Changes
What changed in KitCut, newest first. Dates are UTC.
2026-09-28
- One header on every page: the home page, pricing, the docs, connect, privacy and terms share one header and footer at one width, so the logo and the account links no longer move when you go from page to page. The header shows the same links everywhere: Pricing, Studio, your account and Sign out (or Sign in).
- Invite friends: every account has an invite link. When a friend joins through it and their first film is finished, you each get 2 minutes of film; when a friend subscribes, you also get a bonus as big as their plan (up to 10 minutes) and they get 50% more minutes in their first month. See Invite friends.
- KitCut now runs behind Cloudflare, and an account keeps roughly where it signs in from (city, region, country; never the IP address). See the privacy policy.
- The length slider starts at 30 seconds (was 10). A film uses at least 30 credits however short it is, so 30 seconds is what the credits already buy.
- The account page has the Studio's look: the same bar and account menu, a sidebar with your projects, and a picture beside each film.
- Frame rate by plan: Free films are now made at 30 frames a second; Standard and Pro films stay at 60, for smoother motion. Every film is still 1920x1080.
- Lighter videos: every film now plays from a web copy of about 5 megabits a second (an 8-minute film is about 300 MB instead of 2.2 GB), so films start and skip ahead quickly. The full-quality file is kept for downloads and YouTube.
- Films fit who they are for: Claude first decides who a film is for and its mood, and makes it look professionally made for that audience. A documentary, a hospital explainer or a staff announcement no longer comes out looking like a children's cartoon; a bedtime story still looks like one. KitCut's instructions to Claude no longer prescribe any style, so the look is Claude's choice for each film, or yours in the idea.
2026-09-27
- A backup voice: a narration line Gemini refuses to read (its content filter can block a name or a topic) is read by ElevenLabs instead of being reworded. The rest of the narration stays Gemini's.
- Long films get room to work: more narration recordings (16 for an 8-minute film) and drum parts as long as the film.
- The gallery lists every finished public film, not only the newest 12.
- Every film gets a lighter web copy that its page plays; assistants also give the full-quality file to download.
- These docs, including How KitCut compares, with llms.txt, llms-full.txt and limits.json.
- Pro films can be up to 8 minutes (were 2). Standard stays at 1 minute; Free is up to 1 minute, and a month's free credits make one 30-second film.
- Ideas can be up to 12,000 characters (were 4,000).
- A long film's credits are held longer (6 hours plus 45 seconds per second of film), so a long film that waited in the queue is still charged correctly.
- Painted films between 2 and 4 minutes get at least 12 paintings.
- Publishing to YouTube: a finished film can be sent to your own channel. Access is limited for now.
- Assistants: KitCut's MCP server at
https://kitcut.ai/mcpworks with Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Meta AI and other MCP clients. Films made there are link-only by default. - Projects in the Studio (kitcut.ai/studio): a series with its own brief, characters and pictures.
- Privacy policy and terms published.
2026-09-26
- kitcut.ai opened: accounts (Google or email link), credits, the Free, Standard and Pro plans, the account page and pricing.
- Pictures and voice notes can be added to an idea.
- Every film uses at least 30 credits (was 10).
- Characters that come back: Claude keeps the characters it draws for the same person's later films.