Product Updates

You can now archive a podcast you're pausing or no longer actively producing, without unpublishing anything. Open a podcast's actions menu and select Archive Podcast. Its website, RSS feed, and existing episodes keep working exactly as before; archiving only clears it from your everyday view in the Studio.

An archived podcast drops out of your active Podcasts list, the podcast picker when creating a new episode, and the picker for a new automation. Automations already running against it keep going. Unarchive anytime from the actions menu, or from the notice that replaces the episode composer on an archived podcast's page, to bring it right back.

To find an archived podcast again, or just get a better view of a growing list, the Podcasts page has a new filter icon next to Create New Podcast. Status switches between Active (the default), Archived, and All. Sort by switches between Episode Count (the default), Recent episodes, and Alphabetical.

See Archiving a Podcast for the full walkthrough.

A new Audio Settings control sets the gap between every pair of consecutive hosts' takes at once, without touching a single segment.

Drag the slider right to add up to a second of breathing room, which suits an interview show or an education episode where listeners need a beat to absorb each point. Drag it left to overlap takes by up to a second, and hosts start talking over each other the way real co-hosts do. The default is 0, back to back.

The slider moves speech only. Intro and outro music stay where you placed them, and background music that ran to the end of your dialogue keeps covering it. Every move is undoable, and Reset returns the episode to back to back.

To try it, generate your episode audio and click Audio Settings in the playback controls bar, next to Add Music.

Read more in the Timeline Editor guide.

Add custom transitions between any two shots in Video, Shorts, or Voiceovers. Pick from 7 unique styles: Fade, Push cut, Slide, Wipe, Flip, Clock wipe, or Iris.

You can preview transitions in the editor adding one does not shift your narration, visual timing, or total Video duration.

How to use it

1. Open a Video, Short, or Voiceover and expand the timeline.
2. Click the + between two visual cards.
3. Choose a transition style and adjust its duration.
4. Play across the cut to preview it, then render when it feels right.

Once added, the + becomes a transition icon you can click to change the style, edit the duration, or remove the transition. The transition stays with the incoming visual if you reorder your shots.

See Edit Narration and Visuals for the complete Video editing workflow.

Jellypod now has two new board-style explainers, Chalkboard and Blueprint, plus a clearer, more focused Whiteboard Explainer.

Chalkboard draws each idea in textured white chalk on a near-black canvas. It has the familiar feel of a classroom explanation, with light handwritten captions that stay easy to read.

Blueprint uses white and pale-cyan drafting lines on deep blue. A stationary grid sits behind the drawing, giving diagrams, systems, and process explainers a more technical look without adding clutter.

Board scenes are easier to follow

All three board styles now stay focused on the idea that matters most. Comparisons remain in one scene when you need to see the relationship, while busy explanations break into clearer steps.

Drawings follow the narration more naturally, give you time to take in each finished scene, and keep important artwork clear of captions.

Whiteboard is clearer and more focused

Whiteboard Explainer now keeps each scene focused on one object or idea at a time. The drawing is easier to follow from start to finish, with cleaner details that make the final illustration easier to understand.

The improvements work automatically in both Shorts and Magic Video. Pick Chalkboard, Blueprint, or Whiteboard Explainer when you choose a visual style. See Creating Shorts for the full style guide, or Creating Videos for the Magic Video workflow.

You can now create Videos, Shorts, and Voiceovers through the Jellypod API and MCP connector, alongside podcasts.

Turn a training document into a narrated Voiceover, or ask your assistant to make a Short explaining its key idea. Videos, Shorts, and Voiceovers have their own endpoints and tools, matching the choices in Studio. Both interfaces can discover the available settings, start generation, check progress, and retrieve a download. Failed generations remain failed over MCP; the public API retains its retry endpoints.

File uploads are included. An assistant that can transfer files can upload your documents and images directly; other clients can use files you add to the Studio Asset Library. Compatible MCP clients also show a product card with status and a preview when the output is ready.

Saved request keys help prevent duplicate generation when a response is lost. Existing podcast integrations can keep their current requests, with optional idempotency keys available for episode generation.

Open Developers for JavaScript, Python, and cURL examples. The product API guide covers the endpoints, and the agent guide explains how to use them through HTTP or MCP.

Voiceovers now read the speaker notes in your PowerPoint decks.

Upload a .pptx and Jellypod pulls the notes off each slide and uses them as context when it writes that slide's narration. Notes are usually the closest thing a deck has to a script: what the chart is actually showing, why the slide is there, the number behind the bullet. None of that is readable from the slide image alone, which is all a narrator had to work from before.

Jellypod treats notes as intent rather than a script to read out. It narrates their substance in the Voiceover's own voice and skips the parts written for the presenter instead of the audience, such as timing cues or a reminder to ask the room a question. Direction you add at creation still outranks both the slides and the notes.

There is nothing to turn on. A deck without notes behaves exactly as it did before, and so does a deck where only some slides carry them.

Speaker notes only survive in the PowerPoint format. A .pptx export from Google Slides keeps them, a PDF export does not, so export as PowerPoint when your notes matter. Notes in Keynote, OpenDocument, and legacy .ppt files are not read.

This works in the studio and in the free Slides to Podcast and PowerPoint to Video tools.

Read more in Voiceovers.

Credits are now charged when Jellypod generates something, not when you render, publish, or download.

Before you generate a Short, Video, Voiceover, or Podcast Episode, Jellypod estimates the cost from the duration you picked and the audio, images, and video clips it will create. That number sits next to the Generate button. Click it for a breakdown of how credits work.

When generation starts, Jellypod reserves that many credits so two generations cannot spend the same balance. When it finishes, the charge settles to what was made: 1 credit per second of audio, 7 credits per generated image, and 20 credits per generated video clip. If a generation fails, the hold is released and you are not charged.

Rendering, publishing, scheduling, and downloading are free. Edit the timeline, switch templates, and export as often as you like.

For example, a 30 second Short shows an estimate of about 80 credits with a still-image style, or 170 with animated clips, and settles to the exact count once the visuals are in.

Read more in Understanding Credits. For what that means next to an agency's price tag, see how much an explainer video actually costs made either way.

Captions no longer have to match your Short or Video's visual style.

Click Captions in the editor to open a gallery of every caption look Jellypod offers, from Retro Comics' bold word-by-word highlighting to the clean Whiteboard treatment, each with a live preview of real words appearing on screen. Pick one to turn captions on in that look, or choose No Captions to turn them off. A new Short, Video, or Voiceover still starts with the caption look linked to its visual style, so nothing changes until you open Captions and pick something else.

See Managing Videos for the full walkthrough, or Managing Shorts for Shorts.

My Characters now has the same search-and-filter bar as the Voice Library, so a growing roster stays easy to work with.

Type a name, a line from a backstory, or a word that describes the voice, such as "British" or "documentary," and the table narrows to characters that match. A search always checks your whole roster, so it still finds a character even while a filter is set.

The Filters button holds a Gender filter. Below the search bar, a Language dropdown and an Accent dropdown appear once your characters span more than one, and chips for Voice clones, Designed, and Library narrow by how a character's voice was made. A control that would not change your list, because every character shares that trait, stays out of the way.

The Language and Accent dropdowns open with their own search box, so you can type a name instead of scrolling, and the option you have picked keeps a check mark beside it.

We've added Full Screen Captions, a new Podcast Template that makes the transcript the entire visual.

Each word appears when it is spoken and stays on screen until the current caption page is complete. Then the next phrase starts on a clean frame. There is no cover art or waveform competing with the words.

The template uses your selected background color and font, and it works in landscape, portrait, and square layouts. It is a strong fit for episode videos and social clips that need to read clearly before someone turns on the sound.

How to use it

1. Open an episode in the Studio.
2. Click Video Style above the video preview.
3. Pick Full Screen Captions, then click Use.

The preview updates immediately, with no visual generation required. See Video Templates for the full Podcast Template lineup.