What shipped, and when
Every change here is live in Prelap. Newest first, written for the people who use it.
October 2026
A calmer homepage
- Three separate demos merged into one "How it works" walkthrough.
- Menus and buttons respond on touch right away and honour reduced-motion settings.
Film fix and a new comparison
- Old product-film links now redirect to the current film.
- The Filestage comparison now lists seven priced alternatives.
September 2026
Frame.io alternatives, rewritten
- The Frame.io alternatives guide now compares eight tools with a checked price table.
Workspace compare wipe and live notes
- Compare V1 and V2 in the workspace with a draggable wipe.
- Timeline markers are bigger on touch screens.
- New client notes appear in your workspace as they arrive.
- Project page and password reset fixes, clearer wording on client-facing AI features.
- Better text contrast on the client review page.
Redesign and a more reliable AI
- New homepage and a new product film.
- Plan & billing shows exactly where your subscription stands: free, trial, activating, active, cancelled or payment failed.
- Batch review rebuilt.
- When a client adds notes later, only the new notes are processed, so existing checklist items stay put.
- Stricter checks on AI output and more honest confidence scores on vague notes.
- Cue can now act on the checklist directly.
- Faster, resumable video uploads.
Paid plans go live
- Checkout through Lemon Squeezy, with a customer portal for invoices, cards and cancelling.
- AI allowances reset on the 1st of every month.
- Storage add-ons in 250 GB blocks on paid plans.
- 14-day refund policy added to the Terms.
- New comparison pages for Dropbox Replay, Vimeo and Filestage, and a glossary of revision terms.
- Accessibility fixes across the marketing site.
August 2026
Crash reporting
- Errors are now reported to us automatically so we can fix them faster. Review-link tokens are scrubbed from every report.
July 2026
Usability pass
- Clearer keyboard focus, browser zoom support, timeline accessibility and contrast fixes.
- Honest labels and consistent billing details across the app.
Steadier video processing
- Videos switch to adaptive streaming only once the stream is confirmed playable.
- A video that cannot be encoded is set aside instead of retrying forever.
Version names and range previews
- Name your versions, with a small streaming-status indicator on each version card.
- A live frame preview while you set range in and out points.
- Every browser pop-up confirm replaced with an in-app dialog.
- A one-minute workspace tour for first-time editors.
- Video processing recovers by itself when an encode stalls.
Batch review overhaul
- Each file type opens in the right viewer, plus folders, downloads, notifications and richer feedback on batches.
Portrait video fixes
- Portrait videos lay out correctly, and the workspace header no longer overlaps the player.
Instant Review
- Clients can watch a cut the moment the upload finishes, before encoding is done.
- Comparison pages for Frame.io, Wipster and Flask.
- A faster homepage.
- Client Space: an explicit "Email the invite" button.
Policies that match reality
- Privacy Policy and Terms rewritten to describe what Prelap actually does with your data.
Meet Cue, and integrations
- Cue, the studio assistant: paste messy feedback and it turns it into checklist items, answers questions about notes and drafts client updates.
- Webhooks for Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own endpoint.
- Forward-to email intake: email feedback in and it lands on the project's latest cut.
- "Here's what we heard": clients see the AI's read-back of their own note.
- Docs page: Connect Prelap to your tools.
Marker exports that import cleanly
- Fixed marker imports in DaVinci Resolve (EDL), Final Cut Pro (frame-aligned FCPXML) and CapCut (SRT).
- Five new guides on the blog.
Closing the loop with clients
- Overall review: clients can leave a verdict and a comment on the whole cut.
- Clients get a "Notify editor" button; editors get a "Notify client" button.
- What's new between versions shown as short cards instead of a wall of text, in the app and in emails.
- More reliable downloads.
Range notes, roles and mobile
- Range notes: drag on the timeline to comment on a whole section.
- "Improve my note": clients can have AI rewrite a rough note more clearly before sending.
- Agency roles and permissions, with approval rights limited by role.
- Internal notes: a team-only discussion thread on each version.
- Feedback emails batched into a digest, with a per-workspace setting.
- Landscape cinema view and pinch-to-zoom timeline on phones.
- Dashboard attention feed and an open-items queue.
- Link previews show the video's poster frame.
- Live encoding progress while a video processes.
Covers, clients and teams
- Project cover thumbnails captured automatically from your video, with a manual override.
- Join more than one workspace and switch between them.
- Client workspaces you can create, rename and delete, plus a dashboard per client.
- Team invitations send a real invite email.
- Links that always show the latest version, version replace, and an unlimited-rounds option.
- Frame rate detected automatically.
- Adaptive streaming playback for uploaded video.
- Background uploads with a floating progress pill.
Client Space and the client composer
- Client Space: one persistent, zero-login link per client with all their projects.
- Clients can select a time range for a note in two taps.
- A WhatsApp-style note composer that grows as you type.
- Pause-to-comment, a centre play button and landscape cinema mode.
- A viewed-by-client indicator, and share links available before encoding finishes.
- Pricing page, blog, docs and comparison pages.
Prelap's first release
- Upload a cut, share a zero-login review link, and get client feedback structured into a timestamped revision checklist.
- Mobile review and batch review.
See it with a real client
Start free, share a review link with a client, and watch their feedback turn into a timestamped checklist.