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Faster asset management in the editor, with selection, cleanup, and layout options.

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New features

  • Multi-select and range-select for assets, audio, and text — click to select, Ctrl/Cmd + click to add or remove, and Shift + click to select a range across the Assets panel and text lists. See the UI guide.
  • Batch deletion with confirmation — delete multiple selected items at once from a single confirmation dialog, so cleanup is quick and safe.
  • Grid and list views for assets — toggle between a thumbnail grid and a compact list to browse imported media the way you prefer.

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Updates

  • Resizable content panel — drag the panel edge to give the Assets, Audio, Text, and other tabs as much space as you need.
  • Cleaner media import button — the Assets panel’s import control now has a more consistent look.
  • Consistent selected-item highlighting — selections now share the same visual treatment across every panel that supports them.
  • Escape cancels the current selection — press Esc to clear a selection or dismiss a pending action without touching the mouse.

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Bug fixes

  • No more duplicate audio in the Assets panel — audio tracks appear once, in the Audio folder, instead of showing up twice.
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Four more building blocks toward professional, non-slideshow motion: icons, images, UI components, and SVG.

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New features

  • Real icon presets — springIn, bounceIn, and scaleReveal now have distinct, real implementations (they previously fell through to a generic fallback). New spinIn gives logos/icons a full-rotation entrance with overshoot and settle.
  • Image/media presets — kenBurns for a continuous per-element pan+zoom independent of the global camera, and tiltReveal for a skew/rotation “perspective” card entrance. followThrough (from the motion-quality primitives) is the documented parallax mechanism for a background layer lagging behind foreground/camera movement.
  • Standalone UI shapes — overlay shapes no longer require a parent image; a shape overlay with no parent now positions itself relative to canvas center like any other element, instead of silently filling the whole frame. rect also respects originX/originY for its anchor, enabling left-anchored bars and panels.
  • UI-component presets — cardReveal (rise + scale + rising shadow elevation) and buttonPop (fast elastic tap-scale) for cards/buttons, and progressFill (animates width from 0) for progress bars. Notifications, modals, tables, and menus are documented composition recipes built from these plus existing presets (dynamicSlide, scaleReveal, sequence), rather than a growing list of one-off preset names.
  • SVG trim paths and motion paths — trimStart generalizes the existing drawSVG stroke reveal into a partial-arc “trim” (a moving trimmed segment, not just draw-from-start). A new motionPath/motionPathProgress/motionPathRotate lets any element travel along an imported path asset’s geometry. Real path morphing and gradient-stop animation remain unsupported and are documented as such.
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The first step toward richer, less “slide transition” motion: opt-in physicality for any preset.

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New features

  • Overshoot and anticipation — heroLogo, softReveal, productPanel, rotateReveal, and other two-state object presets now accept overshoot <multiplier> (settle past the target then ease back) and anticipation <time> (a small counter-motion before the main move). Both are additive; existing projects render unchanged unless you add the options. See the motion language reference.
  • Secondary motion with followThrough — any element can lag and dampen behind a parent’s motion with followThrough <parentId>, followThroughLag, and followThroughDamping, for a label or glow that trails its icon instead of moving in lockstep.
  • Hierarchy-aware sequence stagger — sequence blocks gained a hierarchy option (linear, wave, center-out) and now drive delay for preset-driven elements too, not just explicit animate blocks, so a row of icons or cards can be staggered from one place instead of hand-computed per-element delays.
  • Motionly preset refreshed — the built-in Motionly preset now uses heroLogo with overshoot/anticipation for both logo reveals, a sequence block with hierarchy wave for the three agent icons, and followThrough on their labels, as a working example of all three.
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A tidier undo history when you edit interactively.

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Bug fixes

  • Drag gestures collapse into a single undo step — moving or resizing on the canvas, scrubbing a property slider, turning the rotation dial, or dragging in the color picker now record one history entry per gesture instead of one per pointer movement. Ctrl/Cmd + Z steps back through your edits at a natural pace. See the UI guide.
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Editor fixes for cleaner keyframing and predictable scaling.

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Bug fixes

  • Keyframes stay on the selected layer — toggling or editing a keyframe no longer bleeds into other elements, so each layer’s animation timeline is fully isolated. See Keyframes.
  • Scale controls stay in sync — the properties panel slider and numeric input now update together when you scale an element, whether from the canvas handles or the panel itself. See the UI guide.
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Open the editor faster with a streamlined entry point.

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Updates

  • Editor now loads at / — starting motionly dev (or opening a preview) drops you straight into the editor. The separate welcome/onboarding screen and its toolbar link have been removed for a quicker path to the canvas. See the quickstart.
  • Legacy /editor URLs redirect — bookmarks and links to the old path automatically send you to the root, so existing workflows keep working.
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The visual editor lands, along with a refreshed timeline, richer asset workflows, and dependable MP4 export.

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New features

Visual editor The Svelte-based editor is now the primary workflow, with scene, preview, properties, and timeline panels. Drag to move, use corner handles to scale, and tune position, rotation, opacity, color, timing, and easing without leaving the canvas. See the UI guide.Left navigation rail A new icon-based rail groups your work into Media, Audio, Text, Effects, Scenes, Adjustments, and Settings tabs so you can jump between panels in one click.Timeline clips with drag-and-drop Drag assets from the Assets panel straight onto the timeline to create clips. Clips are persisted as first-class blocks in .motion alongside a new audio block for background tracks. See Sequences.Preset browser Browse animation presets as visual cards with animated GIF thumbnails, then load with a confirmation dialog so nothing gets overwritten by accident. See Presets and Text presets.Organized Assets panel Assets are now sorted into Audio and Images & Graphics folders. Click any asset to preview it without disrupting timeline playback.Audio in .motion Attach background audio to a project and it’s saved directly in the .motion file with synchronized preview during playback.MP4 export Export MP4 files from the top toolbar with live progress feedback. See Export overview and Formats.BYOK AI Chat Generate editable projects from your own API keys. OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, Hugging Face, or a custom endpoint — keys stay in local storage. See AI authoring.

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Updates

  • Refreshed timeline styling — clip blocks, trim handles, thumbnails, and a resizable playhead area for a cleaner editing surface.
  • Polished properties panel — custom sliders and styled inputs replace the earlier form controls.
  • Direct save — save opened .motion files (and the development-server project) in place, no re-export needed.
  • Fullscreen preview and GitHub Star control added to the top toolbar.
  • One-click clip deletion from the timeline.