Updates

What's new in Rally. Release notes for features and product improvements.

Comments and reactions

Jun 2, 2025

🚀 New Features

  • Timestamped Comments or Reactions: You can now add timestamped comments or reactions to team videos.
  • Instant Video Uploading: Video uploading is now pretty much instant — we upload video in segments as you record (Web and Mac app).
  • Tabs for Notifications and "Shared with Me": Added tabs to make navigation easier.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Card Duplication: Fixed a critical issue where duplicating cards with multiple text overlays could cause all overlays to disappear when deleting individual layers.
  • Timeline Performance: Resolved lag when adjusting in/out points on the timeline.
  • Filmstrip Display: Fixed visual clipping issues in vertical filmstrip view.
  • Text Editing: Improved reliability of text layer interactions.

⚡ Performance Improvements

  • Timeline Responsiveness: Improved performance when working with timeline in/out points.
  • Editor Efficiency: Optimized internal systems for faster UI updates.

✨ Quality of Life

  • Visual Consistency: More stable layout behavior across different devices and input methods.
  • Developer Experience: Cleaner console output for better debugging and development.

Team playlists and text overlays

Apr 25, 2025

Combine stories into Playlists

Our team has been using Playlists to do weekly show and tell. Playlists are helpful for customer onboarding and product releases.

Annotate with text overlays

Add labels to your screenshots or screen recordings. Pick from Google Fonts and color themes.

Board summaries

Extract highlights from all the stories on a Board, with auto-updating summaries.

Improved

  • Publishing is now instant.
  • Better story summaries.
  • Animated preview images.
  • Pause and resume recordings.
  • Cursor tracking and zoom animations.
  • Video and microphone controls added to the PiP video controller.

Brand kit and floating narrator bubbles

Feb 26, 2025

Floating narrator bubbles

Floating narrator bubbles use AI vision to remove the background from webcam recordings for better presentation and customization options.

Brand Kit

Manage brand colors and images in one place, making it easier to maintain consistency across stories.

Improved

  • Recordings with cursor tracking.
  • Story view counts are now visible.
  • Redesigned editor filmstrip and timeline controls for clearer context.

Embed customization

Jan 31, 2025

New embed customizations

New button and display controls have been added to embeds.

Change title card details

Finer controls over which details appear during playback of story embeds.

Embed a call to action

Stories with a call to action (CTA) can now include a button on embeds.

Customize the play button

Change the play button to display custom text instead of the default, video duration.

Find these options via Share → Embed when viewing a story.