

Now you can add collaborators, control privacy settings, and add/reply to comments directly in the app. Better support for multi-user collaboration and commenting “There’s a way to use this feature in Descript Classic (via Descript Drive), but now it’s something that happens automatically in the background you don’t need to remember to manually save updates to the cloud. Also, because we’re saving new versions of your Project to the cloud constantly as you work, you’ll get granular version history, making it easy to recover old versions of your work. This means you can access your files from anywhere, and makes it easy to share your Projects with collaborators. Like Descript Classic, New Descript works offline - but now your Projects will automatically sync to the cloud. What improvements can you look forward to in the new version of Descript for Mac? Automatic Cloud sync & backup

We haven’t replaced our current Mac app (let’s call it “Descript Classic”) yet because “New Descript” still doesn’t have all the features, but we have a beta available with enough features to be useful for many of our transcription-focused customers - read on to see if it’s right for you. When we looked at the options for building a Windows app, we decided that, rather than build an entirely separate app, we’d take the opportunity to rebuild Descript from scratch using modern cross-platform technologies.Īs of a month ago, that rewrite is in the wild as Descript for Windows. While it means we haven’t shipped as many Mac updates as usual lately, not to worry, fellow Mac users - this effort will benefit you as well.Ī lot has changed in the tech world since we started building Descript Mac over three years ago. So since March, we’ve allocated most of our engineering resources to building Descript for Windows.
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They’re working on a full browser version, which is going to be about a million times more helpful for the Windows-based newsrooms out there, aka pretty much all of them. It’s a little bit odd, and they address this in their FAQ so I don’t feel too bad, that they launched their first version as a Mac app. This Poynter article captured the sentiment pretty well: Shortly after launching Descript last December, we found ourselves overwhelmed by demand from Windows users. At the end of this article, we provide some guidance as to whether the beta is right for you.

You can try the beta today - but it doesn’t have all the features of the current Descript Mac (yet).
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TL DR version: We’re working on a complete overhaul of Descript for Mac with a bunch of really nice foundational improvements.
