- Simpler wording when we ask for your email.

- Beat sheet: put your story beats on Set up your shoot and tick them off as they happen. Type them, say them or take a photo. - Photo on Brief, Questions and Beat sheet now opens the camera. - Mic or speech turned off? A note drops in with Turn on, and tells you when it's back. - Earwig says hello on the Welcome screen. - Signed in with Hide My Email? You can add the address you read, so your shoot links reach you. Optional. - Shoot pages sit clear of the top and bottom bars on every iPhone.

- Pair a second phone mid-shoot: tap the gear under the timecode. - Minutes left at a glance: a simple ring in the menu, on Set up your shoot and in Settings, with Top up one tap away. Top-up minutes never expire. - A heads-up when you're running low, never in the middle of a take. Run out mid-shoot and you'll see it, with the option to top up. - Record through AirPods or a Bluetooth headset: switch it on in Set up your shoot or Settings. - Stereo inputs are now transcribed from both channels, not just the first. - Privacy: shoot files on your phone are encrypted while it's locked, and Private mode words and camera scans stay out of backups. Clearer permission messages. - Settings: one account card, with Upgrade and Manage plan easier to find. - Fixes and polish throughout.

- Minutes left at a glance: a simple ring in the menu, on Set up your shoot and in Settings, with Top up one tap away. Top-up minutes never expire. - A heads-up when you're running low, never in the middle of a take. Run out mid-shoot and you'll see it, with the option to top up. - Record through AirPods or a Bluetooth headset: switch it on in Set up your shoot or Settings. - Stereo inputs are now transcribed from both channels, not just the first. - Privacy: shoot files on your phone are encrypted while it's locked, and Private mode words and camera scans stay out of backups. Clearer permission messages. - Settings: one account card, with Upgrade and Manage plan easier to find. - Fixes and polish throughout.

New in this version: - Clearer plans. Swipe between Studio, Pro and Pay as you go. Friends and Pro start with a free month. - Top up 3 or 10 hours whenever you need more. - Choose your marker buttons when you set up. - Private mode now starts off each time you open Earwig. Tap the lock to turn it on for a shoot. - Name the speakers in each shoot. - Fixes: a long Bluetooth mic name no longer pushes the record screen past the edges, a shoot that starts on a weak signal is no longer labelled private, and no more buzz every second while you record.

The live transcript now scrolls smoothly as new lines come in, and stays quick however long the shoot runs. Long interviews no longer stutter when Earwig saves your shoot. When you tap a marker, the line picker shows the lines you just heard, even deep into a long interview. Top-up hours switch on cloud transcription straight away. Setting up Earwig now ends by showing how many hours of logging you get back each week.

A short film now opens Earwig the first time you use it, and every setup page keeps its buttons in the same place, with calmer pages and smoother moves between them. Picking your language is quicker: the common ones up front, and a search for the rest. After your first shoot, a short film shows how Earwig Sync+ builds your timeline in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro, with a button to email yourself the download. Avid Media Composer markers and Selects for Avid (.ale) now sit with the other marker files on the wrap screen. The Record screen shows which mic is recording, and Settings can turn Bluetooth mics on or off. Settings are grouped into short sections, and transcript PDFs number every marker with an index at the top.

Tap a speaker name on a shoot's Transcript page to change it. The name follows through to your notes, the shoot's web page and Sync. One menu on every shoot page, whether the shoot lives on your phone or in your account: share what mattered, send your notes, get marker files for Premiere, Resolve and Avid, and export the transcript as a PDF. Shoots kept on your phone can now share and export everything a saved shoot can.

Coming back to the app no longer drops a marker. Step out to answer a message, come back, and the shoot is exactly as you left it. Scroll up through your markers and the list holds where you are. Tap Latest to jump back to the newest one. A shoot with no markers yet stays open until you end it, however long the interview runs before the first one.

Export for Avid. When a shoot ends, open the ⋯ menu and choose Export for Avid to get a marker file for Media Composer, with each marker's timecode, colour and note. Long-press a shoot in My Earwigs for the same. Selects for Avid saves your marked moments as an ALE file for Media Composer. When you scan your camera's timecode, Earwig keeps a photo of the camera's screen on your phone and reads the clip name from it. When the camera rolls a new clip, tap Clip under the timecode and scan its screen. Markers from then on go on the new clip.

Tell Earwig what to listen for. In your brief, pick a marker, type what to catch, and add the rule. Every time they talk about it, Earwig marks it on that button. Scroll up to pause the live transcript and tap Live to jump back. Double-tap a marker button to keep it on, then tap words to mark whole sentences. The timecode scanner reads on iPad whichever way you hold it, and 23.976 now matches your camera and stays matched. Renamed buttons keep their names everywhere: your notes, the PDF, and the files for Resolve and Premiere. Email or message your notes straight from the end of a shoot. Share what mattered sends the moments you pick with their timecodes, laid out like your notes. The transcript PDF is ready to print, and uploading a shoot from your phone now finishes in one go. Manage your subscription and find refund help in Settings.

Private mode is one switch now. Your shoot stays on the phone: the words are typed on the device, and nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to upload it. Mark the exact line you meant. Tap a line in the live words and the marker takes those words, at their timecode, and quotes exactly what it highlights. Share your notes in one tap: every moment with its timecodes, as text you can send in Mail or WhatsApp. Or pick the moments that mattered, have them written up in a few sentences, and send that with a link to the session. A shoot on your phone and a shoot in your account now open the same page, and saving a shoot just saves it. Face ID can lock Earwig, and can open it offline as the account that signed in on this phone.

Signed in with a second account on a phone that already has an Earwig subscription? The Pro screen now says so and offers to use that subscription, instead of a button that did nothing. Small fixes around activating your free month.

A simpler Friends of Earwig screen: Activate your free month, or Get Pro if you only need markers. New Pro screen: markers only, no transcription or AI, monthly or yearly. Every marker button grabs the last 10 seconds by default. Hold a button to change it. Voice notes dictate on Pro too, with your words on screen as you speak. New Funny button. Pro's default set is Earmark, Note, Great, Funny, Don't use and Voice. Top-ups are two simple rows, and you can sign out from the activation screen if you're on the wrong account.

- 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.