Patch notes

A tidy-up release. Several parts of TubeSpanner were asking for a colour by a name that did not exist, so they rendered with no colour at all, and a few places inside YouTube's own pages had a light colour pinned on regardless of your theme.

Patch Bug Fixes

• The sign-in form has its colours back. Its text and background were both being set from names that were never defined, so they fell back to whatever happened to be inherited. Same cause in parts of the popup, the colour picker and the competitor list.

• Dark mode is respected inside YouTube. Where TubeSpanner adds buttons and panels to YouTube's own pages, a few of them had a fixed light colour, which showed as near black text on a dark page. They now take YouTube's colour, so they follow whichever theme you are using.

Patch Improvements
None in this release.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome, Firefox and Edge update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

Kim is the same assistant in the extension as she is on the web, and she can now see your channel and do things in it rather than only talk about it.

Patch Improvements

• One Kim, in both places. She has her face, she remembers what you have already said in the conversation, and she can act on your channel when you ask: saving an idea, starting a video project, or drafting a script. Anything she creates is listed under her reply, so you always know what has landed in your account.

• She can see your channel. Kim answers with your actual numbers and names your actual videos. Ask what to do next and she points at a specific video by name, instead of describing one she could not identify or asking you to go and find the title for her.

• Reaching your Kim limit is answered in the conversation. She explains it in her own words with the way to continue attached, rather than a pop-up over the top of the thing you were doing.

• Release notes read properly. The About window centred them, which left the eye no edge to return to and stopped the bulleted list looking like a list.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Kim no longer tells you to install the extension you are already using. It was the top recommendation for everyone, because nothing had ever told TubeSpanner the extension was there. It does now.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome, Firefox and Edge update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

Your scores now show the full grade scale rather than a row of faces, so you can see where you landed and how much room is left. Kim also has her name back in the extension.

Patch Improvements

• The whole grade scale, with your grade on it. Title length, readability, sentiment, compelling elements and the keyword measures now show every band from F to A+, with yours marked and the rest dimmed. The old faces told you roughly how it felt; this tells you exactly where you are and what is still above you.

• Kim is called Kim again. She was Ask TubeSpanner in the extension and Kim on the web, which made one assistant feel like two. Same helper, one name.

Patch Bug Fixes
None in this release.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome, Firefox and Edge update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

A round of fixes across the toolbar, setup, your home screen and the Video Preview Injector. The big one: the TubeSpanner bar could quietly disappear from a tab after a browser restart or an extension update, and only a brand new tab brought it back. That is fixed, along with channel setup failing to find your channel.

Patch Improvements

• Start a free trial when you reach a limit. The plan limit message now offers a free trial as well as an upgrade, so you can carry on without paying first.

• Add another social account from the share screen. An Add account option sits at the end of the platform tabs, so you do not have to hunt through settings.

• Your profile menu stays open until you close it. Click your picture to open it, then click again or click away to close, instead of it vanishing the moment your mouse drifted off.

• The match score reads as where you are, not a verdict. It describes where the videos you have made so far are landing and leaves room to change it, and it never shows as a red fail.

• Preview a thumbnail with fewer steps. In the Video Preview Injector the title and channel name are now optional, so you can upload a thumbnail and preview it straight away.

• Fewer needless confirmations. Skipping setup no longer asks twice, a missing title is a gentle notice rather than a pop-up, and deleting a project names the project and gives you a clear Cancel.

Patch Bug Fixes

• The TubeSpanner bar stays where it should be. It could disappear from a tab after restarting your browser or updating the extension, and refreshing never brought it back, only opening a brand new tab did.

• Setting up your channel works again. Typing your channel name or handle during setup now finds your channel, instead of reporting that it could not be found.

• The latest TubeSpanner video on your home screen shows for everyone. It opens on YouTube when you click it, so it no longer comes up blank if you use an ad blocker or strict privacy settings.

• Video Preview Injector: the tabs now show what they say they do, your preview appears at full size without squashing the video beside it, and if there are no videos on screen to swap it tells you instead of doing nothing.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

A round of refinements to the Viewers tools from the last update. Your target viewer now stays true to what you describe, the match score reads more plainly and sits inside Viewers where it belongs, and you can open your target in one tap to check it is right.

Patch Improvements

• Your target viewer stays true to what you describe. Tell us who you want watching and that is who we build. Your channel's goal no longer quietly reshapes them into someone else.

• A clearer match score, where it belongs. It now sits at the top of Viewers rather than on your home screen, and says in one plain sentence how close the people watching now are to the ones you want, with no bare percentage to chase.

• Check your target in one tap. The match card has a Review your target button that opens the full profile, so you can make sure it is right.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Your project checklist stays on one line. Script, Thumbnail, Description and Video no longer wrap onto a ragged second row on narrower screens.

• Social preview icons show again when you schedule a post.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

Viewers has been rebuilt around a single question: who do you want watching? Tell us in a sentence and we'll build them, then show you plainly how your videos differ from that and what to change. Getting video ideas is now one button, Projects is one list again, and every project shows what is still left to do.

Patch Improvements

• Say who you want watching, in your own words. Describe the people you want in a sentence or two and we build the full picture for you. No form, no ten fields. If your channel is brand new, three quick questions are enough to make a start.

• See what the gap means for your videos. Viewers now opens with one short paragraph explaining how the people watching now differ from the ones you want, and what to make more of because of it. The full side-by-side is still there if you want to check the working.

• A match score on your home screen. See at a glance how close your videos are to reaching the people you're aiming for, with a plain line saying what would move it.

• One picture of who's watching now. Instead of asking you to pick between three viewer profiles, we describe your audience as one group and tell you how tightly defined it is.

• Aim your ideas at the people you want. One button takes the target you've set straight into Video ideas and generates against it.

• More than one audience, if you need it. Keep several target viewers, name them for what they're for, and choose which one new ideas aim at. Tucked away, so it stays out of the way until you want it.

• Change a target without starting again. Re-describe them and we'll rebuild, or edit individual details directly if you know exactly what you want to change.

• Ideas in one click. Press Get video ideas and you get them. Topic, target viewer and category are all still there under Advanced if you want to steer it, but there is nothing to fill in first.

• Pick the niche your channel is actually in. Video ideas now offers the full category list rather than assuming everyone is generic.

• Compare ideas without opening them. Each idea shows its brief and both actions up front, so you can weigh ten of them at a glance. Saving keeps the idea where it is and the button reads Saved.

• Projects is one list again. Everything you save shows up in it, instead of being filed across Ideas, Titles and Projects tabs that made your own work hard to find.

• Every project shows what is left. Script, Thumbnail, Description and Video, each one a link straight to where that job gets done.

• Scripts and videos without leaving Projects. Attach a script you have already written, picked out by how closely it matches, or generate a new one from the idea's title, brief and method. Link a video you have published, or upload a new one.

• Homerun is now the feature it always was, with the finder and your competitors as two sections inside it. Competitors is a place to manage your channels rather than a dead end, and Homerun works whether or not you have set any up.

• Your remaining ideas are on screen. How many you have left this month now sits next to your results.

Patch Bug Fixes

• The topic you type into Video ideas is now actually used. Previously it was collected and ignored, so the ideas came back generic.

• You can set a target viewer on a brand new channel. It used to be blocked until we had read your videos, which was backwards: the newest channel has the most need to say where it is heading.

• The brief you write now reaches the script generator, so the script matches the idea you had.

• An idea's method is kept when you save it.

• The Description column shows your real YouTube description rather than your notes.

• You are greeted by your channel name or your first name, instead of an internal username.

• A search that finds nothing no longer collapses the panel to a sliver.

• A channel that fails to load is no longer reported as not connected.

• Newly connected channels now have their videos read in straight away, instead of nothing appearing until your next upload.

• Buttons across the panel now meet contrast requirements in both light and dark mode.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

Auto Description just got more useful: one click now fills a ready-to-paste description and a matching set of YouTube tags. Your title score shows its letter grade right in the circle, the score summary reads your real results, and Video ideas, Titles and Viewers open on clearer get-started panels.

Patch Improvements

• Auto Description fills your tags. One click writes a ready-to-paste description and a matching set of YouTube tags, straight into the upload fields.

• Grade in the score circle. Your title score now shows its letter grade inside the circle, with a tap to flip between the grade and the exact percentage.

• A summary that reads your results. The score summary now reflects your actual scores and names the single weakest area to fix next, instead of a fixed explainer.

• Clearer starting points. Video ideas, Title suggestions and Viewers open on a tidy get-started panel, and the Projects list points you to the right next step when a stage is empty.

• Tidier upgrade prompt. It now shows how many you have left, with more consistent spacing and rounded corners across the panels.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Auto Description no longer leaves fill-in-the-blank placeholders like [Insert Link] in the description, so what you get is ready to paste.

• Fixed corner-rounding drift and mismatched icons on the upgrade prompt.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

The Discovery and Search optimiser got a big upgrade. Your scores now carry a letter grade so you know when a title is already strong, each recommendation is a stronger version of your own title, and the panel's theme now follows YouTube.

Patch Improvements

• Score grades. Your Discovery and Search scores now show a grade like A+ next to the number, so it's clear when a title is already strong. A great title rarely needs to hit 100%.

• Stronger title suggestions. Each recommendation is now a stronger version of your own title, aimed at its weakest scores, with a one-tap Use this title that re-scores it instantly. Quick to go from a good title to a great one.

• Live-score note. Each score panel now notes that the score is worked out live, so it can shift a little between checks. That is expected, not a glitch.

• Theme that matches YouTube. Auto theme now follows YouTube's own light or dark setting, so the panel matches Studio even when your computer is set the other way.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Longer ratings like 'Outstanding' no longer get clipped in either score panel.

• Removed a confusing per-metric 'Suggestions' shortcut that could drop advice text into your title box.

• Fixed the 'manage Upload Defaults' link on the Upload Assistant that would not open.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

New creators get a welcoming Home that points them to their first win, you can push a whole project onto a YouTube video in one click, and a few things now say what they actually do.

Patch Improvements

• A warmer first run. New creators land straight on a Home that welcomes them by name and connects their channel automatically, with one clear first move plus a quick-start set. No forced setup wizard - onboarding is there whenever they want it.

• Apply project. One click on the YouTube edit page drops your saved project's title and description straight onto the video, so you stop copy-pasting between TubeSpanner and Studio.

• Clearer names. AI Finesse is now Auto Description (it writes your description for you), and your saved descriptions are now Upload Defaults.

• Gentle upgrade prompts where Pro unlocks more, including a way to add your own target viewers.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Title suggestions now clear when you switch videos, so you never see the last video's titles.

• You're no longer asked to connect a channel you've already connected.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

AI Finesse now writes you a finished description from the first click, your projects keep their scores and audience in sync as you work, and usage and limits are far clearer.

Patch Improvements

• One-click AI descriptions. On the Upload Assistant, AI Finesse works from your very first click. With text already there it polishes what you have; with the box empty it picks the description from your saved library that best fits your video's title and target viewer and tailors it for this video, so you start from a finished draft, not a blank page.

• Projects stay in sync. Re-analysing a title updates that project's Discovery and Search scores automatically, and opening a project carries its title, scores and target viewer straight back into the Optimise tabs.

• Clearer usage and limits. Your account panel now shows every feature in one "Credits used" view, and when you reach a plan limit you get a clear upgrade prompt instead of a silent stop.

• Optimize Video now works from your Discovery title rather than the file name, with tidier Generate Script placement across the Optimise tabs.

• Report a bug. A new menu link to send us bugs quickly.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Recent-title history is back in the Discovery and Search title fields, and clearer save messages throughout (an idea now confirms "Idea saved to projects").

• Private and unlisted videos no longer show up in Video links.

• Upload Assistant polish: cleaner input fields, consistent action buttons, an always-visible Tags field, and tidier layout and spacing.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome and Firefox update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable