KitCutDocs

Updated 13 November 2026 · Markdown

Changes

What changed in KitCut, newest first. Dates are UTC.

2026-11-13

  • A rounder logo. The lime slice's rind is now an even circle, and its aquamarine play triangle reaches the rim, so the logo is as wide as it is tall instead of looking like an upright oval. The play triangle on buttons, video cards and players follows it.

2026-11-12

  • Controls are the same everywhere. The sidebar's Make a film was taller on the home page than on the other pages, and small selects, chips, search boxes and the pricing page's switch were each drawn in their own way; every control now takes its size and look from one place. The big buttons (Make a film, Use this template, a plan's button) are 44px.
  • All N projects opens the whole list in the sidebar (Switching workspace). Below the six most recent projects, All N projects now shows every project of the workspace in the sidebar (Show fewer closes it) instead of opening the projects page. Switching workspace shows that workspace's projects in the sidebar at once, as last seen, while they load.
  • The sidebar stays in the workspace you switched to (Switching workspace). In a workspace you joined, the sidebar's All projects (and All N projects below the recent ones) and New project opened your own workspace instead, so only the few recent projects of the other one could be reached. They now open, and add to, the workspace you are in, in the Studio and in its Settings.

2026-11-11

  • Full screen and the end of a film. The round button at the top right of a film puts the whole player in full screen, so the big play disc, the end buttons and the captions stay over the film. The player's own full-screen control shows the bare video as before; when the film ends there, it leaves full screen by itself and the end buttons are right there.
  • Edit film is the new name of Change something, the aquamarine button on a finished film of yours, on its page and in the Studio. When such a film ends, on its page, in the Studio or on its public page, and in full screen too, Play again and Edit film come up over its last frame: point at what should change, and Claude makes the next version. In the notes, Change something else is now Edit more.

2026-11-10

  • Name each picture in the idea: @picture1, @picture2 (Pictures, Episodes). Every attached picture's tile shows its name; click it, or type @ in the idea, to write it where the picture goes ("@picture1 on the last frame"). A picture set to Show it as it is goes where its sentence says. An idea that never names such a picture, or names one that is not attached, is sent back before anything is made or charged, saying what to add. Assistants making films name pictures the same way.

2026-11-09

  • The home page says it in one line: "Animated series drawn in code". Type an idea, add a reference, get a finished video; create a project from it, and the series keeps its look, voice and characters.
  • The idea box starts empty. Its grey hint types example ideas out one after another (an explainer, a story, a how-to) instead of one example sitting in the box as text. The hint is never part of the film: only what you type, paste, say or attach is. With "reduce motion" on in the device's settings the hint stands still.
  • Create project from this video (Starting a project from a video, A film's page in the Studio). A finished film's page in the Studio can start a project from it: the project takes the film's look, length, frame and narrator, its pictures (with their roles) and its characters, keeps the film for every episode to look at, and gets a brief Claude writes from the film: the audience, tone, narrator, music, look, fonts and characters, without the film's own story.

2026-11-06

  • Play buttons wear the logo. The play triangle everywhere (on Make a film, on video cards, in the film player, on KitCut TV and on voice samples) is the logo's own navy triangle, and the round play buttons and progress bars are aquamarine, as are the buttons that play or open a film to watch: Watch again, Play all, Watch it being made, Watch on YouTube and KitCut TV's Watch For you and Watch from the top. Video cards (the home page, a creator's page, Templates) carry a small aquamarine play disc, and Tap for sound on a playing film is aquamarine too. Amber stays the colour of making. On midnight the logo's triangle is aquamarine. Nothing works differently.
  • More aquamarine. Sign in, Sign up free, Make the film, Make episode and your account page's Make a film are aquamarine buttons now, as are the Publish to YouTube dialog's Schedule (or Publish now) button and a film page's Schedule and Schedule for then, a template's Make my film Studio's New project and Create project, and Settings' Send invitation, and the round account button at the top right, as are the New tag on templates, the knob of the length slider, and on Pricing the Pro plan's outline, its badge and the chosen amount. The logo's play segment is aquamarine in the light theme too. A paused film shows a big, slightly see-through aquamarine play button in the middle of the picture, on a film's page in Studio, while it is being made, and on its share page. A workspace's or project's initial (beside its name in the bar and the sidebar, on Settings and Pricing) is quiet grey now, never filled with a colour.

2026-11-05

  • Hand-drawn is now called Code-drawn (Looks, Making a film). The look drawn line by line in code has a name that says how it is made; it works as before. The look picker shows only the three names, Code-drawn, Painted and Collage, and the frame picker each frame's shape and ratio (16:9, 1:1, 9:16), without the line under each. The Make a film box on the home page and a project's next-episode box are laid out alike: the idea, then one row with the look, the frame, the length (a slider with no marks under it) and the button, then the length and credit line, and People in the film at the bottom. In the episode box, Picture and Text file are icon buttons. The People in the film examples have brighter, cleaner colours.

2026-11-04

  • A new look. KitCut's logo is a lime slice in amber, and the site is midnight and amber. Buttons are round; the main one is amber with dark text and turns a deeper amber under the pointer. Small section labels are amber. The light theme's greys are tinted midnight instead of cream; the dark theme is midnight with white text. Links, labels and faint text are darker than before on white, so they read better. Nothing moved and nothing works differently.

2026-11-02

  • Films play on iPhones with iOS 27.2 again (The share page, KitCut TV, A film in an email). Safari there refused a film with captions on the share page, the plain page an email's picture opens, and KitCut TV: a crossed-out play button. The captions now go on once the film has started loading, and work as before.

2026-11-01

  • Translated films in All videos (A film in other languages). A translation is listed under its own title, written in its language, instead of the original's English idea; until that title is written it shows as, say, "Spanish version". Search finds it by that title. Each translation wears its language's code (ES, DE) on its picture, the original none, and every version lists the others under Also in.

  • A tidier sidebar (Your account). Make a film is a button at the top; Your work (All projects, All videos, Views), your six most recent projects and Explore (Templates, Video examples, KitCut TV) are groups; Invite friends is a card at the bottom. Account and credits is in the account menu and the credits in the bar, and signed in, the bar no longer repeats Home and KitCut TV.

  • Translate a project's episode from its own page (A film in other languages): the button is beside Change something at the top of the episode's page in the Studio, and no longer on each episode's card.

  • The account page is in tabs: Overview (credits, the plan with its month, the latest films), Films, Invite friends, Public profile, YouTube and apps, Emails and Credit history, each with its own address (kitcut.ai/account#films...). Films lists the ones made; those that gave their credits back are under Credits back (Your account).

  • Translating: which films (A film in other languages). A film made from a template, made scene by scene, with people drawn from photos, or with no narration cannot be translated yet; the dialog says so before anything is used. A translated film's YouTube words and thumbnails are written in its own language by the studio too.

  • Translating, checked again (A film in other languages). Two translations asked for at once can no longer both go ahead; when the studio is slow to answer, the credits stay held for a few minutes instead of coming back at once, and the film is kept if it appears; the original film's link is no longer shown to someone who cannot see it; a Bulgarian film or idea is no longer taken for Russian; and an idea that says what it does not want ("no Russian narration", "not in Russian") or is about Russian-occupied places is no longer refused, while more ways of asking for Russian ("narrate in Russian throughout", "make the voiceover Russian", "in English and Russian") are.

  • Translate on a film's page in the Studio, and on episode cards (A film in other languages, A film's page in the Studio). It was only on the film's own page. The Studio page has Translate at the top and a Languages card on the Film tab; each finished episode has a Translate link under its card. The dialog now shows the languages first, with what stays and what to expect one click below, a button that names the language ("Translate into Spanish") and a memory of your last YouTube choice.

  • Ideas that ask for Russian are refused too (What KitCut doesn't do). Until now only an idea written in Russian was refused. An idea in English, Spanish, Ukrainian or any other language that asks for Russian narration, Russian subtitles or on-screen words, a translation into Russian, or Russian lessons ("narrate this in Russian", "captions: Russian", "en ruso", "російською") is refused at once, nothing is used, on the website and through an assistant: for a film's idea, a template's prompt, a draft, a project's brief and a note on a finished film. A film that is only about Russia, Russian history or a Russian character is fine.

  • A film in another language, on YouTube (A film in other languages, Publishing to YouTube). Each translated film is published with its title, description, tags and four thumbnails written again for it, in its language; the original's are never reused, and a draft in another language is never shown. It goes up as a video in its own language, the publish dialog starts on a channel that suits it (a channel in that language, else one without the original) and says which language each channel publishes in, and Translate can put each language on a channel's calendar as it is made (Also put each one on YouTube). Through an assistant, localize_film takes youtube and by_language, and get_film says which film a translation is of.

2026-10-31

  • A film in other languages (A film in other languages). Translate, under a finished film of your own, makes it again in other languages: the same scenes, pictures, characters, music and narrator's voice, with the narration and every word on screen translated and the scenes timed to the new words. Each language is a film of its own, with its own link and title; a Languages row under the film links them. 19 languages in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets; each uses 50% of the original's credits. Through an assistant: localize_film, and get_film lists a film's languages. It opens to accounts one at a time.

2026-10-30

  • Muse paints from pictures (Looks, Characters and projects). The painter of painted films now takes pictures as well as words. A character painted once stays the same in the next scenes, a project's painted characters work with Muse as well as with GPT Image, and a project's style Muse, given your pictures (before: "Muse, from the style line") sends the style's pictures with every painting. Films made before keep their paintings.
  • Pictures at Standard or High from the start (Look, length and frame). A collage film, and a painted or collage episode of a project whose style is painted by GPT Image, has a fourth choice beside the frame: Draft (the default), Standard or High. Above a draft it adds 25% or 60% of the film's credits, the same as making a draft sharper later. Through an assistant, make_film and remake_film take quality (Assistants).
  • Pricing and the home page explain picture quality (Plans and credits). The pricing page's questions say what Draft, Standard and High pictures are and what each adds, and its feature cards say a picture is shown as it is, a place to paint, or how to draw one thing; the home page's questions say which films can choose.
  • Sharper pictures use only the difference (Sharper pictures): from Standard to High the 35% between them, from a draft the level's whole part, as before.

2026-10-29

  • Sharper pictures (Sharper pictures). Pictures painted by GPT Image (a project's style painted from its pictures, and every collage cut-out) now come as a draft first. A finished film painted that way offers Sharper pictures under Change something: every picture painted again at Standard or High, each from its draft, so the faces, layout and camera moves stay, as the film's next version; the draft stays in its versions. It uses 25% or 60% of what the film used, at least 5 credits, is never the included first round, and counts as one of the day's rounds. Films painted by Muse and hand-drawn films are as they were.
  • Every picture says what it is for (Pictures, a project's Pictures). A picture attached to a film, in the home page's idea box or a project's episode box, and every picture on a project's Pictures tab has a choice under it: Show it as it is (on screen as it is, never repainted; the default), What the place has (a photo of a real place: Claude names two or three of the things in it in the paintings, and it is never on screen) or How we draw this (a drawing of one kind of thing in the film's look: the paintings that show that thing are drawn the same way). A project picture's role can be changed on its card. Through an assistant, make_film and remake_film take picture_roles, and add_project_picture takes role (Assistants).
  • Every Style picture goes with every painting (Style). A project's style takes up to 4 pictures, up from 3, and all of them, with the style line, go with every painting and every collage cut-out, where before only the main picture did and the line was left out. How full a painting is comes from its scene, not from the style's pictures. A hand-drawn project takes the style's line, colours and lettering, as before.
  • A painted Short is painted tall (Looks). A 9:16 painted film's scenes now come in its own tall shape and fill the phone screen, where before they were wide and left paper-coloured bands above and below. Muse paints them, as it paints a wide film, and a project whose style is painted from its picture keeps that painter and picture.
  • A film in an email (A film in an email). Email in a finished film's share bar gives its maker a picture of the film with a play button, linked to a page with only the film on it, to paste into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail, or as HTML into a newsletter. The thumbnail is the film's card, any moment of the film, or a picture of your own.
  • KitCut for iPhone (The iPhone app). Sign in with Apple, Google or an emailed code; make a film with the idea, pictures and text files, the size (Wide, Tall, Square), the look, the length and the project; follow it as it is made; and buy Pro through the App Store, at the website's prices, starting with the same free trial. The same account, films and credits as on the website.
  • A film's page is shorter while it is made. Until its first pictures arrive, the box above the status line is only as tall as its words, and the pictures show wide whatever the film's frame, so a tall film no longer fills a phone's screen with an empty box. The film takes its own frame once it is done. On a phone, the line under the box no longer repeats the time of the last update.
  • Signed in, your film's page is your film. The introduction to KitCut, the case studies, the most watched videos and the questions are shown only to visitors. Your home page keeps the idea box and the latest films, without the introduction. The home page shows no empty player under the idea box; it appears once a film is asked for.

2026-10-28

  • Creator pages are kept out of search engines (Creator pages). Every kitcut.ai/creator/@<handle> page asks search engines not to list it, and none is in the sitemap. The pages themselves work as before.
  • Choose the frame on the website (Look, length and frame). The home page's idea box and a project's episode box have Wide 16:9, Square 1:1 and Tall 9:16 beside the length. Tall makes a YouTube Short, as it does through an assistant: the narration's words drawn into the picture, and the length up to 3:00. Before, a film from an idea on the website was always 16:9.
  • A project has a default frame (Projects), set in New project and Settings, beside its look and length. Its episodes and drafts start in it. Through an assistant, create_project, update_project and save_draft take frame, and make_film in a project uses the project's frame when none is given.
  • Square and tall films are shown whole on their cards, in the Studio, on the home page and on the account page, and a tall film's share page tells other sites its real size.

2026-10-27

  • Plans say what they make as videos (Plans and credits): the pricing page and the trial step show each Pro amount as videos a month, so many of 2 minutes or of 8 (40 minutes is 20 videos of 2 minutes, or 5 of 8). The plans, their minutes and their prices are unchanged.
  • A project holds 16 painted characters, up from 12 (Characters and projects).
  • New films are kept out of search engines (Who can see a film). A film made from today, public or link-only, asks search engines not to list it, and no film is in the sitemap any more. Public films made before today can still be found in search. Sharing, link previews, the gallery, creator pages and KitCut TV are unchanged.
  • Painted characters in a project's Cast (Characters and projects). Add a character on the Cast tab puts in a finished picture of someone the series meets again, with a line saying who they are, and a painted episode can keep a new character it painted. Every painted or collage episode is then painted from their picture, so they keep their face, clothes and proportions from film to film, up to 4 of them in one painting. Up to 16 a project; the Cast marks each member drawn or painted.
  • @name in an episode's idea (Characters and projects). Typing @ lists the project's characters with their pictures; a named character is in the episode as the Cast has them, and a near miss ("@mum" for "@mom") is pointed out before the episode is made.
  • Assistants see painted characters and name the cast by @name (Assistants): list_characters (and get_project, brainstorm_videos) says whether each of a project's characters is drawn or painted, and make_film with a project puts every character its idea names as @name in the episode. A near miss ("@mum" for a cast's mom) is refused with "did you mean @mom?" and uses no credits.

2026-10-26

  • Starting the trial is one page (Plans and credits): after signing up, a new account may see a single page with its first video's idea, the plan already chosen (change the amount right there), what is paid today and when, and the card in Stripe's secure form inside the page (Apple Pay and Google Pay where the device has them). A declined card is said on the same page with room for another, and once the card passes the first video starts being made at once.
  • No new films on a plan that is not paid for (Plans and credits): when a payment fails, new films wait until it goes through (Use another card pays it at once), and a trial whose bank wants the card confirmed waits for a card the same way as one whose card was declined.
  • The card email opens the card page in one click (Plans and credits): its button goes straight to a secure Stripe page to add another card, with no sign-in. A trial still waiting gets a last reminder half a day before it would end.
  • Use another card (Plans and credits). When a card does not go through, the account page (and a workspace's plan page) says so and offers Use another card, and we email the person who pays. A trial whose card would not hold $1 no longer ends on the spot: its films wait for another card for up to 48 hours, and the trial carries on once one passes; without one, it ends and nothing is charged. A paid plan whose payment failed takes the payment from the new card at once. Trials started before the $1 check are being checked the same way.
  • The made-for-you pages are a single-purpose page for KitCut's ads (Made for you). Every button opens the same two-step form (name and email first, then a few lines about them); there is no menu and no link away but Privacy and Terms, and the pages are kept out of search engines.
  • Pricing comparisons at kitcut.ai/compare (How KitCut compares). What 10 to 240 minutes of video a month costs on KitCut and on eleven AI video services (Higgsfield, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling, Runway, Luma, Pika, Hailuo, Grok Imagine, HeyGen, InVideo), each from its own pricing page and linked, with a page per service: the cheapest plan for each amount, the price per second, and where the other service costs less.

2026-10-26

  • The VPN check is on (Your account). A new account made through a VPN, Tor or a hosting company's network is refused; the check runs on KitCut's own servers against public address lists, and the address is sent nowhere. iCloud Private Relay is accepted. Accounts that already exist sign in from anywhere.

2026-10-26

  • kitcut.ai/business is focused for visitors from an ad. Opened from a Google or Bing ad (or any link tagged as paid), it shows no top bar, sidebar or links away: the explainer pitch, the films and the one button, Start your free week, with Privacy and Terms at the bottom: a short page with the ad's promise, the Instafill film, what you get, three steps, real numbers from the case studies and a few questions, the button repeated down it. Opened any other way, it is the same page as before, in the site's menu.

2026-10-25

  • Made for you: a cartoon show about your kids or your pet, made by KitCut (Made for you). At kitcut.ai/made-for-you (and its pages for kids and pets), KitCut offers to make a family's own show, a dozen episodes about them, from their pictures and real stories, delivered in days, not weeks: films from $2,000, series from $5,000. The pages show episodes of two real family shows, Leo and Duchess. A short form asks; KitCut answers by email.
  • No new accounts with Russian email addresses (Your account). An address under .ru, .su, .рф or Russia's other domains, or at Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler or VK on any domain, is refused at sign-up. Accounts that already exist keep signing in.
  • No new accounts at private or forwarding email services, or through a VPN (Your account). Signing up with an address at Proton Mail, Tuta, cock.li or an alias service (SimpleLogin, Proton Pass, addy.io, DuckDuckGo, Firefox Relay, 33mail) is refused, and so is a sign-up through a VPN, a proxy, Tor or a hosting network. Accounts that already exist keep signing in, from anywhere.
  • All videos: every film of a workspace in one list (All videos). At the top of the Studio's sidebar, it shows every film made in the workspace, by you and everyone else in it, in every project and outside them, newest first. Each card shows the film's picture, title, who made it, its project, when and how long; films being made or that didn't finish say so. Filter by who made it, project and status, or search titles and ideas; the filters stay in the address, so a filtered list can be shared. Everyone in a workspace can now open any of its films' pages in the Studio to watch it.

2026-10-23

  • A film's YouTube title, description and thumbnails are written when you ask (Publishing to YouTube, A film's page in the Studio). Opening a film's page no longer writes them. They are written when the publish dialog opens, or when you press Write them for me in the film's Details in the Studio. Words written before are still shown.

2026-10-22

  • The first thumbnail is the video's punch line on a dark box (Publishing to YouTube). Like the thumbnail of KitCut's most watched video ("Yandex hit, bots quiet"): a short title of two to five words that names what the film is about, very large in the film's own type on a box of its darkest colour edged in its accent, over the moment that shows it best, with the film's own labels and sources in view. The title box is now the second thumbnail. A thumbnail whose words can't be set its own way gets them on a dark box too, instead of being offered with no words. Thumbnails already made are made again the next time the dialog opens; the words Claude wrote for them stay.

  • Shorts get thumbnails (Publishing to YouTube). A tall film's four are made in its own 1080 by 1920 shape, each its words on a dark box, and the dialog shows them tall.

  • Research films an assistant can make by itself (Assistants, agents). get_playbook gives the method; check_research and check_sources check the research before any credit is spent; make_film takes the fact sheet, chart data and script as documents; create_project with format: "research" starts a project whose brief is the format. A script written word for word is said exactly as written.

  • Pro is the one paid plan (Plans and credits). Standard is no longer sold: the pricing page, the free trial and a film's Remove branding offer are Pro only (from $45 a month for 10 minutes). A workspace already on Standard keeps it, can change its amount and can move to Pro.

  • Films made in a free trial carry the KitCut mark until the first month is paid; then they are drawn again without it, by themselves (Free trial).

  • An assistant sees the YouTube search terms that brought a channel's views (Assistants). get_youtube_views, for one channel or one video, now adds the top 25 terms people typed into YouTube search before watching, each with its views, minutes watched and share of the views from search, beside where the views came from. They show which names and questions people already search for, for choosing the next topics and titles. Nothing new to connect: it uses the YouTube Analytics permission a channel already gave.

2026-10-21

  • KitCut can close an account (Your account). A closed account cannot sign in or spend credits, and a second account of it is closed with it.
  • The home page is about explainer series (How KitCut compares). It now opens on animated explainers made week after week, for YouTube channels and for companies, and goes on to: who it is for (channels, and companies with their help articles, releases, customer education and briefings); case studies, six series with YouTube's view counts, and the most watched videos; frames from those videos showing what a video written in code can show (charts from real numbers, real maps, real posts, web pages as sources, animation that explains, other languages); KitCut beside video models such as Seedance, Sora, Veo and Kling; how a series publishes itself with an AI assistant; and which AI model does which part of a film. Its questions add how KitCut differs from Seedance, Sora or Veo, running a channel from an assistant, posting on Instagram and TikTok, and companies, and the examples in the idea box are mostly explainers now. Nothing about how films are made changed.
  • Case studies, at kitcut.ai/case-studies: a page for each of six series made with KitCut, with its brief, how an episode is made, frames from its films and its numbers. Padel Tactics (a sports channel that publishes a Short a day), KitCut's news desk, Instafill (a film for every help article), a children's economics school in Ukrainian, S&P 500 Explained, and two family cartoon series.
  • KitCut for companies, at kitcut.ai/business: the explainers a company makes again and again (help articles, release notes, customer education, market and data briefings, news, training), what keeps them on brand and on the facts, and how a team runs a series in a workspace.
  • Case studies and For companies in the sidebar for visitors, beside Pricing, Docs and Blog.
  • Pricing answers how many minutes a series needs: a weekly 3-minute episode is about 13 minutes a month, a daily 1-minute Short about 30, a daily 3-minute episode about 90.

2026-10-20

  • A film takes up to 9 pictures, up from 6 (Making a film, Limits). The idea box, the film maker in an assistant, and make_film all take the new number. Films from a template still take as many as the template says.
  • Pictures in a project's episode box, and a warning when they are missing (Characters and projects, Pictures). A project's next-episode box now has a Picture button: up to 9 pictures for that episode only, as on the home page. Before, it took only text files, so pictures a person meant to attach never reached the film. An idea that speaks of pictures "attached" while none are, on the home page or in a project, now gets one warning before anything is made or charged; pressing the button again goes on without them.

2026-10-19

  • Previews show how a film opens, never how it ends: a film's poster, its link-preview picture and the player before play are one of the film's first seconds. They used to be a still from just before the end, which gave away the ending to anyone who saw a shared link.
  • Two episodes that change one character at once keep both changes (Characters and projects). With two films at once on Pro, the first to finish used to keep its version of a shared character, and the other's change stayed in that film only. Now, if the other changed a different part of the character (a new pose, an option) and the result still draws, its change is added too. If both changed the same part, the project keeps the other's copy beside its own, and the next episodes are told to fold in what it added.

2026-10-18

  • Ideas in Russian are refused (What KitCut doesn't do). A film's idea, a template's prompt or a draft written in Russian gets one answer and no film; nothing is charged. Ukrainian and other languages, Cyrillic or not, work as before.

  • YouTube Shorts from an idea, through an assistant (Shorts from a chat). make_film takes frame for a film from an idea, not just for a template: 9:16 makes a YouTube Short (tall, with the narration's words drawn into the picture), 1:1 a square film. remake_film keeps a film's frame. The idea box on the website stays 16:9 for now.

  • A new project starts with a cast of its own (Characters and projects). Bring in my characters from films outside projects is now unticked when a project is made, and an assistant's create_project leaves it off unless asked. Before, it was on by default and copied every character of your films outside projects into each new project, so characters from one series turned up in another's cast. Projects made before keep the cast they have; remove what does not belong on the Cast tab.

2026-10-17

  • A project's pictures can be added for one episode only (Pictures). Used by, next to a picture's name as you add it, chooses Every episode (as before) or This episode only: that one seeds the very next episode and is then removed on its own, so a later episode needs a fresh picture. A project now holds up to 9 pictures, up from 6.

2026-10-16

  • An assistant can put a thumbnail it made on a video (Assistants). set_youtube_thumbnail took a picture of one's own only by a public link. Now upload: true gives an address to send the file to with curl -T, and thumbnail: "own" then puts it on the video, as Upload your own does on a film's page.

  • No cap on projects (Characters and projects). A workspace keeps as many projects as it makes, open or archived. Before, it held 20 open projects and 100 in all, and an archived project could not come back while 20 were open.

  • Assistants make films as long as the account does (Assistants). make_film, remake_film, open_film_maker, save_draft and a project's default length take any length up to the account's longest film (get_credits gives it). Before, an assistant stopped at 8 minutes even for an account the website lets make longer films.

  • A page for faceless YouTube channels, kitcut.ai/faceless-youtube: what running a channel with no presenter looks like with KitCut, fifteen niches with real examples from YouTube, what such a channel can earn (with sources), the looks, the editor, the calendar, videos KitCut made for our own channels, and questions such as whether YouTube pays for such videos. Its one button signs you up on the page and takes you to the maker with a first idea in the box. If you arrive from one of KitCut's Google ads and sign up, Google Ads is told that click led to an account (the click's id and the time only); the privacy policy says so.

  • The Overview lists everything a person can do (Overview). One section now names every feature with a link to its page: people from photos, the narrator's voice, notes and versions, removing the mark, downloads, KitCut TV, views, the cast, projects, brand kits, voice lines, templates, YouTube publishing and scheduling, workspaces and assistants. How KitCut compares adds people, voices, changes, brands and working together, and llms.txt's summary names them too. Nothing about KitCut itself changed.

  • Claude can choose a film's length (Making a film). On Standard and Pro, tick Let Claude choose the length under the slider, or beside it in a project's next episode, and Claude gives the film the length its idea needs, up to the plan's longest film or the credits left. The most it may use is held when the film starts; as soon as Claude has picked, the rest comes back and the film uses only its own length (Plans and credits).

  • A project's style, from your own pictures (Characters and projects). A project's new Style tab takes up to 4 pictures of the look you want. Claude reads how they are made, never what is in them, their colours are measured, and their lettering is matched with the closest free fonts. One scene from the brief is painted in the style two ways, and the one you pick is how every episode's pictures are painted, in the style's colours, with its words in the fonts you picked. With a brand too, the brand keeps its titles, captions and end card.

2026-10-14

  • Every thumbnail is a short question or a quote (Publishing to YouTube). The words on the four thumbnails, and on a film's link picture, are now a short catchy question the film answers or a short quote of what it says, with both kinds among them, still at most four words with one in colour. The two in a box carry that question or quote instead of the video's title. Each is on a moment where what it shows is drawn in full. Films whose thumbnails were made before keep them.

  • A video already on YouTube can have the film's thumbnails made (A film's page in the Studio). When a video went up without the film's four thumbnails, its Details tab offers Make them from the film; once they are made, pick one and press Use this thumbnail.

  • Assistants make episodes in the workspaces a person is in (Projects from a chat). list_projects lists the projects of every workspace the person makes films in, and an episode of one uses that workspace's credits and can be as long as its plan allows, as on the website. Before, an assistant held such an episode to the person's own plan's length.

2026-10-12

  • A published video goes into a playlist (Playlists). Where a channel has playlists, the publish dialog has a Playlist list. An episode starts on its project's playlist on that channel: the one picked for the project's last episode, or the one named like the project. Episodes published automatically and by an AI assistant go into it too, and publish_to_youtube and schedule_film take playlist.

  • Free credits depend on where an account is made. Every new account still starts with 30 seconds of free film. It comes back every month for accounts made in a list of countries; elsewhere it is given once. Accounts made before today are unchanged.

2026-10-11

  • Films asked for through an assistant line up instead of being refused (Several films in a row). While an account is making all the films it may at once, make_film puts the next one in the account's own line, and it starts by itself the minute there is room. get_queue shows every film being made (its stage, its place in the studio's line, roughly how long it has left) and the films waiting, with roughly when each starts; unqueue_film takes one out.

  • Assistants can plan what to make next, and look after the videos it makes (Assistants).

    • brainstorm_videos gathers a project's brief, its episodes with their ideas and views, its drafts, and its channel's best videos and calendar in one answer, to think up the next videos from. The prompt plan_videos walks through the whole loop: the ideas, the drafts, the film, and its day on YouTube.
    • get_views says how the films are doing, as the Views page does.
    • get_youtube_video reads one video in full, and update_youtube_video changes a published video's title, description, tags or who can watch it, including publishing a scheduled one now or taking it off the schedule.
    • list_channel_videos gives the channel's totals and can rank its latest videos by views.
    • update_project and create_project take auto_publish, so an assistant can have every finished episode scheduled by itself, as the project's Settings do (Publishing every new episode automatically).

  • Assistants work across all your YouTube channels, schedule films before they are finished, read YouTube's own numbers and set thumbnails (Assistants).

    • publish_to_youtube and schedule_film take several channels, or all of them; get_youtube_schedule and get_youtube_views show every channel side by side.
    • schedule_film (and make_film with youtube) holds a film's day on a channel's calendar while it is being made, and publishes it, scheduled for that day, the minute it is finished. The channel's calendar shows it as scheduled until then.
    • get_youtube_views reads YouTube Analytics for a whole channel or one video: views, watch time, subscribers, the most watched videos and where the views came from.
    • set_youtube_thumbnail puts one of the four thumbnails, or your own picture by link, on a video, and shows it.

2026-10-09

  • Ideas can be up to 30,000 characters (were 12,000): room for a whole script with its scene-by-scene directions. A longer one is refused with a message, never trimmed.
  • A film may run a little longer than the length you picked. When the narration needs a few more seconds, the film grows to fit it (up to a quarter longer, ten seconds at least) instead of cutting its last words. It still costs the length you picked.
  • Your own YouTube thumbnail: the Thumbnail section of the publish dialog and of a film's page in the Studio has a new tile, Upload your own. Choose a JPG, PNG or WebP picture and it becomes the film's thumbnail, before publishing or on a video that is already up. It is made 1280 by 720 in the browser and must be 2 MB or less. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • The video's title on its thumbnail: the first two of a film's four thumbnails are now the video's title in a box, in the film's own type and accent colour, on a whole frame of the film, with what follows the title's colon small beside it. Thumbnails made before today are made again in the new way the next time the dialog opens. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • A workspace's YouTube channels are shared with everyone in it. Before, a channel could be used only by the person who connected it, so a colleague invited into a workspace saw its project's channel as not connected and could not publish or schedule its episodes. Now everyone in the workspace publishes and schedules on its channels and can change the videos there, and an owner or admin can connect or disconnect a channel for the workspace under Settings, Connections (Workspaces).

2026-10-08

  • Free film is once per person (One account per person).
    • Another spelling of an address opens the same account: Gmail's dots and + tags, and + tags at Outlook, Hotmail, Live, iCloud, Proton and Fastmail. Before, each spelling made an account of its own.
    • Temporary inboxes get no new account. The list of throwaway mail domains is kept current, and a domain no list knows yet is told by the mail servers it uses.
    • A second account of the same person (the same browser, or the same name or address from a shared browser or network) gets no monthly free credits and no welcome bonuses, and what it still held of them ends. It can still subscribe.
  • Invitations are checked more widely (Invite friends): a friend who is anybody's second account earns nothing; a friend is compared with your other friends as well as with you, by name and address as well as network and browser, and again when their first film is finished; and past 3 friends paid in 7 days, the next waits for a check by hand.
  • A link straight to your films: kitcut.ai/account#films opens the account page at Your films, where each film leads to its page and its Change something button (Your account).
  • Welcome bonuses: up to 1:00 more film for a new account. After signing up you land on kitcut.ai/welcome, where a star on GitHub, a subscription on YouTube and a follow on X each add 0:20 of film, at once and with nothing checked. Accounts made earlier can get them too: the account page's Credits left card links to the page (Plans and credits).

2026-10-07

  • The KitCut plugin for ChatGPT and Codex has an address of its own, https://kitcut.ai/mcp/app: making films, following them, templates, characters and uploads. Projects, YouTube and people in films stay on the website and on https://kitcut.ai/mcp (Assistants). A film made through the plugin, and any film of a person who has the plugin connected, shows no "Remove branding" offer on its page.
  • A film's page in the Studio, tidied.
    • A copy that is gone from YouTube is no longer shown: not on the film's page, not as a badge on an episode or in the Views table, not under the film on its own page. The film counts as not published, and can be published again.
    • A scheduled video's day is said once, on the line at the top of the page, with Change date and Publish now. The second panel beside the film is gone.
    • While the page loads it shows the same grey placeholders as the rest of the Studio, and nothing jumps when YouTube answers.
    • A trail on every Studio page: Studio, the workspace when it is shared, the project, the episode. It is on the projects list and the Views page too.
  • A film's page in the Studio is where its work is done (kitcut.ai/studio/film/ and its id). It used to show a video's details behind an "Edit" link and send you elsewhere for the rest.
    • Details, open: the title, description, tags and thumbnail are a form on the page. Before a film is published they are the ones Claude wrote from it, kept on KitCut when you change them, and Schedule and Publish now send exactly what the form shows. After, they are what YouTube has, and Save to YouTube changes them there.
    • A thumbnail can be changed after publishing, from the film's four, and one that was not set can be sent again. A channel that is not verified says so before a thumbnail is picked, in the dialog and on the page: YouTube refuses its own thumbnails until it is verified at youtube.com/verify.
    • Beside the film: who can watch it (or its day, with Change date, Publish now and Take off the schedule), its KitCut page with the In the gallery switch that was only on the account page, and Download for the video, its captions and its picture.
    • A Film tab: the film's versions, which is the film now and which YouTube has, Go back to version N, Make one like it, and the idea it was made from. Change something now comes back to this page when you are done.
    • Ways in: Manage under a film that is on YouTube, Open in Studio in the account page's list of films, and Open the video's page in the publish dialog.
    • It has a docs page of its own: A film's page in the Studio.
  • A film goes to a YouTube channel once. On 2026-10-07 one film was published to the same channel twice, two minutes apart: the dialog closed the moment Publish was pressed, the button stayed where it was, and nothing refused the second press.
    • The site now refuses a second copy of a film that is already on that channel or still on its way there, from any page, tab, device or assistant. Two presses at once make one video.
    • Publish gives way to the status. Once a film is on YouTube or on its way, no page offers Publish for it: the film's page, the episode's card and the Schedule say where the video stands (an episode's card says "Uploading 43%" from the moment the button is pressed) and lead to its page in the Studio.
    • The dialog follows a publish through three steps: Uploading, YouTube processes it, and Public or "Scheduled for" its day. It used to stop following when the upload ended.
    • A second copy is asked for by name, in the dialog: "A second video will appear on" the channel, and the first one stays up. A film's new version goes up this way (Publish version 2 as a new video), since YouTube cannot swap a video's file.
    • A film that is on a channel twice says so at the top of its page in the Studio, with each copy marked, Make private through who-can-watch, and Delete it in YouTube Studio. KitCut never deletes a video.
    • For assistants: publish_to_youtube is refused the same way, and takes again for a second video. A film goes to a channel once.
  • Publishing to YouTube, reworked:
    • Publish works where you press it. An episode's card, a project's Schedule and a film's page all open the same publish dialog in place. A project's Publish to YouTube used to lead to the film's page, where it had to be pressed again.
    • Publish now or Schedule are the dialog's first two choices, and its button says which: Publish now, Publish as unlisted, Upload as private or Schedule. It used to say Publish for all of them. After it is pressed the dialog says what was done ("Scheduled for" the day and time) and follows the upload.
    • A project's Schedule tab: its channel's calendar a month at a time, the project's episodes marked on it, the next free day that keeps the series' pace, the episodes waiting to be published, and what is coming up. A day takes an episode with a click, or by dragging the episode onto it.
    • Change date is beside every scheduled video (under the film, in an episode's badge menu, on the Schedule, on the film's page), with Publish now and Take off the schedule in the same dialog. Moving a scheduled video used to be inside another film's publish dialog. KitCut now reads the video back from YouTube before it says "moved", and says so if YouTube did not keep the new time.
    • A page for every film in the Studio (kitcut.ai/studio/film/ and its id): where the video stands on YouTube, its day, who can watch, Edit title and description (saved on YouTube), its views on YouTube and on KitCut, the film and its page to share. Clicking an episode opens it; the small player that used to open is gone.
    • A channel that has not given KitCut the permission to change its videos now says so before you pick anything, with Connect again, where it used to say so after the change was refused.
    • Changing a video's title, description and tags is a new use of the channel's fourth permission (managing its videos); the privacy page says so. Publishing to YouTube.
  • A project can publish its own episodes: a project with a YouTube channel has a new choice in its Settings, Publish new episodes automatically. With it on, every finished episode is scheduled on the channel for the day after it is finished, public, at the time of day and time zone you pick, with the title, description, tags and first thumbnail KitCut writes for it. Nobody is asked first. Publishing to YouTube has the rules.
  • Scheduling from an assistant: an assistant connected to KitCut can now plan a channel's schedule the way the publish dialog does. get_youtube_schedule shows a channel's calendar (what it published lately, what is scheduled, the pace it keeps) and suggests the next free day; publish_to_youtube takes that day when publish_at is "next", so "schedule these three episodes" puts each on the following day of the series' pace; and move_youtube_schedule moves a video that is already scheduled. See Assistants.
  • The agent's photo in the open house invitation: the Open house invitation template now shows who is inviting you: the agent's own headshot, name and number on a rider under the yard sign and on the last card. Attach your headshot, or give the listing's link and Claude uses the photo that page shows for you. It never puts another person's face in your film; with no photo, your name stands alone.

2026-10-06

  • Maps are real: a film that shows where a place is (a pin, an address, "find us here") now draws the real street map of that place from OpenStreetMap: its streets as they run, with their names, the houses, parks and water, and the pin at the address. Before, such a map was a drawing with nothing real on it. When the map knows the street but not the house number, the pin stands on the street; when the street is too new to be on any map, the film shows the address in words instead. The Open house invitation template was remade on it, with a real listing as its example.
  • The template gallery's link preview: a link to kitcut.ai/templates posted on X, LinkedIn, Slack or in a chat now shows four business templates in one picture (a conference speaker promo, an offer ad, an open house invitation and an event countdown), where it showed a single template.
  • Scheduling with the channel's calendar: picking Scheduled when publishing to YouTube now shows the channel's calendar in place of a bare date box: every video it published lately and every one scheduled, on its day, with its thumbnail and title, whether KitCut published it or not. KitCut suggests the day and time that keep the channel's pace (every other day at 9:00, Tuesdays and Fridays), or its series' pace for an episode, and says why; any free day can be picked instead. A video already scheduled can be moved to another day from the same calendar (Move, beside it). See Scheduling.

2026-10-05

  • The tall preview fills its phone: the phone that plays a template's tall 9:16 film now shows it on KitCut TV with the picture running to every edge of the screen. The film is whole, and above and below it its own ground carries on, following the film as it plays; there are no dark bands at the top or the bottom. The app's feeds, title and buttons sit on small translucent panels, and the phone's clock turns dark over a light film and light over a dark one. See Templates.
  • A brand keeps its own pictures: a project's Brand tab now holds up to 8 pictures besides the logos (a mascot, a product, screenshots of the app), each with a name and a note saying what it is and how to use it. Every episode gets them with their notes, so they are added once and not attached to each film, and they take none of the project's 9 Pictures. Each logo's "when to use it" line can be edited too. See Characters and projects.
  • New YouTube thumbnails: a film that shows pictures (cut-out characters and objects, photographs) now gets four posters put together from those pictures, where it used to get four stills of the film: one picture large on the film's own background, the words beside it or above it in the film's own type, its logo small in a corner. The four differ in layout, so they are a real choice, and nothing in them is redrawn by an image model. A film that draws everything itself still gets four moments of the film. Thumbnails made before today are made again the next time you open Publish to YouTube. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • Box an area in a note: when changing a finished film, drag a box around the thing you mean, where a click drops a pin: a big thing, a group, or one of two things close together. Its corners resize it, and dragging inside moves it. On a phone, tap the spot and choose Box an area. Claude is given the frame with the box drawn on it. A boxed area is priced like a spot. See Changing a finished film.
  • Change a finished film: the person who made a film can now leave notes on it (on a spot in the picture, a stretch, a narration line, a moment or the whole film) and press Make version 2: Claude makes the film again with those changes, on the same page and address. The first round of changes on a film uses no credits; after that a round uses the seconds its notes cover, at least 5. The version before is kept, and an email says when the new one is ready. See Changing a finished film.
  • Square and tall films on their own page: a film made in square 1:1 or tall 9:16 is now shown whole on its page, as tall as the screen allows, with its controls and Download in view. It used to fill the page's width and run off the bottom of the screen. Its share page (the link you post) shapes its player the same way: a square or tall film is no longer a small picture between black bars.
  • A template's preview in every frame: a template's page plays a film for each frame it is made in, and the frame switch is now above the preview. A tall 9:16 film plays inside a phone, the way it will be watched. Changing the frame keeps your place: the new frame's film goes on from the same second, playing or paused. The preview also has a sound button (it starts without sound), and its track can be dragged. See Templates.
  • Five event templates: two new ones, each for a post an event makes many times: Speaker announcement card (one speaker per film, a trading card; speakers already announced sit open in its binder) and Event countdown (a tear-off calendar down to "7 days to go", "tomorrow" or a price deadline). Trade show booth invitation, Open house invitation and Webinar promo were redrawn, and all five come in wide 16:9, square 1:1 and tall 9:16. See Templates.
  • Remove branding: a film made on Free can now lose its "made with kitcut.ai" mark and KitCut ending. Its maker sees Remove branding beside Download; on a paid plan it draws the same film again without them, at 60 frames a second, for no credits, and on Free it opens an offer for Standard (from $12 a month) whose checkout comes back to the film and removes the mark. The offer also opens once a film, after it plays to its end or at the first Download. See Removing the mark from a film.
  • Fixes: a project's Views tab (and the Views page) no longer stays blank for a channel that doesn't share its views day by day; a template's example keeps a name's capital ("For example: Mia is turning 6!"); a film from a template refused for its length no longer ends its message with two full stops; and list_templates names every category, birthday invitations and ads included.

2026-10-04

  • Templates keep the pictures they find: photos Claude finds on the web for a film from a template (a speaker's headshot, a venue) now stay in the finished film; some films showed empty frames where they belonged. A remake also no longer stops on an ordinary word it shares with the template's original film ("Register", "Kitchen") or on a fact that happens to be the same, such as the city. See Templates.

2026-10-03

  • Switching workspace, at sign-in and in Settings: someone in more than one workspace is asked which one to open when they sign in on the home page or in the Studio, and can make the choice stick (Open this one every time I sign in). Settings has a Workspace choice beside the workspace's name, and Your workspaces has Switch beside each and a When you sign in choice. See Workspaces.

2026-10-02

  • A brand for a project: the Studio's new Brand tab takes a project's brand in any form (a zip of the brand folder, PDF guidelines, logos, font files, slides) and reads it into a brand card: colours, typefaces, logos and tone of voice. You correct the card and see three frames drawn in the project's look with the brand; every episode then uses its colours, type and logo, and speaks in its voice. See Characters and projects.
  • Longer project briefs: a project's brief now holds 10,000 characters, room for a whole series bible.
  • A series remembers its episodes: after each finished episode Claude writes a short entry in the project's episode log (what happened, its catchphrases, its twist, its true fact, what was new), and every next episode reads the whole log: it calls back to earlier episodes and doesn't repeat a twist or a fact. A sound effect or theme tune made for one episode is kept by name and played the same in later ones. Neither is shown on the site. See A series remembers.
  • Templates in square and tall frames, and two new categories: Birthday invitations (two narrated invitations, a slime party and a pool party) and Ads (the Offer ad, a 5-second loop in square 1:1 and tall 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok). Tech meetup announcement joins Events. See Templates.
  • The Studio names a template's films: an episode a template was made from says "The film behind the title template", linking to it.

2026-10-01

  • More event templates: The conference in numbers, Conference agenda map (the agenda as a metro map), Call for speakers and Group ride and run invitation (a ride, run or hike replayed on its real route, in the collage look). A template's page now says "about N credits": the template's length rounded up, an estimate of what its film uses. Templates longer than 1 minute need Pro. See Templates.

  • Places in the cast: besides characters and props, Claude keeps the places a series goes back to (a burrow, a kitchen, a street) as cast members, each drawn with its own camera framing, and a later episode adds to a member (a new pose, rain boots) instead of drawing it again. A newer version of a member is never replaced by an older one, even when two films change it at once. See The cast.

  • One workspace, shared by invitation: working with other people no longer means making an organisation. Invite them straight into your own workspace (Settings, Members): they make films in your projects, from your credits, with your connected voices. Only you choose its plan, and it stays yours. You can rename it, so the people you invite see your team's name. See Workspaces.

  • Connected channels and keys are kept with Azure Key Vault: the YouTube connections and ElevenLabs keys KitCut holds are now encrypted under a key that never leaves Azure Key Vault. Nothing to do: every connection keeps working.

  • Schedule a YouTube publish: the publish dialog's Scheduled choice puts a film on YouTube now, private, and YouTube makes it public at the day and time you pick. The time offered is a day after your last scheduled one, so a series goes out one a day. Assistants can schedule too (publish_to_youtube with publish_at). See Publishing to YouTube.

  • Publishing to YouTube runs in the background: Publish closes the dialog at once, and a note at the foot of the page follows the upload to Watch on YouTube. Keep working or leave the page; it finishes on its own. See Publishing to YouTube.

  • KitCut TV, better swiping: a quick flick, one mouse-wheel notch or one trackpad swipe now always moves to the next film (they could bounce back to the same one), and switching to New no longer stops on a loading screen. KitCut TV is in the bar at the top of every page.

  • KitCut TV: kitcut.ai/tv plays the public films one after another, full screen, on a phone held either way round or on a computer. Swipe up for the next film (a film that ends gives way to the next), tap to pause, double-tap to like; beside each film are its maker, the heart, Share, Captions and the sound. Feeds: For you (the films watched and liked most, weighed against how new they are), New, and Liked; Play all on a creator page plays one maker's films. Anyone can like a film, signed in or not. See Your films.

  • Templates: start from a finished film. A template's page at kitcut.ai/templates plays its film; under it, Make it yours asks what your film is for. A few words are enough (an event's name or its website), with pictures if you have them, such as a logo and speakers' photos. Claude finds the rest itself, on the web too, changes whatever you ask, and remakes the film at the template's own length, in 16:9 or 1:1. A template is an example, not a form. A film from a template uses its length rounded up to the next 5 seconds, says which template it was made from, and works through assistants too (list_templates, get_template, make_film with template and idea). The first is a conference speaker promo. See Templates.

2026-09-30

  • A film's page opens on the film: the video is at the top, with its status, Download, Publish to YouTube and the share bar right under it. The prompt is folded to one line with Copy and Make it again, the making log folds into How Claude made it once the film is finished, and the idea box opens only for Make it again or Try again. See Your films.
  • People in a project's episodes: the Studio's episode box has the same Add a person row as the home page. Under an ElevenLabs narrator the people are seen, not heard. See People in a film.
  • People in a film: add a photo of up to 4 people under the idea box, and each becomes a drawn character who talks in their own voice: crayon, paper cut-out, newspaper, woodcut, watercolour, pop art, courtroom sketch, chalk, sticker, felt puppet, knitted doll, wooden toy or sock puppet. Tick that you have permission to use their photos; no extra credits. Assistants can do it too, through make_film. See People in a film.
  • Download a film: a finished film's making page has a Download button for whoever made it, which saves the full-quality MP4. See Your films.
  • Change who can watch from KitCut: a YouTube badge now opens a menu: open the video, or make it public, unlisted or private on YouTube at once. It needs a fourth permission: channels connected earlier show Connect again. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • Link a video uploaded by hand: an episode put on YouTube some other way can be linked to its film from its player, and then has its badge and its numbers like one published from KitCut.
  • Emails about YouTube: one when a video is removed, turned down or made public, unlisted or private there, and a weekly email with your views on Mondays. Each can be turned off on the account page.
  • Average view duration on the Views page: how long a view lasts and how much of the film it covers, YouTube's own numbers for each video.
  • Narrator voices: choose the voice films are narrated in, for a whole workspace and for each project: KitCut chooses, one of KitCut's voices (each with a sample), or your own voice from your ElevenLabs account. A film in your own voice checks your account before it starts, and pauses instead of failing if the account stops speaking half-way; Continue picks it up. See Narrator voices.
  • Workspaces: everything you make now belongs to a workspace. Every account has a personal one; organisations share projects, credits and connected services between people, with owner, admin and member roles. Invite people by email (the link works only for their address), change their roles, hand an organisation to someone else, or leave it. See Workspaces.
  • More from an AI assistant: an assistant connected to KitCut can now run projects (start one, write its brief, give it a logo and pictures, keep drafts and voice lines, and make its episodes), make a film again from its whole idea, and publish a finished film to a connected YouTube channel: the title, description and four thumbnails written from the film, then the publish followed until it is live. It still does only what your own account can do on the website. See Assistants.
  • A publish finishes on its own: a film published to YouTube goes live with its thumbnail on even when its page is closed; KitCut checks on it every minute.
  • Where a video stands on YouTube: an episode's YouTube badge now says Public, Unlisted, Private, Scheduled, Rejected or Removed, with YouTube's view count, and follows changes made in YouTube Studio: every video is read every hour, and again when you open its project. The line under a film on its page says the same. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • The Views page: Views in the sidebar, and a Views tab in each project: YouTube's views, watch time and subscribers day by day, beside KitCut's own page views, with a trend for every film and project. The Studio's project cards show their last 28 days. YouTube's day-by-day numbers need a new permission: channels connected earlier show Connect again. See Your films.
  • A project remembers its channel: publishing an episode makes that channel the project's, and the next episode's publish dialog starts on it.
  • Voice lines in projects: a project's new Voice tab lists narration lines you approved by ear. Pick a finished episode, play its lines and approve the ones that sound right; every later episode says those exact words in that recording. A series' greeting and sign-off sound the same each time, and a name the voice sometimes stresses wrongly is said the way you approved. See Characters and projects.
  • Narration is checked faster: each recorded line is now checked in seconds instead of minutes, so films with long narration finish sooner.

2026-09-29

  • Share pages: every finished film has a page made to be sent, kitcut.ai/v/<id>/<name>: the film first, playing at once, then its title, who made it, share buttons and Create your own KitCut video, and nothing else. Claude writes each film's title, a line about it and its preview picture from the finished film. The link is in the "Your film is ready" email, under the film on its page, and beside each film on the account page. See Your films.
  • Creator pages: kitcut.ai/creator/@<handle> lists a maker's public films. See Your films.
  • Films name who made them: share pages and creator pages show the maker's name and photo. Change the name, photo or handle, or turn it off, under Public profile on the account page. See Your account.
  • A Public switch for each film on the account page: public, or link-only (out of the gallery, your creator page and search engines).
  • Views: every finished film counts its views: on its share page, its making page and its card in a project. See Your films.
  • A project's YouTube channel: pick it in the project's Settings, and its picture marks the project in the sidebar, even before an episode is published there. See Characters and projects.
  • Episodes being made open when clicked: on a project's page, a card that says Being made opens the film's page, to watch it being made.
  • The line under Make the film follows the look: it says who makes a hand-drawn, painted or collage film, instead of listing every model at once. The Hand-drawn and Painted tiles show new examples.
  • Plans read shorter: Free films carry "KitCut branding"; Standard and Pro have none.
  • One look on every page: the home page, film pages, pricing, the docs and the other pages now wear the Studio's look: the bar along the top (your credits and account menu, or Sign in) and the sidebar on the left (Make a film, Video examples, MCP for using KitCut from Claude or ChatGPT, and your projects and account when signed in). On a phone the sidebar is a row of buttons under the bar. Nothing moved inside the pages: the idea box, the film and its notes are where they were.
  • "Your film is ready" emails: when a film is finished, an email with a link to watch it arrives about a minute later, so its page doesn't need to stay open. A film that fails gets one too, saying its credits are back. Turn them off under Emails on the account page. See Your account.
  • Pages that keep themselves up to date, on phones too: a film's page and a project in the Studio show Updated and the time they last heard from the studio. They look again as soon as a phone is unlocked or the connection is back, and they keep trying (Reconnecting…) instead of giving up. A project also picks up episodes started on another device without a reload.
  • News by email: KitCut now sends an email now and then when something new arrives, starting with the collage look. Each has a one-click Unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops only news: sign-in links, invitation notes and film emails still come. See Your account.
  • Links that fill in the idea box: kitcut.ai/?look=collage&idea=... opens the home page with that idea written in and that look picked, ready to change or make. See Making a film.
  • YouTube thumbnails in the film's own look: the four thumbnails are drawn by the film itself, in its own type, colours, cards and logo, so they look like the film. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • Publishing to another of your channels: picking it keeps the title, description and thumbnails you have, or shows the ones already written for it, and offers Write them for that channel to have them written in its voice. Nothing is written for a channel until you ask. While they are being written, grey lines stand where they will go.
  • Episode drafts: a project's next episode is saved as a draft while you type it, in this browser and to your account, so an idea is never lost to a closed tab. Save draft keeps it in the project's Drafts list for later; click a draft to pick it up again. See Characters and projects.
  • A third look, Collage: an image model paints each picture as a single object or figure cut out of paper, and Claude builds pages round them in code -- torn sheets, print type, tape labels, stamps and marker arrows, each arriving on the word that names it, moving like stop-motion. Pick it on the home page, in a project, or ask an assistant for it. Same credits as the other looks. See Looks.
  • The look picker shows the looks: three tiles, each with a moving preview when you point at it, instead of a list.
  • Assistants pick the look the idea names: asking for "a newspaper cutout" or "mixed media" gets the collage look; when the idea names no style, the assistant asks.

2026-09-28

  • Invitations for people who already have an account: a friend who already uses KitCut can accept your invitation by opening your link signed in (or signing in after opening it). You both get 2 minutes of film when their next film is done. An account accepts one invitation, ever. See Invite friends.
  • Text files with the idea: add up to 3 .txt or .md files to an idea with + (or to a project's next episode with Text file), such as a script, meeting notes or facts about a product. Claude reads them before planning the film, and the typed idea still wins where they disagree. See Making a film.
  • A watermark setting for projects: a project's Settings can put the "made with kitcut.ai" mark and KitCut's closing on every episode, on a paid plan too. Free films always carry them. See Characters and projects.
  • Episodes remember their YouTube videos: an episode published to YouTube shows a YouTube badge on its card, and one click opens the video on YouTube.
  • Two films at a time on Pro: a Pro account can have 2 films being made at the same time, from the home page, a project or an assistant. Free and Standard still make one at a time. See Plans and credits.
  • YouTube titles and descriptions written from the film: when you publish, Claude writes the title, description and tags from what the film says and shows, in the voice of your channel's latest videos, instead of repeating your idea. It never quotes your idea, links only to pages your channel or the film already use, and adds chapters to films long enough to have parts. Edit anything before publishing. See Publishing to YouTube.
  • 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/mcp works 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.