Product updates

We've added Pixel Art, a new AI-generated video style built on one consistent coarse square-pixel grid, staged as a bright three-quarter adventure diorama.

Layered terrain, elevated paths, and overlapping scenery give each scene playful 2.5D depth without voxels or smooth 3D rendering, lit with warm daylight and a saturated, topic-adaptive palette. Motion uses a short whole-pixel camera track across the diorama while one focal sprite performs a discrete action, and captions use warm-cream block-pixel lettering with a hard forest-green outline and a coral current word on a soft sky-blue canvas.

How to use it

1. On the Shorts page, pick Pixel Art from the style rail, or open the Video Style picker above an episode's video preview to apply it to the episode's video.
2. Jellypod handles the art direction automatically, choosing palette, composition, and treatment to fit your topic.
3. Browse a full-size preview any time from Video Styles in the studio sidebar's Personalize section.

Pixel Art joins Paper Mache, Whiteboard Explainer, Watercolor, Sketch, Stickman, Almanac, Claymation, and Toy Bricks as Jellypod's ninth style. See Creating Shorts for a description of each.

We've added Toy Bricks, a new AI-generated video style built entirely from interlocking toy-brick construction, staged like a feature-film diorama.

It's photographed with dramatic low camera angles, shallow depth of field, and a polished stop-motion cadence, so every scene reads as a full-scale miniature set rather than flat digital art.

How to use it

1. On the Shorts page, pick Toy Bricks from the style rail, or open the Video Style picker above an episode's video preview to apply it to the episode's video.
2. Jellypod handles the art direction automatically, choosing palette, composition, and treatment to fit your topic.
3. Browse a full-size preview any time from Video Styles in the studio sidebar's Personalize section.

Toy Bricks joined Paper Mache, Whiteboard Explainer, Watercolor, Sketch, Stickman, Almanac, and Claymation as Jellypod's eighth style. The catalog has continued to grow since then. See Creating Shorts for the current lineup.

We've added Claymation, a new AI-generated video style built from handcrafted plasticine caricatures acting silently inside warm, mixed-material miniature sets.

It's photographed with practical lighting, gentle depth falloff, and restrained stop-motion imperfections, so scenes feel tactile and handmade rather than rendered.

How to use it

1. On the Shorts page, pick Claymation from the style rail, or open the Video Style picker above an episode's video preview to apply it to the episode's video.
2. Jellypod handles the art direction automatically, choosing palette, composition, and treatment to fit your topic.
3. Browse a full-size preview any time from Video Styles in the studio sidebar's Personalize section.

Claymation joined Paper Mache, Whiteboard Explainer, Watercolor, Sketch, Stickman, and Almanac as Jellypod's seventh style. Toy Bricks became the eighth, and the catalog has continued to grow. See Creating Shorts for the current lineup.

The stock media library now includes ten ambience beds: looping atmospheres that play under your episode and give it a sense of place.

Set a conversational show in a corner cafe or an evening lounge, put storytelling in front of a crackling fireplace or steady rain, or keep a wellness episode calm with distant surf and morning birdsong. There is also a smooth pink noise bed for deep-focus listening. Every bed loops seamlessly for your entire episode and is mastered to sit quietly under voices, so dialogue always stays clear.

To try one, click Add Music in the script editor, choose Background Music, and search "ambience" in the stock tab.

Read more in the Adding Music guide.

Jellypod can now make shorts: standalone vertical videos you generate from a single prompt.

Type what you want the short to be about, or drop in a source (a file, link, or pasted text), pick a host to narrate it, and choose about 30 or 60 seconds. Jellypod writes the script, performs the narration in your host's voice, animates it shot by shot in an illustrated style, scores it with an original instrumental track, and adds word-synced captions. What comes back is a finished 9:16 video, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

One prompt in, a finished short out. There is no timeline to assemble and no template to configure.

When you want to change something, the short opens in an editable workspace. Rewrite the narration for any beat, regenerate a visual or drag in your own image or video, swap the host, or replace the music. Then share a public link or download the video.

Shorts live in the Shorts tab in the studio sidebar. Generating one costs 1 credit per 2 seconds of narration plus 7 credits per generated image and 20 per generated video clip; rendering is free. For the full walkthrough, see Creating Shorts and Managing Shorts. To turn an existing episode into one, see how an AI podcast clip generator works.

You can now turn documents and images into a narrated video.

Select Voiceover on the studio dashboard, pick a narrator, and upload documents or images. Jellypod writes a script, generates the narration in that voice, and times every supplied visual to the spoken words. The result opens in the same editor as videos and shorts, where you can edit the script, regenerate audio, adjust visuals and timing, render, download, and share.

Upload a PowerPoint deck and Jellypod also reads the speaker notes on each slide, using them as context for that slide's narration so the script follows what you meant to say. Only the .pptx format carries notes, so export Google Slides as PowerPoint rather than PDF when yours matter. See Voiceovers Read Your Speaker Notes.

See Voiceovers for the full walkthrough.

Your podcast website now ships with five layouts, with four new templates joining the original Spotlight design.

Pick Editorial for a clean, searchable episode list, Broadcast for a bold hero with a waveform over a dark gallery, Conversation for warm single-column cards, or Magazine for an editorial card grid. Set a brand color to tint the accent, and the preview updates live as you switch layouts, so your content stays exactly the same while the look changes.

Open a podcast, click Edit Website, and try them out. See the full walkthrough in Your Podcast Website.

Background music now loops to fill your whole episode automatically.

Drop in a track that is shorter than your show and it repeats cleanly from the first word to the last, so you no longer need a clip the exact length of your episode. Drag the edge of the background clip to trim it shorter or extend it longer, and it keeps looping to fill whatever length you set. The background track also has its own color now, so it is easy to see how it layers under your dialogue.

See Adding Music for the full walkthrough.

You can now import a NotebookLM audio overview into Jellypod and rebuild it as an editable episode with your own hosts.

Open a podcast, click the upload icon next to Create New Episode, and choose Import from NotebookLM. Pick the two hosts you want, drop in the audio, and Jellypod transcribes it, separates the speakers, creates a draft episode, and starts generating audio in your hosts' voices right away. You can edit the script line by line at any point. This is different from Upload Episode Audio, which publishes a recording as-is: Import from NotebookLM turns the audio back into a script you control.

It works with any audio file (NotebookLM is just the common starting point), up to 30 minutes. See Importing a NotebookLM Audio Overview for the full walkthrough.

The AI assistant you already use can now create podcasts in your Jellypod account with the new MCP Connector.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to https://mcp.jellypod.com/mcp, sign in once, and your assistant works inside your account end to end: create a podcast and its hosts, drop in sources from a URL or pasted text, generate an episode, and publish it, all without leaving the chat. Ask Claude to "turn this article into a two-host episode and publish it to my morning show" and it happens in your account. Nothing publishes on its own, and live content can't be deleted by accident.

It's available to all users. See MCP Connector for the full setup walkthrough and the complete list of what your assistant can do.

Third-party services now sell this same kind of access to other people's podcasts. Jellypod creators get it natively.