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The latest features and improvements in OpenMuse.

Every sound, where you want it

  • NewBuild the soundtrack around your video. Add more than one song, upload audio, or keep a clip’s original sound, then place, trim, split or mute each part while all the sounds play together. Choose the featured song and its lyrics follow it.
  • NewBring a song you already have to Your Song, or pick one from the ready-made collection. If your video already has music, replace it or leave its original soundtrack untouched.
  • ImprovedSinging Cards now play complete performances instead of excerpts that end early. When a song offers two lengths, choose how long the card sings and see the token price before you make it.
  • ImprovedEvery token pack shows its price and tokens per pound before you pay. The best value is marked, and your tokens never expire.
  • FixedPortrait videos keep their shape from preview to finished render, and Download saves the media file instead of opening it in your browser.
  • FixedFinished songs recover cleanly when saving stalls. OpenMuse retries once and tells you it is saving again; if a completed song was marked failed, Save again recovers it without another charge. Second takes and song names also appear straight away.

Tell a photo what to do — move it, edit it, or join it to the next shot

  • NewYou can now tell any photo in your timeline what to do: Make this photo a video, Edit this photo, or Join this to the next clip. Write your own direction or choose a pictured idea, from gentle portrait motion and photo restoration to background clean-up or blending two photos into one shot. The result lands in the right place without taking you out of the timeline.
  • ImprovedWhen a photo edit can use more than one model, you can choose the model and quality before you make it. The token price updates with your choice, and OpenMuse only offers models that fit the clip’s shape. If there is only one suitable model, you see its name instead.
  • FixedLarge phone photos, HEIC files and sideways JPEGs are now resized and turned the right way up before OpenMuse makes an image or video from them. Oversized uploads no longer fail for that reason, and the result stays upright.
  • FixedOn the web, the export estimate, token charge and finished video now agree on length. A failed export returns its full token charge, and exports over ten minutes are stopped before charging.
  • FixedWhen you switch songs, the previous song’s saved excerpt no longer carries over. Song excerpts stop at the song’s end, and a clip’s own sound now fades through outgoing transitions in web exports instead of cutting off.

Bring your web projects to Desktop — and keep the video in view while you edit

  • NewDesktop now lists your web projects. Download one as a separate local copy, cancel the transfer while it is running, and turn a video rendered on your computer into a share link anyone can open.
  • NewCreate with AI now begins with the clip you selected. Pick what should happen; its row shows the AI working, and when the new clip is ready it lands in your video already selected.
  • NewPhoto Pile lays your pictures down as prints, one at a time, on a surface you choose. The new Tabletop Reel style lets that pile build as part of the cut instead of appearing already made.
  • ImprovedThe video editor now keeps one player pinned above Organize. Song, Look, Lyrics, Visual style and the controls for the clip you selected all live in that panel; press and hold to select several clips, or drag a cut while the song's words, beats and playhead stay in view.
  • FixedReturn to Your video and playback now starts from the beginning. Select a different clip while the video is playing and the player lands on it on the first try.

Your outfit lands on the drop — and every choice now shows you what it looks like

  • NewOutfit Reveal: three photos — you in what you're wearing now, the outfit laid out, and you dressed — and it makes the get-ready video, with the change landing on the drop. Pick how the change happens: a bright band sweeps over you, silk ribbons spiral and unwrap, fabric billows across and falls away, or you swipe your hand across the frame. Six tracks to choose between, and a line at the end if you want one — "Ready." Before it makes anything it looks at your outfit photo and hands it back with a box around each piece it found: untick the necklace that's really a fold in the duvet and the video gets built without it. That check costs 5 tokens; the video isn't charged until you say yes.
  • NewEvery choice about how your video looks now shows you a picture of itself, and every choice about how it sounds plays. Claymation, Light sweep, 1990s used to be words in a list, behind a panel you had to open first; now each one shows what it does on the same photo, so a row of them is a comparison instead of a glossary. The ten effects that come with one track of their own name it and play it — Golden Hours, Brick by Brick, Say Yes — and Outfit Reveal's six tracks each play the exact stretch your video will use, not the intro. In the app, and on the website page for each effect.
  • NewYou can say what stays in frame. When a photo has to be cut to fit the video, the app used to keep the same part of every one — the middle, a little high — whether or not your subject was there. Now you pick the spot it keeps, a face off to one side or the dog at the edge, and how close it sits, clip by clip.
  • ImprovedThe screens you land on after making something are simpler. Your finished song arrives on one screen — "Your song is ready", saved to the project, with the player, the lyrics and what you can do next together — and making a video from it is an optional step you start from there, with Back returning to the song. On the AI image pages, an image you just made can be used as a reference straight away without a reload, and the page remembers the model you last generated with. And every file you save is named for your project and the date, where the same video used to arrive as render-4821.mp4 on the web and openmuse_render_4821.mp4 on the desktop.
  • FixedYour video does what you tell it. Words only appear if you put them there — some songs used to switch Sing-Along lyrics on by themselves, karaoke across the middle of a video nobody asked to have words on. Auto-arrange arranges the clips in your video, instead of throwing your cut away and rebuilding it from every photo the project had ever held, so 15 photos you'd chosen no longer come back as 25 opening on one you'd got rid of. Dragging a clip in Organize shows the line where it will land and you can drop it at the end of the row; clearing every clip leaves you in your video instead of sending you back to "Shape your video"; and adding one photo to an emptied video adds one photo, instead of filling the whole song with twenty copies of it.
  • FixedThings that used to break quietly. A photo we can't open now names itself and fails on its own, instead of taking the whole video down behind a wall of error text — and a file we can't use at all is turned away as you add it, with what to send instead: "Camera RAW isn't supported yet. Export it as a JPEG and it'll upload fine." The download button on Visuals saves your video, not a copy of the web page. A tab left open while we ship an update no longer goes dead on your next tap. And a scroll on the Projects list no longer drags the whole app off the top of the screen.

Everything you've made in one place — open a project and the video is already playing

  • NewEditor is its own place now, and your projects sit there as covers instead of a list of names — each one saying where it came from, a Birthday reel, a Quick AI effect, a song, with one tap back to where it was made. Open a finished project and your video is the first thing on the page, already playing, with the space it's taking up named underneath. It used to be a checklist of steps all marked Done.
  • NewWhen your song is ready, "Use my photos instead" takes you straight into shaping a video from your own pictures, cut to that song — no new project, no starting over.
  • NewTwo new transitions. Swish whips from one shot to the next with the blur of the move still on it, sideways or up. FlashCut holds a burst of light across a hard cut. And all twelve transitions now sit in one list, instead of half of them hidden behind "Show pro transitions".
  • ImprovedAuto-arrange now cuts to the beat. Your photos get movement — a slow push, a drift — and every cut lands on the music instead of on a timer. Pick the look from a gallery that plays each one before you choose.
  • ImprovedPhotos and videos fill the frame instead of sitting in black bars. Anything near your video's shape fills it edge to edge; a tall phone photo in a wide video sits on a soft blurred copy of itself. You can still force either, clip by clip.
  • ImprovedYour song's lyrics now appear while it's still composing, instead of two or three minutes of a spinner. Refresh in the middle of the interview and your answers are still there. And the ready screen names the song, not the project.
  • ImprovedThe AI image and video pages are simpler: one set of controls, one form instead of a stack, and each page named for what it makes — the one that makes a video no longer calls itself Animate Image. Come back to the gallery and you land where you left it, and a finished result leads with one clear next step instead of five equal buttons, with the video sized to fit your screen.
  • ImprovedShape Your Video works on a phone. You couldn't see one whole clip at a time; now four or five fit on screen, and a long project scrolls in a few flicks.
  • FixedPhotos straight off an iPhone work now: HEIC files upload, sit the right way up, show their picture in the timeline instead of an error tile, and render at their true shape. And when a file can't make a preview at all, its tile says so and offers Try again, instead of sitting there half-drawn.
  • FixedBeat-synced reels stay on the beat to the last cut — they used to drift up to 1.25 seconds off the music by the end. And a Business Jingle ends when the jingle ends, instead of running three seconds past it.
  • FixedWipes and slides reveal the shot underneath instead of flashing black for a frame — every cut in a Film Roll or Countdown video used to flicker.
  • FixedOn the Quick AI effects that show you the still first, the length you pick is the length you get — choosing 10 seconds used to hand back a clip trimmed to 5.

Send a card that sings to the person you miss — and four new looks for your reels

  • NewMiss You: a new Singing Card for someone far away — no birthday, no anniversary, just an ordinary Tuesday. Upload your own photo and it's your face singing it: Wistful, for the thing you don't say out loud, or Come Home, for get back here, it's dull without you. Male or female voice.
  • NewFour new Reel Styles, one per occasion — Sugar Rush slams a birthday together candy-bright, three photos into one frame at the drop; Champagne pops each wedding photo like a cork until the glasses meet in a gilded wall; Stamped thunks every place onto a passport page until the page is full; Highlights cuts twelve months to the hits and lands on a magazine cover. Each one plays your own photos before you pick.
  • NewYour song no longer has to be verse and chorus. Pick Tell the story — how it started, what changed, where it landed. Or Funny toast, an affectionate roast with a line the room can shout. Or Letter to you: written to one person, says the thing straight away. The lyrics come back written that way.
  • NewMake a collage from the timeline in one tap. There's a Collage button on the toolbar now, and it asks which photos, how they're arranged, which look, and how long it holds — all pre-filled, so you can just say yes.
  • NewYou don't have to finish the song interview — answer as much of it as you feel like, then hit "Make my song now" under the chat. The rest gets filled in, at the same cost.
  • NewNew image model: Nano Banana Pro. It generates at the shape you're actually making — a vertical reel gets a tall picture instead of a wide one cropped down — takes up to 14 photos as reference, and writes legible text into the picture, so a card can actually say "Happy 60th, Nan".
  • ImprovedSelecting clips works the same way everywhere now: one bar, one Move, whether you're in the list or in Organize. And when a selection can't become a collage, it tells you why instead of quietly hiding the button.
  • ImprovedThe lyrics now use what you actually typed — the names, the places, the running joke — instead of settling for "memories that last forever".
  • ImprovedRefresh in the middle of making something and you don't lose it — the AI Reel Director, the Business Jingle and the Quick AI song all pick the run back up, tokens and all. And if it can't find the run, it says so, instead of leaving you wondering whether you'd been charged.
  • ImprovedDownload from a share link and whoever you sent it to gets the lighter copy the page plays — usually 3–6× smaller, which matters on mobile data — with the file size on the link before they tap. Your own full-quality download in the app is unchanged.
  • FixedThe Singing Card now shows the cost of the song you actually picked — they're not all the same length — and every card sings to the end of a line instead of stopping mid-word.
  • FixedThe preview in the editor now plays the same stretch of the song your finished video uses — a travel reel used to preview the opening of the track and then render a different part of it. And when the browser blocks sound on autoplay, a "Tap for sound" button now sits on the player itself.
  • FixedVideo thumbnails went missing for three days at the start of August — anything you uploaded then has its thumbnail back now. And a new photo's tile fills itself in instead of waiting for you to reload the page.

Your song, handwritten — the Love Letter look

  • NewLove Letter: a new look for your song — your words write themselves onto paper as they're sung, your photo taped above like a Polaroid.
  • NewLyrics on any video can now use Caveat — the same relaxed handwriting the Love Letter writes in.
  • Improved'Show lyrics on the video' now means it for every look — off is off for Cover and Love Letter too, and looks that never draw lyrics say so instead of offering a switch that does nothing.

Your business gets its own jingle — and the preview now plays your photos

  • NewBusiness Jingle: give it your business name and a handful of photos, and it comes back a short reel with your name sung as the hook. Listen to both takes before anything renders — and if the name comes out wrong, spell it the way it sounds and it sings it again.
  • NewThe occasion pages — Birthday, Wedding, Travel, Party, Year in Review — and the AI Reel Director now preview the cut with your own photos — the actual music, the actual cuts — before you press Make, instead of a stand-in sample.
  • ImprovedBirthday reels now follow a designed arc — an opener, photo walls, a reprise — matched to what you upload, photos and clips alike. Add a clip and Auto gives the cut more room, so every photo still gets its moment.
  • NewOne bell now follows everything you ask the AI to make — images, clips, songs, renders — with what each one cost in tokens. The list survives a refresh, and songs appear there while they're still generating.
  • ImprovedSongs now finish on their own — close the tab mid-generation and the song is ready when you come back.
  • FixedGenerated images are kept the moment they arrive — closing the tab before accepting no longer loses them.
  • FixedSign in while a song page is open and the download works right away — no refresh needed.
  • ImprovedCancel your desktop membership and your account now shows the exact date it's paid through — and that it won't renew. And when a membership lapses, the app takes you to the renew screen, not to a prompt to buy tokens.
  • NewThree new neon looks for song visualizers — Neon Ring puts your photo in a ring that pulses with the song, Wave stages it over a running soundwave, Reactor spins a sci-fi core — plus an Ember palette and a rain-on-glass backdrop.
  • ImprovedProject previews on the web now start playing right away — they stream a lighter copy instead of making you wait on the full-size original.

OpenMuse for desktop is now a membership

  • NewOpenMuse for desktop is now a membership — £5.99 a month (cancel anytime) or £65 a year. It includes the full editor, unlimited rendering on your own computer, and your choice of AI: your own provider keys, or OpenMuse cloud tokens. You buy and manage it from your Account on the web. To try OpenMuse first, the web app at app.open-muse.com is free to start, with tokens for your first videos.
  • ImprovedBring your own AI on desktop. Settings now show where each kind of AI runs — on OpenMuse cloud, paid with tokens, or on your own keys: a local model through Ollama, or your MiniMax, Replicate, and OpenRouter accounts. Local models through Ollama now run reliably for the song interview and lyrics — pick from the ones you have installed, and test the connection in one click. (The lyrics setting is now called Text AI, since it also powers the song interview.)
  • FixedEach beat-synced Reel Style now keeps its own pace — Hype slams on every beat, 2 A.M. drifts on one slow move, Elegant lingers on a single long look — instead of all settling into the same rhythm.

Make their photo sing — and watch the video before you make it.

  • NewSinging Card: upload one photo, pick a short song — birthday or love, in a male or female voice — and the face in it sings every word. Whoever is in the photo is the one singing, so send your own face belting happy birthday down the phone, or your other half singing "I love you" straight down the lens.
  • NewReel Styles: every occasion now offers three looks you choose by watching each one play the real cut — your wedding as Elegant, First Dance, or After Party; your party as Hype, 2 A.M., or Flash.
  • NewPlay your video in the editor before you render it — the real cuts, music, and lyrics, timed exactly as they'll land in the finished video. It plays right in the page and expands to fullscreen.
  • ImprovedThe occasion pages — Birthday, Wedding, Travel, Party, Year in Review — are now numbered steps (photos, style, sound, finishing touches) beside a preview that keeps playing while you choose, with the length and cost on screen before you press Make.
  • ImprovedWhen your song is ready, the video look now plays right there — Spectrum, Flow, or your own cover photo — so you pick it by watching, not from a list.
  • NewEach version of your video can now use a different song — or a different part of the same one — so your vertical cut can ride the chorus while the long one opens on the first verse.
  • ImprovedQuick AI photo effects now render at your photo's exact shape — no black bars, no crop — and ease into their closing shot instead of snapping to a freeze-frame.
  • ImprovedMaking an instrumental no longer needs a written description: choose a genre, mood, tempo and lead instrument, and it comes back with a name of its own — "Rainy Alley Funk", not another song called "Instrumental".
  • FixedPicking a cover photo now offers your whole library, this project's photos, or a new upload — on a song-only project the grid used to come up empty.

Sing your photo, then shape your video — music video, visualizer, or vertical clip.

  • NewSing My Photo: turn a still photo into a performance that lip-syncs and moves with your song's chorus.
  • NewAfter you finish a song, choose the shape your video takes — a full music video, a visualizer, or a quick vertical clip — and make as many versions as you want without starting over. (Reels are now called Versions.)
  • NewTwo new visualizer looks — Flow field, an abstract animated style for videos with no photos at all, and a cover-art style that puts your photo and the lyric front and center — plus a real preview of every look and palette before you choose.
  • NewNew Quick AI effect: Cartoon Me turns your photo into a caricature that comes alive.
  • ImprovedEvery Quick AI effect now shows a preview before it spends your credits — pick the motion and length, or keep just the image.
  • ImprovedArrange your photos as a collage, select several clips at once to edit them together, and let Auto-arrange do the sorting — you choose the order, pace, and length.
  • NewLyrics on your rendered video now come with style presets to pick from.
  • ImprovedWhen generating an AI image or video, pick a source photo straight from your Library instead of only your device.

Share your videos, and a simpler editor

  • NewShare a finished video with a private link — anyone can watch it in their browser, no account needed, streamed at up to 720p.
  • NewMusic Visualizer turns a song into a video that moves in time with the sound.
  • ImprovedThe timeline editor is simpler: one detailed view, plus a quick Organize panel for reordering, reversing, and sorting clips in bulk.

Make a reel just by describing it

  • NewAI Reel Director builds a lyric-synced reel from your photos: tell it the feeling you're after and it picks the moments and sets them to a custom song.

Beat-synced templates for the big occasions

  • NewOccasion templates for Birthday, Wedding, Travel, and Year in Review — drop in your photos and they're cut to the beat of the music automatically.