Changelog

Under the hood: Simplified PostgreSQL and Redis configuration to DATABASE_URL and REDIS_URL, shared by the API, migrations and workers. Docker initialization settings are derived automatically. (Configuration)

Under the hood: Retired MCP and user API Keys, including their settings, endpoints and authentication. User requests now require a signed-in session. Database migration 0010_remove_api_keys.sql removes stored user keys. (Migration)

Under the hood: The standalone product opens directly in the app, including native development, Docker and Compose. The public marketing site now lives in the private Bee workspace and shares its footer with the other Bee sites. (Product setup)

Under the hood: Removed the retired backend directory, legacy media and font path fallbacks, and automatic reuse of the old upscale runtime. Services use their current workspace directories and configured storage roots. (Monorepo structure)

Under the hood: Separated the public site, product app, business API and optional model services while preserving existing routes and data. (Architecture migration)

Improved: The workspace and authentication screens use Fluid's Inter typography and shared type scale. Composer geometry, loading states and small visual effects now use Tailwind utilities. (Workspace)

Improved: The hero carousel now has six labeled feature controls for clipping, captions, reframing, B-roll, audio enhancement and voice-over, with matching previews and keyboard navigation. Removed eyebrow labels across public pages and heading components, and removed the landing page’s self-hosting promotional section and navigation link. (Homepage)

Improved: Landing previews now use four new video scenes with animated headlines, a cinematic carousel, live feature demonstrations, a feature menu and a floating video input. Playback pauses off screen and respects reduced motion. (Homepage)

Improved: Redesigned the landing page with a dark video-first layout, real clip previews, product walkthroughs, responsive navigation, and localized pricing and FAQs. Video links carry through sign-up into the workspace composer. (Homepage)

Improved: Retired product analytics, session replay, campaign attribution and export tracking. ClipBee no longer loads tracking scripts or sends analytics events. (Observability)

Under the hood: Deployable services now live in apps/, reusable contracts, domain rules, database, UI and tooling in packages/, and deployment configuration in infra/. Workspace checks enforce public package boundaries. (Monorepo structure)

New: Hosted Free videos now carry a ClipBee watermark, including regenerated clips and editor exports. Paid plans and self-hosted output remain watermark-free. (Video output policy)

Improved: Processing uses a simple progress bar with downloaded bytes and percentage, transcription time, analyzed sections and completed clip counts. Estimated download sizes are labeled; unknown sizes show bytes received. Project titles appear in the header breadcrumb, and clip placeholders remain visible. (Task processing)

Improved: Credit balance and purchase screens no longer repeat the credit-to-minute conversion note. (Billing guide)

Fixed: Development video uploads use the same-origin streaming transport, preventing stale public backend ports from causing “Failed to fetch”. (Upload authorization)

New: AI Upscale built-in and custom recipe controls use local SeedVR2 7B FP16 on Apple Silicon MPS or NVIDIA CUDA. HD/4K picture restoration runs before captions, and enhanced editor media retains its resolution in preview and exports. (Local upscale setup)

Improved: Local ASR now checks speech edges, probes languages and retries suspicious recognition, with optional separated-vocal alignment. Translation and dubbing resume completed sentence work after failures, and paired subtitles use weighted multilingual lengths and bounded refinement. (Localization processing)

New: Credit plans with a balance, processing-cost estimates and monthly or yearly credit packs. Starter costs $12/month, Pro $23/month or $138/year, and 300-credit top-ups $23, with crossed-out original prices and discount badges. (Credit billing)

Improved: Light/Dark mode now lives in the sidebar user menu, alongside language and billing. (User menu)

Improved: Dubbed captions now use forced word alignment of the final synthesized and tempo-adjusted speech. Word highlights, editor previews and exports reuse measured timestamps, while subtitle clauses retain their source sentence mapping. (Dubbing alignment)

Improved: Social publishing and audience Analytics, including account connections, scheduled posts, metrics collection and audience history in AI selection. Old pages and APIs return 404. Public configuration now uses Astro's PUBLIC_ prefix. (App guide)

Improved: ASR, clip analysis and translation now share NLP and semantic sentence boundaries. Original word timings stay intact, source and translated clauses remain aligned through cuts and acceleration, and editor previews and exports preserve sentence boundaries. (Sentence processing)

Fixed: Loading buttons animate during uploads and processing; their spinner keyframes now survive the production CSS build. (Animation styles)

Improved: Language switching now lives in the user menu. The standalone settings page, caption defaults, notification preferences, and Danger zone are retired; plan and billing actions live at /app/billing. (Account menu)

Improved: Language content now compiles with Paraglide, and the pnpm workspace provides stable portless URLs for local development. (Development)

Fixed: New and existing installations no longer show the preloaded YouTube download incident. Operator-published status updates are preserved. (Status migration)

Improved: Public pages now render as static Astro HTML, while the workspace runs as a React SPA backed by a separate Hono and oRPC service. (Architecture)

Fixed: Chinese captions use complete clauses and natural pauses instead of four-character fragments. Long phrases wrap while keeping word highlights and matching editor previews and exports. (Caption rendering)

Improved: Web business operations now use a typed oRPC router and shared client, including editor actions, uploads, publishing, billing and task progress. Retired custom API proxies are removed; native video streams and external callbacks retain their required transports. (API architecture)

Fixed: Qwen3-ASR uses reliable FP32 recognition on native Mac GPUs. Docker workers can use the optional local ASR service while keeping the normal task and subtitle pipeline. (Local ASR setup)

New: Translate captions into 20 languages with shared terminology, semantic splitting, faithful translation and reflection. Local dubbing supports 10 languages, original voice matching and nine presets, measured resynthesis, bounded speech speed and retained background sound. Language choices, custom terminology, timed captions and audio persist through recipes, editing and export. (Translation and dubbing)

Improved: Removed the standalone AI clipping guides, blog, and creator program, including applications, reviews, referral discounts, and program emails. Navigation now focuses on the product, demo, status, and account workflows. (Website)

Improved: Browse illustrated Recipe cards with filters and action menus. Pick a Recipe before adding a video, or create, duplicate and edit a custom Recipe in its own settings screen with Save and Save as new. (Recipe workflow)

New: Video acceleration in recipes: normal speed plus 1.25×, 1.5×, 1.75× and 2×. Audio retains its pitch, and captions, cut mappings, saved recipes and editor exports follow the selected speed. (Video speed)

New: Recipes now control headline generation and three headline styles, contextual color Emoji, automatic zoom, cut transitions, speech enhancement, and adaptive exposure/color correction. These settings persist through retries and regenerations, with matching editor assets and exports. (Recipe controls)

New: Choose from eight built-in video recipes, or save, update, rename, duplicate and delete your own recipes. Turning Clipping off applies edits to the complete video. Recipes are saved to your account and keep source videos separate. (Video recipes)

Improved: Demo clips now use the project results interface at /app/tasks/demo, with sorting, playback, and individual preview downloads. Existing demo links redirect to the new page. (Demo)

New: Self-hosted transcription supports Qwen3-ASR 1.7B with word timestamps from Qwen3-ForcedAligner, including Chinese punctuation and long-video processing. (Transcription configuration)

Improved: Blur existing subtitles now finds their position automatically. Manual ranges are optional; videos without detected subtitles stay clear. (Subtitle settings)

Improved: Controls use a consistent rounded shape with 12px corners and 16px popup shells, with matching focus rings and animated highlights. Larger corners are scoped to the home composer. (Theme)

Improved: Home uses an attached video-mode label, a spacious link input, and upload and sample actions in the same source card. The reference layout's larger corners stay local to this composer. (Home screen)

Improved: Home starts with just a video link or upload. After choosing a video, review the source, clipping, captions, and cleanup at /app/recipes before generating clips; old setup links redirect automatically. Setup uses a focused header, horizontal caption presets, and a create action that stays visible on mobile. (Video setup)

Improved: Original-subtitle blur controls now sit under the recipe's finishing options, with inline band settings and video preview. (Subtitle settings)

Improved: Recipe settings now use a pinned caption preview, a style carousel and gallery, and neutral switches. Speech cleanup has an independent switch, checkbox options, and expandable advanced settings. (Recipe controls)

Improved: Recipe icons share a consistent neutral style, and options stay expanded without a redundant Recipe settings label. (Recipe settings)

Improved: The project header shows My Project / source icon and project title as a breadcrumb, with long titles truncated to fit smaller screens. The page uses the available width with the same narrower side padding as Home and My Project. (Project breadcrumb)

Improved: Global search now sits in the header, with a narrower centered search field and keyboard hint on desktop and a compact search button on mobile. The header has no bottom divider. (App header)

Improved: The website stays available after signing in, and the dashboard, projects, editor, and account pages now live under /app. Existing app links redirect to their new addresses. (App routes)

Improved: Navigation is grouped into Workspace, Publishing, and Manage, with Home and My Project names in every language. Home aligns clip settings, upload, and sample clips in one compact toolbar below the source field, with a flush subtitle section. Recent projects use the same preview proportions and responsive grid as My Project. Home and My Project use the available width with narrower side padding. (App navigation)

Under the hood: Local development has a one-click test-account login on the sign-in and sign-up pages. (Development guide)

Improved: The entire project now uses the ClipBee name, including the interface, emails, API headers, MCP tools, deployment defaults, and documentation. (Migration guide)

Under the hood: Database access now uses Drizzle ORM 0.45.4 with PostgreSQL 18.6, and authentication uses Better Auth 1.7.15. This release starts with a fresh database and replaces Prisma migrations. (Database setup)

Improved: The signed-in home screen opens directly with the video input, without a greeting or introductory description. (Home screen)

Improved: The home composer pairs the video link with a labeled generate button and places upload and processing options below, with a stacked layout on smaller screens. (Video intake)

Improved: Navigation now uses a resizable, collapsible Fluid sidebar and a mobile drawer, with a Fluid command menu for search. Inter typography, neutral surfaces, blue accents, and library filters now follow the same design system. (App navigation)

Improved: Controls across the app now use Fluid Functionalism, with consistent motion, rounded corners, clearer focus states, and reduced motion support. The app follows your system theme by default; press D to switch between light and dark while outside a text field. (Fluid Functionalism)

New: API and MCP callers can describe what clips should focus on in any language. Selection keeps that focus when finding more clips and reports when no moments match. (Clip selection)

New: Generate more clips from a completed video. Each request looks for up to five unused moments and keeps all existing clips. (Task workflow)

Fixed: Clips from videos whose subtitles have no punctuation (common for Chinese) end on the line the AI chose and open on it, instead of running into the interviewer's next question or starting on the end of the previous sentence. (Clip timeline)

Improved: Auto clip length now follows the content: each clip runs as long as its moment needs, up to 3 minutes, instead of aiming for 25–50 seconds. Selection and scoring put complete answers and topics people will discuss first, and rank Chinese clips that open mid-thought ("但是…", "所以…") lower. (Clip selection)

Improved: Chosen clips are trimmed or dropped when they open on a missing premise, end before the point lands, or repeat a higher-ranked clip. (Clip review)

New: A clip can stitch two to four separate moments that make the same point, instead of only one continuous stretch. (Thematic montages)

Improved: Clips are ranked with the picture as well as the words, and the on-screen hook title moves to whichever edge of the frame is darker so the white text stays readable. (Picture review)

Under the hood: Clip selection can notice a loud moment or a burst of scene cuts even when the words are quiet, and may consider that stretch. It still decides from the transcript. (Signal recall)

Under the hood: Once enough published clips have audience metrics, clip selection sees which lengths and virality scores earned more engagement. (Performance prior)

New: Attach an SRT subtitle file to an uploaded video and preview a blur band over its existing subtitles before creating clips. (Source inputs)

Improved: Clip selection uses a whole-video outline for context and preserves scores when reusing cached analysis. (Clip selection)

Fixed: Source subtitle masking and framing settings stay consistent when rendering and editing clips. (Subtitle masking)

New: Download all of a generation's clips at once as a ZIP from the task page. The download starts right away and streams the original files. (#321)

Improved: The footer, terms, and privacy policy now identify the company operating ClipBee. (#314)

New: Switch between a light and dark theme from the sidebar (or the header on mobile). The app starts light and remembers your choice; the website and sign-in pages stay light. (#312)

Fixed: Deleting a generation no longer restores used video minutes, and every new video has its length verified before minutes are charged. (#261)

Fixed: Upgrading from Pro to Creator takes effect after the upgrade payment succeeds. If that payment is still open or does not go through, you stay on the plan you already paid for. (#260)

Fixed: Downloading a clip in a social format no longer waits on the whole re-encode, so a long export can finish instead of timing out. (#258)

Fixed: Copying an API key, a creator code, or a share link still works when the browser blocks the clipboard. If it cannot copy, the text is selected and a message tells you to copy it yourself. (#257)

Under the hood: A brief server error no longer clears the YouTube download notice or the What's new list, and those checks are not reported as crashes. (#257)

Fixed: A YouTube video whose direct audio link is blocked is retried over HLS before a paid download. (#250)

New: The site is available in Bahasa Indonesia. (#243)

Fixed: Phone videos recorded in portrait no longer fail to render. (#241)

Fixed: Editing a clip keeps a split-screen or stacked layout instead of flattening it back to a single frame. (#238)

Improved: Uploads can be as large as 4 GB. Video above 1080p or 60 fps is scaled down automatically before clipping. (#220)

Improved: Automatic vertical framing keeps more of the scene around the speaker, instead of cropping in on the face alone. (#236)

Improved: Clip analysis on Claude Sonnet uses the model's structured output, so a long video is more likely to come back with a full set of clips. (ddbc537)

Under the hood: When you submit a video link, a sanitized copy is written to the logs, including when the job is rejected. (#235)

New: Hosted plans are billed by hours of source video. Pro is $9.99/month for 10 hours at 720p, Creator is $24.99/month for 25 hours at 1080p, and yearly billing is two months free. Pro subscribers from before this change keep 1080p. (#216)

Improved: Pricing cards spell out how much video a plan includes, and the price stays inside the card. (#225)

New: Paste a Twitch or Kick link — a VOD or a clip — and those sources show up alongside YouTube. (#227, #228)

Improved: Calls and talking-head videos are framed more carefully for a vertical crop. (#217)

Fixed: A clip that rewinds to set up the hook stays within 60 seconds, and a long hook title fits on screen. (#221)

New: The site and app are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Chinese. (#211)

Under the hood: YouTube downloads hold up better when several jobs run at once, including through a residential proxy when one is configured. (#218, #223)

New: Connect YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram to publish a clip and see how those posts perform. (#98)

Improved: The library groups each generation with its original video, and an uploaded file keeps its filename. (#197)

New: A self-hosted install can use its own YouTube download service. (#196)

Under the hood: If the first YouTube download does not check out, ClipBee can try another one within the same limit. (#195)

New: A public status page shows whether ClipBee is up. (0aab079)

Fixed: Closing a video stops the transfer instead of leaving it running. (#187)

New: Clips open on a short hook, then cut to the sentence where the moment actually starts. (#174)

Improved: Long pauses are tightened so a clip keeps moving. (#173)

Improved: On a wide shot with several people, the crop follows whoever is speaking. (#175)

Improved: A long video is reviewed in sections, then the best moments are ranked together. (#176)

Fixed: Face tracking works again, so a vertical crop can stay on the person. (#177)

Improved: Upscaled vertical crops look sharper. (#172)

Improved: Each video produces at most 10 clips. (#181)

New: The home page and the demo play a new set of podcast clips. (#182)

New: Checkout accepts a creator promo code. (#183)

New: The app can show an announcement from the ClipBee team. (#179)

Improved: The home page includes the Product Hunt badge. (#184)

Fixed: If every clip fails to render, the job is marked failed instead of looking finished. A job that never starts does not use your monthly video allowance. (#169, #170, #171)

New: The creator program is open. Apply, share your code, and your audience gets 20% off for 3 months. Approved creators get Pro. (#165)

Improved: Pricing explains that self-hosting is free, next to the hosted plans. (#166)

Improved: Affiliate is linked from the top of the site and the footer. (#168)

New: You can delete your account from Settings. (#158)

New: If you forget your password, you can reset it by email. (#157)

Fixed: A transcription that stalls gives up instead of waiting forever, and the app can tell when the worker is down. (#155)

Under the hood: Self-hosted installs can build a CPU-only image and keep the sign-in addresses they already use. (#153, #154)