What's New

Clicks now pass through transparent image areas to the element underneath. Selecting stacked elements just got easier.

Instead of selecting the top image, the click passes through to the element below. Now, users can reach and select elements from overlapping images without trouble.

Define how far elements can be dragged beyond a page or parent boundary. This is now fairly simple with new movement constraint APIs.

Allow partial overflow where it makes sense while keeping content inside the intended editable area everywhere else.

This means more precise control over template behavior. Useful for any use case where content boundaries need to be enforced.

→ Movement Constraints API Docs

The engine can now extract the most prominent colors from an image already placed on the canvas. The data is available programmatically, ready to feed into palette suggestions.

→ Colors in CE.SDK Docs

CE.SDK now supports APNG import. Animated PNG files load and behave in line with GIF import, giving you a second animated format to work with in your editor.

→ Supported File Formats Docs

Every web demo is now a Starter Kit. That means 46 fully-fledged, clonable app templates. Starter Kits are production-ready configurations complete with the toolbars, behaviors, and workflows a real product needs.

Clone it, run it, build from there.

Whether you need the core Design, Photo, and Video Editors (and their powerhouse Advanced variants), specialized industry kits for Apparel, or AI-optimized workflows for generative assets, there is now a clonable app for every use case.

→ Explore Web Editor Demos
→ Starter Kit Documentation

Snapping guides have been refined to better show what is being aligned, using bounded guide segments, clearer visual distinctions, and new anchor-to-anchor feedback, making object placement and path editing more predictable and easier to understand.

Professional print workflows have a high bar for color fidelity. v1.74 raises CE.SDK's output to meet it.

• Spot colors are written as device CMYK in the exported file, matching what professional print pipelines expect.
• Overprint on text is preserved correctly.
• You can now opt out of ICC profile embedding in the print-ready PDF plugin when your workflow doesn't need it.

Take exported PDFs directly into production with less manual intervention, making CE.SDK a stronger fit for workflows where color fidelity is a real purchasing factor.

→ Print-Ready PDF Plugin Documentation
→ Export to PDF Documentation

The color input system in the web editor has been rebuilt. The user-facing result: gradient editing now works the way you'd expect it to.

Create and edit linear, radial, and conical gradients
Add and remove gradient colors, and switch between gradient types without losing the colors. Color picking now works consistently across all contexts: fill, stroke, shadow, and text.

Build and refine complex gradients entirely within your editor, without relying on external tools.

→ Explore Gradients Documentation

CE.SDK v1.73 adds SVG export.

Text is exported as vector paths for consistent rendering across environments regardless of font availability. Drop shadows, blur, effects, and embedded raster images are rasterized and included as embedded images within the SVG output.

→ Exporting Blocks Engine Guide

The old model was simple: drop in a solution component (PhotoEditor, VideoEditor, DesignEditor), pass a license key, ship. For most teams, that was exactly the right starting point.

As products matured, teams needed more. Deeper customization. Granular control over behaviors. An editor that felt like theirs.

That's what Starter Kits for Mobile addresses.

The prebuilt solution components are replaced by a single Editor entry point and a set of Starter Kits: complete, working editor projects for each use case that live in your codebase, not ours. Set it up in minutes.

For your product, this means: you can adapt the editor to fit your product, not the other way around.

→ Android Migration Guide‍

→ iOS Migration Guide

Updates for text editing land simultaneously across platforms:

Use Bullet and Numbered Lists to structure text with ordered and unordered lists. Underline and strike text, including custom underline colors.

Tell your story by giving your videos a voice. iOS and Android users can now record their voice directly over video clips.

Layer multiple voiceover tracks on the timeline. Perfect to record engaging videos, like creators work in TikTok and Reels.

→ Try Android Mobile Demo
→ Try iOS Mobile Demo

The AI image generation plugin now ships on iOS and Android.

This is the first mobile AI plugin for CE.SDK. Users can generate images directly inside the mobile editor through custom plugin panels, without leaving the creative workflow.

For your product, this means: you can now deliver AI-powered creative features on mobile with the same plugin architecture already available on web. One capability, every platform.

→ Try Android Mobile Demo
→ Try iOS Mobile Demo

Web users can now work across design and video in a single scene. Everything you can do in design mode, you can do in video mode too.

For your product, this means a simpler, more coherent editing experience for users who work across both formats.

Note: The feature toggle shown in the video is coming to our demos soon. It is not part of the default CE.SDK setup.

→ Visit CE.SDK 1.72 Migration Guide

CE.SDK now lets users edit any shape at the path level.

Select a shape and enter Edit Path mode. Manipulate individual anchor points and curves. Move nodes, bend segments, add or remove points. Lastly, apply fills, gradients, and colors.

Build custom icons, illustrations and detailed layouts directly in the web editor, without leaving your app.

→ Explore Vector Path Editing Documentation

Our engine now supports variable fonts! A single font file can represent multiple weight and style variants, eliminating the need to load separate files for each.

For your app this means: leaner asset loading, more typographic flexibility, and better brand consistency for users working with modern type systems.

→ Variable Fonts Docs

In your web editor, every page in a scene can now have its own dimensions. If enabled, the resize panel automatically adapts to your selection. Resize one page or all pages at once.

For your product, this means: users can design across multiple formats in a single session. Social post, banner, side by side.

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Add dynamic motion to your text and design elements with CE.SDK for iOS. Our  Animations for design blocks (images, shapes, stickers) come with a comprehensive library. This release also ships with a sleek UI.

Comprehensive Animation Library
Access a full suite of in, out, and loop animations—mirroring the capabilities of our animation for Web and Android.

Tailored Motion Controls
Fine-tune animations like duration, easing, direction, and more.

→ iOS Animation Documentation
→ Try the iOS Video Editor Demo
→ Download the iOS Demo App

The color panel for web is now unified: preview, saved colors, and custom editing controls all live in one place. Users can pick, adjust, and reuse colors in a single continuous workflow, without a separate modal or extra clicks.

CMYK Color Mode for Web
Additionally, the web editor supports restricting the color picker to a specific color mode: RGB, CMYK. When CMYK is enforced, elements using a different color mode show a clear convert option rather than broken inputs.
New pages, asset library blocks, and fill type switches automatically convert colors to match the configured mode.

On Android, Images, stickers, and shapes now display one thumbnail per clip, instead of repeating across the track. The timeline is cleaner and easier to read, keeping complex video compositions tidy on mobile screens.

Audio clips now display actual waveform visualization, replacing the previous placeholder. Users can see exactly where audio peaks and drops — making precise edits faster and more intuitive.

→ Explore Audio Waveform Docs

Non-video tracks now show a single thumbnail per clip, reducing clutter in multi-layer timelines on your iOS app.

The web timeline now automatically adjusts its height based on content. Manual track configuration is gone, and complex projects are easier to pick up for your new users.

Multiple clips can now be combined into a single manageable unit with synchronized timing, trimming, and a unified timeline representation.

This enables complex, multi-layer content production and speeds up the design process.

Users can now adjust the playback speed of video and audio clips via a dedicated Speed UI. This has been one of the most-requested mobile features and is now available on both platforms.

→ View Video Speed Documentation iOS
→ View Video Speed Documentation Android

Some customers don't start from scratch. They have existing creative assets locked inside PowerPoint and Canva — and until now, bringing those into CE.SDK required manual recreation.

The new PPTX Importer removes that barrier.

Users can import native PowerPoint files or export Canva designs as PPTX and bring them directly into your CE.SDK-powered editor, with layouts, elements, and structure intact.

→ Try the  PPTX Import Demo
→ View PPTX npm

Previously, getting CE.SDK running in a real product meant adapting complex demo projects: stripping features, adjusting architecture, and undoing assumptions baked into example code.

Starter Kits replace all of that with pre-configured, production-ready editor UIs.

Specialized kits for Photo, Video, and Design editors are scoped, clean, and immediately deployable. Each kit starts with a focused feature set. You explicitly opt in to what you need, so your UI stays performant and your users don't see capabilities they can't use.

For your product, this means: a functional, shippable editor in minutes rather than days of setup. Clean architecture from day one, without accumulating technical debt.

→ Explore Starter Kit Documentation

Install the plugin for Claude Code or Cursor and your AI coding agent becomes a CE.SDK expert with bundled access to guides, API references, and starter kits across 10 web frameworks. No external services, no MCP servers, no context-switching.

What your developers can now do:

• /cesdk:build — Describe a use case in plain language. The agent detects the framework, pulls the right starter kit, and scaffolds a working project autonomously.
• /cesdk:explain — Ask any CE.SDK implementation question and get answers adapted to the specific framework and experience level.
• /cesdk:docs-[framework] — Retrieve guides and API references directly from the IDE, without leaving the editor.

For your product, this means: developers prototype in minutes, not days. Non-technical team members can now build and extend functional editors independently. And onboarding new engineers to CE.SDK shrinks from a multi-day ramp to a single session.

→ Quick Start & Announcement
→ Explore Agent Skills Documentation

We have expanded the "Grow" animation style with new directional controls. Creators can now scale elements from all corners, instead of only the center. This allows for more intentional, fun motion design that aligns with high-end standards.

We have refined our native right-to-left support for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian with a new "Auto" alignment feature.

The engine now detects script direction on the fly, aligning right for RTL languages like Arabic, and left for LTR languages like English.
For your product, this delivers a truly native feel for your users.

→ Get started with our RTL Guide

Integrate CE.SDK documentation directly into your development environment. By supporting the Model Context Protocol (MCP), we optimize how AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot search and retrieve our latest technical guides and API references in real time.

For your team, this means more accurate, context-aware code suggestions and a significantly faster integration process without leaving your editor.

→ Read our Docs MCP Server Guide

Archive exports on the web are now more memory-friendly and stable, especially for large, resource-heavy projects. Instead of loading all assets into memory at once, CE.SDK now streams or writes exports incrementally, significantly reducing memory usage during export.

For your users, this engine update provides a reliable experience when saving or sharing complex designs.
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→ Learn how CE.SDK handles exports - Docs
→ Configure and control exports - Guide

Text Designs are prebuilt text elements users can insert into a design, similar to ready-made headlines, callouts, or fun text layouts.

CE.SDK Text Designs are now more robust for more complex designs. Each text design is handled as a self-contained component that automatically includes the assets it needs, making templates more reliable and easier to scale.

We’ve expanded our CE.SDK Guides for Web to help developers move quickly from setup to deeper customization and advanced workflows.

The guides walk through practical implementation patterns, including AI integrations, automated design-template workflows, and editor UI customization. Each topic is designed to help teams extend CE.SDK in production environments.

The CE.SDK documentation guides cover essential developer workflows with working examples and live demos.

CE.SDK now fully supports right-to-left (RTL) text input, making it easy to build editors for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian (Farsi). Text direction switches automatically, characters flow correctly, and cursor movement behaves as users expect when typing and editing.

For your users, this means a native text editing experience in their language. For your product, it unlocks multilingual workflows without workarounds.

CE.SDK for Web now supports transparent WebM videos making it easy to layer animations, overlays, and motion elements without a background. This opens up new creative possibilities for effects, lower thirds, UI animations, and branded motion content directly in the editor.

Let your users design products like apparel, mugs, phone cases, and more with a real-time, fully interactive product editor made with CE.SDK.

The Web Product Editor UI demo shows how CE.SDK handles multiple print areas, live mockups, and print-ready design exports in a streamlined workflow.

For your product, this provides a ready-made blueprint for building custom merchandise editors, print-on-demand tools, or any e-commerce customization experience.

→ Try the Product Editor UI Demo

When users apply styling without selecting text, CE.SDK for Web now updates the entire text block instead of applying the style only to future characters.

This feels more predictable and matches user expectations in formatting-heavy workflows.

For your web editor, you can control whether an asset library (for example, stock photos) is searchable using the isSearchable field. When no visible library supports search, the search bar is hidden automatically.

We are excited to introduce a new platform: CE.SDK Renderer brings production grade exporting to your backend, allowing you to turn CE.SDK templates into finished media with the speed, consistency, and scale required for modern creative automation.

How It Works
Running the CE.SDK engine natively on your server, the Renderer delivers fast and reliable export of images, PDFs, and fully compliant H.264 and H.265 videos. It removes the limitations of browser and Node based exporting and enables automated, personalized, and high volume content workflows.

Packaged as a ready-to-run Docker container, CE.SDK Renderer supports GPU acceleration, batch processing, and predictable output fidelity for enterprise production needs.

Perfect For Your Use Case
CE.SDK Renderer is ideal for dynamic ad creation, personalized video variations, template driven print assets such as postcards or brochures, and large scale automated content generation across marketing, e-commerce, and creative automation platforms.

→ Explore CE.SDK Deep-Dive Blog
→ View CE.SDK Renderer Documentation

Your users can now change video speed right in the web editor. Slow clips down to spotlight important moments, or speed them up to keep content tight and engaging.

This removes the need for external editing apps and keeps more creation inside your product.

Force Crop is now available for Mobile, as seen for the Web editor: If a user uploads media that does not fit the intended layout, the editor can automatically crop or guide users through cropping, so the final design looks exactly as intended.

It is especially valuable for social stories, ads, marketplace listings, and any workflow where the output size must be precise.

Force Crop supports three modes so you can choose how much control you give users:

• silent
  Applies the crop automatically without showing the crop UI.
• always
  Applies the preset and always opens crop mode, so users can review and adjust.
• ifNeeded
  Only opens the crop UI when the media does not match the required ratio.

→ View Android Force Crop Documentation
→ View iOS Force Crop Documentation

When selecting any element, the canvas menu appears and contains a “more options” drown-down section. It is now fully customizable using the builder API.  

You can add, remove, or reorder menu items and include individual actions (flip, copy, paste, etc.).

Get more control over the editor UI, and tailor tools and workflows to your users’ needs.

→ Change Canvas Menu Order Documentation
→ Explore Canvas Menu Documentation

CE.SDK now supports playback and editing video in Safari 26.0 and higher on macOS. Give your users on Mac full access to pristine, browser-based video editing.

This update lets your users create, animate, preview, and edit videos directly in Safari with the same CE.SDK features they already know from Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

For your product, this means broader reach and platform consistency, enabling you to deliver a pristine editing experience that feels native everywhere.

→ Try the video demo in Safari
→ Explore CE.SDK’s video capabilities

Users can now sample colors from anywhere on their screen and apply them directly in the web editor with the new built-in color picker.

Supported in Chrome, Edge, and Opera for Web.

Our new Audio Export Guide shows how to extract audio directly from scenes or blocks to create auto captions, translations, and automated transcripts. Or process audio externally for creative effects!

This makes it easier to extend CE.SDK beyond editing, helping you power smarter, more accessible, and more engaging media tools.

We’re excited to introduce the Print-Ready PDF Plugin for CE.SDK, enabling you to transform your designs into professional-grade PDFs.

Key Features

• PDF/X-3 Compliance for printing industry standards
• RGB → CMYK Conversion for print color output
• ICC Profile Support for your custom profiles, or our shipped profiles
• Client-Side Processing — no backend needed

This plugin provides a straightforward solution for generating print-ready PDFs with your app. By handling the conversion client-side, it simplifies workflows and reduces reliance on external tools.

Getting Started:
→ Integrate the Print-Ready PDF Plugin
→ View Print-Ready PDF Plugin Docs

CE.SDK for Web has a new look: simpler, brighter, and more focused. This visual refresh reduces complexity, improves readability, and helps your users design faster while keeping your product future-proof.

Friendlier and Easier-to-Use Interface:

• The editor now features a flatter UI appearance with size-consistent elements, including buttons and dropdowns, making it feel more intuitive and less "boxed-in."
• Increased font weight improves legibility.
• More rounded interfaces contribute to a friendlier and more inviting feel, especially for users who are not professional designers.
• A refined color palette provides better contrast.
• Panels now visually step back, so designs take the spotlight.

The result is an interface that feels balanced, easy to use, and blends into brands by default.

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The new Export Audio API supports extracting audio from scenes, audio blocks, or video fill blocks.

This gives developers full control over audio output for editing, mixing, or automation workflows. For example, you can extract audio for automatic transcription and auto video captions.

Coming Soon: Learn how to generate and translate captions automatically in your editor — our full guide is on the way.

CE.SDK now plays a live preview whenever you add or update an animation. Your users can immediately see how their animations behave without pressing “play,” making it faster to fine-tune motion and create polished results.

For your app, that means smoother editing workflows, less trial and error, and a more professional user experience out of the box. Try our Animation Demo for Web.

Our CE.SDK engine now supports playback speed control for videos, GIFs, and audio. Developers can programmatically adjust speed using setPlaybackSpeed and getPlaybackSpeed.

Within our next releases, your users will be able to fine-tune video speed right inside the editor, using an intuitive user interface for the Web.

With Settings API, we’ve consolidated the Settings interface and introduced unified setSetting and getSetting methods, replacing multiple type-specific methods. For developers, this means:

• Cleaner, more consistent API surface
• Easier to learn, easier to maintain
• Improved TypeScript support with automatic type inference

CE.SDK now introduces new Actions and Utils APIs that simplify how you manage editor workflows.

With the Actions API, tasks like save, export, load, or upload are managed centrally instead of across multiple places. This reduces repetition and makes it easier to customize how users interact with the editor.

The Utils API adds ready-to-use defaults for dialogs, file handling, exporting, and scene management. These save time and cut boilerplate while still letting you override behavior when needed.

Explore the Actions API and Utils API.

We’ve added official Angular support via @cesdk/cesdk-js/angular, bringing the same plug-and-play experience developers already love in React and Vue.

Our Theming API lets you style the web editor’s user interface, so it matches your brand: toolbars, panels, and other elements.

Since CE.SDK v1.60, theming supports the P3 color space and OKLCH color format, giving you modern, more accurate colors for your editor’s UI. This ensures branded themes look vibrant and consistent across today’s wide-gamut displays.

CE.SDK for Web now adapts to your users’ system settings out of the box. A new system theme option automatically switches between light and dark mode. Because theming works at runtime, you don’t need to reload the editor to apply changes — making it easier to deliver seamless experiences..

Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system in iOS 26 changes safe-area handling, toolbar sizing, and system banners. CE.SDK v1.60 prepares you for this shift: choose whether to embrace the new look or preserve your current layout.

By default, when you build against the iOS 26 SDK, our editor automatically uses the new system visuals and behaviors for seamless alignment with Apple’s latest design language.

If you continue building with a pre–iOS 26 SDK, nothing changes: your app continues to look and behave as before, and our SDK maintains the previous experience.

If you want to build with the iOS 26 SDK but temporarily keep the classic UI, Apple provides an Info.plist switch: UIDesignRequiresCompatibility to enable UI compatibility mode.

When this is present, your app won’t adopt Liquid Glass, and our SDK will mirror that choice to remain consistent with the rest of your app.

Note: Apple hasn’t published a deprecation date for this compatibility key; plan your migration accordingly.

Resources:
→ Apple Documentation - Liquid Glass Introduction
→ Apple Documentation - Adopting Liquid Glass

CE.SDK now supports MKV (Matroska) files, including H.264, H.265/HEVC, AAC, and MP3 alongside VP8, VP9, AV1, and Opus. More uploads work out of the box, reducing friction for your users.

Our Engine now supports .json Lottie files as video fills. Add lightweight, scalable animations to video projects without large asset sizes.

Get prebuilt editors and smart features out of the box: CE.SDK now ships React and Vue wrappers directly in the @cesdk/cesdk-js package. Just install, import, and skip lengthy setups. This frees your team to ship faster and focus on what makes your app unique in the market.

Browse pre-built solutions for React and Vue.

What You Get Out of The Box:

All-in-one integration
With wrappers included, installation is cleaner and simplified. Simply install and import the necessary components.

Prebuilt Editor Solutions
Our wrappers provide ready-to-use editor components. Perfect for rapid prototyping or embedding full-featured editing experiences.

Rich Editing Features
Use built-in support for photo & video editing (crop, filters, adjustments), smart AI tools, template creation, asset libraries. Customize the UI if needed.

→ Get started with React docs
→ Get started with Vue docs

CE.SDK for Web and our Engine now support WebM videos. Supported codecs include VP8, VP9, and AV1. This allows you to handle more video formats efficiently, deliver faster-loading videos, and ensure smooth playback across browsers and platforms. Explore all supported formats in our documentation.

We’ve overhauled the iOS & Android default assets in CE.SDK. Let users start creating with inspiring design elements right away.

• Shapes now include gradient and image fills, plus ‘outline’ shapes.
• Stickers have been refreshed to provide a more fun starter set.
• Text comes with curated font combinations for quick, polished typography.

Archiving complex projects with large assets can spike memory usage, causing performance issues or failures in some scenarios. To support more complex or asset-heavy scenes, we’ve improved how archive export works on iOS and Android.

This update reduces memory load and helps your app save larger projects more efficiently and reliably.

You can now localize CE.SDK on iOS and Android, making it easy to translate the editor and camera UI for a great experience in any language.

Translate Your Editor
Reach global audiences and meet local expectations with minimal effort! All visible UI elements in the editor can now be localized.

Simplified Text Customization
Easily override our default labels and messages by using a clear, structured system.

Camera SDK Localization
Not only our editors: CE.SDK Camera supports localization, too. Configure it separately using the iOS Camera and Android Camera documentation.

Explore the documentation to localize on iOS and Android.

Configure whether images must be cropped before editing. With Force Crop for Web and our Engine, you set the aspect ratio or format for your users’ project.

Three modes give you full control:

• Always – The editor opens in crop mode, and users crop before they can edit.
• If Needed – Users see crop mode only if the image doesn’t fit the required format.
• Silent – The preset format is applied automatically, without showing the crop step.

This ensures every project starts in the right format—whether it’s for Instagram Stories, avatars, YouTube Shorts, or product images—without leaving room for user error.

Try the Force Crop Demo for Web.

Bring fast & easy formatting to Android users with crop and resize presets.

Easy Cropping
Instantly crop to popular aspect ratios for social media platforms, and more. This saves time and ensures every creation fits the channel or print use-case perfectly.

Resize Designs with Presets
Resize entire designs, tweak, and publish fast. Pixel-perfect with presets for social media platforms.

Crop & Resize presets are now supported for Web, iOS, and Android apps.
Explore Crop and Page Format documentation.
Try the Android demo app.

Add captions to videos on the Web and Engine! Your users can create closed captions manually using a simple interface with timestamps, or upload a caption file (.srt, .vtt).

This feature ships with animated style presets for clean, professional-looking captions. You can add custom presets for captions to match your brand.

From short-form video to e-learning, captions have become a standard in content creation. They are essential for creating accessible and high-performing videos. According to Meta, captions can increase video view time by 12% on average. This is a feature your users expect and rely on.

Explore the Captions documentation or try the demo.

We've cut through the clutter—static elements like text and shapes now appear as clean icons instead of repetitive thumbnails, while keeping video clips fully visible.

This streamlined timeline on the Web helps creators edit faster with fewer mistakes by removing distractions, not features.

💡 What’s the Canvas Menu? This mini contextual menu appears next to a selected design block (like an image), allowing users to use actions like delete, duplicate, or more.

You can now customize the editor Canvas Menu for iOS! This update gives you more control over how items appear and behave in the editor:

• Add, Remove, and Rearrange Buttons
  Define the exact menu items you need. Add buttons, remove defaults, or change the order.
• Integrate Custom Components
  Embed your own UI elements into the menu for a consistent, branded experience.

Our new Crop & Page Resize Presets deliver perfectly formatted designs for Instagram, YouTube, print, and more. Presets solve a top creator pain point: manual resizing for different platforms. Help users publish to multiple channels faster, while maintaining high quality.

Resize Pages in Seconds: Switch between formats like A4, Story, or YouTube Thumbnail. In the past, manual page resizing lived in the document settings. Now, our resize options live in a dedicated “Resize” button.

Crop Without Guesswork: Crop visuals to fit any format, with presets tuned for top platforms and print. Or utilize fast crops for a consistent layout.

Available now for Web, mobile support coming soon.

Explore our documentation for Crop and Page Presets.

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You now have more control over customizing the navigation bar on iOS, ensuring that it reflects your brand and optimizes user flows.

• Customize & Rearrange Buttons: You can add custom buttons to the navigation bar, customize, and rearrange them.
• Integrate Custom Components: Customize the navigation bar by integrating unique elements that fit your app's design and functionality.

We're excited to announce the expansion of our Camera to Flutter, enabling seamless integration of advanced camera features into your app.

Camera Key Features:

• Simultaneous Recording: Record multiple video clips and use a timer.
• Reactions: Empower users to remix and create engaging content on iOS & Android. A loved format popularized by platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

This release brings feature parity across iOS, Android, React Native, and now Flutter, ensuring a consistent developer experience across platforms.

Add backgrounds to text blocks for better readability and visual polish. Customize padding and corner radius for a clean, consistent look. Ideal for short-form videos and social media content where clear messaging matters.

Add dynamic motion to your text and design elements with CE.SDK for Android. Our new Text & Block Animations feature delivers a comprehensive library of motion effects. This release also ships with a smoothly animated, categorized user interface.

Comprehensive Animation Library
Access a full suite of in, out, and loop animations, like our animation for web!

Tailored Motion Controls
Fine-tune animations like duration, easing, direction, and more. For text, you can also control how exactly it animates — for example, as an entire block or individual characters!
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Try it live on our demo app.

We've dramatically accelerated HDR-to-SDR video conversion in CE.SDK for Web. While HDR videos previously required lengthy processing, especially for 4K content. Now, they convert to SDR with minimal delay, letting users start editing their footage faster than ever before.

We've dramatically accelerated HDR-to-SDR video conversion in CE.SDK on iOS. While HDR videos previously required lengthy processing, especially for 4K content, they now convert to SDR with minimal delay, letting users start editing their footage faster than ever before.

Make your text pop! Apply solid color backgrounds to text on iOS. Additionally, adjust the padding and rounded corners of your text background.

This feature ensures readability and adds a polished, professional touch to your designs. By elevating text design, your app helps users create visually compelling content that stands out. Available for Web and iOS, soon on Android!

Give your images a cinematic touch with the new crop-zoom animation in CE.SDK. Inspired by the Ken Burns effect, this feature lets you smoothly pan and zoom across images, creating dynamic storytelling without complex editing.

Apply the Ken Burns animation directly from the CE.SDK animation library on the web. Learn how to use animations and their properties with our documentation.

GIFs are now fully integrated into the CE.SDK UI. Add and manage animated images like any other media asset. Drop a GIF into your timeline to play it once, or create a loop by extending its duration. You’re in control.

This update delivers a consistent experience across Web and Mobile, empowering dynamic content creation for social media, marketing, and beyond.

GIF support itself is built-in—no setup required! However, to add looping, enable the looping option in your assets. Find platform-specific guidance in our docs:

• Web
• iOS
• Android

You now have more control over customizing the navigation bar on Android, ensuring that it reflects your brand and optimizes user flows.

Key Features:

• Add Custom Buttons: You can add custom buttons to the navigation bar, to give users quick access to frequently used actions.
• Rearrange Buttons: Arrange buttons in your navigation bar.
• Integrate Custom Components: Customize the navigation bar by integrating unique elements that fit your app's design and functionality.

Editing large videos on iOS is now more seamless than ever. Previously, videos were fully loaded into memory, sometimes doubling usage due to background processing. Now, you can work with significantly reduced memory consumption.

A reduced memory footprint improves stability, prevents slowdowns, and ensures a smoother experience—especially for locally stored videos.

This update enhances user satisfaction and retention by enabling smoother editing, keeping consumers engaged with a seamless experience.

We unlock full dock and inspector bar customization, giving you the flexibility to optimize your workflow. With an open API, you can now tailor these UI elements to better suit your editing needs—whether by reordering actions, adding custom functionality, or simplifying the interface.

Take control of your interface by modifying both the dock and inspector bar:

• Rearrange & Customize Actions – Prioritize your most-used tools by reordering or removing actions to create a cleaner, more efficient workspace.
• Add Custom Buttons & Views – Extend functionality by integrating custom buttons or views that trigger specific actions, such as opening an asset library or displaying additional information.

Start customizing your dock and inspector bar today with our documentation.

We’ve improved TypeScript support by exposing previously missing types used in our UI APIs. This enhancement, based on user feedback, reduces complexity and ensures smoother development workflows.

When a glyph is unavailable in the selected font, CE.SDK automatically falls back to a configurable default font. This prevents localization issues and ensures seamless text rendering, perfect for your global projects.

The popular Reactions feature is now live on Android! Users can add real-time responses to videos.

This feature is perfect for content creators looking to boost personal branding, connect with audiences, and increase reach—just like on TikTok and Instagram.

Key Benefits:

• Engage with your audience through duets, trends, and conversations.
• Add a personal touch to fan art, viral moments, or inspiring content.
• Show thought leadership by responding to questions, industry news, and niche topics.
• Boost visibility and monetize your content with product promotions and collaborations.

With an easy-to-use UI, users can record reactions in vertical or horizontal layouts, then customize with text, filters, and adjustments. Cropping, trimming, and seamless editing are also supported.

Get started by trying the live demo and enable Reactions on Android via our documentation.

Easily switch languages in our web editor without restarting it. This update lets you update the UI language instantly via API, streamlining localization.

💡 The Canvas menu appears when you select a design block, letting you edit its settings, like duplicating a selected image.

Building on mobile configuration introduced in our last release, we’ve extended customization to the editor Canvas Menu for Android. This update gives you full control over how the menu and its items appear and behave in the editor:

• Customization: Configure visibility, transition effects, and decoration. Adjust the style of the divider between buttons.
• Item List Control: Modify, add, reorder, or hide menu items.
• Flexible Button and Divider Configuration: Adjust button appearance, functionality, and divider styles to match your design requirements.

More customizations will be available soon, including for iOS.

Unlock a broader color range with P3 color space support on iOS and Android devices. This enhancement ensures your designs and content are more vibrant, accurate, and true to life—giving you richer color options for all your projects.

Set up color spaces with our documentation for iOS and Android.

Add multiple clips to a single track on your video timeline! With CE.SDK video editing for the web, you can insert video clips, text, overlays, and more on one track—resulting in a more organized and efficient workspace.

This update empowers you to create richer, more dynamic sequences while keeping your timeline neat and easy to navigate.

This web feature is perfect for customizing how images appear in designs and templates, allowing for more precise control. With Fill Mode for images, you can choose from three options:

• Crop: Resizes and may crop the image to fill the block.
• Cover: The image fully covers the block while remaining centered both vertically and horizontally.
• Fit: Scales the image to fit within the block without cropping, leaving space if necessary.

Control this via API, with details in our documentation.

We’re excited to introduce powerful new ways to customize your Editor on Android. Easily configure your dock and inspector—giving you the flexibility to design a more personalized, responsive user experience!

💡 The dock is where you keep essential tools for quick access, while the inspector provides detailed controls and settings for the selected item.

What's New:

Rearrange Your Dock
Move and remove dock items freely while keeping your custom settings intact, like button height.

Smart Custom Buttons
For a more responsive workflow, add buttons that dynamically appear, change, or disappear based on your workflow—adapting to selected tools or active tasks.

Real-Time Updates
The dock updates in real-time, instantly reflecting changes to icons or visibility and adapting seamlessly to your workflow.

More customization options are coming soon! This update will be available on iOS shortly.

Get started with our Inspector and Dock Documentation

You can now easily customize your CE.SDK editor by adding your own icons. You can upload icons through our API to match your brand or design style. Whether you want to replace default icons or add custom ones to your features, this update gives you full creative control.

Empower your users to create visually dynamic text designs with Rich Text Editing: This feature allows multiple fonts, sizes, and styles within a single text block, unlocking endless customization possibilities.

From eye-catching headlines to seamless body text, your users can mix and match styles without needing multiple text blocks.

Easily integrate CE.SDK into your React Native and Expo applications.

This plug-and-play solution simplifies integration, making it faster and easier to implement CE.SDK in your apps. Our React Native and Expo Support is built on top of our native editor solutions, enabling you to use our existing iOS and Android editor UI variants supporting a broad range of use cases.

At launch, you can choose between:

• Camera UI
• Video Editor
• Design Editor
• Photo Editor
• Apparel Editor
• Postcard Editor

Additionally to our existing editor variants, you can create your own editor variant to suit your particular use case using our native API.

Apply solid color backgrounds to text. Additionally, adjust padding and rounded corners of your text background. This new feature ensures readability and adds a polished, professional touch to your designs. By elevating text design, your app helps users create visually compelling content that stands out.

Easily integrate video recording capabilities into your Android app: our new Camera UI for Android empowers users to capture high-quality videos directly within your app, streamlining the content creation process. With intuitive controls and customizable settings, it’s designed to fit seamlessly into your app’s workflow.

If you’re already using our Video Editor for Android, which includes a sleek timeline editor, you can easily enhance functionality by adding clips and selecting ‘Camera’ to record new footage directly into your timeline.

With the Android Camera UI, your users can create engaging video content without requiring additional tools, keeping them fully engaged within your app.

Add motion to individual letters or words for custom, eye-catching animations. Create standout titles and engaging visuals for social media, marketing, and more.

With various animation styles, this update provides greater control and personalization for professional, dynamic designs.

This update helps your users produce more polished, visually captivating content and elevates your app’s value in high-competition spaces like social media and advertising.

Record and embed live reactions directly into videos for a more interactive, dynamic experience. Users can capture personal responses, commentary, or tutorials, enriching video content and enhancing engagement.

This functionality taps into popular video formats, as seen on TikTok and Instagram, giving your app a competitive edge by fostering authentic, shareable user interactions.

This feature empowers your app to drive higher user engagement and retention, giving your customers the tools to stand out in content-driven markets.

Try our iOS demo.

We are proud to launch our video editing and content creation tools for Android, following our tried and tested iOS launch. Get started with a fully customizable UI for video editing:

Now Android users can crop, split, trim, and compose videos. Add multiple elements—videos, photos, stickers, and more—to a timeline to create engaging content. Editing options like filters, effects, and audio tracks turn it into a one-stop solution for video creation.

Integrate your custom asset library for stock photos, videos, stickers, and music.

With customizable video formats, users can create content for specific platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Whether it’s stories or Ultra HD, the canvas auto-adjusts, making it easy to tailor videos for any need.

Explore our Android Showcase and Documentation.

We're introducing animation support for our Video Editor for the web. With this update, you can now apply various animations, such as blur, zoom, and slide, to elements directly within the editor.

Animate and Fine-Tune Settings

Select a ‘block’ on your canvas — that includes images, videos, text, shapes, and stickers. Then choose from twelve in-and-out animations or nine loop animations. Lastly, fine-tune your selected animation, by tweaking the properties, for custom movement and transition.