What's new in Character App

What changed in Character App for the people who use it, newest first. Each entry is the day it reached the web app; iPhone changes reach you with the next App Store update. Prices on this page were current on the day of each entry, and /pricing is always current.

November 2026

November 3, 2026

• Free: make your Character and a narrated Slideshow Story every day. Real video comes with a plan.

November 1, 2026

• New pages: Seedance 2.5 and the video models we offer, Slideshow, Playground and Star in a clip pages, vertical drama ads for businesses, and side-by-side comparisons with other apps at /vs.
• Privacy fix: words you type as an idea, and sign-in codes, are now stripped from Google Analytics page data before it is sent.
• A recap of the last week. Slideshow Stories are live on the web: a narrated picture Story with music and on-screen words, 40 Credits for up to 5 slides. Export it as a 9:16 or 16:9 video with a plan.
• Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0 and HG H3 Max are in the Playground for plan members, each priced on the button. Kling and Seedance 2.0 were retired on October 28, 2026.
• Plans now say what they make: Creator is 64 HD H3 videos, 266 Nano Banana 2.1 pictures or about 29 Seedance 2.5 videos a month.

October 2026

October 31, 2026

• Every Slideshow Story now comes with narration and music that fits the World's genre, inside its 40 Credits.

October 27, 2026

• Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan.

October 26, 2026

• Free: make your Character and its Story in pictures. No video. A plan adds video. The free first Clip offer has ended.
• Starter is the recommended plan.

October 15, 2026

• Stories fail less often, and the Story you get stays built around the idea you typed.
• Episodes in nine genres now open with a scene that sets up the whole premise, and each Character speaks in their own voice.

October 14, 2026

• The app's Home has three doors to start making something, each with your newest Clips, Characters or Worlds beside it.
• Members with a plan now draw Images on the Standard tier by default (6 Credits each). The settings name the model.
• One Upgrade sheet behind every plan door, with each plan shown in seconds of Clips.
• The Activity sheet on phones opens at full height.

October 13, 2026

• New web accounts could get their first Clip free, once (retired October 26, 2026).
• The pricing page and Checkout now say what each plan buys in seconds of video.
• Fixed: a member can no longer end up with two subscriptions at once.

October 12, 2026

• In a Clip, the idea you type is turned into a shot the video model can film.
• Star in a clip refuses a clip it can't use when you pick it, before any price.

October 10, 2026

• Episodes on the web: the AI Director writes and films whole Episodes of your show with the same Cast, and Set up Episodes builds the show around your idea. Filming needs a plan.
• Price change: Clips on the default model, H3 Turbo, are now 5 Credits per second, so a 5-second Clip is 25 Credits. Plan prices did not change.
• Star in a clip: the free second take is retired. Every take shows its price before you press.
• iPhone: version 1.2.5 is on the App Store, with the same Star in a clip on any clip up to 30 seconds.

October 9, 2026

• A new character.app home: create your Character, then their series.
• Character and Standard Images move to a newer image model, Nano Banana 2.1.

October 8, 2026

• Star in a clip works on any clip up to 30 seconds, vertical, square or wide, and Customize prompt changes the outfit, the place or the props in plain words as a new take.

October 7, 2026

• iPhone and web: a new app icon, Edit prompt on a take, and the iPhone's own clip picker for Star in a clip.

October 6, 2026

• The AI Director's Story card has a one-line Auto-film switch.
• Activity keeps a history of what you made and what it cost.
• Cancel plan sits at the foot of the Account page.

October 5, 2026

• Every Character has its own page in the app, with Star in a clip and Make a Clip one tap away.

October 2, 2026

• Star in a clip launches on the web: pick a dance or upload your own clip, tap who your Character replaces, and it takes the lead.
• A new first run: make your first Character in a few taps.

September 2026

September 30, 2026

• A new Character creator: start from a photo, a few words or both, then pick the art style.
• H3 Turbo is the default model for every new Clip.
• The AI Director asks for your approval before it films.

September 29, 2026

• Finished Stories and Films have their own place in the Library.
• Characters can be drawn in different art styles and keep the same face.

September 24, 2026

• A new look for the app on the web and iPhone.
• 23 new pages about making AI characters, each with real Clips.

September 23, 2026

• A new character.app home page, an About page and 18 new genre pages with real Clips.
• AI agents can make Characters, Images and Clips through the MCP connector, with your approval before any spend.

September 21, 2026

• H3 Turbo is used by default for new Clips and Stories that start from a Character picture.

September 2, 2026

• Set a World's narrator once and every narrated Story in that World uses it.
• One Activity sheet shows what needs you, what is running and what finished today.