of adding a second copy of the original image. Keep original pixels remains an available choice; both modes use the same manual settings, saved-look flow and editor hand-off.
• NewSW-Agent carries the requested visual direction into the same Generate Visualizer project. Videos keep their footage with generated layers by default; when asked to redraw, the sampled representative frame becomes an editable still visualizer. The feature does not reconstruct motion across the full video.
• ImprovedClassic, Studio and SW-Agent help now distinguish measured V1/V2 engine settings from renderer-specific scene-action tracks, document sports and illustrated-scene actions, and explain that the Jobs panel is not an automatic task list for every freeform message.

Find relevant asset layers, review scene directions, and reject actions the active scene cannot draw.

• ImprovedSearch layer assets by name, animal, country or sport, then narrow the library by visualizer family, look, role, version or added-layer category. SW Agent answers asset questions without adding anything, shows matching choices and links to the library; users explicitly choose what to add. Search matches catalog metadata, not every asset's pixels.
• NewBefore changing a scene, SW Agent summarizes the supported action and timing and asks whether to apply or cancel. Actions are checked against the active scene mode so a direction that would never draw is refused. Applying is limited to the previewed project and scene layer, checks that the scene has not changed, and creates one step in the editor's native undo/redo history. The preview describes the parsed actions; it is not a rendered video preview.
• ImprovedSW-Agent can open a native .novusvis project as a separate copy in Classic or Studio. External creative-app project files still require a real format adapter; attaching media is not the same as converting an editable project.

Open the full editors from SW Agent's canvas and choose from more playlist look packages.

• ImprovedSW Agent's canvas now offers Classic and Studio alongside the individual workspaces. Opening an editor keeps the same conversation beside the real editor project and its existing controls; opening a workspace inside an editor still uses the editor's project tabs.
• NewPlaylist visualizers include new Aurora, cinematic, geometric, lyric-story, nature, sports-arena and celebration packages, in addition to the original looks. Exports longer than 30 minutes are still unavailable while the full browser export pipeline is not yet bounded-memory.

Adds responsive top and sidebar ads, improves ultrawide spacing, and keeps creative selection with Google.

• ImprovedGoogle AdSense now has a responsive display banner above the homepage content as well as eligible public pages, plus a vertical sidebar on every eligible content page including the homepage. Desktop ad rails wait for ultrawide layouts, sit clear of the sticky navigation, and have consistent spacing. Square, in-article and template-grid units remain tied to their content context, and the admin inventory now lists all six supplied units. Ads are not timer-refreshed or randomly rotated; live fill and RPM still depend on AdSense reporting, visitor consent and traffic.

Adds the supplied responsive display, in-page and sidebar units across eligible public content and tool pages.

• NewGoogle AdSense now uses the supplied banner, in-page and vertical sidebar units on public content, catalog, template-detail and standalone tool pages. The full Classic, Studio and SW-Agent workspaces, Album Art Studio and Image Editor remain excluded; consent, runtime, route, production and self-traffic safeguards stay in place.

Google Auto Ads no longer loses provider selection when both ad switches are on.

• FixedWhen Google AdSense Auto Ads is enabled, it is the selected provider even if the Adsterra switch is also on. The admin status now reports the same effective provider as the delivery code; consent, route, production, self-traffic, site approval, and Google's fill conditions still apply.

A connected SW Agent editor, public beta access, complete engine choices and scene actions, chat-based rewards, refreshed knowledge packs, and desktop visualizer fixes.

• NewAssistant/editor workspace: open Classic or Studio on SW Agent's canvas and keep the conversation beside the active project. Commands, project layers, workspace transfers, project thumbnails, and Classic export use the editor's existing actions through a same-site, project-checked connection.
• ImprovedSearchable animal and sport controls: find every registered animal and sport in the editor controls; country choices are searchable too, including all 195 countries in the Assistant canvas.
• NewSports scene actions: direct the team to jump, brace or celebrate on a time, beat, bar, phrase, drop or loop. Scene Clips brings the same action system to the chefs in Kitchen Night, the DJ, guitarist and writer; the editor, SW Agent and renderer share the action track.
• ImprovedSW Agent is available as a public beta to signed-in and signed-out visitors when enabled. Guests keep chats and projects in their current browser; account-backed history and rewards remain tied to sign-in.
• NewRewards now notify members when they earn eligible badges, track SW Agent session rewards separately per chat, and let creators expand the additional badges shown on profiles and storefronts.
• FixedSonic Weaver Screensaver no longer emits a destroyed-window error while the desktop background stops. Multi-display wallpaper presentation now fits each display instead of cropping and zooming the image across mismatched screen sizes.
• ImprovedThe SW Agent knowledge bundle now contains 673,007 records across 62 source packs, including the completed public-domain Wikisource and CC BY-SA Wikispecies snapshots; the empty Wiktionary download is not shipped.
• FixedThe ad-provider controls keep Google AdSense Auto Ads separate from Adsterra placements and honor the disabled-provider switch instead of leaving stale units active after a network change. Live AdSense delivery still depends on Google's serving and consent conditions.

Choose an agent for the job or leave SW Agent on Auto, attach your documents and turn them into a blog post, ask long questions and get them answered in parts, and every answer is fast again, from 112,085 records of open knowledge with statistics in words and numbers.

• NewAgents: the Visualizer, Editor, Writer, Designer, Audio, Researcher, Library, Script, Export and Planner agents, each with its own tools. Choose one in the chat or the dock (or type /agent writer), or leave it on Auto and SW Agent hands each job to the right one, splits a long request among several and checks what each made. Your default agent is in Settings, SW Agent.
• NewYour documents: attach Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, EPUB, web pages, Markdown, text, CSV, captions, RTF or email, and SW Agent reads them in your browser. Attach two articles and say "turn these into a blog post": the post is written from your files, every sentence credited to the file it came from.
• NewAI mode for long questions: a long question, or several in one, is answered in parts, with where to find it (the pages and the forms to download).
• NewEvery calculator and tool works as an editing tool in the workspaces, files open the right workspace, long creation requests carry on into the editor, and every workflow and mode has guidance in steps.
• New582,938 records of open knowledge, up from 45,060: every page of every download, the general pages for 180 sports, leagues, finals and trophies, and statistics in words and numbers from the World Bank (every country), NASA's temperature record, NOAA's CO2, Our World in Data's energy, FiveThirtyEight and openfootball's league tables.
• NewSW Agent on the homepage: its own stop, right after Drop a track, with what it does today.
• NewSports on the template page: pick the sport and see its own stills, in Layer assets too, with smoother play and camera.
• FixedAnswers are fast again: the knowledge index is built when we release, not on your first question (a cold answer took 12 seconds; now its index loads in milliseconds).
• Fixed"What is the Stanley Cup Final" is answered with the Stanley Cup Final, not one year's final: a page about a year you did not ask about ranks lower.
• FixedThe desktop app's live background: no error when you stop it, and it covers every monitor.
• FixedThe number of creators active shows in your own browser again when you are signed in.
• FixedSW Agent recovers from a crash, a stuck job or a lost connection, and says what it did.

SW Agent now answers from 41 openly licensed knowledge packs on our own server, and the free library adds sound effects, music and museum works.

• NewSW Agent's knowledge packs: about 45,000 openly licensed records it reads on our own server before anything else, each with its licence and a link to its page. Wikipedia's sports articles and its Vital Articles, Wikibooks, Appropedia's how-tos, MediaWiki's help, the documentation of 30 open-source projects (MDN, GitHub, React, Next.js, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, three.js, Blender and more), lessons from The Programming Historian, The Turing Way, the Open Source Guides and the Carpentries, and Our World in Data's CO2 tables for charts. The licences page lists every pack.
• NewThe free library grows: 273 CC0 items from OpenGameArt.org (220 sound-effect packs and 53 music tracks, up from 81 items), played from this site; and The Met now gives 10,601 public-domain works.

SW Agent reads the kind of ask first, leads with the answer, checks its work and tries another way when stuck, runs the tools from your words, shares chats and learns from runs you let it keep; and a new Sports visualizer plays six sports to your song.

• NewThe Sports visualizer: six sports in real 3D, played to your song. Ice hockey, football, basketball, American football, baseball and tennis, each on its own field from the sport's rules, with a crowd that moves with the music and broadcast camera shots. Six modes for every sport: The Game, On the Attack, Celebration, The Restart, Light Show and Pickup Game. Every team is your own colours, with no logos.
• NewHow SW Agent answers: it reads what kind of ask your message is before it picks a job, and its thinking steps show the closest readings with calibrated percentages. When nothing fits a job it answers as the next-best kind of ask instead of listing what it can do.
• NewThe answer first, then what it means: a reply opens with the sentence that answers your question, then adds context and the guidance your kind of ask needs (steps, checks, both sides, options), every sentence with its source.
• NewSW Agent checks its own answer before showing it (it answers what you asked, every sentence has a source, the sources agree, it is the length you asked for) and, when its first sources fall short, tries another way on its own and says what it tried.
• NewEvery source, not only one: our docs and help, the method library, Learn's lessons, world knowledge, the free library and its knowledge packs, read on our own server first and each credited with its licence.
• NewCharts from your numbers: bar, line, area, pie, doughnut and scatter, the kind you name or the one your numbers suit, with the numbers in a table and as a CSV.
• NewA new take each time: every blog post is its own take with its own number. Press Another take for a different one, or This take again to make the same post word for word.
• NewCheck-ins on long jobs: as an Agent, a long job stops once about halfway to show what it has made and ask whether to carry on. Switch check-ins off in Settings, SW Agent.
• NewAsk SW Agent instead of clicking: say it in plain words and SW Agent runs the tool and answers in the chat (conversions, percentages, dates, colours, lyrics, chords, captions from your own song, a 3D title, a PDF, a mastered song or a converted file), then opens the tool with every setting there to change.
• NewCaptions from your own song or video, made on your device by the Song to SRT rules (SRT, WebVTT and LRC); your file is never uploaded. Video suggestions in how-to answers come with a reminder to check claims against the cited sources.
• NewShare a chat or one answer: make a link with its own preview card, copy or share it, and turn it off any time. The chat also has the shortcuts you know from other assistants; Ctrl+/ lists them.
• NewHelp improve SW Agent: an opt-in switch in Settings, SW Agent (off by default) keeps a record of each run with personal details and file names taken out, so SW Agent can learn from what works. See your records, delete them or switch it off at any time.
• NewSW Agent learns from its runs: requests that went well for several members teach its models in each release, and answers that went wrong become tests and fixes.
• NewSave as script: turn a finished chain or plan into one of your scripts, and run it again by name for other values. SW Agent also reuses a plan that went well before for a request like yours.

SW Agent chooses better, reads journal articles, merges what its sources agree on, finds someone from a description, and lets you choose the kind of agent.

• FixedSW Agent chooses better: "generate a visualizer" offers its ways again, a picture with "make a moving background out of this" goes to Background Motion, "is sonic weaver free?" is answered, a beat at 90 bpm is a beat, and in an editor "i want 30 frames per second" or "kill the sound while i work" changes the open project. Typos and words like "um" or "quick one:" at the start no longer change what it does.
• Fixed"Any Halloween visualizers?" lists Halloween's looks again instead of every visualizer.
• NewSW Agent is one workspace: every asset (a picture, a video, a sound, a 3D model, a look, a document, data) opens with its preview and controls on SW Agent's canvas, and so does every workspace and both editors, with the conversation beside them.
• NewExpressions and scripts, like After Effects: a formula on any animatable control in Classic and Studio (the Expression switch beside a setting), the same in preview and export; and scripts that run SW Agent's own functions step by step, built-in scripts for every workspace, and your own saved privately in My library. Ask SW Agent to write one from words.
• NewGetting started: say "I'm new, where do I start" and SW Agent shows every way to begin, with short tips along the way that you can switch off in Settings, SW Agent. AI assistants can list the built-in scripts over MCP with list_scripts.
• NewSW Agent writes blog posts: ask for one and choose a short, medium or long structure, or extended thinking to read more, and it pieces the post together from its sources (our docs, world knowledge, Wikipedia, journal articles and the free library), every sentence numbered to its source, as Markdown and PDF.
• NewWriting styles: friendly, academic, useful, worker, professional and storyteller, chosen per request or as your default in Settings, SW Agent; documents are written in it too and download as PDF.
• NewTitles with a headline score, social posts for X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook inside each platform's limit with hashtags, and bios built only from what you say.
• NewLogos drawn with code (a wordmark, a monogram, an emblem, an abstract mark and a badge, light and dark) as SVG or a PNG to send to a workspace, starting in your remembered brand colours, plus brand names and slogans.
• NewSix new canvas apps: Headline tester, Post title ideas, Business name ideas, Slogan maker, Bio writer and Blog outline; the Hashtags app adds LinkedIn and Facebook.
• NewDocuments read open-access journal articles from Europe PMC when our docs do not fully cover a topic: only CC BY or CC0 articles, their findings first, each credited to its authors, year and journal.
• NewA sentence two sources say is written once and cited to both, and leads its section; every source is ranked by how much of your question it answers.
• NewDescribe someone when you cannot remember the name ("the long white haired scientist that looked crazy", "the painter who cut off his ear") and SW Agent suggests who it sounds like, with the next closest, as a suggestion to check.
• NewAI assistants can search the free library over MCP with find_free_media: free pictures, sounds, music, 3D models and books, each with its licence and the credit line to carry with it.
• ImprovedA free library search shows the same work once when two sources have it, as its best copy: one served from this site first, then one free to use in what you make, with a file and a picture.
• NewThe free library grows: 34 free CC0 music tracks and 47 sound effects from OpenGameArt.org, played from this site and ready to visualize, each credited to its creator; and The Met now gives 8,702 public-domain works.
• NewChoose the kind of agent: an Agent (the default), a Runner that only runs programs and commands, or a Planner that shows its steps before it does anything. Say "/kind planner" in the chat, or choose in Settings, SW Agent, where the suggestions after a job can now be switched off as v5.27 said.

SW Agent answers with choices instead of dead ends, shows every visualizer, makes versions of a look from its own settings, writes downloadable documents from every source it has, draws charts, suggests what to do next, and generates from a free library that now has free sounds, paintings, skies and 3D models.

• ImprovedAsk for a visualizer without naming one and SW Agent shows looks that fit what you said, or six to start from, then every visualizer grouped by family; open any one to see all its looks. Long lists fold with Show all and a filter box. "Choose from all the visualizers" shows them all, and everyday words such as funky, calm, hype or lofi find the looks they mean.
• ImprovedA job that needs a picture you have not attached answers with what you can do now: attach one and it starts, open its workspace to upload there, pick a free picture, or start from a look instead. Attach the picture next and the job you asked for runs with the details you gave.
• New"A particle visualizer, use this picture" builds that look with your picture as its background, and "where's the project you made" shows what SW Agent made in this chat.
• NewVersions of a look: ask for 4 versions of the tunnel look, or a few calm takes on disco, and each comes with its own colours, motion, music reaction, effects and shape, every value inside the control's own range, each opening as its own project.
• NewDocuments from every source: ask for a report, a document or everything about a topic, or compare two things, and SW Agent reads our docs, its world knowledge, Wikipedia when nothing else covers it and the free library, checks what it read covers your question, and gives one document with numbered sources to download.
• NewCharts: the calculator apps draw their results (loudness targets, delay times, file sizes, frame sizes, a palette and its contrast, caption lengths, syllables per line and more), the calculator plots functions and formulas, and every chart has its numbers in a table.
• NewAfter a job, SW Agent suggests up to three next steps with a reason each, never the same ones over and over; switch them off in Settings. It also checks the reply used everything you gave it, and offers a picture the job did not use.
• NewThe free library grows: 746 free sound effects, jingles and voice lines and 731 particles, icons and 2D pictures from Kenney, served from this site; 41,711 artworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, 40,394 from the National Gallery of Art and 8,702 from The Met; 2,383 skies, textures and 3D models from Poly Haven; 40,000 public-domain books from Project Gutenberg; OpenStax's textbooks; and live searches of Openverse and NASA's image library. Every licence is checked item by item.
• NewSend any free item to the workspaces that take it: a free picture into Generate visualizer or Background Motion, a free sound into Mastering. Ask in one sentence ("make a visualizer from a free painting of the sea", "a disco visualizer with a free jingle"), use the Free library tab in SW Agent's canvas, or pick free skies inside Background Motion.
• NewSet any setting by asking: SW Agent changes any setting of any workspace or of the open project ("set the mastering target to Spotify", "make the transition 2 seconds"), in place inside an editor as one undo step, and says where the control is and the command that does it again. Typed commands work too: /set, /open, /keys, /how and /suggest, all listed on the SW Agent commands help page.
• NewSettings to try: ask for settings that suit a mood, a genre or a platform (calm, punchy, lofi, EDM, TikTok, YouTube) and press Apply on one or Apply all. AI assistants get the same over MCP with list_settings and change_setting.
• ImprovedIn Classic and Studio, SW Agent sets the tempo, Studio's frame rate and project settings, and each caption and LFO one by one, by words.
• NewOne SW Agent everywhere: the same conversation continues across the SW Agent page, the editors' SW Agent tab and an Ask SW Agent dock on every tool page, which knows the page you are on as "this". Search shows SW Agent's answer above the results, and every help article has Ask SW Agent.
• NewAsk "show my projects", "show my exports" or "what have i made" and SW Agent finds your own things: projects, exports, uploads, saved looks and past chats. A Progress panel shows SW Agent's jobs as they run, and "can you export my project" on a page says how.
• NewBeats made in your browser: ask for "a chill lofi beat at 85 bpm in A minor" or "an 8 bar house loop" and SW Agent writes drums, bass and chords in that key and tempo as a WAV you can play in the chat, download, master or send into a visualizer. Lofi, house, trap, hip-hop, rock, disco, synthwave and ambient.
• NewAttach a CSV, TSV or JSON file and SW Agent reads it in your browser: its columns, totals and averages, a chart, an answer to "which has the most views", and a summary to download. Nothing is uploaded.
• NewAsk "is Sonic Weaver down" and SW Agent reads the live status.
• FixedOn wide screens (1536 pixels and up) the header's Sign in no longer runs under Start free, and the search box keeps its full width.

A thumbs up and a thumbs down under every SW Agent answer so the answers it gets wrong can be found and fixed, and a check of the grammar, spelling, punctuation and clarity of your lyrics, titles, captions and descriptions.

• NewRate SW Agent's answers: every answer, on its page and in the SW Agent tab of Classic and Studio, has a thumbs up and a thumbs down, and after a thumbs down you can say in a short note what was wrong. Nothing is sent until you press a thumb, and the line beside them says what is sent.
• NewSettings, SW Agent lists the answers you rated, with what you asked and your note, and deletes one or all of them. Your ratings are in your data export, are deleted with your account, and are deleted after 180 days whatever happens. We never keep your network address with them.
• ImprovedThe answers rated bad are gathered for the site's owners with their questions and notes, without any name, so they can be turned into new test cases for the benchmarks every SW Agent release is measured on.
• NewA writing check under the lyric video maker's lyrics, text layers in Classic, a thumbnail's text, the lyrics and captions panels and a community post's description: press Check and each suggestion shows what it found, what to write instead and why, with Accept, Ignore and Fix all, a score, the word count, the reading time and how easily it reads.
• NewAsk SW Agent "check my grammar: ..." or "proofread this caption" and it answers with the suggestions, the corrected text and a file to download; AI assistants get the same as the MCP tool check_writing.
• ImprovedSW Agent follows the conversation: after "who is Einstein", "where was he born" means Einstein, and after "what is the capital of France", "what about Spain?" asks the same about Spain; its thinking shows how it read the follow-up.
• NewChoose an earlier SW Agent, like a look's earlier versions: in Settings, SW Agent, pick 0.0.6, 0.0.5 or older and it answers with the models it shipped with and only what it could do then; the latest is used unless you choose otherwise.
• NewSW Agent answers list questions from its own facts, best known first, each linked: "which countries are in South America", "films directed by Akira Kurosawa", "painters from Spain"; a name now means the topic called that (Spain, not New Spain).
• NewSpelling is checked against an English dictionary of 222,000 words built from WordNet, with their irregular forms; names, links, hashtags, @handles and words with numbers are never marked, and lyrics and captions keep your own capitals and punctuation.

SW Agent answers in milliseconds and shows the steps it takes; it sets up almost every workspace beside your project; colour grades come in as .cube LUTs and your Timeline goes out to Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut.

• ImprovedSW Agent answers at once, even on its first question: a server that had just started used to build its search index and read its world knowledge before answering, which took up to 15 seconds. The release build now prepares both, and a question reads only the parts it needs, in milliseconds.
• NewSW Agent shows its thinking: while it works you see each step it takes, such as reading your question, choosing the job, searching our docs and looking it up in world knowledge, with what came of each and how long it took; when it is done they fold into "Thought for 0.3 s", one click to open.
• ImprovedWorld knowledge grows to 49,839 topics from Wikidata and Wikipedia, five times as many, with its reader retrained on them; a "which state" question is never answered with a country, and long requests ending in a question mark stay requests.
• ImprovedIn Classic or Studio, ask SW Agent for a workspace, such as "open Transitions with a 2 second dip to black" or "a square cover for Night Drive by Ada", and it opens that tab beside your project already set up, so you never leave the project. Every workspace does this now except Stream and Screensaver, which open their own studio page as before, and the Image Editor. A setting only a page has, such as a gallery's order, comes as a link to that page, and the reply says what the tab applied.
• NewSend to reaches six more places: a picture into the working card in Intros and outros, a logo into Watermarks, a song into Lyric videos, Playlist and Music video, and any file into your next message to SW Agent.
• ImprovedSW Agent reads "get my song mastered and the vocals split out" as two jobs, Mastering and then the Stem Splitter, even when the tool is not named.
• ImprovedThe self-checks on /status gain a column: which workspaces SW Agent sets up live inside Classic and Studio.
• FixedSW Agent's note on attachments gives the real limit, 10 files at a time, instead of four.
• NewColour grade (LUT) in Classic: import a .cube LUT from Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut or any program that writes one, as a grade on the whole look or on one visualizer layer, and set its Intensity. The preview and the export draw the same grade, it is saved with the project, and .cube downloads it again. The file is read on your device and never uploaded.
• NewTake your cut to another editor: Export the cut on Classic's Timeline writes a CMX 3600 EDL (Premiere, Resolve, Avid) or an FCPXML 1.10 project (Final Cut Pro, Resolve), with one clip per Timeline clip cut from your exported video at its own frame and a marker at each section. The cuts are straight: transitions and effects are already in the video.
• NewA help guide to files from and for other programs: every format Classic opens and writes, where it is, which programs it works with and what it does not do. SW Agent answers from it.

SW Agent answers general questions from free knowledge it holds itself, works answers out in steps and shows them, summarises articles with context, and is trained and measured on questions other people wrote; Remove background picks the best model your device can run.

• NewSW Agent answers general questions, like "what is the capital of Australia" or "who wrote Pride and Prejudice", from free information it holds itself: facts from Wikidata and the opening of Wikipedia's articles on the most important topics. No web search and no AI model run when you ask: one direct answer, then its source and how current it is. When it does not know, it says so.
• NewIt works answers out in steps and shows them: "the capital of the country where Einstein was born" (Ulm, in Germany, so Berlin), "is France bigger than Spain" (both areas), "how many years ago was the Eiffel Tower built" (the date and the sum).
• New"Who was" and "what is" answers read like an assistant's: a direct sentence in your words, the facts that matter (a life in one line, a place's country and population, a work's maker and date), then the article's most useful sentences, credited to Wikipedia.
• ImprovedSW Agent is trained: a reader of questions learned from a dataset made from its knowledge, tested on topics and wordings it never saw, and it answers only when it can account for every word of your question. It understands more ways of saying the same thing ("spouse", "married", "wife") and types the way people type: typos, "hey so", no capitals.
• NewRemove background in the image editor picks the best model your device can run: BiRefNet Lite on a capable graphics card, ORMBG on other computers, MODNet on phones short of memory. It asks before any download, with its size, source and licence, checks every file against its published fingerprint, and can be stopped. Your picture never leaves your browser.
• ImprovedMastering opens set up beside your project when you ask SW Agent for it in Classic or Studio.
• ImprovedGoing live from the Stream studio: you type your Twitch stream key in its own small window with no ads, and it comes back to the studio without being saved or sent to us.
• ImprovedAccount deletion now says exactly what is kept: security events from your network address, without any link to you, the address cleared within 7 days and each event deleted after 90.
• NewFive new help guides: Animals (choose one, direct it and make your own); your channel, verification and account standing; notifications and your inbox; connecting Claude or another AI assistant (MCP); and ads on Sonic Weaver. SW Agent answers from all five.
• ImprovedSW Agent follows long questions better (a how-to question after a story, a request wrapped in a hedge, jobs joined by "when that's finished"), leaves everyday words such as "when" and "likes" alone instead of treating them as typos, and answers a question that names Sonic Weaver from our own docs.

Put words in quotes and SW Agent reads them exactly, as a search engine does, and highlights them; Generate visualizer opens set up beside your project; help on badges and on Sonic Weaver Live.

• NewWords in quotes are exact. Ask SW Agent a question with a phrase in quotes, such as what does "beat grid" mean, and it answers only from pages that have those words in that order, shows the sentence that holds them and highlights them, in the answer and in your own message. When no page has them, it says so instead of offering pages with the words apart. A quoted name in a request is still the title, with your capitals. AI assistants get the same through MCP's search_help.
• ImprovedIn Classic or Studio, ask SW Agent for Generate visualizer with a starter look or a motion reference, and it opens the tab beside your project already set up, so you never leave the project. More workspace tabs follow.
• NewHelp articles on badges and levels and on Sonic Weaver Live, and SW Agent answers questions about both.

SW Agent changes anything in Classic and Studio from plain words, opens every workspace set up from a sentence with a chain for each, acts on the obvious reading instead of asking, and gains eight more creator apps; every look gains shape and symmetry.

• NewChange anything in your project by asking: in Classic's SW Agent tab, say what you want, such as "make it a lot faster", "set the glow to 1.5", "hide the logo layer", "move the particles to the top", "export at 60 fps" or "trim the song from 0:30 to 1:45". It reaches every control of the main look and of each layer, the layer stack, the project's export settings, playback, the trim, undo and redo; several changes in one message are each done. In Studio it changes every layer's controls and the layers themselves, one Undo for the whole message. It also keyframes a control at a time on the song ("set the glow to 1.5 at 1:00") and makes a control follow the beat, bass, mids, treble, hits or loudness ("make the glow react to the bass"). Every value is held to the control's own range and options, and the reply says what it changed and anything it could not. AI assistants can list every command and a look's every control through MCP.
• NewShape and symmetry on every look: a mirror, a kaleidoscope with its folds, angle and spin, four kinds of tiling and six warps (twist, bulge, wave, ripple, polar and fisheye), in Classic, Studio and the export. Describe it in words, such as "a six-fold kaleidoscope that turns once per phrase", and SW Agent sets it. Every look starts exactly as before; the new controls are off until you turn them on.
• NewEvery workspace has an SW Agent chain now: say what you want, such as "a 2 second dip to black transition" or "make a whoosh sound effect", and it opens that workspace set up from your words, saying what it chose; the sound effect chain also hands you the WAV.
• NewEight more creator apps on SW Agent's canvas, usable from the chat and by AI assistants: Tempo and delay times, File size and bitrate, Lyric lines and syllables, Engagement rate, Repurpose plan, Video script outline, Caption file (SRT, WebVTT, LRC) and Release checklist. They use only the numbers and words you give.
• ImprovedSW Agent asks for your OK in the chat too: approve or decline a job's question there, or type yes or no. Chains you run in the chat ask the same way before they change your open project, and Stop ends them at the next step.
• ImprovedExports running as a job pause between two frames: nothing renders while paused, and Resume carries on from the next frame.
• ImprovedSW Agent acts instead of asking: it does what you asked on the obvious reading, with your remembered frame and styles and the workspace's defaults, says in one line what it assumed, and asks only when the answer would change the result. Longer questions and several sentences are read for the actual ask.
• NewSW Agent knows how creative jobs are done: a method library of 216 workflows (releases, Shorts, thumbnails, streams, captions and more), each with its steps and checks and the chains and workspaces that do them, and our own course, career guides and skill lessons. It names its sources, and says plainly when something is outside what it knows.
• NewCaptions from other programs: open an SRT, WebVTT or LRC file (from Premiere, Resolve, YouTube or a lyrics app) in Classic's Captions panel, read on your device. A pasted WebVTT now reads correctly too: its cue settings and tags no longer end up in the timing or the words.

A new page says what Sonic Weaver is and where it is going; SW Agent keeps a history and your styles, shows what it makes on a canvas, exports with a time estimate and runs jobs while you chat; AI assistants can open every workspace already set up.

• NewOur vision, a new page linked from About: Sonic Weaver is its own program, built from scratch, not a template pack. It says what the site brings together, the promises it keeps (free, one program, your files stay on your device) and the plans ahead, labelled as plans.
• NewSW Agent's history, memory and styles: every chat and job is kept, to reopen and carry on. Tell it your frame shape, artist name, where you post and your brand colours, and choose the looks, fonts, palettes, motion and caption styles new work starts in; the reply says when it used one, and anything you say in the message wins. Manage them in Settings, SW Agent.
• NewSW Agent's canvas: beside the chat, and as the Canvas view of the SW Agent tab in Classic and Studio, it shows what SW Agent made, drawn by the same engines as the export. Change the look, frame shape, colours, motion or title in place or in your next message, then build it in Classic.
• NewExport from the chat: in Classic, ask SW Agent to export your project and it says how long it will take on your device before anything renders, shows its progress, and hands you the same file Export makes.
• NewSW Agent's worker: a job runs its steps in a fixed order with a checkpoint before each one, so Pause, Resume and Stop take effect at the next checkpoint and nothing is left half written. A job asks before it changes your open project or starts a long render, and keeps a ledger of every step and answer that you can read in Jobs, your history and Settings, SW Agent.
• NewCalculator, a new page and an app on SW Agent's canvas: exact maths for music and video, with the working shown. Turn bars and beats into seconds at your tempo and seconds into frames at your frame rate, keep fractions exact (1/3 + 1/6 = 1/2), and get a control's formula from a description in words. SW Agent and AI assistants, through MCP, use the same calculator.
• NewEight creator apps on SW Agent's canvas: Frame size, Colour palette, Caption length, Hashtags, YouTube tags and title, Hooks and headlines, Reel storyboard (its cuts land on your song's bars) and Type scale. Open one under Apps or ask "open the hashtags app". They never invent numbers or facts, and what they make is yours to use.
• NewWorker jobs: run a chain or an export as a job and it works through a queue on your device while you keep chatting, with its steps and progress, Cancel, and what it made kept in SW Agent's history.
• NewSW Agent answers from the site's public pages and help, and two new help articles: Creator workflows (how to do each creative job with our tools and SW Agent's chains) and Learn to script (the ideas behind formulas and small programs, from our own JavaScript lessons).
• NewSW Agent benchmarks on the status page: its score on each skill, measured by the same tests in every release, and what it is built from. A release that drops a score below its floor does not go live.
• NewThumbnails: when links are switched on, share a design at a short link you can turn off at any time.
• ImprovedMCP: AI assistants can open every workspace already set up, from Lyric videos, Convert and Mastering to the image editor, 3D models and the Stream studio, and anything a workspace does not have is refused with the reason. They can also read what is new from this changelog and SW Agent's benchmark scores, and run SW Agent's creator apps. Requests are limited per address, like the public API.
• FixedLyric videos: the lyrics box has a name, so screen readers and AI browsers find it.

Any visualizer look plays on your own site, in a page, behind a section, behind the whole page or over a picture, with your own settings and without changing your theme; the status page now shows every check each release passes, and what is not built yet.

• NewEmbed any visualizer look on your own website: as a box in a page, behind a section, behind the whole page, or as see-through motion over a picture, without changing your theme. Choose the shape, the sound (a built-in beat at your tempo, a calm drift, or your page's own music player), reactivity, speed, your brand colours, autoplay, controls, quality, corners and opacity. It works with one line of code on Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Ghost and plain HTML, sets no cookies, shows no ads, and always has a Pause motion button. See Put Sonic Weaver on your website in the help centre.
• NewEmbed on your website, a page in the More makers menu: see the embed play, the four ways to place it, steps for every site builder, and the free WordPress plugin to download (a block with every setting, a shortcode, and motion across your whole site from Settings).
• NewScene actions: tell the animals what to do and when. A deer can graze, hear something, run away on the drop and come back; a wolf can sniff the trail and howl on every phrase. Every animal can drink, sniff, look up, walk, run away, come back, lie down and make its own call, and the plant eaters can graze. Each action starts at a time, on a beat, bar or phrase, on the drop, or every loop. The same Actions on the song panel directs the chefs, DJ, guitarist and writer in Scene Clips, celebrations and a big wave in Countries & Flags, and the figures in Lakeside Cabin and Paper Town. It is in Classic, Studio, Generate visualizer and Background Motion, and the preview and every export match.
• FixedGenerate visualizer: a saved look with an animal reopens with its animal, its design and its actions; before, it came back as a wolf.
• NewSW Agent (beta): every chain is a step graph, what you give, each step and what you get, updating live while it runs, with the keyboard and screen readers. New chains: release thumbnail set, one clip per country, playlist to one video, every frame shape, stream screens, and master and split stems; pick them in the Chains panel by search, goal or workspace, or use one as a template.
• ImprovedSW Agent hands your song, a generated look or a playlist straight to Classic, sets a country or animal on the open look, and puts overlays on your project. Its page shows everything it does, with sign in for members.
• NewMCP: open_workspace opens Background Motion, Generate visualizer, Motion graphics, Intros and outros and the Thumbnail maker already set up; ask_sw_agent and search_help let AI assistants ask SW Agent and search our docs.
• ImprovedAccount security: we tightened how new accounts are created and where signing in can take you, updated the site's framework with the latest security fixes, and gave the team faster tools to stop abusive networks. If your network is ever blocked by mistake, the page tells you how to reach us. The privacy policy now explains what we keep and for how long.
• NewThe status page now shows the self-checks every release must pass before it goes live: every creation tool checked eleven ways, every system with its pages, admin, member pages, help, tests and AI access, and an open list of anything that is not built yet, until the update that finishes it.

Generate visualizer adds any of our animals over your picture, and you can make it your own; bringing work into a project updates its layer instead of adding a copy; pictures send to Generate visualizer and Background Motion; Stem Splitter opens more files.

• NewGenerate visualizer: Add an animal puts any of our animals over your picture, on its own or in its whole habitat, moving to the song. Make it your own changes its name, body shape, habitat, colours, markings and features, drawn by the same rig as every animal in the Animals template. It plays in the preview and the export, and keeps your design when you open it in Classic or Studio.
• FixedBringing a tool's work into a project now updates that tool's layer instead of adding another copy each time. Choose Add a new one instead when you do want a second layer.
• ImprovedInside the editors your work is kept in the project, so it is no longer also saved to My library automatically. Save to My library still keeps a copy when you want one.
• NewSend to: a picture can go straight to Generate visualizer or Background Motion.
• Fixed3D models: a rigged model (a character with a skeleton, from Blender or another program) now imports in its own pose as the glTF standard asks; before, some arrived turned or offset. Its skeleton, poses and shape keys are kept in the file you download.
• FixedStem Splitter opens audio files your browser cannot read by converting them on your device first, and a file that is too long or too big now says so without counting as a failed export.

Each visualizer's own layers are listed and dragged on the canvas in Classic and Studio; motion presets play on the look itself; one-piece 3D models split into parts you rig to the music; Studio's timeline trims and scrolls.

• NewLayers lists every visualizer's own layers (its title, its eggs, its basket, its sky...) under the look and under each added visualizer layer, in Classic and in Studio: show or hide each one, then drag it on the canvas or drag a corner to size it.
• NewThe look itself drags on the canvas, and motion presets (fade, pop, slide, spin and the rest) now play on it, in the preview and the export.
• NewMotion presets also go on a visualizer's own layers, including the title and artist a template draws itself: select it in Layers and apply fade, pop, slide or any built-in motion from Motion & effects. It plays with the song in the preview and the export.
• FixedWhen a template draws the song title and artist itself, Title and artist moves that text on the canvas; before, its handles moved nothing.
• FixedThumbnail suggestions no longer bake the template's title and artist into the frame: the title and artist are editable text layers, so scenery can never cover them.
• New3D models: Pieces that move on their own splits a one-piece model into a character's head, body, arms and legs, a speaker's cone and box, a lid, two halves or stacked sections, each moving with the music and taking its own colour and Beat sync, in the 3D models program, Classic and Studio.
• FixedStudio's timeline: drag a clip's edge to trim it, scroll across with the mouse wheel, Ctrl and the wheel to zoom, and the tracks stay reachable when the template previews are open.
• FixedThe Timeline's video fade in and fade out fade the picture as well as the sound.
• FixedAn empty captions box no longer catches clicks in the middle of the canvas.

Classic and Studio share one canvas for title, logo, captions, overlays and intro cards; Studio music videos keep transitions and trim; Stream screens carry your headline; old 2D links open their own V2 look; the MCP server builds full editor setup URLs.

• ImprovedOn the Classic preview, the song title, artist, logo, captions, overlay picture and intro or outro card use the same select, move and scale handles as other layers.
• FixedFeature Toggles for Song Title and Artist hide those lines on every visualizer the same way, including older templates.
• ImprovedStudio's canvas and timeline split remembers a sensible default again: Enter or a double-click on the resize handle restores it, and dragging cannot shrink the canvas away.
• ImprovedAnimals in a tall 9:16 frame keep their scenery and flora in frame instead of clipping the habitat.
• NewStudio music videos preview and export transitions between shots, matching Classic's Timeline hold-frame behaviour.
• FixedStudio trims and source-in offsets on songs play and export from the right place in the media, not from the start of the file.
• ImprovedMotion graphic handoff into Classic writes the title and artist and turns those Feature Toggles on so the text you set actually shows.
• ImprovedIntro and outro cards keep the picture you chose when you add them from the intros tool, and their scale floor stays small enough for a corner mark.
• ImprovedUndo covers switching templates, the first Timeline sound, music video loads and slider bursts that used to leave gaps you could not step back through.
• ImprovedTurning a still background into a moving layer keeps the beat zoom as a Motion pulse on that layer.
• NewStudio can save a finished music video as a template the same way Classic does.
• NewUndo and Redo buttons on the stand-alone Motion Graphics and Intros and Outros pages, matching Cover Art and Audio Effects.
• ImprovedCover Art visualizers move on elapsed time, and a Canvas loop export matches the cover's square or 9:16 shape.
• ImprovedFractal Zoom at 1080p draws on a smaller buffer and upscales, so the CPU walk stays smooth.
• FixedOld 2D template links open that family's own V2 visualizer when one ships, instead of a different 'closest' look.
• ImprovedScene Clips figures gain clearer hands and sleeve folds up close, and drop to flatter detail when small so 1080p stays nearer thirty frames a second.
• ImprovedStream stories draw overlay layers and part effects with the main look, and a Stream screen over a project can carry your headline, line and countdown.
• ImprovedStream can bring the project's song in, and a live pop-out window follows the studio station through BroadcastChannel and storage.
• ImprovedTemplate cards and the home engine carousel skip decorative hover and auto-scroll motion when you prefer reduced motion.
• NewThe MCP server is 1.5.0: build_editor_setup returns a Classic or Studio URL with engine, mode, aspect, song, overlay, intro, title toggles, country or animal and layers already applied. get_engine lists country and animal deep links. Rendering still happens only in the browser tab.

Illustrated scene loops for lyric videos and Canvas, two new lyric styles, a Motion reference for how your picture moves, a creation zone for your own screensaver, subtitles from any song, lyrics translated on your device, all 1,300 V2 modes, and a share card for every public page.

• NewMake your own screensaver or live desktop background at /screensaver/create: looks taking turns, a clock or your own words, what each screen shows, how it moves to your computer's sound and what it does when nothing plays, with a full-screen preview. Save it to My library now; the Windows desktop app that plays it is on its way.
• NewA Screensaver tab in Classic and Studio makes a screensaver of the open project, and saved projects open in the creation zone.
• NewAnimals, a new visualizer drawn with code: 134 animals in their own habitats, ten dinosaurs among them (T. rex, Velociraptor, Spinosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and more), horses and farm animals and pets among them, from the wolf, red fox and lion to the elephant, polar bear, snow leopard, giraffe, bison and panda, each with a body of its own. Every layer of the scene moves with your song, and every animal acts out its nature on the beat: a deer grazes, hears something and bolts, a wolf noses for a scent, a boar roots, and each calls on the phrase in its own way. Pick the animal on the template page.
• NewScene Clips: six illustrated scenes built with code that loop seamlessly and move with your song: two chefs cooking at night, a painterly sky with birds, a rooftop guitarist over a neon city, a DJ in the booth, a beach at sunset and rain on a window.
• NewTwo lyric styles drawn inside the scene, in the preview and the export: Keyword Punch, one big word at a time, and Line Card, the whole line on a card. Both are caption presets in the editors too.
• NewSeamless loop export: one loop of a scene clip as a 9:16 Spotify Canvas, or at any shape, through the same export as everything else.
• NewLyric videos is now the clip maker: start from a scene clip, choose a lyric style and export a loop.
• NewMotion reference: choose how your picture should move by pointing at a look, a scene, any visualizer mode, a template, a saved scene or a clip of your own. It works in Generate visualizer, Background Motion, Make a Music Video, the clip maker and Studio.
• NewSong to SRT: choose a song and get subtitles of its lyrics as .srt, WebVTT and LRC, with the words recognised on your device. Your song is never uploaded.
• NewTranslate the lyrics: Song to SRT and the editors' Captions panel translate lyrics between English and Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Vietnamese, and from Japanese to English. Every line keeps its timing, you can show the translation alone or under the original, and it runs on your device.
• NewEvery V2 visualizer ships: all 121 types and 1,300 modes, each with its own still. V1 and V2 sit beside V3 to V5 in Generate visualizer, Background Motion, the layer library and site search.
• ImprovedSonic Weaver Live names each visualizer by version on air, the studio's engine choices are grouped V5 to V1, the stream pages load 59% less, and a song of your own is cut on its own tempo.
• NewA share card for every public page, including Live, Stream, Keyframes, the community pages, help tools and creator pages.
• FixedStory and Memory Reel no longer flicker: the upright photo stays loaded between frames.
• FixedAn exported overlay (snow, rain, bokeh, sparkle) now plays at the same speed as the preview, and intro and outro cards keep their size in a small preview.
• FixedChaotic Attractor's Chen mode draws its double scroll instead of a nearly black frame.
• ImprovedUndo and Redo on the Audio Effects and Cover Art pages, and the Stream studio and Live pages in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and German.

A 24/7 stream of our own music with every visualizer and asset on screen, a Banner Maker for every channel, 3D models whose parts move on their own beats, smooth drawings at full settings, an easier music video maker, and a language picker that shows the site in your language.

• NewSonic Weaver Live: our own music around the clock, with every visualizer style and the free asset libraries taking turns on screen in time with the beat. Everyone watching sees the same moment, on /live and on our Twitch channel, and anyone can add it to their own stream with OBS.
• NewTwenty-nine new Sonic Weaver original songs, from techno and drum and bass to bluegrass and soul, free to use in your videos.
• NewThe Banner Maker: channel banners, headers, offline screens and profile pictures for YouTube, Twitch, Kick, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, Spotify, Discord, Reddit and Patreon, each at its own size with the safe area marked, from five banner layouts and a template gallery that shows your own channel name.
• New3D models move part by part: a turntable's record spins at 33 1/3 with the tempo while its tonearm lifts on the beat, speaker cones pump, keys press, strings shake. Your own models are recognised from their part names and shapes, and a Parts panel lets you change any part's motion, sound, colour and material.
• NewFifteen 3D materials with patterns made in code (brushed metal, wood, marble, carbon fibre, fabric, vinyl grooves, holographic and more), your own picture on any part, palettes from the look or a picture, and colour that flashes on the beat.
• ImprovedDrawn layers stay smooth with every slider at full in Background Motion and Generate visualizer, and the preview adapts on slower devices without ever lowering the export.
• NewGenerate visualizer finds more in a picture (sky, clouds, mountains, skyline, trees, road, lights, text and people) and gives each part the right motion and sound; any of our visualizers can be drawn over a picture, kept to one part of it; tap any object to cut it out; optional on-device models find people, subjects and depth.
• NewEvery layer of a moving picture can be keyframed, soloed and kept inside a mask, and drawings on a video follow the clip.
• ImprovedMake a Music Video starts simple: choose your song and press Make my video, and the look is picked from the song. Undo covers everything, Change just this scene swaps one shot, and All settings keeps every control.
• NewYour own things in a music video: drop in photos, clips, a logo, lyric files and 3D models, and the director places them by part of the song. Send a finished video to Cover art or My library.
• NewA language picker in the header, the menu and the footer: pages show their words in your language from our own translations, or from your browser's on-device translator where it has one, and Listen to this page reads them in that language's voice.

A new 3D Models program whose models play to your song in Classic and Studio, the Water Droplets visualizer, a five-step music video maker with stories and a director, describe-it looks in Generate visualizer, and phones that get everything desktop has.

• NewWater Droplets, a v5.2 visualizer that is only water: drops on glass that land on the beat and run down, ripple rings that carry the spectrum, a slow-motion splash crown, a drip line, rain that falls as an equalizer and floating drops that wobble with their bands. Every control changes the picture in every mode.
• New3D Models: import GLB, glTF, OBJ, STL, PLY, 3MF, FBX and more, or pick from eighteen music-themed models, then set its look, lighting, camera and how it moves to the music. Add it to Classic or Studio as a 3D layer that previews and exports the same, or convert and compress it (Draco and simplification) for the web, social posts or 3D printing.
• NewGenerate visualizer is in the Tools list of Classic and Studio: make a look in its tab and add it to the project as a layer that plays on your song and reopens its settings when selected.
• NewDescribe it: write the look you want in your own words and it is made from our own engines, motions and drawings, with Why this look to change any choice and More takes to see four versions.
• NewTwenty starter looks for Generate visualizer, new drawings from your picture (rain, snow, dust, light rays, sparkle, an ink outline, glow trails), light flicker and sea swell motions, and any of our visualizers over a look.
• ImprovedMake a Music Video is five simple steps and makes a whole video with one press. Every template and twelve new stories are in a gallery with previews, search and filters.
• NewFilter every shot by visualizer, layer kind, energy, mood and frame shape, and keep shots to use, never use or favourite. A Scenes panel manages each part of the song, with Undo.
• NewThe director: describe your video and get a whole plan with notes you can edit line by line; Another take tells it another way.
• NewSave music videos, generated looks and 3D models to My library and reopen them in their tool, Classic or Studio; music video templates, generated looks and 3D models are on Templates.
• ImprovedPhones get what desktop has: Classic's whole toolbar, the help centre's categories, a searchable help box that is no longer cut off, and Listen to this page in the menu.
• FixedNo repeated shots inside a part of a music video, no scene from the wrong place, no world edges in overhead 3D shots, and looks no longer go blank when the music is paused.

Build a full music video from your song with shots cut on the beat, your lyrics, title and pictures; new 3D scenes for the drawing visualizers; Generate visualizer from a video; and a Listen button that reads any page by parts.

• NewMake a Music Video: choose a song and a style and every part of the song gets its own shot, cut on the bars, with your lyrics, title, credits, pictures and clips. At /music-video and as a tool in Classic and Studio; the result opens on Classic's Timeline, every shot editable.
• NewThe Storyboard under the Timeline swaps, rebuilds, locks and moves shots, and rebuilds the whole video for another pacing, shape or palette.
• NewCut-downs from the same shots: a vertical video, a Spotify Canvas loop of 3 to 8 seconds on whole bars with a seam score and a still, a Shorts hook, and a release pack ZIP.
• NewShots from your own pictures and videos: push-in, pull-out and pan, punches on the downbeat, montages cut on the bars, living pictures with real depth, speed ramps into the drop, and Background Motion scenes.
• NewLyric and title graphics: karaoke, kinetic words, big chorus words, subtitles, a title card, a lower third, credits and an Out now card, timed from .lrc or .srt, spread on the beat, or tapped along to the song; the lyric videos page downloads them as see-through files for any editor.
• NewFourteen music-video effects: VHS, film grain, glitch, light leaks, six colour grades (also as .cube LUTs), cinema bars, beat flash, zoom punch and camera shake, plus seven one-click looks. Flashes and glitches never pass three a second at any tempo.
• NewThe v5.2 scene engine: a scene camera that moves with the music (wide, close, push-in, reveal, travel, overhead), real 3D depth on the canvas, and objects that act on the beat. Horizon Scenes gains Night Drive and Lakeside Cabin, and Sketchbook gains Paper Town, each ready as music-video scenes.
• NewGenerate visualizer from a video: the layers draw over your clip as it plays; pictures can also come from My library.
• NewListen to this page: the headphones in the header read any page by parts with play, pause, stop, skip, a list of parts, speed, volume, mute and a voice choice. It uses your browser's own voice, so nothing downloads; a shared link opens the page on the part that was playing.
• NewRead aloud settings in Preferences and the editors' Settings window; nothing ever reads aloud on its own unless you turn it on. Tutorials opened inside Classic and Studio get the same player.
• NewLayer masks in Classic and Studio: a rectangle, ellipse or rounded box with a soft edge and Invert, keyframable, or mask one layer by another's pixels, the same in the preview and the export.
• NewText layers draw everywhere and can be edited in Classic with keyframes; video clips gain Trim in, Trim out, Speed and Hold, shown the same in the preview and the export.
• ImprovedClassic's and Studio's guide pages list every tutorial part by part and explain every section of the editor in the same words as its (?) help.
• ImprovedLayer assets: the preview follows you down the settings, and the look's other layers can be shown with the one you picked, in the preview, the downloads and the editors.
• ImprovedAll 195 country pages are now in search, and Canada's earlier engine moved to the Legacy tab now that Countries & Flags draws it; existing projects still open.
• ImprovedClicking empty canvas lets go of the selection, and a double-click selects the look itself, in Classic, the Timeline and Studio.
• ImprovedGenerate visualizer's drawing layers can be renamed, hidden, moved, duplicated, cleared and deleted from the Draw tab.
• FixedThe cookie bar's buttons and link meet the contrast minimum in dark mode, guests no longer trigger failed account requests on tool pages, and the intros page no longer flickers its card overlay on load.
• FixedClockwork's Ambient bed and Wake length now change the picture in every mode, and the Beta stats pill sits above the Help button instead of under it.

Make every channel's banner from one design, split stems up to four times faster, stop any export, send a finished file straight into another tool, share visualizers as community templates, and read complete guides to Classic and Studio.

• NewThe Thumbnail maker makes banners and covers for X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, SoundCloud, Spotify, Discord, Reddit, Patreon, Pinterest and stories, with each platform's safe area, and downloads every size in one ZIP.
• NewStem Splitter: Vocals and instrumental, and All four stems quick, each run one model once, about four times faster than four specialist models; Best keeps the four-model split.
• NewEvery long export can be stopped: Cancel asks whether to stop processing, and nothing is saved when you do. Classic's video export can now be cancelled.
• NewSend to: a stem, a master, a converted file, an exported video or a Background Motion loop goes straight into Mastering, the Stem Splitter, Convert, the Thumbnail maker or the open project.
• NewShare a visualizer as a community template; Community templates appear on the templates page, and Use this template opens an attributed copy.
• NewComplete guides to the Classic editor and Studio, every feature step by step.
• ImprovedTransitions opens on its workspace: the list plays on the left while the chosen transition, its settings, Use in Classic's Timeline and its downloads follow you on the right.
• ImprovedPreviews beside long settings follow you down the page; Background Motion's top buttons no longer slide under the header.
• ImprovedExports give the page a turn every few milliseconds, so slow laptops no longer lock up while rendering.
• FixedBeat-synced LFOs no longer jump when the tempo estimate settles, noise LFOs play the same in the export as on screen, and automatic audio bindings stay automatic when a control rounds its value.

A clock visualizer, a playlist video maker, mastering and file conversion in the browser, ProRes with transparency, and deleting what you saved.

• NewClockwork, the first v5.1 visualizer: grandfather clock, pocket watch, neon digital, clock tower, cuckoo and gear works, with hands that keep the song's time.
• NewThe Playlist visualizer: a look for each song or one for the set, packages of looks, transitions, and one video of the whole playlist through Classic's Timeline.
• NewMastering in the browser: EQ, compression, stereo width, a true-peak limiter and a loudness target, with a level-matched A/B and meters.
• NewConvert and compress video, sound and pictures in the browser, with platform presets, including ProRes 4444 with transparency.
• NewDelete projects, saved items and uploads from the dashboard and My Assets to free space; a notice tells you when your storage is nearly full.
• NewGenerate a visualizer from a picture, and a versions log of every engine and workspace at /changelog#versions.
• FixedInk Bloom no longer resets its ink during playback.

Use the creation tools inside Classic and Studio, keep supported assets in My Library automatically, and control saving from Profile Preferences.

• ImprovedClassic and Studio workspaces keep the active project and editing view connected while tools return supported results to the main editor.
• NewAutosave controls in Profile Preferences can pause project or supported asset autosaves and ask before replacing the latest state of an open project.
• NewSupported tool recipes and finished stems can autosave to your private library; Background Motion PNG and WebM exports respect the same setting.
• ImprovedSave and autosave feedback stays inline while you work, and Classic's Stats panel can be reopened or closed without covering mobile editor tabs.

Background Motion Studio now starts from a blank V3 canvas, a still image or a local video, with editable drawing layers, beat-reactive preview and local loop exports.

• NewCreate a custom visualizer from scratch, a still or a muted MP4/WebM background clip, and composite the same V3 engine drawings used by the visualizer editors.
• NewThirty editable drawing recipes span particles, flowing wave lines and glow effects; built-in shader recipes can generate still backgrounds locally.
• ImprovedPreview and export loops with the shared beat, onset and spectrum analyzer, device-local audio, and the selected output shape and frame rate.
• ImprovedSave the scene stack and individual layers in the local Background & Layer Assets library, and send rendered stills or loops to Classic or Studio.
• NewImage and video source files remain on the current device. Scene JSON stores references and does not bundle or sync large source files.

Classic has a Timeline: put several songs in one video, give each part its own look, and join them with transitions, effects and sounds.

• NewTimeline in Classic: split a song into parts with their own looks, or add more songs and title cards after it, each with its own looks.
• NewOur own transitions between parts (Cinematic Fade, Glitch Slam, Neon Streak, Film Burn, Light Leak, Beat Pop, Sweep Reveal, Hologram and Ink Wipe) beside the basics, with a length and Use on every change.
• NewEffects over the video, from Shake and Zoom pulse to Black and white and Letterbox bars, with strength and beat sync. Flashes stay photosafe.
• NewSong volume, fades, blends between songs, trims and loudness evening, and sounds on their own tracks that can lower the music while they play.
• NewThe export follows the timeline part by part, with the same transitions, effects and sound as the preview, up to 30 minutes for now.
• NewTwo new pages: Transitions, with every transition and effect playing, and Intros and outros, with every title card playing with your title and a link that opens it in Classic.

Every visualizer now has layers: hide, scale or recolour a look's own snow, lights or tree, and add snow, fireworks, lanterns, string lights, rays and fog on top, in every editor.

• NewAdded layers on every visualizer: falling snow, leaves, petals or confetti, glowing particles, fireworks, lanterns, string lights, candles, beat rings, light rays and atmosphere, with one-click presets, up to six per visualizer.
• NewThe look's own layers: Christmas lists its stars, scenery, snow, lights, tree and more as layers you can hide, turn up or down and recolour; more visualizers join engine by engine.
• NewLayers in Classic (the main visualizer and every engine layer), Studio's Inspector, the Motion graphics designer and every template page, and a new Layers page to try them.
• NewLayers save with projects, templates, posts, packs and exports, so a layered look can be saved as your own template.

A new visualizer with a release video's look: a ring of glowing strands the music throws outward, your title beside it, and a scene behind that changes with the song.

• NewRelease Ring: a ring of fine strands the spectrum throws outward, drawn as a 3D tube that tilts away in the quiet and turns to face you as the song builds.
• NewSix looks: Release Story (the scene follows your song's sections), Photo Plate, Halftone Burst, Data Stream, Contour Flow and Orbit Tube, each composed for every shape.
• NewYour title and artist set large beside the ring in wide frames and above it in upright ones; with no title, the ring takes the centre.

A new visualizer that tells a story with your own photos and videos, cut to your song, in six templates. Until you add yours, it plays demo pictures we made with AI.

• NewStory: add up to 24 photos and videos and they become scenes that follow your song, starting on downbeats, holding longer in calm sections and cutting faster on the drop.
• NewSix templates: Chapters, Memory Reel, Darkroom, Waveform Journey, Mosaic Pulse and Social Story, each composed for every shape from 9:16 to 21:9.
• NewA Story media panel in Classic: add or drop in pictures, reorder them, caption them, mark where the subject is, and trim videos. Your files stay on your device, and a remix never carries them.
• ImprovedExports wait for each picture and each video frame before drawing it, so a story's video matches its preview.

A free assets library: original music, sound effects, backgrounds and photos you can use in anything you make with no credit needed, each with its own page, and each one opens straight in our editors. Anything made with AI is labelled AI-generated.

• NewFree assets: our own music, sound effects, backgrounds and photos, with filters for type, genre or group, a search, and "No credit needed only". Every asset has its own page to preview and download it.
• NewUse any asset in our editors: a background behind your visualizer in Classic, a song as your track in Classic or Studio, a photo or background as a Studio layer or the start of a thumbnail.
• NewOur backgrounds and photos are in Classic's Background Library, one click to use, and open in the Cover Art Studio too. Our music can be a motion graphic's soundtrack.
• NewAI labels: our music, backgrounds and photos are made with generative AI and are labelled AI-generated on every card and page, in the editors and in the files themselves.
• NewSave any asset to your library, signed in, and find it under Saved assets on every device.
• NewRemove elements: in the Thumbnail maker, a Remove button on the picture beside the selected layer, with Undo; in Motion graphics, an Elements list to take off the title, the artist, your logo or parts of the look, and add them back.
• ImprovedRebuilt visualizers show their versions in a submenu of the engine menu in Classic and Studio, instead of beside each other.
• NewEdit your community posts: change a post's title, description and tags from its page or from My posts.
• ImprovedThe motion graphics shop is now Motion graphics, at a new address. Old links still work, and its music and sound effects moved to Free assets.
• NewFree assets in the public API (/api/free-assets) and the MCP tools find_assets, get_asset and find_motion_graphics, and a staff page to hide or feature assets.

Every look of every visualizer, including earlier versions, as a free motion graphic: preview it, make it yours and download it as a video, rendered on your device.

• NewThe Motion graphics shop: browse every visualizer look as a motion graphic, filter by look, shape and version, and sort by newest. Each one opens on its own page with a live preview.
• NewCustomize before you download. There is no title or artist unless you type one. Set your colours, add your logo or cover, change the look's own controls, pick a beat, silence or your own audio, and choose the shape, quality and a length from 5 to 60 seconds.
• NewMusic and sound effects in the shop. Every track says whether it needs credit, and where it does, the credit line is ready to copy.
• NewA Title and artist switch on the holiday visualizers and Now Playing, so you can hide the song's title and artist from the picture.
• FixedUse in Classic on the Legacy tab now opens Classic as a full page, so exporting works there.

When we rebuild a visualizer, its earlier look now stays available. Tunnel, Trails, Bloom, Fluid Ink, Arrangement Tunnel and Night City each have their first version back, to preview, edit and export.

• NewAn Earlier versions section on the template page of each rebuilt visualizer: preview the earlier look in every mode, or open it in Classic or Studio.
• NewA Version control in both editors on those visualizers. A project made with an earlier version keeps it until you change it; every other project follows the current look.
• ImprovedEvery future rebuild keeps the look it replaces, so a visualizer you used is never taken away.

A new visualizer of six classic optical illusions that play with your music, and a New visualizers section so you can always find what we made last.

• NewOptical Illusions: wheels that seem to turn while they stand still, stairs that climb forever, an endless spiral, a spiral that turns out to be circles, sweeping moiré waves and a phantom chaser. Each one is driven by your song, from the illusion fading in as the track builds to a climber that takes one step a beat.
• NewEvery moving pattern is kept within broadcast limits for flashes and for striped patterns, at every setting. A Contrast control makes any of them calmer and softer.
• ImprovedOptical Illusions keeps the beat in every part: all five snake wheels step round, the spiral and the moiré surge forward on each beat, a Fraser ring ticks and lights, the stairs light where the climber lands, and the motes sparkle in turn.
• FixedSpeed, Beat shake, Burst intensity and Color mode now work in every Optical Illusions mode, as do Pattern scale in Rotating Snakes and the audio and colour controls in Phantom Chaser. Speed keeps each step on the beat.
• NewA New visualizers section on the home page and the templates page shows our ten newest visualizers, each with the day it was added and, where later, the day it was last updated.
• NewSort the templates wall by Featured, Newest or Recently updated.

Make a thumbnail from your visualizer or a video in a few clicks, design your own watermark, and choose what goes into your files.

• NewExport settings in the Classic editor now suggest eight thumbnails from your song's strongest moments, ready to download at the size YouTube, Shorts and the other platforms ask for. After a video export, you can pick frames identical to the video.
• NewThe Thumbnail maker: start from a video file, a picture, a project or a blank background, then change the text, fonts and colours, add your logo, shapes and stickers, and save the design to your library. Your files stay on your device.
• NewYour own watermark, if you want one: eight styles to start from, shown at the intro, throughout, the outro or a mix, with a fade, slide or scale. Switch it on per project; a remix never carries it. Sonic Weaver adds no watermark of its own.
• NewUse a thumbnail as a community post's still or as your channel banner or picture, copy a ready-made description with links back to your work, and make a thumbnail from any post that allows remixes.
• NewAn optional "Made with Sonic Weaver" label in your downloaded files' metadata, off by default, with your own credits if you add them.

Visualizers rebuilt from the ground up. Every look keeps its name and address, and a project saved with one opens on the new look with its settings carried across.

• ImprovedFluid Ink is now a real fluid simulation. Each kick throws ink into the flow at its own point in the song's current section (a curling bloom in Ink Bloom, a paint drop in Marble Fold), snares spin up eddies, the hi-hats tear the ink into threads and the bass makes it rise, and each of its six looks is a different flow. Dissipation is now set per second rather than per frame, so an export at 30 frames a second clears exactly as fast as the preview, and projects saved with the old setting are converted to the same clearing speed. Buoyancy, Ink density and Paper tone are new, and the extra marks it used to draw (runner dots, a well marker, a dashed ring) are gone.

Novus Examples is back under a new name, Testaroo, at testaroo.com, and the footer, the tool map and the machine-readable files list it again.

• ImprovedNovus Examples returns as Testaroo at www.testaroo.com: generated sample files with exact spec sheets, for testing an import or an export without risking a real track. The footer links it beside Novus Stream Solutions, and the tool map, llms.txt, the MCP directory and /api/v1/siblings list it. Novus Striker stays retired.

Novus Examples and Novus Striker were retired, so the footer, the tool map and the machine-readable files no longer list them.

• ImprovedNovus Examples and Novus Striker were retired on 2026-09-27, and their addresses now lead to a note on novusstreamsolutions.com about the retired apps. The footer keeps its link to Novus Stream Solutions, the publisher; the tool map and llms.txt no longer list any sibling site.

Classic and Studio now show one sponsored Native ad at the top of the editors, in place of the banners beside and below their panels.

• ImprovedClassic and Studio carry one sponsored Native ad at the top of the editors: a reserved strip under the header, above the panels, the canvas and the timeline, never over them. The banners at the foot of the Classic settings and export panels, under the Export tab on a phone, under the Studio layers and in the phone strips are gone, and the Native itself now draws one ad rather than a row of four, on content pages as well. On a short screen, such as a phone held sideways, the strip is left out so the canvas keeps its height, and when no ad arrives the strip closes. It follows the same advertising choice as every other ad, and declining removes it.
• FixedThe Social Accounts page listed the publisher's social media accounts as if they were Sonic Weaver's. Sonic Weaver has no accounts of its own yet, so the page now says they are coming soon and names none, the footer no longer links it, and the site's structured data no longer claims those profiles.

The product has a name of its own and an address of its own: Sonic Weaver, at sonicweaver.com. The old address redirects here. The same release brings advertising back: Adsterra banners on content pages and in reserved spaces in the editors, the Social Bar on content pages, and a sponsor tab when you export. And it brings back the cookie bar, where you accept or decline analytics and advertising, or choose each one.

• ImprovedNovus Visualizers is now Sonic Weaver, at sonicweaver.com. Links to visualizers.novusstreamsolutions.com redirect to the same page here. It is still free, still runs in your browser and is still published by Novus Stream Solutions.
• ImprovedSessions and passkeys belong to an address, so you sign in once more on sonicweaver.com. A passkey made at the old address does not work here: sign in with your password or a recovery code, then add a new passkey under Security.
• ImprovedAds are served by Adsterra again, in place of Mediavine. Banners appear on content pages and in reserved spaces in the Classic editor and in Studio, beside or below the panels and never over the canvas, the timeline or a control. While advertising is allowed, each export click also opens one sponsor tab. Sign-in, recovery, security settings and legal pages carry no ads.
• NewAdsterra's Social Bar, a small floating unit, appears on content pages. It never appears in the Classic editor or in Studio, where it would sit over your tools, or on the sign-in, security and legal pages, and on a phone it rests above the tab bar rather than on it. It follows the same advertising choice as every other ad, and declining takes it off the page.
• NewThe cookie bar is back, in place of Mediavine's consent prompt, which left with Mediavine. Until you answer, it sits at the bottom of every page (in Classic and Studio, as a row below the workspace) with Accept all, Decline and Manage settings, where analytics and advertising switch on or off separately. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, and wherever your region cannot be determined, both stay off until you accept; everywhere else they are on until you decline. Declining takes effect at once and removes the ads already on the page. Global Privacy Control is honoured whatever you choose, and Cookie settings in the footer, or the button on /cookies, reopens the bar at any time.
• ImprovedThe footer now links the Novus Stream Solutions hub, Novus Examples and Novus Striker. Six sibling sites were retired on 2026-09-25 and are no longer linked from any page, the tool map, llms.txt or the MCP directory.

Fourteen pages, the editor and the blog among them, put "Novus Visualizers" in their browser tab and their search result twice over. Alongside that: the Studio node graph now tells you when a patch cannot work, instead of letting the renderer fail somewhere else.

• FixedFourteen pages named the site twice in the browser tab and in search results — "Visualizer Editor | Novus Visualizers | Novus Visualizers", and the same on the blog, the tutorials, the audio library, contact, search, the overlays and cover-art pages, and the page you see when a link is broken. Each page was adding the site name to its own title while the site was already adding it for them. The pages now give only their own name. The home page is deliberately left as it was: it is the one page the site-wide rule cannot reach, so it has to name the site itself.
• NewThe Studio node graph now reports problems in the panel where you build it: a loop that feeds into itself, a connection to a node that is no longer there, a duplicated node, or a feedback node without exactly one input and one output. Previously nothing checked, and an incoherent patch failed later in the renderer, where the message named a drawing step rather than the connection you had just made. Loops through a feedback node are still allowed — that is what a feedback node is for — and muting a connection clears the warning, because a muted connection is not part of the graph.

Every track in the audio library was reported as zero seconds long, which also made the export window zero and the scrubber unable to seek. Alongside that: a Model Context Protocol endpoint, a full plain-text copy of the site, fourteen controls that now say what they do, and the crawl rule that told AI browsers to stay out of the editor is gone.

• FixedChoosing a track from the audio library left the editor believing it was zero seconds long. The transport showed 0:00 for a six-minute song while it played, the trim range showed 0:00 to 0:00, the export panel showed an export window of 0.00 seconds, and the scrubber could not seek at all. The audio proxy was streaming the file without declaring its size, so the browser could not work out the length and reported it as infinite, which the editor correctly refuses to display. The proxy now declares the length and supports range requests, so the duration, the trim range, the export window and seeking all work.
• NewThe footer now links to every other Novus app, on every page. It listed three, chosen for relevance to making a music video, and the other five existed only on the tool map and in the machine-readable files. Someone who arrived here from a search had no route to the rest of the estate, and a search engine saw a site that linked to three siblings rather than to a network. The three recommendations stay where they are, with the complete list beneath them.
• FixedThe play and pause control on the editor timeline had no name. It is the most-pressed button in the product and a screen reader announced it as "button", with a named Restart on one side of it and a named Mute on the other. It now names itself and reports whether the track is playing.
• NewA Model Context Protocol endpoint at /mcp, so an assistant that speaks MCP can ask this site directly which engines exist, what each mode does, which controls follow the audio, what the performance budgets are, and which overlays are available, and can get back the link that opens a given engine in a given mode. It deliberately cannot render, export, record or upload anything: every visualizer is made in your own tab from audio you chose, nothing is uploaded, and a tool that claimed otherwise would either have to ask for that upload or lie about the result.
• Fixedrobots.txt told every named AI agent not to fetch /editor or /studio. That rule was written for bulk indexers, where it is reasonable, and it was applied to user-initiated fetchers too, where it is not: those are an assistant loading a page because a person just asked for it. Since the whole product runs in the browser, an AI browser opening the real editor was the only way an assistant could actually use this site, and the rule switched that off. The six user-initiated agents are now allowed into both workspaces, and bulk crawlers still are not.
• FixedSeven AI agents were missing from robots.txt entirely, including Claude-User, which is the one that appears when a person is waiting for an answer. The site named every other Anthropic crawler and not that one. Twenty agents are now named across the two policies, and a test fails if a new one is added without a decision about which policy it belongs to.
• NewA full plain-text copy of the site at /llms-full.txt: the whole control reference for every engine and mode, every help article, every glossary definition, every tutorial and blog post, the FAQ and the release history, in one document. It is generated from the same registries the pages render, so it cannot describe an engine, a mode or a control that does not exist. Five other Novus sites already served one.
• FixedThirteen more buttons and links across the editor, Studio, the help centre, the share dialog and the admin console rendered only an icon and announced as nothing but "button" or "link": delete a caption, remove a layer, move a layer up or down, hide a layer, clear the loaded audio, remove an uploaded image, bind a control to the audio, close the share dialog, go back in the help centre, and open a saved project from the library. Each now names the thing it acts on, and the caption and layer controls name the specific caption or layer rather than saying "Delete".
• FixedThe eight genre cards on the Audio Library were unreadable on the light theme. Every one used a colour picked for dark editor chrome, and the track count under each name was dimmed on top of that, which no colour choice can compensate for. They are light-first now and the dimming is gone.
• FixedThe "Start here" badge on the home page, which only a first-time visitor sees, put white 10px text on a shade measuring 3.62 to 1. The category cards on tutorial pages jumped from the page heading straight to a third-level heading, so anyone navigating by heading heard a section that was not there. Both fixed.
• ImprovedThe RSS link in the footer was 20 pixels wide against a 24-pixel minimum on every page of the site. The previous pass raised the height of these links and left the width, so the narrowest label stayed under the bar.
• ImprovedThe accessibility sweep no longer excuses four things it had already fixed: colour contrast on the blog index, the status page and the home page, and the unnamed button on the editor. Every one of those exemptions outlived its defect, and a new fault in any of those places now fails the build.

A browser drove every public route at desktop and phone width and checked what a person actually meets: whether a control says what it does, whether a label can be read against the colour behind it, and whether a link is big enough to hit with a thumb.

• FixedThe synth on Audio Effects announced ten sliders in a row as "slider" with nothing saying which parameter, because each caption was a plain span sitting next to the input rather than a label attached to it. Every parameter now has a real label, the caption is a click target that focuses its slider, and the formatted readout is announced with the value so "3.00" is heard as the seconds it means. The four dropdowns had the same fault, and two of them are both called Waveform.
• FixedCategory badges on the sound-effect presets put white 9px text directly on each preset's own gradient, and those gradients are chosen for the card wash rather than for legibility. Ten of the thirty-one stops in use left the label under 4.5:1, the worst at 1.81:1. A subtle scrim behind the text takes the worst case to 5.43:1 while the badges stay visibly different colours.
• FixedOverlay category chips were unreadable on the light theme, measuring between 1.45:1 and 1.86:1 on a white card. The same four-entry colour map had been copied into the gallery, the detail page and the editor panel, all three carrying shades picked for dark editor chrome. There is now one module, and the chips are light-first with a dark shade of their own.
• FixedDifficulty pills, blog accent chips and the browser/server capability pills all used a single 600-level shade for both themes. Measured against the tinted backgrounds they actually render on, nearly all of them failed: amber at 2.84:1, emerald at 3.19:1, cyan at 3.17:1. They are light-first now, with amber a step darker again because 700 lands four hundredths under the bar.
• FixedThe footer's eight legal dividers were pipe characters, so a screen reader read out eight vertical lines between the links and they landed in any copy of the page text. Painted in the border colour they measured 1.25:1, and they accounted for 608 of the site's 956 contrast findings. They are 1px rules now, out of the text layer entirely.
• FixedFooter column headings were h4 with no h2 or h3 above them anywhere in the footer, so every page in the site reported a heading-level jump. They are h2, which is the level they always were semantically.
• ImprovedThe bottom-bar footer links and the Classic and Studio links on every engine mode card were 16 to 20px tall, under the 24 by 24 minimum, in the two places on the site where many links sit in a tightly wrapped row. They now clear it without moving anything else.
• ImprovedThe audio library's twelve play buttons were icon-only and announced identically; each now names its track and reports whether it is playing. Two search fields that relied on a placeholder for their name, which disappears the moment anyone types, have real labels.

The catalogue grows to thirteen engines, the beat-smoothing control is connected to the envelope it always claimed to govern, the tunnel finally fills the frame, and the site gains accessibility, security, press, status and tool-map pages plus machine-readable feeds.

• NewThree new engines with six modes each — Lattice (kaleidoscope, tessellation, wire polyhedron, isometric grid, truss web, prism stack), Terrain (ridge lines, wire mesh, contour map, canyon scroll, dune field, peak silhouette) and Stage Lights (beam fan, laser sweep, spot rig, par wall, strobe bars, follow spot). All three run on the shared beat clock and renderer, so preview, editor and export match as they do everywhere else.
• FixedBeat smoothing did nothing. The slider fed an averaging path that no engine ever called, while the envelopes that actually reach the screen used fixed decay times — so the one control named for the hard-pulse complaint could not affect it. It now sets the envelope directly, the shipped default rings out noticeably softer than before, and two new controls (Beat attack, Beat release) expose the shape explicitly.
• FixedWarp Field ignored the beat. It read only the continuous energy level, so it drifted while every other Tunnel mode hit; streaks now brighten, thicken and lurch forward on the beat they were born on.
• ImprovedTunnel rings are sized against the frame instead of falling out of the depth setting, so the corridor fills the screen and rushes past you rather than sitting as a small motif in the middle. Depth now controls speed through the corridor, not how big it is.
• NewCreator Studio opens with a bundled demo track and a New-composition action, so a fresh session has something to react to. The Classic editor deliberately does not inherit it.
• FixedQuick Start no longer opens itself over the homepage on a first visit. It is a button in the hero, marked for first-time visitors, and opens when you press it.
• FixedThe offline/install layer never started on /editor and /studio: the service worker was blocked by the isolation headers those two routes send, and the failure was silent. Both now register.
• NewNew pages: Accessibility, Security, Press Kit, System Status and a Tool Map covering every public route. Every retired visualizer URL redirects to its replacement, and an id that was never published now returns a real 404 instead of a soft one.
• NewMachine-readable everything: a site-wide RSS feed, a tutorials feed alongside the existing blog feed, and an llms.txt describing the product and the full engine catalogue for AI assistants.
• ImprovedAccessibility: a skip link on every route, exactly one main landmark per page, and an automated axe sweep over fifteen pages that fails the build on new WCAG A/AA violations. Outstanding gaps are listed openly on the Accessibility page.
• ImprovedEvery page's share image is generated from the catalogue and checked to be unique — no two routes serve the same card, and none of them is a stale committed PNG.

Marketing pages now use Google AdSense Auto Ads only. Adsterra display units, Social Bar, Infolinks, footer smartlinks, and export sponsor tabs are removed for a brand-safer experience.

• ImprovedDefault production ad network is Google AdSense; set NEXT_PUBLIC_AD_NETWORK=none to disable ads entirely.
• FixedRemoved Adsterra banners, native units, Social Bar overlays, Infolinks, and export Direct Link tabs that were serving dating and other brand-unsafe creatives.
• ImprovedPrivacy, cookies, ads.txt, and marketing CSP now describe and allow only Google AdSense.

Engines now respond to what the music is actually doing instead of pulsing in unison: band levels are normalized per song, beats come from a full-track analysis, motion is bound per element, and nothing leaves the frame when a track peaks. Adds a tenth engine built around your own artwork.

• FixedBass, mid and treble levels were pinned at maximum whenever audio played, so every engine had only one thing to react to — the beat. All three now carry real dynamics, which is what makes lows, mids and highs drive visibly different elements.
• ImprovedBeat detection is normalized per song rather than against fixed thresholds, so a quiet acoustic track and a loud master both land on the beat. Loading a file also runs a one-off full-track analysis for a beat grid that stays locked through tempo changes.
• FixedContent no longer leaves the frame when the music gets loud: radial rays, bloom petals, spectrum peaks and the waveform depth stack are all bounded, so a peak is expressive instead of clipped.
• NewNew Logo engine with six modes — waveform ring, spectrum halo, orbiting bars, particle aura, pulse frame and kinetic reveal — each reserving a safe zone so your artwork stays clear.
• ImprovedEngine revamps: tunnel rings now carry the moment of music they were born on toward you, trail comets enter from all four edges instead of sharing one heading, bloom cells hold still instead of flickering, and characters animate individually rather than all changing on the same frame.
• FixedOscilloscope Lissajous drew a straight line because both axes came from the same signal; it now uses a true quadrature channel and traces real looping figures. The mirrored waveform and mirrored spectrum modes were drawing their reflection on top of the original — both are now actually mirrored.
• ImprovedEvery control in both editors is verified to change the render by an automated pixel-difference check, and text controls like the Character Motion lettering are finally editable in the Classic editor.
• NewCookie consent is now region-aware: visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked before any advertising or analytics runs, and everyone keeps a one-click opt-out.

All nine engines now lock to one deterministic beat clock with upgraded visuals, every panel control actually changes the render, Studio's node graph travels with exports, and a site-wide polish pass fixes sign-in prompts, white screens, redirects, share cards, and performance.

• ImprovedEngine-wide beat-sync overhaul: Particles, Trails, Bloom, Character Motion, Radial, Spectrum, Bars, Tunnel, and Waveform all follow one deterministic beat clock, so hits land on the beat identically in preview and export — with per-engine visual upgrades across all nine.
• ImprovedControls unified: every control in the panel now applies to the render, with the legacy 3D/4D/ADV panels folded into real, working controls instead of dead toggles.
• FixedStudio node graph: Merge and Math nodes accept both of their inputs, effect nodes evaluate correctly, and exported files now include the full graph.
• ImprovedTemplates reseeded with tuned defaults so every engine and mode opens looking its best.
• NewBundled original preview music so you can audition any visualizer instantly without uploading a track.
• FixedRemoved the automatic login prompt — sign-in now appears only when you explicitly click it.
• FixedTemplate detail pages no longer white-screen, blog links redirect correctly again, and social share cards render with the right images.
• ImprovedSite performance pass: a faster bloom pipeline and a live-preview slot budget keep pages with many previews smooth.
• NewBreadcrumb navigation and a share panel on content pages, plus SEO and metadata corrections across the site.

Nine versioned engines, one deterministic composition runtime, rebuilt Studio and Classic workflows, durable saving, secure accounts, and the free creator community.

• NewNine canonical engines and 54 editable modes backed by one NovusComposition v1 contract across editors, previews, captures, and exports.
• NewStudio layers, nodes, timeline, inspector, geometry, assets, and 2D/3D character rigging; Classic now edits the same document without flattening advanced data.
• NewFree username/password accounts with optional passkeys, single-use recovery codes, Turso revisions, private assets, profiles, sessions, notifications, and a unified creator library.
• NewExplicit immutable community publishing, public preview derivatives, creator pages, reactions, follows, comments, moderation, and attributed remixes.
• ImprovedAdmin access now uses normal account roles, mandatory passkey step-up for privileged actions, and immutable audit entries.
• ImprovedHomepage, template pages, help, legal copy, captures, redirects, and documentation now describe only the shared engine platform.
• FixedRemoved billing, subscriptions, entitlements, and export quotas. Novus remains free and guest export remains available.

Content pages now open with a Native Banner header and wide-screen side rails (160×600 / 160×300), with denser mid-page and footer display units — still no Social Bar or pop-unders.

• NewSitewide Native Banner under the top nav on content pages (once per page).
• NewSticky left 160×600 and right 160×300 display rails on xl+ screens around page content.
• ImprovedRaised the per-page ad budget and retargeted the footer toward 468×60 / 300×250 so more unique banner sizes can show without duplicate keys.

Removed the intrusive Social Bar notification widget, added a reserved top leaderboard on content pages, and raised in-content ad density while keeping native mid-page and no pop-unders.

• ImprovedRemoved Adsterra Social Bar (corner notification) for a calmer browsing experience.
• NewSitewide top leaderboard on content pages (728×90 desktop / 320×50 mobile), consent-gated and off workspaces.
• ImprovedRaised the soft per-page display budget so mid-content native and banner slots can show alongside the top banner.

While waiting on AdSense approval, content pages run Adsterra display and native ads (consent-gated, density-capped) with no pop-unders or interstitials.

• NewAdsterra as the default production ad network (env-switchable back to AdSense later), with native and banner units plus a discreet footer Sponsored link.
• ImprovedIn-content ad slots revived with a per-page budget and unique unit keys so the same ad key never mounts twice on one page.
• ImprovedAds stay off editor, studio, auth, admin, legal, pricing, and settings routes; advertising scripts wait for cookie consent.
• ImprovedPrivacy, terms, cookies, ads.txt, and robots updated for the Adsterra test while keeping the Google seller line for future AdSense approval.

Clean category separation, 96 dedicated dimension engines, and a new Studio for authoring packs that open in the music editor.

• NewCreator Studio at /studio — blank canvas, geometry nodes, environments, click-track bindings, safe expressions, and .novusvis pack export/import into the music editor.
• New24 distinct visualizer families × 2D/3D/4D/ADV (96 engines) with Spectrum and Bars fully separated — no mixed categories, no mode dropdowns.
• ImprovedMusic editor, captions/Whisper, audio SFX, Cover Art studio, overlays, lyric videos, themes, reaction/FFT controls, and export pipeline preserved and wired to the new catalog.
• ImprovedHelp, marketing, and README copy updated for the 24×4 catalog; thumbnail inventory regenerated for all live engines.

The biggest visual upgrade yet: every 3D, 4D, and Advanced visualizer now reacts across the whole scene — individual elements respond to their own part of the music, nothing sits still, and scenes fill the frame. Lyric generation is far more robust, template detail pages show every variant and mode, and preview images are refreshed to match.

• ImprovedMajor reactivity overhaul across every 3D, 4D and Advanced visualizer: instead of the whole scene pulsing as one, individual elements — bars, particles, rings, bulbs — now each respond to their own slice of the frequency spectrum, keep a gentle idle motion so the scene stays alive between beats, and burst on every hit. There's always something happening on screen.
• FixedAdvanced and evolving visualizers that used to show a small centered shape (or occasionally a near-empty frame) now paint rich, frame-filling scenes that cover the whole canvas from the first frame.
• ImprovedThe 2D visualizers — already the strongest tier — got a light polish pass: subtle idle motion so they breathe at silence, sharper on-beat events, and fuller frame coverage.
• FixedTemplate detail pages now show the complete set of 2D / 3D / 4D / Advanced variants and all their modes. Previously some 4D and Advanced templates only listed a partial selection — every family now links across all four dimensions.
• FixedStatic preview images load reliably when moving between templates and switching dimensions: a canceled image request now recovers on its own instead of leaving a blank tile, and revealing a hidden dimension tab always shows its previews.
• ImprovedLyric generation is much more robust. 'Isolate vocals' no longer hangs on unsupported hardware — it now detects real GPU support up front, disables the option where it can't run, and always falls back to the full mix so generation never stalls. Transcription runs faster on capable GPUs, word timing snaps to detected beats, and repeated or misheard filler words are filtered out.
• ImprovedRefreshed preview stills across all the upgraded visualizers so the gallery reflects the new, richer scenes.
• ImprovedBehind-the-scenes security hardening and dependency cleanup for a safer, leaner app.

Advertising moved to Google AdSense with every interstitial, pop-under, and push format removed for a calmer experience. Template previews load far more reliably, the Quick Start catalog renders correctly again, and the editor canvas stays locked in when you change aspect ratios.

• ImprovedAdvertising moved to Google AdSense (Auto Ads). All interstitial, pop-under, vignette, and push-notification ad formats are gone — including the export-click pop-under — so nothing interrupts your workflow. Ads respect your consent choices under GDPR/UK rules.
• FixedThe editor canvas no longer shrinks into the corner when you change aspect ratios — visualizers stay locked to the full frame at every shape and zoom.
• FixedQuick Start shows its full visualizer catalog again: preview cards had collapsed to thin lines on some systems; they now render at full size with their preview stills.
• FixedTemplate preview images load much more reliably: stills just below the fold now preload as you scroll, a canceled image request retries instead of leaving a blank tile, and switching between 2D/3D/4D/ADV never strands a missing preview.
• FixedTemplate detail pages keep an engine-accurate poster behind the live preview — rapid navigation between templates or dimensions no longer flashes a black box.

A round of accuracy and polish: the docs now list every one of the 58 engines, browse-by-category is smarter about particle-style visualizers, the homepage makes all the creative tools easy to find, and the editor keeps the canvas rock-steady while you work.

• ImprovedThe full engine catalog is documented accurately: the Visualizer Engines guide now lists all 58 active families — including Barcode, Countdown, and Oscilloscope, which were missing before — across 2D, 3D, 4D and Advanced.
• ImprovedSmarter browse-by-category: particle-style visualizers that were filed under the wrong heading — Spectral Rain, Snake Trails, Dust Storm, Spectral Fluid, and the Hyperspace star-warp — now show up under Particles, so what you see matches the category.
• NewEasier tool discovery on the homepage: a refreshed "More Ways to Create" section surfaces the Audio Library, Lyric Video Creator, Audio Effects (SFX) Generator, Stream Overlays, and Cover Art Studio all in one place.
• FixedThe editor canvas no longer nudges when you toggle intros/outros or adjust layers — the timeline and layer previews keep the visualizer still and aligned.
• ImprovedCover Art & Canvas Studio polish: a roomier effect picker, a clearer "turn any visualizer into a loop" funnel, and a de-cramped studio layout.
• FixedCleaner exports: ads no longer fire repeatedly after an export or bounce you off the homepage.

Novus is now completely account-free — create, customize, and export entirely in your browser with nothing to sign up for. We tightened the engine library to a curated, high-quality set, rebuilt Albums into a Cover Art & Canvas Studio, and fixed a batch of editor annoyances.

• ImprovedNo accounts, ever: sign-up, login, and saved-to-the-cloud are gone. The editor, templates, SFX, and cover art are one-time-use and export-only — your work stays on your device, and every export is yours. Privacy, terms, and cookie policies were updated to match (no auth cookies).
• ImprovedA leaner, curated engine library: we retired lower-performing and near-duplicate visualizer families so every remaining engine earns its place. The catalog now stands at 58 active engine families across 2D/3D/4D/Advanced, with 7 flagship optical-illusion families. Old links to removed styles redirect to the closest surviving engine.
• NewCover Art & Canvas Studio (formerly Albums): a guided, one-off tool for square streaming covers and vertical Spotify Canvas loops — layered text, backgrounds, and animated effects, exported as a high-res PNG or a silent looping MP4. The old /canvas page now redirects here.
• FixedEditor elements no longer get stuck: text, logos, and overlays could become undraggable until a refresh after a resize gesture — they now recover automatically and stay movable.
• FixedNo more box/halo around the visualizer: scaling the canvas over a custom background, image, or transparent mode no longer shows a bordered frame — the scene blends edge-to-edge in preview and export.
• FixedGenerate Markers no longer freezes the editor, help tooltips are readable again (opaque background), audio duration never shows "Infinity:NaN", and template pages open at the top instead of scrolled down.
• ImprovedAd network moved to Monetag/PropellerAds (non-personalized), keeping the whole app free with no account required.

The whole site is now open to guests — create and export visualizers free, no account needed, and post to the community as a guest. Plus a root-cause fix for spectrum-style visualizers pulsing/flickering too fast, with a new Reactivity control that's calm and smooth by default.

• NewGuests can create AND export for free: you no longer need an account to export your visualizer — the whole editor, all engines and exports are open to everyone. (Sign in only to save projects, build a library, or manage posts.)
• NewGuests can post to the community: publish a visualizer straight from the editor as a guest (you pick a display name, shown as a Guest). Browsing and posting are free; sign in to like, save, follow and manage your posts.
• FixedSpectrum-style bars no longer pulse/flicker too fast: a reactivity change had every engine read an auto-leveled spectrum that amplified quiet-band noise into a fast flicker. That's removed at the source across all three places engines read audio (the full spectrum, the 32-band path, and the per-beat pump), so bars move with the music instead of strobing — in the preview and the export.
• NewNew "Reactivity" control (calm by default): a single slider sets how hard every visualizer reacts. It's low/smooth out of the box so bars glide when a song loads; turn it up for a snappier, bouncier response. Applies live to the preview and to exports identically.
• ImprovedBars play at full height AND smoothly: calming the reaction no longer shrinks the bars — they snap to their full peak on each hit but fall gently, so you get smooth motion without losing range. Mid and treble are also better balanced against heavy bass.
• FixedFixed a crash on some engines: a handful of visualizers (e.g. neon/cyan glow styles) could throw an invalid-color error and freeze on a strong beat — alpha/color values are now clamped safely across the engine library.

Guests can now open and test any template in the editor (sign-in only at export), the canvas fills the frame with no box, exports look noticeably sharper, intros/outros size correctly at every resolution, and the account pages, mode pickers and overlay previews all work reliably.

• NewThe editor is open to everyone: you no longer need an account to open a template and try the editor — sign-in is only required when you export. Guests can explore every control first.
• FixedAccount & Community settings and the dashboard load reliably: a 500 error on the analytics endpoint (wrong table) and a 404 on the profile endpoint (missing-row) were breaking those pages — both are fixed (analytics degrades gracefully to zeroes, and a profile is synthesized from your session when no row exists yet).
• FixedThe account menu navigates on the first click: the Creator Studio / Account & Community / Creator Profile links (and the Explore/Tools menus) now navigate immediately instead of occasionally doing nothing — they were being dropped when the menu closed mid-click.
• FixedCanvas Size & Fit is full-bleed: scaling the visualization no longer shrinks it into a boxed frame with a background border. Scale now zooms the content within a full-frame canvas (and panning keeps it fully covered), so it always blends edge-to-edge — in both preview and export.
• FixedIntros & outros are the right size everywhere and no longer hidden behind bars: the title card now scales with the output resolution so it looks the same in the preview and a 4K export (it was tiny in 4K before), and the cinematic letterbox bars that covered the text are off by default.
• ImprovedSharper exports: the export bitrate was raised across the board (and matched on the fallback path), removing most of the softness/blockiness that made exports look lower quality than the preview. True 4K is available for every aspect ratio.
• FixedMode pickers are complete: the Geomesh Prism template now exposes all 10 of its modes (it was showing only its styles), and Terrain 4D gained its 10th mode (Tectonic Rift).
• FixedThe Beat Grid animates across its full width: the left columns no longer sit dead — each column now normalizes to its own level so the whole grid responds to the music.
• FixedOverlay previews render again: the overlay library / gallery / detail previews were collapsing to zero height (a CSS conflict) and showing blank — they now display their animated preview. Template cover images also retry once on a transient load failure before falling back to a gradient.

A correctness pass on the editor: Animation Speed now controls every visualizer, the reactivity amount and beat-effect sliders make a visible difference, and the on-the-beat screen flash now obeys its Beat-Flash toggle across the whole library instead of always playing.

• FixedAnimation Speed now works on every visualizer: ~70 engines were quietly running their own internal animation loop at a fixed speed on top of the editor's, so the Animation Speed slider barely changed them. They're now driven by a single timeline, so Animation Speed (and the smooth, even motion it guarantees) applies everywhere — preview and export identically.
• FixedThe Beat-Flash toggle is finally respected everywhere: ~165 visualizers painted a full-screen flash on every beat that ignored the editor's Beat-Flash switch — so the whole frame strobed even with it turned off. That flash now only plays when you enable Beat-Flash (the per-beat glow on shapes is unaffected). Applies in both preview and export.
• ImprovedThe Reactivity / Pulse amount now visibly changes how hard visualizers react: turning it up makes the motion pulse harder with the music and down calms it — applied across the whole library through the shared audio path, live as you drag the slider. (Beat detection is untouched, so timing stays locked to the beat.)
• ImprovedMirror Wave honors its effect controls: Pulse, Burst, Transient, Animation Speed and the Beat-Flash toggle now all produce a clear change on the Mirror Wave family (2D/3D/4D/Advanced) — previously several of these did nothing on it.
• FixedFrame motion no longer goes dead in quiet passages: with the beat-shake / pulse / tilt / drift sliders dialed up (e.g. on Blackhole), the camera motion now keeps moving through low-energy sections instead of freezing between beats — while detected beats still clearly dominate. Preview and export match exactly.

A reactivity pass so visualizers move smoothly with the music instead of twitching — bars rise and fall cleanly, heavy bass no longer slams, and over-fast spins were calmed, all without changing how effects lock to the beat.

• ImprovedVisualizers move smoothly, not jittery: the audio levels that drive motion are now smoothed at the source with a fast-attack / slow-release curve, so every visualizer that reacts to bass/mid/treble tracks the music cleanly instead of flickering frame to frame. Heavy bass is gently soft-compressed so a loud kick no longer makes the whole visual slam. Beat-synced effects are unchanged — they still land exactly on the beat.
• ImprovedSpectrum bars read as real levels: bars now rise quickly but fall gently, so you can actually see them move up and down instead of strobing. Treble is no longer over-boosted.
• ImprovedOptical-illusion spins calmed: the colour-illusion spinning modes (Benham disc/sphere across 2D/3D/4D/Advanced) were rotating too fast and looked choppy — they now spin at a smooth, watchable speed.

The navigation freeze is fixed for good, creator profiles and storefronts open reliably, public profiles show usernames only (never your email), the community is wired together with working search & sort, and album covers display correctly again.

• FixedNavigation freeze fixed at the source: clicking a template after switching a 2D/3D/4D or mode pill could leave the whole site unable to navigate (clicks did nothing until a full page refresh). The cause was the address-bar update on those pills putting the app's router into an inconsistent state; it now updates the URL the correct way, so browsing stays responsive no matter how much you click around.
• FixedTemplate detail pages load reliably: a template page could occasionally get stuck on its loading skeleton on a slow first open. The page now does far less work per request (its mode index is built once and reused), recovers gracefully if anything goes wrong instead of hanging, and if a load is genuinely slow it offers a one-tap Reload rather than leaving you waiting.
• ImprovedOptical-illusion visualizers play smoother and look better: every illusion engine (colour, geometric, grid, illusory-contour, impossible-figure and their 3D/4D/Advanced variants) now smooths the audio it reacts to, removing the frame-to-frame jitter that made some of them shimmer or stutter. The Grid Illusion's first three modes are now visually distinct (a clean Hermann grid, a dotted scintillating grid, and a thin-line extinction lattice), the Kanizsa illusory-contour shapes now form the way the real illusion does — from the notched inducers alone rather than being drawn outright — and the impossible figures gained depth, a reactive backdrop and consistent motion so they feel like a finished piece rather than a lone shape.
• FixedCreator profiles & storefronts open reliably: the "View public profile" / "Your storefront" links from Creator Studio, the dashboard and the community no longer hit a 404. All profile links now use the same canonical address the public page expects.
• FixedPrivacy: public creator profiles, page titles and social share images now show your display name or username only — never your email address. Email is no longer included in any public profile data.
• ImprovedA connected community with real browsing: post and comment authors now link straight to that creator's storefront, the Top Creators links work, and the community feed gained working search and Most-Liked / Most-Viewed sorting (the sort options previously did nothing).
• NewAccount menu: signed-in users get an account dropdown in the top bar with direct links to Creator Studio, Account & Community settings, and the Creator Profile / Storefront editor — so it's clear where to manage everything.
• FixedAlbum covers display correctly again: uploaded album art is now stored durably instead of as a temporary link that broke on reload, so covers show on the My Albums grid and the album editor. Applying a canvas effect no longer flashes the whole album page like a reload.

A deep performance pass across the visualizer library: dozens of the most demanding engines — optical illusions, particle and fluid fields, neon grids, crystals and more — now play back smoothly at full frame rate, and the post-pause preview stutter is gone.

• ImprovedMajor speedup across the heaviest visualizers: 75+ demanding engines — optical illusions and op-art, cymatics, particle/fluid fields, neon grids, circuit boards, stained glass, DNA helix, neural nets, plasma webs, bioluminescence, holospheres, tunnels, mandalas, gravity wells and more (including their 3D/4D/Advanced variants) — were re-engineered to draw far more efficiently, collapsing hundreds-to-thousands of per-element glow operations into a handful per frame. Previews, the editor and exports now stay smooth at full frame rate.
• ImprovedGlow that's fast: the bloom on glowing engines (particles, crystals, neon, bioluminescence) is now produced with a lightweight two-pass technique instead of an expensive per-element blur — keeping the look while cutting the cost dramatically.
• FixedNo more post-pause stutter: pausing and resuming a preview no longer leaves the visualizer jittering. The cause — phantom beats firing on the locked tempo grid while the track was silent — has been fixed, so paused previews settle to a clean idle.
• NewBuilt-in performance overlay for troubleshooting: an optional on-screen FPS / worst-frame-time HUD (plus console diagnostics) can be turned on to help diagnose playback smoothness on your device — off by default.

A brand-new flagship collection of audio-reactive optical-illusion visualizers — moiré, impossible figures, op-art, spirals and more — plus every visualizer mode now has its own shareable link and social preview image, and template previews load faster and smoother.

• NewOptical Illusions flagship: 10 new engine families — Moiré, Impossible Figure, Op Art, Geometric Illusion, Peripheral Drift, Grid Illusion, Illusory Contour, Spiral Recursion, Color Illusion and Ambiguous Figure — each shipping 2D, 3D, 4D and Advanced variants with 10 distinct, fully audio-reactive modes (400 new modes in all). Featured on the homepage and the Templates gallery.
• NewEvery mode is now its own page: each visualizer mode (across the whole library — 5,000+ modes) has a unique, search-engine-indexable URL with a tailored title and its own social preview image, so you can link or share a specific look, not just the engine.
• ImprovedFaster, smoother previews: hover previews are restored on touch-capable laptops, 3D/4D/Advanced previews run at full quality, and the template grid no longer stalls or needs a double-click — the result of more accurate device detection and fewer simultaneous live previews competing for the GPU.
• FixedFixed a handful of new illusion modes that could render blank or freeze the canvas (a drawing-radius edge case) — every mode now renders correctly.

Exported videos now look just like the editor preview: the same brightness and colour, and glowing details like pulsing fiber-optic bulbs, neon halos and bloom render at full strength instead of shrinking away at higher resolutions.

• FixedExport visual parity: high-resolution exports are no longer dimmer than the preview, and bright glowing elements (fiber-optic bulbs, neon glow, sparks, bloom) that appeared faint or missing in 4K exports now render at full size and brightness — matching what you see in the editor.
• ImprovedVisualizers are drawn at a consistent visual scale for every quality tier, so 1080p, 1440p and 4K exports look identical apart from sharpness — the higher tiers are crisper, not dimmer, with all the fine glowing detail preserved.

Export any shape at true 4K with a quality choice, the beat flash now pulses for the whole song in both preview and export, browsing opens on a single click without freezing, the editor canvas stays interactive, and dashboard/profile/community navigation is instant.

• NewExport at true 4K for every shape: resolution is now chosen as Shape (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 4:3, 21:9) × Quality (1080p / 1440p / 4K), so portrait, square and cinematic exports all reach full 4K — not just landscape. If a browser can't encode an oversized size it steps down gracefully instead of dropping to a lower-quality capture.
• FixedBeat flash plays for the entire song: it no longer fades out after a couple of seconds (or only fired on pause/restart). Once the tempo is detected it keeps pulsing on the beat in both the preview and the exported video.
• FixedSingle-click browsing: template cards now open on the first click even after using the browser Back button or navigating quickly — fixed the focus/preview race that dropped the first click and required a double-click.
• FixedNo more freezing during rapid navigation: a graphics-context leak that piled up while flipping quickly between templates and pages — eventually freezing the page — has been fixed.
• FixedEditor stays interactive: fixed a case where the editor canvas could fail to load and you couldn't move text or elements; the main visualizer is now always given the graphics context it needs.
• ImprovedInstant navigation: the Dashboard, Profile and Community pages no longer re-fetch from the database every visit, so moving between pages is immediate instead of waiting on a load each time.

Exported videos now react to your music just like the preview, browsing many visualizers no longer freezes, every engine mode actually renders (no more blank options), reactivity feels alive instantly, and template/homepage previews are fixed.

• FixedExported videos now react to the audio — the visualizer in your MP4 dances to the track just like the preview, instead of looking static.
• FixedNo more freezing while browsing: graphics contexts are now released the moment a preview goes away, so flipping through templates, detail pages and the homepage stays responsive instead of locking up after a handful of visualizers.
• FixedEvery visualizer mode renders: engine mode menus were advertising options that drew nothing (blank) while hiding modes that actually exist. Menus now match what each engine really renders — e.g. Gravity Well 2D shows its 10 distinct modes — across the whole library.
• ImprovedReactivity feels alive immediately — removed the 3–5 second 'warm-up' where engines played a different effect before settling, and the beat flash now keeps pulsing for the entire song instead of fading out after a few seconds.
• FixedTemplate browse cards now show a real preview image of each engine before you hover, instead of a blank gradient.
• FixedHomepage showcase fixes: the Spirograph fills the frame (no black gaps), the Radial Spectrum renders correctly, a duplicate engine in 'Explore Engine Families' was replaced, and the engine cards open on a single click.
• ImprovedMobile editor is usable: the toolbar is compact (actions scroll in one row instead of stacking), the settings pane keeps a real, scrollable height, the play bar no longer covers your controls, and you can reach upload and every setting.
• FixedIntros and outros now play smoothly in the preview — the animation follows the audio clock each frame instead of stepping, matching the already-smooth export.
• ImprovedLyrics: a new timing-offset slider nudges karaoke earlier/later to fix highlighting that runs 1–2s behind, and the karaoke word highlight now uses your chosen caption style and colour (in both preview and export) instead of plain white.

Visualizers now play over your chosen background image, gradient, or underlay; every template and visualizer page shows a real preview of the actual engine (including link/social previews); default reactivity is livelier; Global Speed reaches more engines; and the editor is cleaner.

• NewBackground transparency: visualizers now play OVER your background image, gradient, or underlay instead of hiding it — with an Auto / Solid / Transparent control — turning the background into a real compositional layer across all 444 engines, with overlays and underlays layering correctly.
• NewEngine-accurate previews: template cards, template detail pages, and the visualizer guides now show a real captured frame of each engine, so you see exactly what you'll get before opening the editor.
• NewEngine-accurate link & social previews: sharing a template or visualizer now shows the actual engine in the Open Graph image, with tailored titles and descriptions on every visualizer, template, and help page.
• ImprovedLivelier out-of-the-box reactivity: beat-driven motion (shake, pulse, tilt, drift) is more visible at default settings while flashes are gentler — visualizers look great without tweaking, and the preview matches the export.
• ImprovedGlobal Speed now affects more engines: the speed control reaches animation rates across many more visualizers, including the 4D evolution rate, and Frequency Focus drives reactivity on every engine.
• ImprovedCleaner editor: removed the SFX presets panel from the editor (the standalone Audio Effects tool is unchanged).

Every visualizer now reacts across the full frequency range (not just bass), exports match the preview exactly — correct size and every effect baked in — a new pre-export panel lets you review and toggle effects, template browsing is snappier, and AI lyrics load reliably.

• FixedEvery visualizer now reacts to mid and treble, not just bass — a new normalized reactive spectrum lifts quieter bands so the whole frequency range drives the visual across all engines.
• FixedExports now match the preview exactly: the visual is correctly sized for every resolution and aspect ratio (square, portrait, landscape, 4K) and no longer appears zoomed-in or cut off at the top.
• FixedAll chosen effects are now applied to exports — pulse/burst intensities, per-band FFT colours, and frame motion (beat shake, pulse, tilt, drift, zoom, strobe and glow) are baked into the video just like the preview.
• NewPre-export review panel: before exporting, see resolution, aspect, frame rate, format and duration, plus every active effect — and uncheck any you want to leave out.
• FixedTemplate carousel and grid now open on a single click — fixed a stuck overlay state that caused double-clicks, 5–10s delays and occasional freezes that needed a refresh.
• ImprovedSmoother browsing: live previews free their graphics contexts immediately, so scrolling through many visualizers no longer glitches or hangs.
• FixedAI lyric generation loads its model reliably — fixed the cross-origin setup that caused the 'AI model failed to load' error — and now runs off the main thread so the editor no longer freezes while transcribing.
• NewLyrics: choose your AI model (Fast / Balanced / Accurate, auto-picked for your device) and optionally isolate the vocals before transcribing for much better accuracy on songs.

Every visualizer mode is now visually distinct and beat-synced, a rebuilt export engine produces seekable videos that match the preview exactly, and you can publish your creations to the community right from the editor.

• ImprovedEvery engine's modes are now visually unique and audio-reactive — no more look-alike modes across 2D, 3D, 4D, and Advanced variants, with 10 distinct modes in every family.
• ImprovedColour themes now apply to every visualizer — pick a palette and the whole visual recolours to match.
• NewPublish to Community directly from the editor, with public or private visibility for each visualizer.
• NewVisualizer Size & Fit control — resize and re-centre any visualizer (with one-click 'Fit to frame') so it sits perfectly inside the video, in both the preview and the export.
• ImprovedRebuilt video export: MP4 and WebM are now seekable with the correct duration and render the exact visual you see in the preview.
• NewSpotify Canvas and cover-art formats open the editor pre-sized (9:16 loop / square) and export straight to a Spotify-ready file.
• FixedCreator Studio now loads reliably instead of erroring on the dashboard.
• ImprovedLyrics transcription, audio start-up, and page navigation are more reliable; heavy engines render dramatically faster.
• ImprovedStream overlays beat-pulse on hover previews and react to your track's beats in the editor.
• ImprovedRefreshed mobile editor, help centre (32 guides), policies, breadcrumbs, and link/SEO previews across the site.

The Advanced template filter now lists every advanced engine, MP4 export can't hang, overlay previews reflect live opacity, and category cards show more distinct previews.

• FixedThe Advanced (ADV) template filter and category now list all advanced engines instead of showing 0.
• FixedTemplate filters (including dimension) now persist in the URL so refreshing or sharing keeps your view.
• FixedMP4 export can no longer hang indefinitely — the converter now times out and falls back to WebM with a clear message.
• ImprovedOverlay previews in the editor now reflect the overlay's live opacity setting.
• ImprovedBrowse-by-type and category cards show more distinct, tailored previews across more engine families.

Single-variant previews that cycle through each engine's modes, reliable single-click navigation, and continued editor/effect fixes.

• ImprovedTemplate previews now showcase each engine's modes — hovering a card cycles through its visualization modes instead of switching dimensions.
• FixedOpening a template now works on the first click (no more double-click or refresh needed).
• ImprovedEach 2D / 3D / 4D / Advanced variant is shown as its own card so you can browse every dimension of every engine.
• FixedPreviews now start smoothly and stay beat-synced — no more spurious flash/burst when the audio first kicks in.
• ImprovedFaster page loads — templates render instantly and database setup runs once instead of on every request.

A foundational pass on data durability, video export, render performance, and how visualizers are shared across the web.

• FixedSaved albums, templates, and projects now persist durably — fixed a configuration fallback that could drop user content on redeploys.
• FixedVideo export progress now always shows a sensible 0–100% (no more runaway negative percentages during MP4 conversion).
• ImprovedSmoother editor and export performance by eliminating costly per-frame canvas read-backs on advanced engines.
• ImprovedAudio now starts reliably after your first interaction on the page via a unified gesture-unlock system.
• ImprovedLink previews (Open Graph / Twitter cards) now resolve to the correct domain, so shared visualizers and templates preview correctly everywhere.
• NewNative mobile share sheet support in the Share dialog, plus a public changelog page.
• ImprovedSearch engine sitemap and robots rules cleaned up — public pages indexed, private pages excluded.

A 32-item release focused on sound design, beat detection, and album artwork.

• NewSound-effects preset library with synth pads, bass, leads, percussion and more.
• NewAlbum cover upload so you can brand your releases with custom artwork.
• ImprovedMulti-band beat sync — bass, mid and treble now trigger effects independently for tighter reactivity.
• ImprovedFAQ and help content expanded; full feature audit across the platform.

A large platform release rebuilding overlays and adding creator tooling.

• NewStream Overlays system rebuilt with a curated catalog for Now Playing, Spectrum, Alerts, and Ambient scenes.
• NewCreator Studio for managing your templates, analytics, and profile.
• NewLyric video wizard and global search across engines and pages.
• ImprovedPerformance improvements, social/community features, and paginated browsing.

Engine completeness, overlay system groundwork, and community features.

• NewCommunity feed to share and discover visualizer creations.
• ImprovedEngine parity pass so 2D/3D/4D/Advanced variants stay consistent.
• ImprovedAudio analysis and platform polish across the editor.

More engines, more sound effects, and a streamlined billing-free experience.

• NewExpanded SFX library and additional engine variants.
• ImprovedAudio polish and engine completeness across the catalog.
• ImprovedRemoved payment friction — every feature is free.

A sweeping update touching hundreds of files across the platform.

• ImprovedPlatform-wide overhaul of editor, engines, and UX.
• FixedNumerous stability and rendering fixes.

Every engine gained multiple modes with a full variant picker on detail pages.

• NewAll engines now offer 6+ visualization modes.
• NewVariant picker on template detail pages to preview every mode.
• ImprovedTemplate grid cleanup and stability polish.

Album organization, theme persistence, and vertical Canvas export.

• NewAlbum system to group your visualizers into releases.
• NewSpotify Canvas (vertical) export preset.
• New4D engine system, cinematic suite, and LFO automation.
• ImprovedTheme persistence and dashboard polish.

Stability and UX work, on-device lyrics, auth, and ten new engines.

• NewTen new visualizer engine families.
• NewOn-device Whisper lyrics transcription (audio never leaves your browser).
• ImprovedEditor effects, authentication, and preview performance.

Engine QA, navigation fixes, and pre-layered showcase templates.

• New29 pre-layered showcase templates.
• FixedNavigation freezes, canvas errors, and editor parity issues.
• ImprovedEngine-aware audio auto-bind profiles.

The first public release of Novus Visualizers.

• NewBrowser-based visualizer editor with audio upload and real-time FFT reactivity.
• NewTemplate gallery, engine mode variations, and MP4/WebM export.
• NewIntro/outro canvas, resize handles, and media upload.