Changelog

What's new

In short

Publishly changes most days. This is the list, newest first; the settings menu on every tool page shows a dot until you have seen the latest. Nothing here needs an update on your side — the site is the app.

1. 22 September 2026 — Cinematic devices, a faster timeline, and a phone layout

Any size: the video studio and the mockup generator take Post 4:5, Classic 4:3 and App Store preview sizes, or a size of your own (even numbers, up to 3840 px an edge for video, 5120 for images). PNGs can export at 2×.
Finish: a colour grade over a whole screen or shot — exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth, a matte fade, a vignette and film grain — with six presets. The same recipe renders in the editor, the export and the video.
Text that moves word by word: words rise, fade or knock in one after another, type on, or cycle the text's lines in place. Pictures and captions can also spin, drop or zoom in; a Logo spin intro for promo videos.
publishly mcp: the command line serves check_app, project_info, render_project and whats_new to an AI agent over the Model Context Protocol (claude mcp add publishly -- npx @publishly/cli mcp).
Video exports of shots with text no longer hang: Chrome's encoders were stalling on frames taken from the canvas, so frames now go to the encoder as plain pixels. Should an encoder still stop responding, the export gives up after 45 seconds and carries on as WebM, saying so.
Lens blur on 3D devices: real depth of field that follows the device as it turns, plus tilt-shift and radial looks. Four presets, or your own strength, focus and sharp area.
Lighting rigs: Studio, Lightbox, Dark room, Raking and Golden hour, turned and raised with two sliders. One rig lights every device on a screen or in a shot.
Perspective: a field-of-view slider from a flat 10° to a looming 100°, with the device still filling its box.
Two new devices: a round watch with band and crown, and a TV on a stand — in the editor, the mockup generator and the video studio.
Timeline: each keyframe can arrive smoothly, ease in or out, overshoot, or hold and jump; ⌘C / ⌘V copies a keyframe to another time or item; dragged keyframes snap to seconds, other keyframes and the playhead (Alt skips it); the music shows as a waveform lane.
Screen recordings can play at half to double speed inside a device.
Animated templates play a preview when you hover them.
Undo and redo say what they changed.
A short tour on the first visit to the editor and the video studio.
On a phone the editor has Canvas, Screens and Edit panes and an Export button, instead of one long page.
This page, and What's new in the settings menu.

2. 21 September 2026 — One header, one app, a release checklist

Every tool shares one header with the tools as tabs, the app being worked on, and a settings menu for the Gemini key, theme and help.
The app you open in one tool is remembered by the others: check an APK, then translate its strings without uploading it again.
A release checklist at /release: build check, screenshots, listing text, video, translations and design review, with what is done and what is next.
The editor's tools moved into an Add rail beside the canvas; the top bar is two rows instead of three.
Send feedback from the settings menu. Publishly can be installed and keeps working offline for the tools that never leave your browser.
Sample content on Translate, Listing and Design review, never saved over your own work.

3. 20 September 2026 — Wear OS, Android TV, and a command line

Screenshot sizes for Wear OS (bare, as Play requires) and Android TV, with the 1280×720 TV banner.
npx @publishly/cli check, render and connect: Play checks on an unreleased build, the same PNGs as Export all from CI, and your own emulators for the hosted site.
Generated backgrounds: a motif built from what each screen shows, in your app's colours, re-rolled with a click.
The privacy-policy checker tests the live link. Licensed under the AGPL-3.0.

4. 19 September 2026 — Fixes you can paste, and build-to-build comparison

Each finding in Check your app comes with the lines to paste: Gradle flags, manifest attributes, the NDK settings for 16 KB pages.
New rules: large-screen limits on Android 16, implied hardware features, missing backup rules.
What changed since your last release: two builds compared for permissions, target SDK, debuggable flags, dropped languages and stale translations.
Export all can write fastlane's supply and deliver folders. Screenshot test output (Roborazzi, Paparazzi, Compose Preview) and app bundles open directly.
Translations keep a memory in your Drive and reuse everything translated before.

5. 18 September 2026 — Gemini usage meter

The Usage tab counts requests per model and learns the real free-tier limits from Google's own refusals.
Rate limits on the AI routes, crash reports by email, and proper icons and link previews.

6. 17 September 2026 — Check, translate, list, review

Check your app: an APK or app bundle read in your browser — target SDK deadlines, 16 KB alignment, risky permissions, exported components, leaked keys, outdated SDKs, signing, symbols and mapping, Data safety hints, a privacy-policy checker and generator.
Translate your app: strings.xml in, res/values-xx out, with placeholders, markup and plurals validated.
Store listing text: titles and descriptions within each store's limits and policy, translated, exported for fastlane.
Design review: the app run on an emulator, a phone or Firebase Test Lab and scored for tap targets, contrast, labels and text size — again in dark theme, at 200% text, right-to-left and on a tablet.
Feature graphic layouts and colours read from the app's own palette. Privacy policy and terms pages.

7. 16 September 2026 — Overlaps caught and fixed

Words covered by a phone, badges over pictures and text past the edge are found before export, and fixed with one click.

8. 15 September 2026 — AI Remix, popular styles, Drive

AI Remix makes screenshots, the feature graphic and a promo video in one pass.
Templates matched from any store listing, and layout patterns from top apps, shown in your app's colours.
Preview the listing as it looks on a phone. Projects and versions saved in your own Google Drive; AI on your own Gemini key.
Words read off screenshots for captions and searching.

9. 14 September 2026 — Google Play import and promo videos

Start from a Google Play link. Promo videos with music, voice-over and captions. Record from an emulator or a USB phone.

10. 13 September 2026 — First release

A screen recording in, Play Store screenshots out: frames picked, captions written, twelve templates, a canvas editor with 3D devices, saved in your browser.