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What's New

The latest features and improvements in OpenMuse.

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.