# Slopify 3.0.1

Released 27 September 2026.

3.0.1 finishes what 3.0 started. Your first short needs no keys at all, the help is inside the app, videos and audio play in Slopify's own player, and fewer clicks stand between you and the common tasks. The Studio extension now ships with Slopify, and a running project says how long each step has left.

What 3.0 brought is in Slopify 3.0.0 and Slopify 2.0 to 3.0, further down in Settings → Patch notes.

## Highlights

- **A first short with no keys:** the computer's own voice narrates it, and the first run is three steps that end with the short being made.
- **Help → Tutorials** inside the app, offline, and every info button ends in Learn more.
- **Slopify's own player** for videos and audio, with chapters, speed, captions and YouTube's keys.
- **Time left** on every running step, and a Needs you list on the calendar.
- **Fewer clicks:** edit a schedule's topics in place, rename in the row, Ctrl+K for everything, and keyboard shortcuts.
- **Google Gemini voices,** channel hosts, and audiobooks as chapters of a book.
- **The Studio extension ships with Slopify** and fills one upload after another.

## What's new

### Your first video
- A new **System voice** narrates with the computer's own speech: say on macOS, the built-in voices on Windows, and Piper or eSpeak on Linux. It is free and needs no key. Settings → Providers shows what was found, and Settings → Voices lists its voices.
- **Make a 60-second short** uses the system voice when no voice key is saved.
- The first-run screen is three steps: what you have, pick a style, make your first short. It ends with the short being made and a link to watch it.
- A finished short offers **Make the full video on this topic**, which opens Play with the same topic and starter pack.

### Voices
- Google Gemini is a voice provider, with 30 voices, on the key you saved for Google images. Two Gemini speakers talking in turn go in one request.
- A cast member can be one of the channel's hosts (Channels → Cast → edit → One of the channel's hosts). A new podcast or interview on Play starts with the hosts who have a voice.
- An audiobook can be a chapter of a book (Speakers → A chapter of a book). Its MP3 and M4B name the book and chapter, and Projects shows "Book · Chapter 2". **Make the next chapter** on a finished audiobook opens Play with the same speakers and settings.

### Help
- **Help → Tutorials** shows every tutorial page inside the app, with contents, search across all pages and Copy section. It works offline and always matches the version you run. Open it from the book button at the foot of the sidebar, or from Ctrl+K.
- Every info button's help ends in **Learn more**, which opens the tutorial section that explains it.
- Messages and help name controls where they are now, such as Level the volume under Play's Video and style.

### Players and pictures
- Videos play in Slopify's own player: a poster and a big play key, then a bar with chapters on the track, volume, speed from 0.75× to 2×, captions, picture in picture and full screen. YouTube's keys work: Space or K, J and L, the arrows, M, F, C and 0–9.
- Narration and every other audio play in the same kind of player. Both can jump to any time.
- The finished video shows its first thumbnail until it plays, and each short shows its first still.
- Images, thumbnails, shorts and cast pictures use one gallery grid, and every picture opens full size with Regenerate and Download.

### Fewer clicks
- Calendar → Schedules: add, rename, move and remove a schedule's queued topics in place. Each change saves at once, with Undo.
- Library → Prompts, Intros & Outros and Templates: the pencil beside a name renames it in the row.
- Library → Templates rows have Edit, Duplicate, Use in Play, History and Delete, like the other Library tabs.
- A press anywhere on a row or tile opens it: Library lists, channels, schedules, projects, Home, the calendar, samples and media.
- Ctrl+K finds commands by several words in any order. "cleopatra regenerate image 3" opens that project on Images and asks first.
- Keyboard shortcuts: C for New video, G then H, P, C, S, L, K or comma to go to a screen, / to search a list, Ctrl+S to save in the Library editors. Press ? for the full list.
- A finished project with a YouTube description opens on the YouTube section, so Copy description is one press.
- Each stage has one **Download** and one **Open folder**.

### While a run goes
- Every running step on the project page and on Home says its time left, from its own speed or from past runs of the same step, or says that time left is unknown.
- Waiting for plan limits shows everywhere a project appears: "Waiting for Codex limits (resets at 14:00)".
- The calendar has a **Needs you** list: failed, paused, review checkpoints, flagged reviews and videos ready to upload, each with the button that deals with it.
- Schedules are a tab of the calendar: **Calendar → Schedules** holds the list, each schedule's topics and detail, New schedule, and Pause and Resume. Old `/schedules` links and G then S open it.
- A signed-out CLI gets **Copy sign-in command** and **Check again**, which carries on the step once you are signed in.
- A notification says "Review needs a decision" when an automatic review keeps an item flagged.
- Home names the queued runs under Running now, and Projects has a Queued filter.
- A finished project offers to free its working files and keep the outputs, and says how much space that frees.
- A finished project shows its run cost at the top, with See cost by stage.

### Play, channels and schedules
- The style preview plays six seconds of the sample's narration and images with captions timed to it. Under More shorts options, a 9:16 preview shows how the shorts will look.
- Play says when the channel already made or uploaded a video on the topic you typed.
- Each channel keeps its own links under Channel links on its Brand tab. `{{Patreon}}` fills from the project's channel.
- Topic suggestions are compared with the schedule's own channel only, and a one- or two-word topic must match a title nearly exactly.
- Edit on a held topic sets its other keywords too.
- Overrule on a review whose redo hasn't started yet calls the redo off.

### Settings and providers
- **Test** in Settings → Providers checks a pasted key before you save it, and never stores it.
- The health check asks each keyed provider whether your chosen models are reachable, and reads Gemini CLI's sign-in. Each provider has **Check again**.
- A template or schedule that uses a retired model is flagged on its row, with the same Switch button as Settings → Models.

### YouTube Studio
- The Slopify Studio extension comes with Slopify: Settings → YouTube Studio → Install the Studio extension, with Download for Chrome or Firefox and three steps.
- **Fill in YouTube Studio** adds to a waiting list, and each new upload dialog gets the next item. Prepare upload lists what waits, with Remove. The list survives a restart.
- Set a playlist per channel in Settings → YouTube Studio.
- If Studio's dialog is missing a field, the extension fills nothing, copies the whole pack and names what is missing.

### The sidebar
- On a desktop the sidebar holds everything the top bar had: updates, the tutorial, Help → Tutorials, GitHub, the donation links and what is running. The wordmark shows the running version.

## Upgrading from 3.0.0

- **Nothing becomes outdated.** Projects keep every file and fingerprint.
- **Channel links move to each channel.** Links saved in Settings → Channel links keep filling the default channel's projects until you save its Brand tab.
- **Style previews are drawn again** the first time you open them, with the sample's narration.
- **Docker installs:** the image now includes eSpeak NG for the system voice. With Docker Desktop, Settings and the first-run screen name Docker Desktop's own "Start Docker Desktop when you sign in" setting. If you updated, Slopify asks once whether to start at login.

## Fixes

- A failed thumbnail no longer holds the PDF back. The PDF is made without a cover.
- The narration review compares the narration with the text that was actually spoken.
- The bundled samples no longer appear under Ready to upload, and paused runs are listed under Needs you.
- The connection error says how to fix it for your kind of install, native or Docker.
- Without a terminal, start at login says where its switch is instead of failing.
- On Windows, a Documents folder with non-ASCII letters in its path works.
- `slopify --help` and `--version` answer instead of crashing, and an unknown option is named plainly.
- A style pack used by the first short still offers Add pack for its Play template.
- Two cast members whose ids start alike no longer share one speaker.
- An editor's Save bar no longer hides a heading, and on phones it sits above the bottom bar.
- On Linux, a `piper` that is not the Piper voice engine (such as the mouse settings app of the same name) is no longer taken for it. Settings → Providers leaves Piper out, and the system voice uses Pico or eSpeak when either is installed.