Sharper thumbnail headlines — The headline generator now leads with the hook your viewer can't ignore — the belief or claim that pulls them in — and keeps the payoff for the video, instead of giving the takeaway away on the thumbnail.
v0.4.17June 23, 2026
Fixes
Shorts description footer — After switching channels, Shorts could pick up the previous channel's description footer. They now always use the active channel's footer.
v0.4.16June 21, 2026
Improvements
More reliable Shorts rendering — A Short that occasionally rendered as an empty clip now retries automatically and is checked before upload, so a glitchy render can no longer slip through to YouTube.
Tags stay within YouTube's limit — Video tags are automatically kept under YouTube's length limit, preventing the rare failed upload.
v0.4.15June 17, 2026
New Features
One-click YouTube connect — Link your channel with built-in Google sign-in. No more Google Cloud project or credential setup — just click Connect and approve.
Improvements
Bring-your-own credentials still supported — Prefer to use your own Google Cloud OAuth client? It is still available under Settings → advanced.
v0.4.14June 15, 2026
Improvements
Smarter Shorts extraction — Clips now open on their strongest line instead of the chronological start, with myth-bust (X→Y) detection and review flags for clips that need a second look.
Sharper thumbnail headlines — More concrete, single-line headlines that stop the scroll, with the vague filler stripped out.
Faster AI suggestions — Transcript prompt caching speeds up repeat suggestions and re-suggests.
Thumbnail creator cleanup — Removed unused panels from the template creator.
v0.4.13June 12, 2026
Improvements
Reliable background uploads — The upload queue now runs on a native background process, so scheduled videos publish on time even when the window is minimized or behind other apps.
Bespoke thumbnails — A new pop-out template creator with on-device subject cutout and per-video editing — design a reusable thumbnail identity per channel.
Stronger security — Your YouTube tokens and API keys now live in your system keychain instead of app storage.
Upload polish — YouTube chapters, category, and notify-subscribers support.
v0.4.12June 7, 2026
Improvements
Single-pass long-form rendering — Your end card, captions, logo, and watermark now render together in one clean pass. This fixes end cards that cut off or froze, audio that drifted out of sync, and incorrect frame rates on some source videos — and it renders faster.
Stop button for Shorts — Cancel a Shorts render batch you didn’t mean to start, instead of waiting it out.
Accurate Live/Scheduled status — Published videos show as Live once their publish time passes, and videos you upload directly now appear on the queue board.
Fixes
Navigating away mid-render no longer locks up the app’s upload and render buttons.
Edited descriptions now upload correctly.
Shorts count and length settings persist between sessions.
Stale upload errors clear themselves once a video succeeds; “Suggest Shorts” is more reliable.
v0.4.11June 6, 2026
Fixes
Audio covers stay per-channel — The custom audio cover now correctly follows the active channel. Switching channels re-skins the cover in place — no re-import and no re-transcribing.
v0.4.10June 6, 2026
Improvements
Per-channel end card & logo — Each channel now keeps its own end card and logo instead of sharing one, and they're stored inside the app so they don't break if the original file is moved or deleted.
Channel switching — Switching channels updates the whole app — analytics, connection, branding, end card, and logo all follow the selected channel.
Custom audio cover — Audio-only imports can use your own branded cover image (centered on white) instead of the auto-generated card. Shorts made from that audio show the full cover without cropping.
v0.4.9June 5, 2026
New Features
One upload queue for everything — Schedule long-form videos and Shorts into a single queue. YouPush uploads each one ahead of its publish date and never exceeds your daily YouTube upload limit.
Queue long-form with a publish date — Captions, playlist, thumbnail, and made-for-kids are all carried through to the scheduled upload.
Full multi-channel — Switch channels and the whole app follows: analytics, connection, and branding. Each video uploads to its own channel with the correct description footer.
Upload now — Push any queued video to YouTube immediately instead of waiting for its scheduled slot.
Improvements
Daily upload budget — See how many uploads you have left today, with a warning when a schedule needs more uploads than your daily limit allows.
Connected-channel indicator — Every screen shows which YouTube channel the selected profile is connected to, so a mismatch is obvious at a glance.
v0.4.8June 3, 2026
Improvements
Audio-only imports — Drop in an MP3, WAV, or M4A and YouPush automatically builds a cover video from your channel branding, then runs the full pipeline — transcript, metadata, Shorts, and captions — just like a video.
Cleaner Shorts captions — Burned-in captions now keep their punctuation, and the caption editor wraps long lines instead of scrolling sideways.
Faster exports — Appending your end card no longer re-encodes the whole video, so branded exports finish dramatically faster.
Offline banner — A banner appears if your internet connection drops, so you know why uploads or AI features are paused.
First-frame preview — Imported videos now open on their first frame instead of a black screen.
v0.4.7June 3, 2026
Changes
Free-tier attribution — Videos exported on the free tier now include a small “Made with YouPush” credit in the description. A license removes it for a clean, credit-free description.
v0.4.6June 2, 2026
Improvements
Voice Profile Builder rebuilt — It now learns your voice from your own writing. Paste a few things you've written, or answer a couple of quick prompts, and it captures your phrasing, tone, and how you talk to your audience — instead of generic presets. Every AI-generated title, description, and Short then sounds more like you.
v0.4.5June 2, 2026
Bug Fixes
Render reliability — Fixed Shorts output getting corrupted when multiple renders, or a render and an export, ran at the same time. All FFmpeg jobs (render, export, upload) now run one at a time and other actions are disabled while one is in progress.
New Features
Re-render button — Finished Shorts now have a Re-render button to regenerate the clip after trimming or editing captions.
v0.4.4June 2, 2026
Changes
Studio tab renamed to Production — The video workspace tab is now labeled "Production" to avoid any confusion with YouTube Studio.
v0.4.3June 2, 2026
Bug Fixes
Long-video transcription — Videos longer than about 12.5 minutes no longer fail transcription silently. Fixed the chunking path: memory-safe size check, valid chunk filenames, and real error reporting instead of a generic message.
Re-suggesting a Short now shows a loading indicator instead of looking like nothing happened.
v0.4.2June 2, 2026
New Features
Shorts drip start date — Pick the date a Shorts batch begins publishing when you add it to the queue, instead of it starting right away.
Skip weekdays — Choose which days of the week Shorts never publish — handy for keeping your long-form upload day clear. Set it in Queue settings.
Windows auto-update — Windows users now get in-app update prompts, same as Mac.
Bug Fixes
Captions now auto-resync to the trimmed clip when you adjust a Short's start/end, instead of drifting out of sync.
v0.4.1May 31, 2026
Changes
Free tier — Now 3 videos per month.
Three-tier pricing — Free, Solo ($79), and Studio ($249, 3 channels).
Landing page SEO/AEO audit fixes.
v0.4.0May 31, 2026
New Features
YouTube & Google SEO/AEO optimization — Before generating metadata, YouPush analyzes YouTube and Google autocomplete data for your topic. Real search trends are fed into the AI prompt, producing titles, descriptions, and tags optimized for discovery.
Search Optimization panel — New panel between Metadata and Upload shows a 0-5 score, matched keywords (green), and trending terms not yet in your metadata (gray, clickable). Each keyword tagged as YT, G, or YT+G to show its source.
SEO-optimized Shorts — Short descriptions and mythLines now incorporate the same YouTube/Google search trend data.
Windows build — YouPush is now available for Windows (64-bit). Download from getyoupush.com.
TikTok compatibility — Rendered Shorts now use constant 30fps with yuv420p pixel format, fixing TikTok's frame_rate_check_failed rejection.
Short cover image — A cover PNG is extracted from the middle of each rendered Short for use as thumbnail on IG/TikTok.
Email capture on download — Download modal captures email before starting the download.
Bug Fixes
Fixed Windows OAuth: platform-specific browser open commands
Fixed Windows path handling: backslash support in all path operations
Fixed FFmpeg mutual exclusion: render and upload can't run simultaneously
Fixed YouTube 429 quota error with user-friendly message
Fixed export intermediate file cleanup
Fixed description files not being created for Shorts
v0.3.2May 29, 2026
Welcome screen — First-launch guide explaining channel profile setup, API credentials, and linking to the help docs.
Help link in sidebar — Quick access to the Getting Started guide from anywhere in the app.
Help & Documentation section in Settings — Links to all help pages, API setup guides, and changelog.
YouTube BYOK credentials — Enter your own Google Cloud Client ID and Secret in Settings or the setup wizard. Setup guide with screenshots.
Setup wizard updated — YouTube connect step now shows credential fields and links to the Google Cloud setup guide.
Description footer fix — Footer now reliably appended in code instead of relying on AI prompt.
Code quality — db.ts split into 4 modules, ProfileView split into 3 components, shared branding pipeline extracted.
v0.3.0May 28, 2026
New Features
Video branding on upload — Badge overlay and channel logo are applied to videos before uploading to YouTube. Both are toggleable.
Video branding on export — Export produces a fully branded video with end card, burned-in subtitles, badge, and logo.
Per-channel thumbnail preferences — Thumbnail styles, colors, and stamp text are saved independently for each channel.
Network error messaging — Upload failures from network disconnects show a clear message instead of a raw API error.
YouTube compliance — Upload button displays YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines disclaimer.