CHANGELOG

What we shipped.

Curated highlights, not commit logs. Each dated entry groups the material changes merged to main for that release window.

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The Clipy changelog summarizes meaningful product updates for the free screen recorder, including recording, upload, sharing, playback, desktop, Chrome extension, and privacy changes. It is curated for users rather than copied from commit history.

Animation showing the Control key creating a glowing Flare trail over a bug and Clipy passing that attention signal to an AI agent

AUGUST 13, 2026 · FLARE

How do you point something out while recording?

Hold Control and move your cursor. Flare paints a warm, fading trail under it, so a viewer sees exactly where to look without waiting for an arrow to be placed. A quick Control shortcut such as Control+C does not trigger it; Flare waits for a deliberate bare-key hold.

What people see

The highlight is drawn live and captured in the recording. On Clipy for Mac, double-tap Control to keep Flare on while you point at several things, then double-tap again to turn it off.

What agents receive

Clipy preserves Flare timing alongside clicks, hover dwell, and live drawings. Its key-moment planner treats Flare as an intentional pointing signal when choosing frames and explaining what mattered.

Where is Flare available?

Use it while recording with the Clipy Chrome extension or Clipy for Mac. In the extension, Shift summons the freehand pen during a tab recording; Control is reserved for Flare, and the trail is drawn on the page itself, so screen and window captures pick it up whenever the browser is in frame. On Mac, full-screen, Area, and Window recordings capture the visible trail. Window mode uses the app window's fixed starting screen area, so Flare and the camera bubble stay in frame while anything entering that area can also be recorded.

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Highlights

  • Aug 16

    Window recordings now keep Camera and Flare in the frame

    Window mode now records the window's starting screen area, just like Cap: your camera bubble and Flare highlights stay visible in the video. Move or close the window and the crop stays put, so anything entering that area is captured. Hold Control to highlight, double-tap Control to lock Flare on, and press Escape to release it.

  • Aug 13

    Flare: point while you record, and your agent understands why

    Hold Control and move your cursor to paint a fading orange trail over the thing you are explaining. The gesture appears in the recording for viewers and is preserved as explicit attention evidence, so Clipy's key-moment pipeline treats it as a stronger signal than ordinary cursor movement.

  • Aug 12

    Screenshots: capture, annotate, and share with a link

    Screenshots are now a first-class Clipy type. Capture the visible tab or a full scrolling page from the Chrome extension, or paste any image into the new web library with ⌘V. A full annotation editor — arrows, boxes, text, numbered steps, pixelated redaction, crop — keeps the original image and leaves every annotation editable after sharing. Each screenshot gets an unlisted link viewers can open without an account.

  • Aug 12

    Workspace seats: recorders pay, viewers never do

    The 10-member workspace cap is gone. Watching, searching, and reading a shared library are free for everyone; a seat is only needed to record beyond the personal free quota, and it costs exactly what individual Pro costs. Owners can set a hard seat ceiling or turn automatic seats off entirely.

  • Aug 11

    Bug-report evidence travels with the link

    Bug-report recordings can carry browser console and network evidence captured by the Chrome extension (opt-in, with configurable sensitive-field redaction), and that evidence now shows to anyone the link is shared with — so the engineer debugging gets the same picture as the person reporting.

  • Aug 10

    Workspace and organization controls in the app

    Teams can now create and manage organizations, switch workspaces, and collaborate from scoped contexts from the library and video controls.

  • Aug 10

    Extension reliability and startup refinements

    Chrome recording reliability improved with better startup timing and safer completion paths so empty recordings are rejected before upload and users are shown explicit recovery guidance.

  • Aug 10

    Mac recorder stability improvements across device changes

    Mac capture and upload handling now recovers more cleanly through device changes, network transitions, and recorder shutdown paths, reducing hard-stop failures on long sessions.

  • Aug 8

    A more dependable Clipy for Mac

    Clipy now ships for Intel Macs as well as Apple Silicon. The recorder also gained a calmer menu-bar flow, a less intrusive recording dock, safer microphone capture, and clearer update feedback when a release is not available.

  • Aug 7

    Migrate from Loom without losing the useful context

    Imported Loom recordings keep their transcript, summary, searchability, and agent-readable context. CSV imports begin automatically, and the Chrome extension can start a Loom download or YouTube import from where you are already working.

  • Aug 7

    Long recordings upload more reliably

    We tightened chunk handling at the network edge, bound recording memory, preserved the fast path for wide 1080p captures, and improved desktop recovery and post-upload cleanup. The result is a sturdier route from Stop to a playable link.

  • Aug 5

    Share links now carry more of the video with them

    Slack and social sharing received richer video unfurls, while Clipy proof recordings retain sharper screenshots and can preview directly in GitHub pull requests.

  • Aug 7

    New free accounts get 15 recordings or 2 hours

    A one-time allowance, no expiry, no card. Deleting recordings does not restore it, so we say that up front rather than let you find out. Free accounts older than 7 Aug stay uncapped. Nothing you have already recorded is ever locked, watermarked or removed, and no single recording is ever cut short.

  • Aug 7

    Refund policy, pricing history, and a pricing page that tells the truth

    14-day no-questions refund on any Pro charge. A dated record of every pricing change we have made, including the free-to-paid move we shipped without announcing. And the Pro card no longer sells AI summaries, transcripts, Q&A or analytics as paid — none of them was ever gated.

  • Aug 7

    Security contact and disclosure policy

    [email protected], an RFC 9116 record at /.well-known/security.txt, stated response times, and a plain account of what we do and do not certify.

  • Jun 15

    Private and restricted sharing: invites, domains, request-access

    Every video can now be Public (default), Restricted (specific people up to 10, or anyone on @your-domain), or Private. Locked-out viewers can request access; the owner approves with one click.

  • May 24

    Share links unfurl everywhere

    Per-video OG image at 1200×630 so LinkedIn, X, Slack, Discord and iMessage all show a real video card with thumbnail, title and duration.

  • May 24

    Webcam overlay shows the camera again

    Fixed a regression where the floating webcam bubble appeared empty during browser recordings. Now you can also drag it, resize it, and pop it out.

  • May 20

    The Clipy Pledge

    Five promises Loom can't sign. Founder-signed, dated.

  • May

    AI summary on every recording, free

    Including chat with your video → jumps the player to the exact timestamp. Loom paywalls this.

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