Changelog
What is new in ViewGum, newest first. ViewGum is a short-form video editor that turns a topic into a finished vertical short with a script, voice, captions and sound. Each line is a change that went live for everyone, dated by the day it shipped.
Last updated November 10, 2026.
- Plans
A smaller plan, Starter, is on sale.
See the plans - Making
Make now asks for a topic that says what the short is about, not a single word, before anything starts.
- Making
The writer now starts from what most people picture when they read your topic, so the short is about the thing you meant.
- Making
A make that runs into trouble now ships what it can where it can, never charged past its quote, and one that fails tells you instead of going quiet.
- Making
Make keeps the format you picked last.
- Editing
The export bar now moves from the moment an export starts.
- Site
Type a topic on the home page and press Make it: after you sign in with Google, Make opens with your topic filled in.
- Site
A Support button on every page of the app, the editor included, is a quick way to reach us.
- Site
New pages for Flat world and for true history shorts, each with a full short made with ViewGum.
History shorts - Site
A new page for Object Lesson, with a full short made with ViewGum and every fact its check kept.
Everyday object shorts
- Plans
- Making
Make opens on Flat world for new accounts, with a new example short on the stage.
- Making
- Formats
Flat world is rebuilt: the light changes with the story's time of day, the camera cranes and turns through each place on the big moments, small sounds land on each action, and the captions have a new ink style. Shorts you already made keep their look.
- Editing
The editor's timeline is open to everyone: a short opens with its scenes, captions and sound laid out under the player, next to the chat. Changes you make on it by hand are free.
- Assistants
An AI assistant connected to ViewGum can now make Flat world shorts. Making one from an assistant needs a paid plan.
Connect an assistant - Assistants
An AI assistant connected to ViewGum can now fix a short on its timeline: it shows you the exact change and makes it on your yes, free.
Connect an assistant
- Formats
- Formats
Object Lesson is open to everyone: a narrated true story told through one real thing, in photo-style places made for the story.
- Formats
Flat world is open to everyone: a narrated story acted out by flat cartoon people in a lit 3D world.
- Editing
A chat edit on a 3D short now makes one new take, and you choose Keep edit or Keep current. If an edit fails, the credits for work it did not do come back.
- Policies
The Terms of Service were updated: a chat edit is charged whether you keep it or not.
Read the Terms - Plans
The pricing page now opens on the plans, and each plan card lists what it includes.
See the plans - Making
When a service a make relies on has a short outage, the make now waits and carries on instead of stopping.
- Plans
Changing plans now shows what you pay today and what changes, before you confirm.
- Formats
- Plans
Plans have new prices and more credits each month.
See the plans - Making
Make is simpler: there is no story structure to pick, and the format and voice pickers are labelled.
- Assistants
An AI assistant connected to ViewGum can now make shorts in the drawn formats open to everyone, not only the narrated looks.
Connect an assistant - Making
Shorts in your Library that showed no poster, such as 3D Build shorts, now show one.
- Plans
- Site
Translating a page in your browser no longer breaks the upgrade, paywall and top-up buttons.
- Site
- Editing
Chat on a 3D short can change the camera or a scene, redo the animation, or rewrite a line, which is fact checked, voiced again and re-timed. Each change shows its price first.
AI 3D shorts generator - Making
Direct it on Make: tell the writer the story you want, with its beats, tone and ending, and the facts or lines it must use.
- Making
Suggested ideas no longer run out: when a format's list runs low, new ones are written for you.
- Free tools
Two free tools that run in your browser with no sign-in: a script length calculator and a caption length checker.
Free tools - Formats
Each format has its own page with its lengths, credits, an example and what it does not do.
- Assistants
The assistants page has setup steps for Copilot Chat in VS Code and for apps that connect through mcp-remote.
Assistants guide - Site
New guides on making a YouTube Short from your AI assistant and on switching from CapCut for faceless Shorts.
Shorts from your assistant
- Editing
- Formats
3D Build is open to everyone: anything made of parts, built in 3D and narrated for your topic.
3D build animation - Making
A 3D Build short shows a price range before it starts and is charged what it used, never more than the top of the range.
- Plans
Plan cards now show each plan's credits a month, and the plan sheet at Make is simpler.
- Formats
- Formats
Stickman is open to everyone: narrated stick figures, maps and dates on plain paper.
AI stickman video generator
- Formats
- Making
The voice you pick on Make is now the voice your short uses.
- Site
ViewGum opened to everyone: type a topic and get a finished faceless vertical short with a script, voice, captions and sound.
- Making