# Slopify 3.0.0

Released 27 September 2026.

3.0 is about the steps around the video. Slopify finds its own topics, reviews its own work, knows what a run cost, waits out plan limits instead of failing, and fills in YouTube Studio for you. You still press Publish. The narration sounds better too, the whole app has a new design, and every control explains itself.

The full list, from 2.0.1 to 3.0.0, is in Slopify 2.0 to 3.0, the next entry in Settings → Patch notes.

## Highlights

- **Automatic reviews** of the article, images, narration, thumbnail and shorts, with failed items redone.
- **Schedules that write their own topics,** and channels with a brand kit and a cast library.
- **Multiple voices:** audiobook, podcast, radio drama and interview.
- **Level the volume,** sentence pauses, and tables and figures described aloud.
- **Run cost** on every project, and CLI runs that wait out plan limits.
- **Prepare upload** and a browser extension that fills YouTube Studio's upload dialog.
- **A new design,** with an info button beside every setting.

## What's new

### Sound
- Level the volume is on by default for new runs. Every narration piece is brought to one loudness before joining, so voices no longer jump. The long video and shorts are mastered to −14 LUFS, and the WAV, MP3 and M4B to −18 LUFS.
- Set the volume in dB or as a percentage, from −10 dB to +4 dB, in Settings → General, Play's Export row, or Edit project → Pauses and volume.
- Pause between sentences (0.4 s by default, up to 2 s) and an optional Pause between paragraphs. Captions, cuts, shorts and chapters stay in sync.

### Narration
- Audiobook, podcast, radio drama and interview formats, each speaker with their own voice, plus MP3 and M4B files with chapters.
- Tables, figures, diagrams, equations and code blocks are described in a short spoken passage instead of being skipped or read cell by cell. Leave code out drops code instead.
- Each described block is drawn as a card and shown in the video while its description is spoken. The article and PDF keep the real table.
- Lists are spoken as sentences, and footnote markers and bare URLs are no longer read out.
- Library → Aliases: words the narrator says differently from how they are written, such as Dr. as Doctor.

### Planning and channels
- A schedule asks your text model for its next topics when fewer than 10 are queued, never repeating a title you already used. You can hold new topics for approval.
- Channels with a brand kit and a cast. Cast members' pictures go with every image request that names them, and cast members can have a voice.
- Import a YouTube Studio CSV of your existing videos, ticking which titles to keep, so topic suggestions skip them.
- Projects in other languages, with word-by-word captions in nine of them.

### The project page
- One action named for its result, such as Remake 3 outdated images, replaces Resume, Retry stage and Rebuild.
- A Live tab, a reading view, and a Run cost tab. CLI runs show $0 on your plan, the API equivalent and the share of your plan limit used.
- Automatic reviews: Off, Flag only, or Flag and redo per stage, with 2 redos per item by default.

### YouTube Studio
- Prepare upload lists what Studio asks for, in its order, each with Copy.
- The Slopify Studio extension for Chrome, Chromium and Firefox fills the title, description, thumbnails, playlist, audience and tags. It never presses Publish.
- AI use is answered Yes only in YouTube's three cases, with a Real person switch per voice and a Draws photorealistic pictures switch per image prompt.

### Getting started and staying up to date
- A first-run screen finds your CLIs and offers a 60-second short as the first thing to make.
- Three samples to open: The Library of Alexandria, an audiobook of The Wind in the Willows, and a two-host podcast on the Antikythera mechanism. All three are levelled and re-voiced.
- Settings → Patch notes keeps every release's notes. After an update, the new notes open once by themselves.
- Settings → General → Start Slopify when I log in, with no administrator password.
- New installs keep projects, backups and exports in Documents/Slopify.

## Upgrading from 2.x

- **Nothing becomes outdated.** Existing projects keep every file and fingerprint, so nothing is marked outdated and nothing is rebuilt.
- **New defaults apply to new runs.** Level the volume, sentence pauses and describing tables are on for new runs and templates. To use them on an existing project, turn them on in Edit project. Levelling and pauses make no speech again; describing tables speaks only the new descriptions.
- **Your files stay where they are.** Existing installs keep their folders. To move them, open Settings → Backup & storage → Your files → Move to Documents/Slopify.
- **Docker installs move to the compose setup by themselves.** The update keeps your data volume and project folder, makes a checked recovery copy first, and puts the previous version back if the new one doesn't answer. From now on, update with `npx @gentbajko/slopify@latest update`.
- **Templates and projects move into "My channel",** unchanged.
- **The licence is now Apache-2.0,** with a NOTICE crediting the author. It covers the code, not the Slopify name or logo.

## Fixes

- A Pronunciation Glossary entry narration can't use is skipped and read as ordinary text, instead of blocking every narration request. The Pronunciation tab lists skipped entries by number and reason.
- The rebuild review shows why it can't start, next to Start rebuild.
- The rebuild review shows CLI work as "$0 on your plan" with the API equivalent, instead of an unknown cost.
- Play's Start counts exactly the videos it will start. "Queue 3 videos" can no longer start one.