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Every update to Genvap, newest first — from one phone with your recording on it to where it is now. Genvap was in private development through 1.4, so those dates are when the work was finished rather than when it reached you.

1.5

Latest

Typography with real range, backdrops from your own screenshots, and a set that reads as one picture.

New
  • 40 fontsGrouped by character — sans, display, serif, handwriting and mono — each shown in its own face while you pick it.

  • Text effectsShadow, glow, outline, gradient and flat, with alignment, letter spacing, line spacing and six presets.

  • Your uploads as backdropsThe Image section of Backdrop shows the screenshots already in your project. Pick one and it goes behind the composition.

  • Carry an item across imagesDrag a device off the edge of one image and it continues on the next, so a set reads as one wide picture cut into slices.

Improved
  • A size per imageAn App Store listing wants iPhone screens at one size and iPad screens at another. Each image carries its own, with one button to apply a size to all of them.

  • Every font shown in its own faceThe list used to render all of them in the same system font, because browsers discard styling on native dropdowns. It is a real menu now.

1.4

Stickers, a rebuilt backdrop system, the Galaxy S26, and export sizes the App Store actually accepts.

New
  • StickersIcons, badges, emoji and illustrations, with award badges and pill buttons folded in. A sticker too close in colour to what's behind it gets an outline automatically.

  • BackdropsSolid, gradient and image, with seven kinds underneath: flat colour, vignette, linear ramp, mesh, stripes, texture and your own photo.

  • Galaxy S26Joins the iPhone, MacBook, flat screen and app icon. Case and screen colours are the finishes devices actually ship in, plus a colour wheel.

  • Every required size in one exportTick the sizes a store asks for and get one zip with a folder each. Sizes that are a different shape from your design are flagged, since those re-fit rather than rescale.

  • Taps and swipesGesture indicators that sit on a device's screen and travel with it, because a screen recording has no finger in it.

Improved
  • Screen content sits flushContent is placed on the true outline of each display and at the real depth of the glass, so corners line up and nothing floats above the camera bump.

  • Camera island defaults offIt's a black shape punched through the middle of your screenshot, and the screenshot is the point. Turn it back on whenever you want the realism.

Fixed
  • App Store export sizeCorrected to 1242 x 2688, the 6.5-inch frame App Store Connect accepts across the widest range of devices. The previous size was rejected at upload.

1.3

Items. Everything on the canvas became a thing you can place, style, stack and animate on its own.

New
  • Items and motionsDevices, text, stickers and shapes are all items on one stack, each with its own lane on the timeline and its own motions — so two devices can move independently instead of the whole scene moving at once.

  • Rotation in three axesTurn, tilt and roll belong to the item, driven by a 3D box you drag. Two devices can face different ways in one composition.

  • More than one deviceA phone beside a laptop, three phones in a row, an app icon over a screen — compositions the single-device model couldn't hold.

  • LayersOne order for items and text together, so a headline can sit in front of one device and behind another.

Improved
  • Direct manipulationDrag an item on the canvas to move it and its corners to resize, with centre guides and snapping.

1.2

Projects that save, an account to keep them in, and a subscription for unlimited exports.

New
  • Named projectsSave your work, reopen it later, and pick up where you left off — with manual save and an auto-save indicator beside the title.

  • AccountsSign in and your projects follow you, with a dashboard listing everything you've made.

  • Unlimited exportsA $12/month subscription that removes the watermark and the per-export cost.

Improved
  • Your media never leaves the deviceRecordings are cached locally rather than uploaded, so a saved project reopens complete without anything of yours being stored on a server.

1.1

The image editor: App Store screenshots, not just video.

New
  • App previewA second editor for still App Store images, alongside the video one. You choose which you're making when you start.

  • Image setsCompose several images in one project, sharing a single upload library.

  • Share layoutMirror a composition across every image while each keeps its own screenshot and its own wording.

1.0

The first Genvap: drop in a screen recording, put it on a phone, export a video.

New
  • A phone with your recording on itUpload a screen capture and it plays on a 3D iPhone you can move and resize.

  • Backdrops and captionsA colour or gradient behind the phone, and text over it.

  • Video exportRender the result at the size the platform you're posting to actually wants.