# ReviewDeck changelog > Five releases since July 2026. Every release, newest first. The app updates itself and shows these notes the first time you open a new version. Download (free): https://reviewdeck.app/#pricing ## 0.2.0 (coming soon) ### ReviewDeck on the Mac - **ReviewDeck now runs on the Mac.** A native app for Apple silicon Macs (M1 and later) on macOS 13 Ventura or newer, signed and notarized by Apple. - **One library, Mac and PC together.** A library on a shared drive, a NAS or a synced cloud folder opens from both at once: notes, versions and @mentions merge exactly as they do between two PCs. - **Finder and your browser know it.** Double-click a .rdeck in Finder, or open a reviewdeck:// link, and it lands in ReviewDeck. The usual Mac shortcuts work - Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+Z, Cmd+Q - and the window has the standard Mac controls. - macOS asks once for access to Documents, where reviews sent to you are kept, and to Downloads or the Desktop the first time you import a 3D file or a single image from there: ReviewDeck looks in the same folder for textures and for the rest of an image sequence. ### Admin tools for Team and Studio libraries - **Library activity, at a glance.** Admins get an Activity view in the sidebar: which reviews are waiting for feedback on their latest cut, which sends have not come back, how long reviews take to get a first note and an approval, who reviewed what this week, open versus addressed notes, and approved reviews that have gone quiet. Click any row to open the review. - **A register of what left the building.** Every send, delete, restore, status change, finalize and new version is written to the library's own register, with who and when. Admins see the latest entries in the Activity view and can export the whole register as CSV. - **Every send says who it was for and how it went out.** The Send dialog has a For field - one person per line, optional. The register keeps it with the send, along with the format and quality versions that went out, whether your notes or other reviewers' feedback went along, the password (yes or no - never the password itself), the name the reviewer saw and any watermark with its trace code. Search the register for a name, a review or a code. - **Recent sends in the Activity view.** Every send with its thumbnail, who sent it, who it was for, how it went out and whether feedback has come back since. "Sent, no return yet" now says who sent each review and to whom. - **Finalize a review.** An admin can finalize a review once it is signed off: the status freezes and no new versions can be added until an admin un-finalizes it. Notes stay open and everyone can still watch and export. - **A delete policy.** Admins choose who can move things to the trash (anyone, owners and admins, or admins only) and who can delete forever or empty the trash. Blocked actions stay visible but greyed out with the reason, so people learn the rule instead of hunting for the button. Restore is always open to everyone. - **Require a password on sends.** A library admin can make every send password-protected; the Send dialog waits for one. - **An Admin window.** Settings → Admin tools opens a window with four tabs: People (roles, who owns what, reassign a leaver's reviews), Policy, Folders and the Register. - **Hand a review to someone else.** The owner of a review can transfer it from the review header; the new owner gets Add version, Export notes and Send. An admin can take ownership, or move every review a leaver owned to someone else in one go from the Admin window. Who uploaded it is kept as history. - **Roles: admin, reviewer, observer.** An observer can watch and read every note but not leave any. Roles tidy the screen per person; they are not a lock. - **See who can write where.** The Folders tab shows, for the library and each project folder, whether you can write there and who the operating system says can, with a shortcut to the folder in Explorer where permissions are set. - **Admins are a role you set in the library.** The first admin claims the seat in Settings → Admin tools (or is whoever installs the licence); admins set roles for anyone on the People roster. These tools are cooperative by design: they shape what the app offers, and your folder permissions remain the real lock. - **The Activity view shows thumbnails**, and long lists fold to the first dozen with a Show all button. Admins choose after how many idle days an approved review counts as idle, or turn the hint off. ### Watermarks - **A copy for each person, with their name on every frame.** Tick "Watermark each copy" in the Send dialog and put who it is for in the For field - one person per line. Each person gets their own file with their name burned into every video frame and every still, whichever format you send. - **A trace code on every copy.** Each copy also carries a short code, like RD-K7Q2MX, and the library's register records it with who sent what to whom. If a frame turns up somewhere, type the code into the register's search and you have the send. - **Four layouts.** Centre (large and see-through across the middle), Tiled (repeated at an angle over the whole frame - the hardest to crop or paint out), Moving (a smaller block that jumps to a new spot every few seconds) and Corner (small and gentle). Choose the opacity, the size, the text and whether your studio logo goes on too. - **See it before it goes.** The Admin window's new Watermarks tab and the Send dialog both show the mark on a real frame from your library, drawn exactly the way it will be burned. - **Your admin sets the rules.** Watermarks can be offered, ticked by default, or required - when required, Send waits until every copy has a name. - **Watermark the library's own copies too.** Turn on "Mark new imports" and every new import and new version is stored with the mark - handy for unannounced work. Your source files are never changed. It is off unless an admin turns it on. - **The viewer's name over the player.** An admin option puts each person's own name and the date faintly over the player inside ReviewDeck, moving now and then, so a screen recording shows who made it. It works for 3D too. - Audio has no picture and a 3D model cannot carry a burned-in mark, so those go out as they are - the Send dialog says so. Watermarking re-encodes the video, so a marked send takes a little longer; a Cancel button stops it, and any copies already finished are kept. ### Small things - **Undo and redo for markup.** Ctrl+Z takes back the last shape you drew on the frame and Ctrl+Y (or Ctrl+Shift+Z) puts it back - Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z on a Mac - and there is a Redo button next to Undo. The reader and the web portal your reviewers use work the same way. Typing in the note box keeps its own undo. ### Fixes - Your notes can no longer disappear when a cloud drive or network share is slow to hand back your notes file. If a review opened before your earlier notes had synced, adding a new note used to save over them; now saving only ever removes notes you deleted, and any earlier notes it finds come back on screen. - A single file moved to the library trash now shows in the Trash view and can be restored or deleted forever; before, only folders were listed. - Holding Ctrl or Cmd with a letter no longer triggers a single-key shortcut on the review screen, in the reader or in the portal: Ctrl+C used to pick the circle tool and Ctrl+A the arrow. - Settings → Keyboard shortcuts now lists every shortcut, including the circle and text tools and setting a note's in and out points. - Settings → About & Legal now credits the 3D libraries ReviewDeck includes (three.js, three-mesh-bvh, GaussianSplats3D and fflate), and the app now carries the licence texts of two small components it was leaving out. ### Team and Studio licences - **Your name on what you send.** With a Team or Studio licence, the readers, portal pages and PDF notes you send carry your organisation's name and logo instead of the ReviewDeck badge. Studio licences leave ReviewDeck's name off entirely. - **Your logo and colours, everywhere.** Team and Studio libraries get a Branding window: choose your logo (a PNG with transparency works best), pick from starter palettes or set every colour with a live mockup of a sent review, and see the app itself wear your mark in the title bar. Settings → Branding opens it. the colours reviewers see in sent readers and on the portal, with a contrast check so notes stay readable, and an option to pin them for everyone who opens the library. Write the covering note that goes with a send in your own words, with placeholders for the studio, the review and the reviewer. - **Your studio's colours become the app for your team.** Save a brand and everyone who opens that library sees the app in those colours; their own theme returns when they leave. Start from one of the app's themes or a dark or light palette, or set every colour yourself, including the attention colour and the text. Set the studio name that goes on everything you send. If you want people to keep their own theme inside the library, tick the option in Branding and each person can choose in Settings. - **Exported PDF notes follow the brand.** The header band carries your name, logo and colours instead of ReviewDeck's. - **Reviews you receive remember who sent them.** A review adopted from a branded file shows the sender's name in its header. - **Settings has a Licence section.** It shows whether the open library is licensed, to whom and at which level, and lets you add a licence file - drag the .rdlic onto the app, pick it, or paste its text. A licence lives with the library folder (or a folder above it), so everyone who opens that library shares it with nothing to set up on their own machine. ## 0.1.4 - 15 September 2026 ### Image sequences review as video - **Drop a folder of numbered frames and review it as one video.** Render output like `shot_0001.png` to `shot_0240.png` becomes a single video review at the frame rate you choose - PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, WebP and EXR all work. Notes land on exact frames, the Fast, Normal and Quality copies are made as usual, and the frames themselves stay where they are. - **One frame is enough.** Drop or pick a single frame and ReviewDeck finds the rest of the run in its folder and offers the whole sequence - or just that image if that is what you meant. - **Missing frames hold.** A small gap in the numbering repeats the previous frame so timing and frame numbers stay true to the render; the import prompt tells you which frames were missing. - **New versions from frames.** A re-dropped sequence with the same name is offered as the next version, and the review screen's Add version accepts a frame run too, at the review's own frame rate. - **EXR shows as its sRGB view**, the same look as the viewer in your 3D app. Files saved with DWAA or DWAB compression can't be read yet - render with ZIP or PIZ. - Right-click a project or folder for **Add image sequence…** to pick a folder of frames directly. ### PDF notes export for 3D reviews - **PDF export now works for 3D reviews.** Each note's picture is the scene rendered from the reviewer's saved viewpoint, with their sketch strokes and pins in place and the animation at the note's frame. Notes without a saved viewpoint use the default framing, or the shot camera when the file has one. - **Watch the export happen.** While a PDF builds, the export window shows a progress bar with elapsed time and a running estimate, and for 3D reviews each note's frame appears in a strip as it is rendered - a long export is never a silent wait. ### Portrait and non-widescreen media look right - **Library cards take the shape of the media.** A vertical clip, a square render or a widescreen cut now gets a thumbnail at its own aspect instead of being cropped into a 16:9 box. Very tall media is capped at a portrait card, with the picture centred and its own blurred colours filling the rest. - **Hover-scrub matches.** Scrubbing a card previews the frames at their true shape - no more squashed portrait footage. - **List view** thumbnails show the whole picture, never a crop. - **Grid and list keep their own sort order.** Sorting the list by a column no longer reorders the grid, and vice versa - each view remembers its own. - **Bigger frames in the PDF notes export.** Widescreen frame grabs now sit under the note at twice their old size, so markup is actually readable; portrait and square frames keep their tall side column. Grabs are rendered at higher resolution too. - **The player sits in the app.** Space beside a portrait clip (or above a very wide one) is now the stage's own dark grey rather than hard black, so the video feels part of the window. Fullscreen stays black. ### Small things - **File dialogs open where you left off.** Import, open, save and export dialogs start in the folder you last picked from or saved to, instead of your Downloads folder. - **Updated app runtime.** ReviewDeck now runs on a current, supported release of the framework it is built on (Chromium and Node), with the latest security fixes and a faster cold start. ## 0.1.3 - 8 September 2026 ### What's new, right in the app - After an update, ReviewDeck opens a short **What's New** note the first time you launch the new version, so you see what changed without hunting for release notes. Fresh installs skip it. - **Settings > About** has a "What's new in this version" button to bring the notes back any time. ### A list view that fits your names - **Long names get the room they need.** The name column now takes whatever space the other columns leave, so even long file names read in full - and hovering shows the complete name if one still runs out of room. - **A quiet header row.** Click Name, Due or Activity to sort, and click again to flip the order. The ⋯ button (or a right-click on the header) lets you choose which columns to show - Thumbnail, Project, Owner, Status, Notes and Due - and the choice is remembered. - **Less repetition.** Inside a folder where every review belongs to the same project, the Project column steps aside; it comes back in Needs you, where it matters. On a narrow window the least important columns make way first. - Zero note counts sit back so the reviews with feedback stand out. ## 0.1.2 - 10 August 2026 ### Cinematic camera support (3D) - Reviews now support cameras shipped inside 3D files (UE CineCamera, Blender and Maya shot cameras). - A file with a camera opens **through the lens** - letterboxed, with safe-area and thirds guides - so the first thing you see is the framing the artist intended. Drag or scroll to drop into free orbit right where the lens was. - One **Camera menu** holds everything: the file's shot cameras (with the active one checked) and the view presets, side by side. Picking a preset steps out of the shot; picking a camera steps back in. - Animated camera moves play through the viewer transport - scrub, step and play the take exactly as it was authored, with the character and camera running together. - Notes capture the shot camera you were looking through, so reviewers arrive at the exact lens and framing behind each comment. ### 3D thumbnails - Library cards for animated 3D files with a camera are now a preview of the actual cut: the poster is the shot's opening frame, and hovering scrubs the take from the camera's perspective, ending where the cut ends. ### Sketching in 3D - The sketch plane now draws its contact outline on the **visible surface only** - a clean silhouette slice instead of marking every interior part. - The plane works on **Gaussian splats**: it stays visible over the cloud and shows a dotted contact band exactly where it slices the capture. - The plane's distance range now covers the whole asset - front to back and beyond - whatever the camera position. - Pen strokes in plane mode land just in front of the plane, so ink drawn at the slice sits clearly proud of the surface instead of cutting into it. ### Materials (3D) - Meshes from FBX and OBJ imports render double-sided, matching what you see in Blender and Maya viewports. - Imports coming out of game-engine pipelines get automatic cleanup of shader-mask vertex data, so models show their true materials. - When a file arrives without its textures, the review opens in a clean **clay** view - built for judging form and motion - with a matching thumbnail, and the same clay view carries through to review files sent to external reviewers. Files with complete materials open fully shaded as usual. ### Importing - Importing a file that matches an existing review now offers a choice: **Add as new version** (keeps all feedback attached to the review), **Keep both**, or **Skip**. One prompt covers a whole batch, and duplicate cards are always clearly named. ## 0.1.1 - 5 August 2026 - **Reliability and security fixes** from a full review of the app. - The website download and the in-app updater now always carry the same build, so everyone is on the latest fixes. ## 0.1.0 - 9 July 2026 ### The first release - **Review video, images, audio and 3D in one library.** Frame-accurate notes and drawn markup on every frame, and versions that keep each round's notes with the cut they were made on. - **Teams on a shared folder.** Point everyone's app at the same library on a NAS, an office share or a synced cloud folder: notes merge into one timeline, colour-coded per person, with replies and @mentions. - **Send a review to anyone.** One .rdeck file opens in any browser at portal.reviewdeck.app with no account, or send a self-contained web page. An optional password encrypts it. Reviewers' notes come back as a small file that finds its own way to the right review. - **3D review.** Meshes (glTF, GLB, FBX, OBJ and more) and Gaussian splats, with notes pinned to the model and sketches drawn on it. - **Notes into your edit.** Export notes as timeline markers for DaVinci Resolve (EDL), Final Cut Pro (FCPXML) and Premiere Pro (XML), as a CSV, or as a PDF with the frame and markup for every note.