Changelog

What changed in each version of ClipCookie. The app shows the same notes under Help → What's new.

1. Version 1.7.0 November 7, 2026

   New

   • Animate graphics and images in and out, like text. Select an arrow, circle, underline or picture on a video track and open Animation in the Inspector. Pick Slide, Pop, Reveal, Blur / Focus and more, and set how long each takes. A Reveal draws an arrow or underline on.
   • Choose how small your export should be. Automatic now offers Full quality, High, Medium and Small, each showing its file size. Or turn on Fit an exact size and type a limit, like 25 MB, and ClipCookie picks the best quality that fits.
   • Add an outline and drop shadow to any image. Select a PNG, JPEG, SVG or graphic on the timeline, then set them in the Inspector. On a transparent image, the outline follows the shape itself. You can now import SVG files too.
   • Point things out with callouts you can reshape. Elements → Callouts now has an Arrow, Hand-drawn circle, Underline, Rectangle and Circle. In the Inspector, change their color, line thickness, outline and drop shadow, bend the Arrow and Underline, set the size, and round the Rectangle's corners.
   • Add solid rectangles and circles. Find them under Shapes in Elements. Put one behind a title or use it as a color block, then set its color, width and height in the Inspector, and round the rectangle's corners.
   • Give each video its own captions. Select a clip, then choose Captions from in the Inspector, under Audio: the transcript, a subtitle track inside the video (MKV, MP4 or MOV), a subtitle file made for that video, or none. Each video's captions follow your cuts, so two episodes can each use their own English track, next to a transcribed phone clip. After you pick a language, one click uses it in your other videos too. The Captions panel lists what each file shows.
   • Choose exactly how your captions split. In the Transcript, click between two words and press Enter to start a new caption there, or Shift+Enter to put the rest on a second line. Backspace joins them again, wherever a caption starts. With captions on, each paragraph in the Transcript is exactly one caption. If what you join is too long for two lines, the caption grows to fit and the paragraph is outlined in yellow. Split it where you like, or click its warning icon and choose Ignore to keep it long.
   • See your captions on the timeline. With captions on, a caption lane above your tracks shows every line where it appears. Click a line to jump to it, or double-click to open it in the Transcript, where you change its words and where it splits. The captions button in the timeline toolbar hides the lane.
   • Copy, cut and paste words with their video. Select words in the Transcript and press Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X or Ctrl+V, or right-click them. Paste puts the picture and sound in after the selected words or at the text cursor.
   • Take wrong words out of the Transcript and captions, but keep the video. When the transcript shows words nobody said, open Correct and click Remove text, keep video. A No words marker stays in their place. Click it to delete that part of the video or bring the words back.

   Improved

   • Pick any thumbnail size in the Media panel. Drag the Thumbnail size slider in the view menu (the ⋮ button) to make cards as small or as large as you like.
   • Large project libraries open with less background work. ClipCookie loads project contents as needed, while keeping thumbnails, durations and quick project opening.
   • Organize your projects from the right-click menu. Move a project or selection into an existing folder or create one from Move to folder. Duplicate or delete several projects together, with a confirmation dialog before deletion.
   • Start reading your transcript sooner. The first words come from a shorter opening section while the rest continues transcribing. A progress bar and percentage show how far along transcription is, with elapsed time during the initial wait.
   • Text is easier to read throughout ClipCookie. Headings, buttons, menus and descriptions use a larger, consistent scale, with clearer labels in the editor sidebar.
   • Get updates without stopping your work. The website EXE version downloads updates in the background and installs them when you close ClipCookie. You can turn this off in Settings → About. Microsoft Store continues to manage updates for the Store version.
   • Usage sharing explains how installations are counted. A random installation ID distinguishes repeat sessions from separate installations without using your files, account or hardware identity. You can turn usage sharing off in Settings → General → Privacy.
   • The website installer speaks your language. Setup and uninstall now follow your Windows display language in all ten of ClipCookie's languages, and fall back to English otherwise.
   • Less memory held while ClipCookie is minimized. When local transcription finishes in the background, it releases the loaded model without waiting another two minutes.
   • Zooms get a smooth length on their own. Each Zoom In and Zoom Out takes the time that suits how far it zooms, and keeps up as you change the amount: just over a second for a small push, about 2.3 seconds to 200% and back. To choose your own, turn off Auto duration under Advanced.
   • Pro buttons are ready the moment you see them. AI Audio Enhancer and Remove background no longer show "Checking plan…" every time you select a clip or switch back to ClipCookie. Your plan is checked when you click.
   • Dragging a clip up or down to another track is much smoother, especially in projects with many clips. The clip keeps up with your pointer instead of stuttering as you move it between tracks.
   • Sentences start with a capital letter after you cut. When you remove the start of a sentence, the next word you keep was often written in lowercase. It now shows capitalized in the Transcript, in captions and in saved subtitles and transcripts. Restore the cut words and it goes back to lowercase.
   • Local transcription now always uses its most accurate model. The smaller Standard model misheard more words, so it is gone. If you only had Standard, ClipCookie offers the 2.5 GB download the next time you transcribe. If you already had High accuracy, it reuses those files instead of downloading them again.
   • When free transcription can't run, ClipCookie says why and how to fix it. An interrupted model download picks up where it stopped instead of starting over, Repair downloads only the damaged files, and a failed transcription always shows a message, even with the transcript panel closed.
   • Choosing how to transcribe is clearer. Settings → Transcription now lists the free option on this computer and the paid online services side by side, with what each one costs, which languages it understands and where your audio goes. Click one to use it. Save now also checks that your key works.

   Fixed

   • Captions could change a frame early or late after a cut, and clicking a word in the Transcript sometimes showed the caption before it. Captions now change exactly when the words are spoken, in the preview and in exports.
   • Video could stay black when you opened a project with several clips or graphics, while everything on the tracks above it still showed. The video now appears as soon as the project finishes loading.
   • Transparent graphics at 100% scale hid everything behind them under solid black. PNG logos and Elements graphics now stay see-through on a video track at any size.
   • Busy scenes keep their quality in Full quality and Smaller file exports. A bitrate limit based on your footage's average could blur action in a mostly quiet video. Exports now check the busiest moments of the clips you use, so action stays sharp without files growing past what the footage needs. On NVIDIA GPUs, H.264 files also spend less where more bits add little, and the size shown before you export is closer to the real file.
   • HEVC and AV1 exports no longer lose detail at Full quality on the CPU. Files are larger than before, and aren't always smaller than H.264.
   • Full quality keeps your footage's size. A 1600×900 recording stays 1600×900 instead of dropping to 720p, and the Resolution menu shows the size.
   • The spoken word stays highlighted while your video plays, even after you click in the Transcript. A click used to show a blinking cursor in its place.
   • Transcript cuts now animate on the timeline. Removed words and sentences fade away before the remaining clips slide together.
   • Frame stepping follows footage on other tracks. Left and Right Arrow use the clip's frame rate when it plays in a gap or beyond the main track.
   • Splitting a clip no longer breaks a sentence in two in the Transcript. The Transcript reads as one piece across all your clips, with a new line only where a sentence ends.
   • Opening ClipCookie again could start a second copy that saved over your project in the first. Now it brings back the window you already have open, even from the system tray.
   • The title bar kept showing Log in for a few seconds after you entered the code from your email. Your account now appears as soon as the code is accepted, and when your AI assistant signs you out, the old account no longer comes back when you open Account.

2. Version 1.6.0 October 30, 2026

   New

   • Use ClipCookie in 10 languages. ClipCookie now speaks Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) as well as English. It follows your computer's language, or pick one in Settings → General.
   • Transcribe speech from every track. Transcribe project includes audible video audio, detached tracks and voiceovers. Cutting words removes that moment from every track, so your video, B-roll and other sounds stay in sync.
   • Use your existing subtitle files as captions. Import SRT, VTT or SBV files in the Captions panel, style them and include them in your video exports without transcribing again.
   • Give scene changes a different feel. Add Whip pan, Blur or Light leak between shots.
   • Put a colored box behind your text. Turn on Background in the text Inspector, then pick its color and opacity, add space around the words and round the corners, all the way to a pill shape.
   • Take your transcript with you. Choose Copy transcript to put the words on your clipboard, or Export transcript → Plain text (.txt) to keep a clean text file.
   • Let your connected AI assistant do more in ClipCookie. It can edit clips and text, arrange groups, save frames and transcripts, organize projects, change selected settings, and start or stop recordings. You still answer any operating-system permission prompts.
   • Land the playhead on clip edges. Turn on Snap playhead to clip edges in Settings → General → Timeline, then drag near a clip's start or end to snap into place.
   • Restore every setting at once. Settings → Reset settings restores app preferences and all recording modes to their fresh-install defaults while keeping your projects and content.

   Improved

   • See more of your edit on the timeline. The timeline now runs under the preview and the Inspector, so long videos get far more room. Click Run full height or Stop above the timeline at the top of either side panel to choose where each ends.
   • Zoom in closer on the timeline. Zoom in until one second fills the timeline, close enough to see single frames, on long videos too. The waveform stays sharp all the way in, and the ruler marks tenths of a second.
   • Start and find projects with less clutter. New project and Record sit beside the Projects heading, search is ready to type, folders show as chips above your projects, and clicking a picture opens its project.
   • Choose where new footage goes. The Media + button adds to the end. Choose Insert at playhead from a card's menu to make room, or drag a card to choose its position and track.
   • Exports with crop or color keyframes finish many times sooner, with exactly the same picture.
   • Copy and paste keep B-roll and sounds with their clip. Paste a copied clip and the B-roll and sounds attached to it come back in place.
   • Stack clip fades with transitions. Add Fade in or Fade out in Inspector → Effects without replacing the transition between clips. Each fade shows as a ramp on the timeline.
   • See which clips are muted. Turn on Mute in Inspector → Audio and the clip's sound turns gray on the timeline, with a speaker-off icon.
   • Line up speed changes exactly. Dragging the speed bar on top of a clip now snaps its end to other clips' edges and the playhead.

   Fixed

   • B-roll and sounds ended up over the wrong footage when you deleted, cut or trimmed with Q or W with the magnetic timeline on. They now go with the time you remove, and hovering Delete marks them in red.
   • Audio went out of line after a split or a trim with Q or W. Deleting the left part of a split could take the audio on the right with it, and clips after a trim spread onto new tracks.
   • Long transcriptions that failed started over. Finished parts are now saved, dropped connections and OpenRouter timeouts retry automatically, and Retry sends only the audio still missing.
   • Seeking during playback made the sound crackle, echo or drift behind the picture.
   • Playback ran on past your last clip after you moved or removed audio. Projects with this blank ending are repaired when opened.
   • You couldn't transcribe after moving your video to another track. A lone video track now becomes video track 1 automatically, including in saved projects.
   • Clips dragged onto a full track disappeared or jumped far along it. They now go back where they were, and media dragged from Media lands on a new track at that spot.
   • Zoom In and Zoom Out shook and drifted over playing video in the preview on Windows. Keyframed position and scale on video now move smoothly too.
   • Fades and keyframes stepped in 60 fps exports of 30 fps footage, changing only every other frame, and color and crop keyframes were left out of some exports.
   • Dragging footage between tracks lagged, especially near the timeline's start. Neighboring clips now move aside live as you choose where it goes.
   • Dragging several audio clips snapped only the one you grabbed. Now every clip's edges snap to other clips and the playhead.
   • Empty audio rows piled up. The magnetic timeline now removes them; with it off, empty rows show diagonal lines and a trash button on hover. Video tracks also stop reserving room for audio they don't have.
   • Gap handles missed empty space next to clips on other tracks. You can now resize any space that is empty across every track.
   • Projects with damaged undo history could freeze the app while opening.
   • The AI working glow didn't appear while the Claude app for Windows used ClipCookie, and its status card only flashed for a moment. Both now stay up while Claude works.
   • Clicking a project whose preview was playing only stopped the preview instead of opening it.
   • Thumbnails flashed black or the app icon before their hover preview started in Projects and Media.
   • The Correct transcript box was cut off at the edge of the Transcript panel. It now opens in the middle of the app.

3. Version 1.5.0 October 24, 2026

   New

   • Make the keyboard shortcuts your own. In Help → Keyboard shortcuts (F1), click a shortcut's keys and press the ones you want. Search finds any shortcut in seconds, and ClipCookie checks before taking keys another shortcut uses.
   • Add ready-made graphics to your videos. Elements now has hands, arrows, reactions, labels and illustrations. Click one to add it at the playhead, or drag it onto the timeline.
   • Keep every audio track from your video. Videos with more than one audio track, like game sound and your mic, now add a separate lined-up audio clip for each. You can also turn on Always detach audio when adding videos in Settings → General.
   • Help choose what ClipCookie improves next. The app now shares anonymous usage statistics: which features are used and basic computer details, never your files, names, words or projects. Turn it off any time in Settings → General.

   Improved

   • Projects, dialogs and panels open faster, especially the first time.
   • Smaller screen recordings at the same quality. NVIDIA GPU recordings are up to half the size, and 30 fps CPU recordings are up to 4 times smaller when the screen scrolls. AV1 recordings also keep up on computers whose graphics card can't record AV1.
   • Opening the recorder no longer slows your computer down for about a minute.
   • Faster, smaller exports. AV1 exports on the CPU finish 1.4 to 3 times sooner, usually in smaller files, and H.264 CPU exports of scrolling screen recordings can be half the size.
   • Text animations look right straight away. Each one starts with the Ease that suits it, and Typewriter types at a pace that fits your text.

   Fixed

   • A yellow border flashed around your screen after opening the recorder in the Microsoft Store version.
   • Drawing on screen put its help message in your recordings, even with Hide recording controls in videos turned on.
   • ClipCookie flashed a white window as it opened. It now opens straight in your theme's color.

4. Version 1.4.0 October 23, 2026

   New

   • Animate your text in and out. Pick how a title enters and leaves—like a fade, slide, pop or typewriter—animate it all at once or by letter, word or line, and keep it gently moving while on screen.
   • Add color and gradient backgrounds. Open Elements and drag a solid color or gradient onto the timeline, or click one to add it at the playhead. Change its colors any time in the Inspector.
   • Make videos with just text. Add titles to an empty timeline and they play over black. You can export without any footage.

   Improved

   • Faster exports for projects that use Spotlight, a vignette or opacity, with the exact same visual result.
   • A snappier editor in big projects. Selecting and moving clips responds right away, even with hundreds on the timeline, and selecting text in long transcripts is quicker.
   • Double-click a clip to open its settings when the Inspector is hidden.

   Fixed

   • Changing a group's speed could knock some of its clips out of place.
   • The Microsoft Store version's taskbar icon sat on a blue square.

5. Version 1.3.0 October 20, 2026

   New

   • Record voiceovers over your video. Press Record and talk while your timeline plays; the recording lands on the timeline right where you started. Record your microphone, your computer's sound, or both.
   • Organize your projects into folders. Drag projects into folders on the Projects page to keep series, clients or drafts apart. Deleting a folder never deletes the projects inside.
   • Add empty space anywhere on the timeline. Choose Insert Gap to add a second of space at the playhead for a pause or room to add something later, then drag its edges to make it any length.
   • Get ready with a recording countdown. Screen, camera and audio recordings now count down for 3 to 10 seconds before starting, or you can turn the countdown off to start right away.
   • Move whole sections of your edit at once. Select every clip before or after the playhead from the Edit menu, then cut, copy and paste them at the playhead.

   Improved

   • Your edits are saved before ClipCookie closes. If saving fails, the app stays open and tells you instead of losing your work.
   • No more yellow border around your screen while recording. ClipCookie asks Windows once to hide it. You can still record if you say no.
   • Know which screen you're recording with a short glow around its edges as recording starts.
   • Scrub long projects more easily: drag the playhead to the edge of the timeline and it keeps scrolling.

   Fixed

   • Long videos with captions failed to export.
   • Choosing a recording type felt slow to respond.

6. Version 1.2.0 October 19, 2026

   New

   • Remove green or blue screens. Key out a background automatically or draw across it on the video to pick the exact shades to remove, then fine-tune the edges.
   • Blur out faces, names and passwords with mosaic blur, which pixelates any part of the picture and can be keyframed to follow movement.
   • Highlight what matters with Spotlight. Darken everything outside a rectangle or circle to guide the viewer's eye.
   • Color-grade your whole video at once. Drop Color Grading onto a track to adjust the light, color and vignette of every clip below it in one step.
   • Zoom into the video preview to check fine details. Scroll or pinch to zoom in, drag with the middle mouse button to move around, and press Ctrl+0 to fit it back.
   • Make key words in a title bigger. Select part of a title and change the font size of just those words.

   Improved

   • HDR phone videos and converted files play in seconds, instead of waiting for the whole file to convert first.
   • Smooth camera recordings, even in dim light. The floating camera preview no longer stutters while you record, and camera recordings keep a steady frame rate in low light.
   • Smaller screen recording files. Screen recordings now default to 30 fps; switch to 60 fps in Recording settings for fast motion like games.
   • Camera and microphone access sorted before you record. ClipCookie checks that Windows lets it use them and walks you through turning them on if not.
   • Deleting a clip closes the gap it leaves, now that the magnetic timeline is on by default.
   • Cut clips and paste them into another project. Cut now removes clips right away.
   • Clicking the preview selects the top clip when pictures overlap.

   Fixed

   • The fullscreen button and F key sometimes stopped working.

7. Version 1.1.0 October 16, 2026

   New

   • Record just your camera, or just your voice, right inside ClipCookie with a live preview and sound meters. The recording goes straight into your project.
   • Choose Dark, Light or System appearance in Settings → General → Appearance.
   • Animate almost any setting with keyframes. Crop, color, EQ, audio pan, font size, spacing, outlines and shadows can all be keyframed over time, and your export moves exactly like the preview.
   • Crop and mirror your camera for camera-only recordings, so you're framed the way you want.

   Improved

   • Camera recordings start instantly. Pressing Record no longer restarts the camera, so there's no black flash or pause at the start.
   • Change how long a freeze frame holds by dragging either edge on the timeline.
   • Better editing for podcasts and audio-only projects. Audio projects now have a dedicated player with playback controls, and gap closing, clip jumps and keyboard selection work across every audio track.
   • Fix a blocked microphone or camera in one click. ClipCookie tells you when Windows is blocking it and opens the right setting.

   Fixed

   • Connect AI didn't work in the Microsoft Store version. If you set it up in 1.0.0, open Connect AI and give your AI app the setup prompt again.
   • Screen recordings from the Microsoft Store version had a yellow border.
   • Black windows flashed on screen when your AI app checked the connection or looked at your clips.
   • The editor slowed down while waveforms loaded.
   • The text color picker was blank.
   • Some letters showed in the wrong font.

8. Version 1.0.0 October 16, 2026

   • Edit video by editing text. Transcribe your video, then delete words in the transcript to cut them from the video. Hover a cut to bring it back.
   • Transcribe for free on your computer, with nothing uploaded, or use a cloud service with your own account.
   • Remove long pauses and silences in one click, and clean up filler words, retakes and misheard words in your transcript.
   • Search your transcript to jump straight to any word or phrase.
   • Captions made from your transcript, split into easy-to-read lines. Style them with your own font, colors, background, outline, shadow and word-by-word highlighting, or export them as subtitle files.
   • A full multitrack timeline: multiple video and audio tracks, keyframes, speed changes, freeze frames and groups, with snapping that lines clips up for you. Drag media straight in from your desktop.
   • Titles you type right on the preview, with saved styles you can reuse in any project.
   • Transitions and effects: Fade, Cross dissolve, Push, Wipe and Zoom, plus zooms, blur, crop, flip and color correction.
   • Shape your sound: volume, fades, EQ, compression, noise reduction, waveform sync and loudness matching for every clip.
   • Record your screen, camera and microphone from a floating toolbar, with your camera in the video or saved as its own file. Draw on your screen while you record.
   • Edit with your AI assistant: connect your AI app and let it build or tidy up your edit with you.
   • Move projects between computers: export a project with all its media, and reconnect moved files without losing your edits.
   • Free without limits: unlimited projects and exports, no watermark, video up to Full HD (1080p).
   • ClipCookie Pro adds 4K export, AI Audio Enhancer, AI Background Remover and custom font uploads.