Changelog

Host Camera Fine-Tuning

The host can see and set what every camera in the recording session is doing. This helps frame, focus, and fix recording issues LONG before editing, when they become problems!

Redesigned the Recording Studio

The studio, lobby and settings panel were re-designed to be faster, with a more professional feeling, and with helpful tips that tell you the moment a camera has an issue.

Thumbnail Kits and automatic thumbnails

Build your show's thumbnail once, and ShowMuse makes each episode's thumbnails from it.

• +Thumbnail Kits in Brand Kit: build a thumbnail once per orientation, then fill only what changes each episode
• +Generate Thumbnails picks the faces and writes the words for each thumbnail from your kits and the episode

Annual plans

Pay yearly and save with the brand new Annual Plans!

ShowMuse is now an approved Meta app

Meta approved ShowMuse's official connector for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Connect your Page and accounts on the Social Media tab and publish straight from the Promotion calendar.

Editing Standards ask before they apply

When an episode opens, Editing Standards shows how many silences, filler words and bleeps it found, with a toggle for each, so you pick what gets applied.

Clearer recording cards

Redesigned the Recording cards so you can see technical details at a glance. Cards now appear for each participant and show status and messages clearly.

Circle picture-in-picture and Rotate 180

Added a new PIP to the layouts because circles are cool. Also added the ability to rotate a video 180 degrees, for footage recorded upside down.

Line up separate recordings before you transcribe

Each person records on their own device? You can now line the files up before transcription starts so every lane plays in perfect harmony!

Layouts render the way you set them

Two fixes to multi-camera exports.

• ✓Layouts chosen in the editor now show up in the final render
• ✓Inserted clips keep their sound in multi-camera exports

Post to LinkedIn and Slack

Two more places to send your episode posts, straight from the Promotion calendar.

• +Connect LinkedIn, as your personal profile or a company page, and publish posts to it
• +Connect Slack with a webhook or a bot to send posts to a channel

Unlimited shows on every paid plan

Run as many shows as you want on any paid plan. A second podcast, a client's show, a spinoff, all under one account with no per-show upcharge. Trials are limited to one show.

• ↑Every paid plan now includes unlimited shows, with no per-show upcharge

Bleep out profanity with an adjustable beep

Catch and censor profanity right in the editor, with a bleep you control and clean text exports.

• +New Bleep Profanity tool detects profanity and drops a bleep over each word it finds
• +The bleep is a draggable bar on the waveform, so you fine-tune exactly what gets covered - no guessing at timing
• +A 1000 Hz tone covers the word in your rendered audio, and you can hear it in the Finish preview before you export
• ↑Bleeped words are redacted to **** in your transcript, captions, and every text export
• ↑Clips inherit your episode's bleeps automatically

The new editor is now the editor

Our rebuilt editor graduates out of beta, with a visual refresh and a chapters fix.

• ↑The new editor is now the default for everyone - markers, the Finish tab, and the latest editing tools are on out of the box
• ↑A visual refresh to the Edit tab: cleaner stage toggle, marker color swatches, a dedicated camera lane, and gold chapter markers
• ✓Chapters that landed inside a cut now snap to a safe spot automatically when you generate, add, drag, or render them - so a chapter can't get stranded, and nothing in your episode gets hidden

Long transcripts stay fast

Multi-hour episodes now scroll and edit smoothly.

• ↑The editor now keeps only the active part of long transcripts loaded, so even multi-hour episodes stay fast

A snappier transcript editor

We redesigned how the editor handles your transcript so editing feels faster.

• ↑Reworked the insertion cursor to roughly halve the editor's on-screen complexity, making edits more responsive

Connect ShowMuse to your AI workflow with MCP

Our new MCP server lets AI agents post and schedule social content for your show through a secure, per-show token.

• +New ShowMuse MCP server connects AI assistants (like Claude) directly to your show
• +Agents can draft, schedule, and publish social posts through ShowMuse, with the same approval controls you already have
• +Access is a secure per-show token - scoped to a single show and revocable anytime

Catch audio bleed before you record

The recording studio now shows each participant's headphone status at a glance.

• +Per-participant headphone indicator in the recording studio so you can spot echo and bleed risk before recording

See how your episodes are performing

Podcast performance metrics come into the app, and the Episodes list becomes a production tracker.

• +Podcast performance metrics: YouTube and Buzzsprout stats pulled into the app for 30 days after release
• ↑Reworked Episodes list into a per-episode readiness and performance tracker
• ↑More resilient recording capture that survives crashes and dropped connections

A more hands-on social calendar

Quality-of-life upgrades to the Promotion calendar.

• ↑Week view, drag-to-reschedule, and an image picker in the social calendar

Cleaner model picker and sharper speaker detection

A tidier AI model list and more accurate speaker labeling in the editor.

• ↑Streamlined AI model picker featuring Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5
• ↑More accurate speaker detection with fewer phantom speakers and no more unknown labels

Better thumbnails and a big transcription quality jump

Multiple text blocks on thumbnails, smarter episode navigation, and major transcription accuracy improvements.

• +Add multiple independently styled text blocks to your thumbnails
• ↑Episodes now open to the most relevant tab based on their state
• ↑Major transcription quality fixes: fewer duplicated words, more accurate silence detection, and cleaner per-speaker audio

Turn your episode plan into a teleprompter script

Generate a ready-to-load teleprompter script straight from your finished episode plan, with one click on the Planning tab.

• +New Create Teleprompter Script action on the Planning tab converts your plan into a prompter-ready script with section and segment headers

Plan all your social posts in one place

A new show-level Promotion tab brings every episode and evergreen post into one content calendar.

• +Show-level Promotion tab with a unified social content calendar (month and list views)
• +Create, schedule, and reschedule show-level and evergreen posts alongside your episode posts

Opus 4.8 added to all Assistants

Added the newly released Opus 4.8 model to all assistants. Note, Opus 4.8 ignores the temperature setting. Always uses "High" effort. Made a note to allow effort setting in the future.

Editor Waveform Fit-to-Window Button

A small but useful addition to the editor's tools - the fit-to-window button. The waveform editor has +/- zoom buttons that control zoom levels. For long episodes (90+ minutes), going through the zoom levels was clunky. The fit-to-window button (⛶) is just to the right of the +/- buttons. One-click and the waveform scales to your container width, however long the episode is. Click +/- after using fit and the editor snaps back to the closest zoom level.

Real Filenames & Track-File Replace

Two improvements to the Recordings tab. First, the original filenames are now kept and displayed on the track. Every uploaded clip now shows the filename you actually picked (Take3_BrianClose.mp4 instead of generic "Camera 1"). Second, you may now replace the video in any track directly. Previously, you had to remove all the previous videos in the track that came before the video you wanted to replace which was a pain! Hover any file in the track and you'll see a ↻ button next to the delete button. Click it to upload a new file in that exact spot. No more deleting all the downstream blocks just to swap one file in the middle.

Added New 14-Day Free Trials

Adding a free trial so that users can now try ShowMuse for FREE! Trial users will be able to produce at least one full episode, and have enough credits to try out the features they will have access to for the paid plan selected.

Adding Multi-part Uploads for One Camera

Multi-part uploads (one recording split across multiple files) was added with three enhancements in one go, from upload, to editing, to rendering. Fix 1: Ensuring smooth editing (no stutter at part boundaries) Fix 2: Allowing multi-part uploads with and without sound Fix 3: Ensuring rendering of multi-part episodes is handled

Slideshow Exported Filename Changes

Every slideshow PPTX used to download as just "slideshow_YYYYMMDD.pptx." ...and you know what? It really bugged me because I'm typically working on at LEAST two episodes at once. Now they download as YYYYMMDD_EpisodeTitle.pptx. Date first, your real episode title (cut at 50 characters max if the title runs long). Safe across Windows and macOS. If the episode has a recorded date set, that's what shows up in the filename. Otherwise it uses today's date.

Adding Claude 4.7 Opus

Claude Opus 4.7 was made available today, so I added Claude Opus 4.7 today! It's available everywhere AI is utilized, including: planning assist, details assist, clips assistant, campaign builder, and so on.

Several Recording Feature Quality of Life Improvements

A handful of changes to the Recording tab that make the actual recording session MUCH nicer to use... Added buttons to allow the pausing and resuming of a recording session - useful if you need to grab water, go to the restroom, or your guest has to step away for any reason. Added audio-level indicators, per-participant so every participant has higher confidence in their volume before you hit record. Persisted recording-type across sessions according to your preference (set at the Show-level) so power-users don't have to re-pick each time. Added clickable Previews on Recordings layout-cards so you can check result of a video without having to download or render it. Multi-part recording support so if a session split into multiple files, the editor handles them as one continuous timeline. Improved performance on the Recording session components under-hood to ensure long sessions didn't get sluggish OR lower-powered laptops (like mine) didn't struggle!

New free tool: Audio Cleanup

Created the Audio Cleanup Tool

Campaign Builder Now Supports Every Platform

The Promotions page now allows the Campaign Builder to create posts for ALL social media platforms, even if the user has not yet connected to that platform.

UI Refresh and Standardization

Some very minor, cosmetic changes, but you'll probably notice them all right away. First, all confirmations have been swapped to new toast-style pop-up notifications in the corner. Also, the font for the whole app has been consolidated and standardized so it is cleaner, easier to read at smaller sizes, and has the single-storey "a" and "g" I love so much.

Livestreaming from ShowMuse

ShowMuse now streams directly to LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook. One session, three platforms, and the recording still saves clean for post-production.

Auto-Chapter Improvements

Two fixes to the auto-chapter output. One to improve the prompt that drives chapter generation and another to the chapter bar in the player to improve it's look and feel. If you've been regenerating chapters, you should now get more accurate and cleaner results!

Free Editor Redesign

The free editor's file loading screen got a full redesign. There is now a clean 3-step flow: upload your media, choose how to get a transcript (generate or upload), then start editing. Each step lights up as you go, and the button text tells you exactly what's needed next. Also, transcription in the free editor now uses more CPU cores (when available).

Added DAW Timeline and Multi-Camera Layouts

The editor got two major upgrades: 1. The timeline is now a proper DAW-style interface, and we added a full multi-camera layout system. Each track (source video, video inserts, audio inserts, per-speaker audio) gets its own row with the label and content side by side. A tool bar at the top gives you play/pause, timecode, cut controls, and zoom without scrolling around. The Media Library panel slides over from the right. Drag files from the library onto insert tracks to add intros, outros, music beds, or b-roll. 2. Multi-Camera Layouts. If your episode has multiple camera angles, you now have several options: single, side-by-side (horizontal or vertical), picture-in-picture, 2+1, and mobile (vertical stack for Shorts/Reels). Cut between layouts with the B key, cycle layout types with Shift+B, and swap camera slot assignments with Shift+1/2/3. Toggle Follow-Active-Speaker (FAS) with F. FAS reads the transcript, maps speakers to cameras, and auto-switches the active camera based on who's talking. Manual overrides take priority.

YouTube Clip Performance Metrics

I got really, really tired of not knowing how my clips were doing on YouTube, so we've now added a daily sync that refreshes the counts for a clip's views, likes, and comments. Even though we pull back the stats for each video less than 30 days old automatically, I added a "Check Stats" button for any clip so you could get fresh numbers on the spot. Stats show up right on the clip card, so you're not hunting through YouTube Studio for each video.

Social Media Campaigns Revamp

The Promotion tab got a complete overhaul. The new Campaign Builder generates an entire social media campaign from a single episode, across multiple platforms, in seconds. The big addition (that may not show in the interface) is voice matching. The system pulls your last 8 published posts per platform and uses them as a style reference. Also added an "Approval" step before anything goes live so you don't need to worry about things going out before they've been revised/optimized.

Added New Models

Added models: Claude Sonnet 4.6, DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next. Models are available in ALL Assist functions, as always.

ShowMuse now supports both light and dark themes!

A toggle has been added to the top-right of the page that allows you to switch instantly between modes! Also, your preference is saved to your account, so it follows you across devices. If you haven't set a preference, ShowMuse respects your operating system's setting. Note, the editor main editing panels are always "dark mode."

YouTube Re-authorization Fix & Editor Silence Accuracy Fix

Two fixes today, first, when the YouTube authorization expires, you'll now see a clear message telling you to re-authorize in the Credentials tab. Previously, this showed an unhelpful error. The second was a change to the editor's Silence detection/selection. The smart expansion when cutting silence now uses a more accurate method (uses voice activity detection) to prevent clipping word tails when removing silence.

Fixed Clip Settings bug and Added Tag Character Limit for YouTube

Fixed a bug where, if you were editing the clip's settings while other clips render, the screen could refresh and you could lose your work. After the fix, your selections stay put! Also added a character limit for tags being uploaded to YouTube (YouTube's limit is 500-characters for tags) and a handy character counter to let you know when you're approaching the limit.

Caption Sync Fix for Clips

Fixed an issue where captions would drift out of sync when rendering clips, especially on longer videos.

Major Worker Status Upgrade

Instead of just percentages (which didn't update frequently enough for me to feel like I knew what was going on), I added phases + percentages. Thumbs and Clips will now tell you what step/phase they are on and where they are at in that phase.

Added a Consolidated Notification Center

We needed a way to track all notifications from long-running jobs like thumbnail extraction and clip-rendering, so now we have a consolidated notification center (the bell icon) in the upper-right of the site!