1.9.54
2021-06-21
- Selected snippets are now saved for future use
- Bug fixes & improvements
1.9.5
2021-01-16
New: See video previews when listening to a snippet.
Tap the video to watch it full screen and in detail.
- Massive improvements to audio and video playback accuracy.
- Emoji support in titles and subtitles
- Bug fixes and improvements
1.9.3
2021-01-07
- New browsing experience for the templates tab
1.9.2
2021-01-05
It's now easier for new storytellers to start creating thanks to our new permissions sheet.
We also fixed that would prevent titles from showing if there was an emoji in it.
1.9.1
2020-12-31
New templates:
- Cairo: stylish video-subtitles
- Rio: show your best audio tweets
1.9.0
2020-12-23
For our next release of the year we've made changes that lots of our PRO users have been asking for:
- We've made audio upload quality 10x better thanks to a better compression algorithm.
- We've improved our transcription algorithm to better handle silences, new snippet creation and short word utterances.
- We've improved rendering of images and badges for video exports making your templates more stunning than ever.
- We've improved animations for lots of our templates to make them more eye catching than before.
As a reminder, we recently launched 11 new templates, better support for long format video uploads and a more reliable video engine.
1.8.9
2020-12-19
As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to surprise our users with our biggest template release ever with 11 new templates!
Video Captions:
- Prague: a single typography template designed for cinematic, impactful effects.
- Brussels: a multi-lined simple appear disappear animation for portrait interviews
- Rome: a beautiful framed video caption template with a title area, where captions appear over a traditional 50% opacity box.
Frames: a new category for pro social media content with titles and subtitles
- Moscow: square video area with a large top area containing title, subtitle and cover image.
- Istanbul: 4:3 video area with a stunning vibrating rectangle
- Dubai: A versatile frame based template to highlight a subtitle.
- Bogota: Square video area with a large title area where the subtitle will appear in a bold rectangle. Contains a progress bar at the bottom too.
- London: Our original frames template redesigned to be more versatile and impactful.
- Chicago: A larger video area that still maintains the beautiful impactful top title area
- Santiago: A variation of Chicago with a progress bar at the bottom
Podcasts:
- Hanoi: A messaging voice note template for sharing audio snippets. It takes a title and a subtitle too which is layers as messaging bubbles above the audio player.
- Lima: A bold cover-focused template that vibrates with the volume of the audio.
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Other things this version contains:
- We've made a lot of improvements to our video engine to make it more stable and reliable.
- We patched problems with uploading long video's from Dropbox, Google Drive & iCloud.
1.8.8
2020-12-11
- Bug fixes and improvements
1.8.6
2020-11-30
- Bug fixes and improvements
1.8.1
2020-11-26
- New template: Sydney - a voice-vibrating template that will make any audio note sound like a powerful statement
- Performance & stability Improvements
1.7.8
2020-11-19
- Introducing Helsinki a carousel template that makes sure your text is legible in any context. A second template in 2 days!
- Massive reduction in app size: 150mb -> 39mb!
- 5x improvement of video quality
- Recent podcast searches are now ordered alphabetically
- Improved reliability and performance
1.7.5
2020-11-12
- Improved PRO transcription quality
- Improvements to all of our templates
- New PRO screen with updated benefits
- Tweaks to user experience everywhere
- Performance and stability improvements everywhere!
1.7.4
2020-11-10
- Performance and reliability improvements
1.6.7
2020-10-16
- Fixes to issues with microphone transcription
- You can now delete a background in design preferences
1.6.3
2020-10-02
Big performance improvements throughout the app to make it faster than ever to create stunning video content.
What's new in 1.6:
- New template: Madrid - a beautiful template with a stunning new background effet. It contains one of our signature text animation used on the Paris template as well as a new soundwave animation at the bottom. Perfect for voice notes.
- New: access to stock photo library Unsplash. Access royalty free images to add to the background of your audio stories.
1.6.0
2020-09-29
- New template: Madrid - a beautiful template with a stunning new background effet. It contains one of our signature text animation used on the Paris template as well as a new soundwave animation at the bottom. Perfect for voice notes.
- New: access to stock photo library Unsplash. Access royalty free images to add to the background of your audio stories.
- New: a 'New' section on the app where we showcase the latest templates to be released
- New for PRO users: connect to your account on a different device with the account set-up in the settings.
- Improvements to the Berlin template which is now more reliable.
1.5.9
2020-09-18
- New template: Berlin - a vertical justified text column that creates mouvement and will grab your communities attention instantly.
- Further improvements to the carousel
- Aria now handles punctuation ('.' '?' and '!') when creating chunks of text giving you more control over subtitle breaks.
- Bug fixes to auto-playing audio
1.5.5
2020-09-11
- Support for French language
1.5.2
2020-08-13
Aria 1.5.2 is live!
Introducing two new templates: Barcelona and London, you can find them in the template selector.
Barcelona is the new circular template you always dreamed of, perfect to create that artistic look and feel audio story.
London is great for those of you who want to create that catching big title with captions video format, enjoy!
We resolved a bug for free users that would make the app crash when trying to upload 1 min snippets from their podcasts.
We're testing a new feature: auto punctuation, it will get much better over the coming weeks!
Find us on Instagram: @aria.podcast
1.4.3
2020-07-09
- The flip animation is now smoother than ever!
- Fixed an issue with longer video formats
1.3.2
2020-06-19
- Fixed an issue where some words would be cut off during export for some templates.
- Adding a photo background to a story now allows you to resize the image
1.3.1
2020-06-15
- New 'Power Moves' page in your app settings: find out how to get the most of your Aria experience.
- Performance Improvements
1.2.3
2020-05-26
NEW UNLIMITED FREE TIER
We've made it possible for you to use Aria for free - forever thanks to our new handy 1min selector.
Other improvements:
- We've made previewing your story much faster with our new live previews.
- We've improved our templates to bring you an even more impactful story experience
- New colors to customize your stories even more: colors also now affect story progress bars
1.1.1
2020-04-27
Introducing Aria 1.1!
There's a whole new way to edit your snippets just like you want them:
- We've made snippets shorter to make it easier to navigate
- We've added silences for you to include music and text we might have missed
- We've made editing more precise allowing the sync in your story exports to be even more precise
- We now enable you to split snippets at any word you would like!
- We've improve audio sync when you add two snippets that are just after each other
- We now enable you to set a preferred language for translations in Settings.
- We've greatly improved the sync between text and audio.
We've also added a handy settings page from where you can edit your name and email.
- Contact us / email / twitter / instagram
And tones of other little things like:
- Highlighting on words you are searching for in snippet search
- Ability to remove a recent search in podcast search
- Stability & performance fixes!
1.1.0
2020-04-25
Introducing Aria 1.1!
There's a whole new way to edit your snippets just like you want them:
- We've made snippets shorter to make it easier to navigate
- We've added silences for you to include music and text we might have missed
- We've made editing more precise allowing the sync in your story exports to be even more precise
- We now enable you to split snippets at any word you would like!
- We've improve audio sync when you add two snippets that are just after each other
- We now enable you to set a preferred language for translations in Settings.
We've also added a handy settings page from where you can edit your name and email.
- Contact us / email / twitter / instagram
- Add a promo code (for the lucky ones!)
And tones of other little things like:
- Highlighting on words you are searching for in snippet search
- Ability to remove a recent search in podcast search
- Stability & performance fixes!
1.0.9
2020-04-21
- New: Upload directly from your favorite podcast platforms. Simply search for your podcast using the new handy uploads launcher, then navigate to the desired episode and we'll take care of the rest.