- Earwig now starts with your plan. After sign-in, your Friends of Earwig price sits beside the standard price, first month free, and every plan is one tap away under See all plans. - Your first marker lands on an edit timeline you can tap, so you see what a marker does before your first shoot. - A new page shows what marking as you film saves, from your own hours of interview. - The recording notice appears the first time you tap Record, not at sign-in. - Brief and Questions on the setup screen can be filled by photographing a page or speaking. - The wrap screen confirms when your markers email has been sent.

Friends of Earwig: redeem your code in the app and your badge appears by your name. A clearer welcome the first time you sign in. Fixes and refinements throughout.

New: a clearer first-run setup, including a simple choice over how your data is used to improve Earwig. Plus performance improvements and bug fixes.

A few friendly updates: • "Sessions" are now "Earwigs" — the same recordings, with a name that's more us. • An easier way to rate Earwig or send us feedback. We read every message. • Joining a shoot from a second phone is now at the top of the menu, so it's quicker to get started. • New to Earwig? A warm welcome is waiting when you first sign in — including your first hour free. • Plus polish and bug fixes throughout. Thanks for shooting with us.

- New free plan: drop markers on every shoot, with a cloud-transcription trial. - Pay-as-you-go hour top-ups, or subscribe to Studio for transcription and AI summaries. - Pair a second phone - scan a QR and log markers together on the same shoot, live. - Clearer paywalls with instant purchase confirmation. - New app icon, plus reliability fixes to recording and timecode.

Voice and notes, reworked. Hold a button to talk and it logs a voice marker. Tap to type a note. Dictation is faster now and catches the last words after you let go of the button. A cleaner record screen. The logging bar is the only mode, a simple grid of buttons that never hides behind your markers. Just want to tag moments? Turn on Simple Markers for logging with no transcription at all. New plans. Start free with markers, timecode and export to your editor. Pro adds BLE hardware timecode, drop-frame and fractional frame rates, and Premiere XML export. Studio adds live transcription, AI, voice commands, find a line and the pickup report. Also new: phone-motion detection (static, handheld, moving), plus fixes to dictation, saving notes, and first-run recording.

- New setup screen: timecode, brief and questions in clean tap-to-open panels - Scan camera timecode: point your phone at the camera's display to sync automatically - Questions checklist while filming: your questions in big text, tap to tick each off - Suggest questions: AI fills out your question list for you - Match my questions: Earwig hears your planned questions being asked, ticks them off and drops a marker automatically - Post-shoot pickup report: reads the whole interview back like a producer and flags what is worth grabbing before your contributor leaves - Ranked pickups: most to least important, each with a plain reason why (thin answers, lines that will not cut on their own, people never introduced, threads worth expanding) - Per-question debrief: what they actually said, whether it is solid or thin, and a follow-up to draw it out - Record pickups: tick the ones you want and start a fresh Pickup session with them ready to go - Post-shoot summary and pickup check now on by default

New in this version: - Mark a clip with In and Out, and Earwig summarises what was said between the two points. - Tap a speaker in the transcript to rename them. The new name shows everywhere they speak. - Notes open straight into typing, so you can jot a thought without losing your place. - Rename your marker buttons to fit how you work. Hold a button in Your Buttons to change its name. - Read the live transcript while your marker buttons are open. - A weekly reminder with a fresh tip, so Earwig's there for your next shoot. - Fixes and polish, including consistent dark mode across the app.

Check-in reminders to keep your shoots marked, plus stability improvements.