--- title: What's new description: A running list of notable changes to Showbrew, newest first. navigation: label: What's new order: 1 section: changelog updated: '2026-09-05' tags: - changelog - updates --- # What's new This is a running list of the changes worth knowing about. Newest is at the top, and we keep each entry short so you can skim the page in a minute. ## Recent updates ### The website now calls the product Showbrew Showbrew is the new name for the workbench previously presented as BitterClip. The public website, its documentation hub, and its comparison pages now use the Showbrew name. The app you sign in to, the checkout handoff, the MCP endpoint, and the support mailbox still carry the BitterClip name at app.bitterclip.com while the name change rolls out, so the guides here use the labels you actually see on screen. Accounts, recordings, work, pricing, and billing are unchanged. ### Zoom cloud recordings can become Episodes automatically For studios with Zoom import enabled, a completed cloud recording can now arrive as a Capture Session and build an editable Episode in the configured Project. Settings shows the destination, recent deliveries, current progress, and either a retry when one is safe or the manual recovery path. Follow [Import a Zoom cloud recording](/docs/getting-started/import-zoom-cloud-recording) for the exact click path and first-meeting checklist. ### Creator trial and paid plans The Creator trial lasts seven days and requires a card: $0 today, then $24/month unless you cancel before it ends. Once the payment method is accepted and the trial starts, Billing shows your exact cancel-before time. The trial includes $5 of agent work for one recording up to two hours; exactly $20, $50, and $100 top-ups are available during an active trial or paid plan and do not activate paid Creator early. Producer is $99/month. There is no recurring Free plan. If you cancel, your existing work stays available so you can return without losing it; new processing may require an active plan. ### Give your show a signature look Every project now has an FX tab. Pick a signature effect, add your logo and colors as a dark or light brand pack, and your clips open and close with a branded title card — with the episode's own title rendered right into the video. The full-screen Signature Studio lets you audition motion and sound together and save looks to your library, so your whole catalog stays consistent. Read the [Identity Studio launch post](/blog/your-show-has-a-signature-now) for the full story. ### Your assistant can design your opener Hand ChatGPT or Claude your logo and describe the feel you want. It builds your brand pack, designs the opening animation itself, previews frames of its own work, and refines until it looks right — then saves it as your project's opener. See the [assistants overview](/docs/assistants/overview) to get connected. ### Public download links for finished clips You can now create a public link to any rendered video — a direct MP4 download that works anywhere and expires on its own (7 days by default, up to 14). Use it to hand a clip to a client or pass it into other tools like Zapier without exporting and re-uploading. Ask your assistant for "a public link to that render." ### Fix a speaker's name from chat Spotted a mislabeled speaker? Ask your assistant to rename them. The transcript and the captions on future renders pick up the correction. ### Cut several moments into one video Ask your assistant for a montage: give it the moments in order and it builds a single video, with branded intro and outro blocks if your project has them. It will warn you if a cut lands mid-word so you can fix the edge before rendering. ### See what's on screen, right in chat Ask your assistant to pull frames from a moment and a small gallery appears in the conversation. Pick the frame you mean and download it — useful for thumbnails and for checking what the camera saw. ### Sharper automatic titles and descriptions On paid plans, new uploads get titles, descriptions, and chapters written by a stronger pipeline that reads the whole recording — not just the first few minutes. ### Uploads that tell you the truth The uploader now shows your plan's limits up front and reports problems in the upload tile itself instead of failing quietly. Project tabs are also proper links now — back, refresh, and sharing a tab URL all behave. ### A guide site for creators These help pages are new. They walk you through making your first clip, connecting ChatGPT or Claude, and getting clips out to YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Plain language, written for creators. Start with [your first clip](/docs/getting-started/your-first-clip). ### Earlier: free to start Earlier signup opened a workspace without checkout or a trial clock. That offer has since been replaced by the Creator trial described above. ### Post clips to your channels You can connect YouTube, X, and LinkedIn and send finished clips straight to them. Per project, you choose whether a clip waits for your approval or goes out automatically once it's ready. See the connect guides for [YouTube](/docs/connect/youtube), [X](/docs/connect/x), and [LinkedIn](/docs/connect/linkedin). ::callout{type="note"} Instagram is a special case. You'll see a Connect button, but auto-posting to your feed is limited by Meta's rules. See the [Connect Instagram](/docs/connect/instagram) guide for the working path. :: ### Clip right inside your AI assistant BitterClip connects to ChatGPT and Claude. Ask for the strongest moment in a recording, and your assistant opens the transcript editor with a clip already picked out, ready for you to review and tune. The [assistants overview](/docs/assistants/overview) shows you how to set it up. ### Captions, built in Clips export with captions burned right into the video, styled to sit cleanly in the frame. That's the default. If you turn captions off before you export, the video comes out without them. ## A note on subscribing For now, this is a single page we update by hand. We may add a subscribable feed later; until then, this page is the place to look.