What's New

v0.5.2 August 28, 2026 Latest

Fixed Slice of Life refusing to quit while a Slice was open for review. Closing the window, Command-Q and Quit all did nothing, and restarting your Mac stopped with a message saying Slice of Life had failed to quit. It now asks whether you want to leave the Slice, and does what you tell it.
Fixed the walkthrough video in the app not playing.

v0.5.1 August 24, 2026

Twice as much footage in one Slice. You can now drop in up to 300 clips, double the previous limit — useful for a long day of filming or a whole trip at once.
Vertical Slices now fill the frame for HDR footage, which is most video shot on an iPhone. Those clips were still falling back to blurred bars.
When a Slice is too big to build, the message now tells you whether it was the number of clips or the amount of footage.

v0.5.0 August 22, 2026

Undo and redo. Arrows at the top left of the review screen step back through anything you change — moving a clip, hiding one, rotating, captions, music, effects. Reset puts the whole screen back to the cut Slice suggested, and even that is undoable.
Make the clips bigger. A slider at the top right scales the thumbnails up, so you can tell one shot from another at a glance.
Save a Slice to finish later. “Save for later” keeps your arrangement without rendering it. The Slice waits on your home screen with a green DRAFT badge — open it and every edit is exactly where you left it. Building it later costs nothing extra.
Watch the walkthrough without leaving the app. The play button in the title bar opens the full tour of how Slice works.
Dragging a clip up the list is easier — the list now scrolls on its own when you drag near the top or bottom.
Photos always play as their own moment now, instead of sometimes being tucked under narration as a cutaway.
Fixed a clip losing a rotation you had set by hand when you pressed Reset.
Fixed the review screen bringing back edits from last time when you started a fresh Slice — that only happens now when you deliberately reopen one.

v0.4.4 August 20, 2026

No more mode picker. Drop in your footage and go. If there's no talking to camera, Slice offers a b-roll montage instead.
Narrate a b-roll montage. Hit the mic, record, and your voice is mixed over it — captions included.
Bigger Build button, sharper text, and a fix for b-roll-only Slices losing color grading and 10-bit export.

v0.4.3 August 19, 2026

The iPhone companion is on the App Store. Send clips straight from your phone to your Mac and have a Slice waiting for you. The iPhone Sync setting now links the listing.
Fixed the walkthrough appearing on top of the license screen the very first time you opened the app, where it covered the box you were typing into.
Fixed the home tour skipping over your recent projects — it now always shows that step.
The filming guide no longer opens by itself after the tour. It's still there behind the document icon whenever you want it.
Fixed "Start over" in the review screen leaving a speed change on a clip: the badge disappeared but the clip still rendered sped up.

v0.4.2 August 17, 2026

Take your Slice to any editor. The done screen's Export XML button now offers Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve — each with its own import steps. Final Cut support is brand new, and DaVinci Resolve is back: the footage-compatibility problems that made us pull it (clips importing offline or frozen) are properly fixed.
The export now matches your edit exactly. Rotation — automatic and manual — carries into all three editors for the first time, along with speed changes and word-level edit cuts. A voiceover recorded over a b-roll montage lands on its own audio track as the raw recording, so you can balance it yourself.
Tighter narration. Talking clips now trim right to where you start and stop speaking, so videos no longer hang on a second or two of silence at either end of a narration clip — in the video and in the exports.
Reopening an older Slice picks up the improved trims automatically, without re-analyzing your footage.
Fixed clips that turned mid-recording importing sideways in Final Cut and DaVinci Resolve.

v0.4.1 August 16, 2026

Add clips you forgot, without starting over. There's a new + button in the review screen. Pick the clips or photos you missed and they're added to the Slice you're already working on — only the new ones get analyzed, your arrangement stays exactly as you left it, and it costs no extra credits. Added clips arrive together as their own b-roll montage at the point in the day they belong to, so nothing you've already arranged gets moved around.
Set aside a narration clip, not just b-roll. Clicking the × on a section's narration clip now tucks it into the Hidden clips list like any other clip, and restoring it brings it back as narration in its original spot.
Fixed a restored clip reappearing in the review screen but still being left out of the finished video.
Fixed caption and word-level edits getting lost when a clip was switched between narration and b-roll.
Fixed Shorts not being made when you reopened a Slice and rebuilt it.
Small things: the text-based editing button now lights up when it's holding edits, the same way the caption button does.

v0.4.0 August 15, 2026

Pick up a finished Slice and keep editing. Every video you've made now has an Edit button, and your recent Slices sit on the home screen. Click one and it opens right back in the review screen, arranged exactly the way you built it. Change anything and rebuild. It's free and it doesn't re-analyze your footage, so it's quick.
Your recent Slices, on the home screen. A grid of your latest videos replaces the old scrolling strip. Click one to keep editing it, or hit play to just watch it.
Speed up a clip. Right-click any b-roll clip and pick 2x, 4x, 8x or 20x to turn a long take into a quick time-lapse. Sped-up clips are silent, and the speed carries through to the Premiere XML too.
Better vertical framing. The crop that follows your face in vertical exports now works on clips where you turned the phone mid-recording.
Cutaways no longer open on the moment you were still setting the camera down — most noticeable on sped-up clips, which start much further into the shot now.
Fixed reopening a video quietly changing its pacing, which could drop a b-roll clip or stretch the gaps between sections.
Small things: clearer Edit and Watch buttons on the done screen, a bigger narration marker in the review screen, and two icons that weren't showing up at all.

v0.3.0 August 12, 2026

Turned your phone mid-shot? Fixed automatically. iPhone clips where you started recording one way and rotated to another (vertical to horizontal, upside down to right side up) now come out the right way up on their own. This was the most common cause of sideways or upside-down clips.
Voiceover on montages. Every b-roll montage in the review screen now has a mic button — record a narration right onto it, and the montage's own sound ducks under your voice. Captions included if you have them on.
Resizable window. Drag any corner — everything scales together.
Rotate left. Right-clicking a clip now offers both directions, and the little turn animation always spins the way you clicked.
Fixed two rotation bugs with talking-to-camera clips: some rendered upside down, and manually rotating them in the review screen didn't stick.
Fixed caption edits being lost if you closed the caption editor before building.

v0.2.6 August 9, 2026

Text-based editing. Open a section in the review screen and you'll see what you said as plain text. Click a word to cut it, or drag across a few to cut a phrase — it removes that bit from the video and the audio, not just the caption. Pauses show up as their own marker with how long they are, so you can drop the ones you don't want.
Cut quality. Flip this on and each word is shaded by how cleanly a cut there will land — green where there's a real pause to hide it in, red where you're mid-sentence and it may sound abrupt. Cuts snap to the quietest moment nearby on their own.
Your text edits are remembered if you come back to the same footage later.
More Shorts per vlog. Some renders were producing far fewer than they should have.

v0.2.5 August 8, 2026

Guided tours. The home screen and the review screen now walk you through themselves one step at a time, highlighting each control as it explains it. They run once automatically, and you can replay either from the ? icon whenever you want.
Trimmed the filming guide down to the essentials.

v0.2.3 August 5, 2026

Hidden clips. Excluding a b-roll clip in the review screen now tucks it away in a dedicated "hidden clips" panel instead of just dimming it in place — restore any of them individually, or all at once, from one spot.
Fixed a music-trim marker sometimes landing in the wrong spot when dragging near two clips close together.
Fixed a hidden clip occasionally coming back into a new b-roll montage instead of returning to its original section.

v0.2.2 July 27, 2026

Credits now split into monthly and top-up. Your plan's monthly credits and any top-up packs you've bought are now tracked and shown separately in the app — so a pack you paid for sticks around instead of resetting with your billing cycle.
A batch of smaller review-screen and settings polish.

v0.2.1 July 26, 2026

10-bit export. If your footage is genuinely 10-bit, the Color popover will offer to export in full color depth — reduces banding in skies and gradients. Off by default, since it renders a bit slower.
Better b-roll cutaways. Fixed clips sometimes seeking to a weaker moment than they should have when they were long enough to support splitting into multiple cuts.
Fixed new subscribers being wrongly blocked from buying a credit top-up during their free trial.
A batch of smaller reliability and logging improvements.

v0.2.0 July 23, 2026

Color grading, right in the review screen. Pick from 6 built-in looks, or upload your own .cube LUTs (Pro) with an intensity slider and a live preview frame.
Dynamic Framing. A subtle, slow zoom on your b-roll — choose how often it shows up (Frequency) and how far it travels (Intensity).
Voice Enhancement. Noise reduction, an EQ preset, and auto-leveling for your narration, with a quick sample so you can hear it before you build.
Custom caption fonts (Pro). Upload your own font file and use it for burned-in captions, alongside the built-in styles.
All three new effects work across Vlog, Voiceover, and B-roll modes — including Shorts.
Faster, cooler renders — hardware-accelerated decoding is now used during the render itself, not just during analysis.
Fixed a crash when combining Color and captions in Voiceover mode.
Fixed a rare corrupted-frame issue on certain vertical renders.
Music placement now tracks changes in video length after a Re-edit (e.g. switching pacing), instead of cutting off early.
The captions toggle no longer shows up in B-roll mode, where it never applied.
A batch of smaller reliability fixes found while testing all of the above.

v0.1.69 July 21, 2026

Split a b-roll clip into multiple cuts. Right-click a longer clip in the review screen to break it into several distinct moments instead of one — great for a clip that covers more than one thing.
Much faster on GoPro / 8K footage. Fixed a couple of timeouts that could make large 8K renders take far longer than they should — one folder we tested went from about 40 minutes to about 15.
Fixed the YouTube kit staying unavailable after using Re-edit.
Fixed re-render progress sometimes looking stuck when using Re-edit.
Fixed license reactivation getting stuck for expired keys.
Export now targets Premiere Pro only (DaVinci Resolve import had a compatibility issue with certain camera footage that couldn't be reliably fixed).

v0.1.68 July 12, 2026

Background music. Add a song right in the review screen — drag to place it, trim the start or end, pick how loud it sits under your narration. It ducks and fades automatically, and works whether you're vlogging, narrating a voiceover, or building a pure b-roll montage.
Smoother review flow when no talking-to-camera footage is found — you now get the same full review screen as b-roll mode instead of an immediate build.

v0.1.67 July 8, 2026

More reliable rendering. Fixed a case where a render could fail right away if your footage folder happened to contain a video you'd already exported. Slice now skips its own past exports automatically.

v0.1.66 July 8, 2026

Rotate any clip in the review screen. Right-click a sideways clip — whether it's your talking-to-camera footage or b-roll — and rotate it 90° before you build.
Smoother plan upgrades and billing behind the scenes.

v0.1.65 July 7, 2026

Offline Mode. Render entirely on your Mac with no internet connection — your subscription unlocks it, and no footage or frames ever leave your computer while it's on. Find it in Settings.

v0.1.64 July 7, 2026

Fixed a crash when building a Voiceover Slice right after the review screen.
Voiceover captions are now perfectly in sync, using the same word-level timing precision as Vlog mode.
Fixed re-recording a new voiceover over the same footage sometimes showing captions from a previous take.
Fixed b-roll not slowing down for high-frame-rate (slow-motion) clips in Voiceover mode, in both the video and the Premiere/DaVinci Resolve export.
Fixed the review screen sometimes splitting a Voiceover recording into too many small sections, or leaving one section with barely any b-roll.
Fixed the progress bar looking stuck during a Voiceover render.

v0.1.63 July 7, 2026

Slice of Life is now a subscription. Basic ($10/mo, 60 credits) and Pro ($20/mo, 150 credits) — manage your plan, see your renewal date, and upgrade anytime from Settings.
Pro unlocks the full studio: 4K export, all 3 edit modes (Vlog, Voiceover, B-roll), every caption font, unlimited Shorts, and the YouTube kit. Basic covers Vlog mode at 1080p with the essentials.
Fixed a bug where a manually-rotated b-roll clip could lose that rotation in an auto-generated Short.

v0.1.62 July 5, 2026

No more blur bars in vertical mode. Vertical exports and Shorts now fill the frame edge-to-edge. Talking-to-camera clips get a smooth crop that follows your face as you move.
New: Auto mode. A one-click button next to Build Your Slice — pick your footage and it renders immediately with sensible defaults, no settings to configure.
Organized exports. Each render now gets its own folder — your video, captions, and any Shorts all land together in one place.
More Shorts, better picks. Shorts selection now favors including more good moments instead of only the single punchiest one.
Fixed a caption bug that could show garbled, overlapping text right at a scene cut.

v0.1.61 July 5, 2026

Create Shorts automatically. Flip on Create Shorts before you build, and when your vlog finishes you'll also get up to 10 vertical (9:16) Shorts cut from your best talking-to-camera moments — with the same b-roll from your vlog, and captions if you have them turned on. They land right next to your video, ready to post.
More free-trial credits. The free trial now comes with 10 credits instead of 5, so there's more room to try things out before you buy.

v0.1.60 July 4, 2026

Fixed rotated review clips. Rotating a clip in the review screen no longer leaves blank space in its thumbnail.
Credit cost is now based on clip count instead of footage length, which better reflects usage for most vlogs.

v0.1.59 July 3, 2026

Clearer free-trial experience. The credits screen now points trial users straight to upgrading instead of showing a top-up option meant for full licenses.

v0.1.58 July 2, 2026

Cleaner Premiere & Resolve exports. Slow-motion b-roll now exports at the correct speed with its audio intact, so your timeline in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve matches the finished video.
Sharper captions. Caption timing lines up more precisely with your words, especially in slower or uneven speech.

v0.1.57 June 30, 2026

Snappier openings. Talking clips now start right when you begin speaking — the camera setup and walk-in before your first word are trimmed automatically.
More reliable edit restore. Re-rendering the same footage brings your review-screen tweaks back cleanly, without shuffling your sections around.

v0.1.56 June 29, 2026

Up-to-date help. Refreshed the in-app guide and support assistant so they reflect the latest features — photos, slow motion, and the three modes (Vlog, Voiceover, B-roll).
Polish under the hood. Complete open-source acknowledgements and additional security hardening.

v0.1.55 June 29, 2026

Photos in your slices. Drop photos in with your footage and they become smooth Ken Burns b-roll — a slow pan and zoom that keeps the subject framed.
Slow motion plays in slow motion. Slow-mo clips now actually slow down on screen, with the audio stretched to match.
Smoother cutaways. Fixed a brief freeze at the end of narration sections and tightened the lip-sync when returning from a b-roll cutaway.
Your edits are remembered. Re-render the same footage and your review-screen changes — reorders, montages, exclusions, captions — come back automatically.

v0.1.54 June 26, 2026

New B-roll only mode. Got a folder of footage with no talking? Pick "B-roll" and the app compiles it into a montage — with its own review screen to reorder, drop, or rotate clips before it builds.
YouTube kit. After a render, get title ideas, a ready-to-paste description, thumbnail text, and clickable chapters that match your video exactly — built from what you actually said.
Rotate any clip. Right-click a clip in the review screen to rotate it 90°, in both vlog and voiceover modes, with preview thumbnails that match the final result.
Polish. Smoother done screen, clearer mode buttons, and easier drag-to-reorder.

v0.1.53 June 21, 2026

Extra b-roll becomes a montage. When a section has more footage than fits, the extra clips now play as a b-roll montage with sound — instead of being left out.
Rotate any clip. Right-click a clip in the review screen to rotate it 90°, and the preview thumbnails now match exactly how each clip will appear.
See clip names. Right-clicking a clip shows its filename, so you always know which shot you're looking at.

v0.1.52 June 19, 2026

A nicer install. The installer window now has a polished, branded look that makes dragging Slice of Life into your Applications folder clearer.

v0.1.51 June 17, 2026

Smarter b-roll cutaways. Your b-roll now cuts in at the best moment — when you're settled in the frame and in the middle of the action — instead of starting at the first second of each clip.
More reliable rotation. Landscape b-roll stays right-side up more consistently.

v0.1.50 June 16, 2026

Behind-the-scenes improvements to security and reliability. Nothing changes in how you make a Slice — just a stronger, safer foundation under the hood.

v0.1.49 June 15, 2026

Simpler setup — no more picking a length. Your Slice is now as long as it naturally is: all your talking, with b-roll cut in around it. One less decision before you build.
Pacing now shapes your b-roll. Tight keeps your cuts quick and fits in more of your footage; Relaxed lets each shot linger. Choose the feel you want.
Your full narration is always kept — every talking moment plays start to finish, never trimmed to hit a target.
Fixed a snag where the Re-render button could get stuck after re-editing twice in a row.

v0.1.48 June 15, 2026

Build b-roll montages. In the review screen you can now turn part of your Slice into a pure montage — a run of footage with no narration. Remove the talking clip from a section, or drag clips together, and they'll play as their own sequence with the sound turned up.
A gentle cue when your footage is ready. A soft chime plays the moment analysis finishes and your review screen is ready.
Steadier length recommendation and behind-the-scenes cleanups for more reliable clip ordering.

v0.1.47 June 14, 2026

In-app help, right when you need it. A new help button answers questions about the app and can explain why your video turned out the way it did.
Voiceover mode now has a review screen. Record your narration, then review how your footage is cut beneath it — reorder clips, drop the ones you don't want, and fix caption typos before you build.
Pacing now shapes your voiceover edit. Tight, Balanced, and Relaxed control how long each b-roll clip plays under your narration.
Smarter voiceover cuts that group your footage by what you're talking about, plus a fix so re-editing a voiceover video keeps its sound and captions.

v0.1.46 June 13, 2026

Your full talking moments are kept. Narration clips now play in their entirety — including your sign-off at the end — instead of being trimmed to fit a target length (unless you pick a length shorter than recommended).
Reorder and reclassify in the review screen. Drag a whole section to move it, and right-click any clip to switch it between narration and b-roll.
Tidier review screen with a clear "How this works" guide, plus fixes for caption timing and audio sync on longer clips.

v0.1.45 June 13, 2026

Edit your captions before they're burned in. The review screen now lets you fix any transcription typos right in each section.
Multi-day footage gets the review screen too. Trips and footage spanning several days now flow as one continuous timeline you can review and reorder.
Fixed a day-detection quirk where a single day filmed into the evening could be mistaken for two — it now reads your local time correctly.

v0.1.44 June 13, 2026

B-roll now plays in the order you filmed it within each part of your story — no more shots jumping out of sequence.
The review screen shows your clips in recording order, so what you see is what you get.
Noisy clips no longer turn into fake narration. Wind or water that gets misheard as speech is now correctly kept as b-roll instead of becoming a captioned talking section.

v0.1.43 June 13, 2026

Review your Slice before it renders. After analysis, you can reorder or remove b-roll clips in each section before the video is built.
Smarter clip ordering for mixed-camera setups. Footage from cameras that mislabel timestamps (like DJI) now sorts into the right place in your story.
Sign-offs don't get cut off. The last narration clip now trims to your natural closing words instead of the densest speech window.
Activity breaks land in the right section. B-roll filmed between activities now groups with the section it belongs to, not the one before it.
Sparse clips stay as b-roll. A clip where you say 7 words across a 58-second clip no longer gets mistakenly treated as narration.

v0.1.42 June 11, 2026

Fixed the macOS "could not verify" warning some users saw on first launch. The app now sails through Gatekeeper on every macOS version.
Read your script while you record. In Voiceover mode, a new "Your script" button shows your notepad right under the record button — write on the home screen, read it while narrating.

v0.1.41 June 9, 2026

Re-edits keep their own files. Re-editing a Slice no longer overwrites an earlier re-edit from the same day.
Cleaner captions for clips with multiple people talking.
Smarter footage scanning — the app now ignores its own previous renders if they end up in your footage folder.

v0.1.40 June 8, 2026

Clicking the dock icon reopens the app after closing the window.
Multiple Slices per day — renders made on the same day each keep their own file instead of replacing each other.
Layout polish on the home screen.

v0.1.39 June 8, 2026

Caption styles render in their real fonts — every caption style now looks the way it should in your finished video.
First caption line no longer goes missing at the start of a Slice.

v0.1.38 June 8, 2026

New: Voiceover mode. Record a narration in the app and Slice of Life cuts all your footage as b-roll underneath it — perfect for trips and "day in my life" edits. Pause and resume while recording.
Smoother first install with no security prompts.