What's new in KiteOS.

Added

• Switch the resolution you're watching in — Auto, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, or 4K — right from the player, without losing your playback position
• Download a video at a specific resolution instead of only the original upload
• A resolution above your plan's limit shows locked with a one-click upgrade link, so you always know what's available
• Picking a quality you haven't watched yet starts processing immediately and is usually ready within a few seconds

Added

• A public changelog at /changelog, with an RSS feed for anyone who wants to follow along
• A public roadmap so people can see what's shipped, in progress, and planned
• Incident history on the status page — post an update when something's degraded, and resolve it when it's fixed

Changed

• The status page now reflects real incidents instead of just live service checks

Changed

• The bottom navigation is now sized properly for touch

Fixed

• Reviewing a video stacks the player above the comments on a phone, instead of squeezing them side by side
• Video plays in place on iPhone, instead of jumping into Apple's own fullscreen player
• The interface keeps clear of the notch and the home indicator
• Drawing on a frame now works by touch
• On narrow screens, the Shoots calendar becomes a readable list instead of an unreadable seven-column grid

Fixed

• Delete and "…" menus that had stopped responding to clicks are fixed everywhere in the app
• Deleting a chat message now updates immediately for everyone in the channel, instead of leaving a blank bubble until they reload

Added

• Meetings and pipeline board cards can now be deleted, and restored from Trash like everything else
• New releases are announced with a one-time popup the first time you sign in after one ships

Changed

• Editors now use the same full review workspace as admins and clients, instead of a cut-down popup

Added

• Clicking a comment jumps the video straight to the moment it's about
• Drawings left by a reviewer are shown over the frame
• A sidebar puts the task's SOP, tags, brief, and due date beside the video
• Internal notes that clients never see
• Delete an upload before it reaches the client

Changed

• Only your client can approve a video now — what was "Approve" on the agency side is "Send to client", which is what it always actually did
• Sending a video back internally returns it to In Progress; "Revisions" now means specifically that the client asked for changes
• Internal Review and Client Review are separate columns on the pipeline board, not one merged lane

Added

• Filters on Video Review: status, client, project, editor, and date — kept in the URL, so a filtered view is shareable and survives a refresh
• Every status change is recorded with who made it and when

Fixed

• Approved and delivered work no longer triggers overdue reminders
• Requesting changes doesn't ask for a written summary when you've already left comments — it shows them as context instead

Added

• A cover image for every video — upload your own, or let one be captured automatically from the video when a cut is uploaded
• The cover appears everywhere a video was previously a grey rectangle: the pipeline board, the client's video list, and the review page
• "Regenerate from video" to recapture the cover from the current cut

Fixed

• Failed sign-ins and password resets are now recorded, so a login problem can be diagnosed in minutes instead of days
• A password reset that fails to send now says so, instead of showing the same "check your email" message as a real one

Added

• Delete clients, projects, videos, shoots, calendar events, CRM contacts, companies, deals, proposals, forms, ideas, and invoices — recoverable from Trash for 30 days, with who deleted it and how long it has left
• A work timer for editors that starts automatically and stops when the cut is uploaded (or manually) — visible and stoppable from anywhere in the editor portal
• An editor workload view: time per video, and revision rounds per editor, for capacity planning

Fixed

• Several delete actions were permanently destroying records with no way back — all now go through Trash
• Deleting was missing an ownership check in several places — it's now scoped to what you're actually allowed to remove

Changed

• Pages now use the full width beside the sidebar instead of leaving a large empty gap, and the top bar lines up with the page beneath it

Added

• A Calendar day view — click a date, or "+N more" on a busy day, to see everything scheduled (previously "+N more" did nothing at all)
• Video review shows who's assigned as editor

Fixed

• The chat button no longer sits on top of the Approve button

Fixed

• The video player fits your screen on any display, from a 13-inch laptop up to a 2K monitor, with nothing running past the bottom edge
• Vertical videos in the compare view no longer render small with black bars beside them
• The volume slider shows the current level clearly, in the brand colour, with a visible handle

Fixed

• Fullscreen keeps KiteOS's own controls and comments, instead of handing off to the browser's bare player
• The overdue-deadline warning no longer repeats endlessly
• Approve and Request Changes stay visible without scrolling
• The volume slider no longer closes the moment you reach for it
• A drawing can now be posted on its own, without also needing to type a comment
• The pipeline board fills the width of the window on larger displays

Changed

• The client dashboard leads with videos waiting on your review, instead of a flat list of everything recently touched
• The video list on your dashboard shows only what's relevant to you

Added

• A volume slider on the video player, alongside mute
• A download button on any video you can already open

Fixed

• The video now pauses the moment you click into the comment box, so your comment attaches to the frame you were actually looking at
• A comment no longer occasionally appears twice before you refresh

Added

• Clients can approve a cut directly from an emailed link — no account required
• A per-client profitability view showing what each client actually earns you
• Eight starter automation templates you can turn on with one click

Fixed

• The top navigation icons stay pinned to the right edge on wide monitors, instead of drifting toward the middle
• Editing a CRM contact opens the edit form instead of a "not found" page
• Chat dates read as "Thursday, 14 August" instead of "14/08/2026", and deleted messages read as "This message was deleted" instead of a generic placeholder
• Sign-in is now rate-limited, and every page has its own error and loading state instead of going blank

Added

• A profile menu from your avatar: upload a photo, set a status with a custom message, and jump to your profile or two-factor setup — in every portal, not just admin

Changed

• Your workspace now has one name, used everywhere — sidebar, client portal, client-facing emails, and the browser tab
• Choosing a country in a billing address now offers the right list of states or provinces for it, for every country

Added

• Compare two versions of a video side by side, on one shared timeline, with comments from both versions
• Shoots and Meetings now live on one Calendar, with Month, Week, and Year views
• Calendar events show as colour-coded pills by type, so you can tell what's what at a glance
• Notes on a meeting are attached to it and visible from the calendar

Changed

• The separate "Shoots" and "Meetings" sidebar items are now one "Calendar" item (both original pages are still reachable directly, just not linked from the sidebar)

Fixed

• Uploaded videos now appear on the Video Review page — some were being filtered out and never showing up at all
• The notification bell count matches what's actually unread, and updates in real time
• "Mark all read" actually stays marked
• The search bar in the top navigation fills the space available to it
• A dropdown menu on the dashboard no longer renders behind other content
• Pipeline and Deals boards fit on a 13-inch laptop without side-scrolling

Changed

• The storage indicator shows a percentage and a readable size ("1% used — 0.1 GB / 5 TB") instead of a raw byte count

Added

• Generate a personal API token from Settings → API Tokens and connect an AI assistant to KiteOS
• Once connected, an assistant can read your projects, tasks, and videos on your behalf — read-only, so nothing can be changed or deleted through it
• A setup guide at /docs/mcp walks through connecting Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini
• Tokens are rate-limited and can be revoked at any time

Added

• Standard operating procedures per client and per work type, with a workspace default as a fallback — editors always see the right one on a task, and SOPs can be drafted, published, and reverted to an earlier version
• Video tags you define once and apply everywhere, shown as colour-coded pills
• Shoot tags and a gear checklist so camera operators know what to pack and can check it off
• A status you can set for yourself — Online, Away, Do Not Disturb, On Holiday — with an optional message and auto-expiry

Changed

• Integrations that were never actually connected (Slack, WhatsApp, Notion) were removed from Settings

Fixed

• Inviting a client or team member now reliably sends the email, with the right branding
• "Resend invite" actually sends a new email now, instead of silently doing nothing
• Retrying a failed payment keeps the plan you were upgrading to, instead of starting over
• Getting interrupted mid-payment returns you to where you were, not a generic dashboard
• The payment status banner only shows to admins, and clears itself once you're sorted

Added

• A cost calculator on the pricing page — drag your team size to see the real monthly cost of the tools KiteOS replaces
• Frame-accurate video review: timecoded comments, on-screen drawings, voice notes, side-by-side version comparison, and per-version approval
• Client portal access from a single magic link — no password to set, no app to install
• Optional two-factor authentication for every workspace member
• Meetings booked in KiteOS sync automatically to Google Calendar, with a Google Meet link generated for each one
• Bigger storage tiers (3TB / 5TB / 10TB) and a proper Enterprise plan for teams that outgrow them