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Android 0.1.58 · Windows 0.1.35
- Snagcast is now Wuai: the same app with a new name and a new website, wuai.app. It updates in place: your settings, Library, site sign-ins and Pro stay as they were.
- On Android, copies saved to the Gallery now go to its Wuai folders; copies already in the Snagcast folders are still deleted with their Library video.
- Videos made on the free plan carry the Wuai mark and end card.
Android 0.1.57 · Windows 0.1.34
- A video’s own captions in its own language: when a site such as TED or Vimeo has captions in many languages, Wuai uses the one the video is spoken in, not the first one listed.
- Video’s captions, under Use the video’s own captions, lists all of a video’s own captions by language, so you can pick another.
- TED’s and Vimeo’s own caption line is hidden while Wuai’s captions show, so captions no longer appear twice.
Android 0.1.56 · Windows 0.1.33
- TikTok posts’ own captions are used when Use the video’s own captions is on, so lines Wuai might not hear, such as sung ones, show too.
- Windows: in a TikTok feed, moving on just as captions start no longer turns captions off for the rest of the feed. The next video gets its captions.
- Windows: a small × in the sidebar’s top right corner closes it.
- Windows: changing caption models during a video no longer makes Wuai look for the video again.
Android 0.1.55 · Windows 0.1.32
- Free translation minutes are spent only on lines that were actually translated.
- Captions no longer show a replay button.
- Android: turning captions off and on again for the same TikTok or Douyin post shows the captions already made.
- Android: a video closed during its intro music is no longer captioned in the wrong language when you open it again.
- Android: two different videos at the same address are saved as two videos.
- Windows: in a feed such as TikTok’s For You, captions never show another video’s lines, even after you swipe or turn captions off and on. Save, Save on Play and Save audio take the post on screen, named by it.
- Windows: captions no longer stop partway when a video’s stream is cut short, and some sites’ videos that wouldn’t caption or save now do.
- Windows: ads and pop-unders can no longer replace the page you’re on or open tabs.
- Windows: Save checks for free space before each step and says how much more it needs.
- Windows: a plain HTTP page is marked Not secure, and a page that doesn’t load offers Try again, Search instead or Edit address where they help. Buttons, menus and fields have clearer edges.
- Windows: Post later is gone. A post goes out when you press Post.
Android 0.1.54 · Windows 0.1.31
- Wait for captions pauses the video until its captions are ready, and after Play now it waits again once they catch up. Captions stay on screen while the video is paused or waiting.
- A page that stopped loads again by itself, such as after Android closed it to free memory while Wuai was in the background.
- Menus and pop-outs close when you click or tap anywhere else.
- TikTok: Save offers the post on screen, named by its caption. On Android, the For You feed keeps loading more videos.
- A video saved with captions drawn in, and a Screen Capture recording, no longer show the caption’s replay button.
- Windows: Save offers a choice only when several videos are on screen.
- Windows: ads are blocked in every tab, and the first tab can be closed.
- Windows: TikTok’s longer videos are captioned, each video in a feed gets its own captions, and turning captions on again shows the ones already made.
- Windows: a website’s own Copy button works, such as TikTok’s Share › Copy.
- Windows: choosing a Pro model without Wuai Pro offers Get Pro.
Android 0.1.53
- Save the video on screen: Save offers a choice only when multiple videos are visible; videos elsewhere on a page or feed are left out.
Android 0.1.52 · Windows 0.1.30
- Caption settings in one place: one panel on Windows and one sheet on Android, with each model chosen where you set it. A model is downloaded before it’s used, and captions can be set up while they’re off.
- Pause captioning: on Windows, the round button at the end of Captions pauses making captions and resumes it. Save with captions resumes it by itself.
- Captions show both languages by default: the language spoken and its translation. Spoken says “Auto-detect (English)” for the language it heard.
- Free minutes you can see: how much free translation is left shows before and while it’s used.
- Always on captions every video as it plays, a muted one that started by itself too.
- Ad blocking at uBlock Origin’s level: the same filter lists decide, and a YouTube player in a page is found again once its ad is over.
- Website videos may start by themselves muted, as in a browser. Save on Play keeps a muted play with its sound.
- BBC’s video cards and ESPN’s highlights open and play at once.
- Screen Capture on Windows and on Wuai’s Android app (it was Mac and Google Play only): it records what Wuai shows with the sound it plays. A recording in which no sound was heard says so.
- Windows: real full screen. The picture fills the screen with nothing framing it. Move the mouse to the top for View, Captions and Screen Capture’s Start and Stop, also over a website’s own full screen; the playback bar ends with the way out.
- Windows: a new start screen, Go to with a box to find a site, tabs in the toolbar, a progress bar for what’s running, and a note with Show file and Play when a file is saved.
- Windows: the Library opens files with Open, its ⋯ menu has Clip and Save audio (MP3), and captioned files are marked. Settings are simpler, and what can’t be undone asks first.
- Windows: Clip has Now beside Start and End; Picture-in-picture is in the player’s ⋯ menu. Tooltips name each button’s key.
- Android: a new clip editor, one Save that says what it will save, and the video dot redrawn: CC in a box with a download sign in its corner.
- Android: a page that doesn’t load says what to do; a site that only works without HTTPS opens, marked Not secure; Delete, Clear and Remove ask first; a saved video says ✓ Saved.
Android 0.1.51 · Windows 0.1.29
- Translate in one tap: while translation is off, Translate into (your device’s language) turns it on. One question names the model and what it downloads.
- Replay a caption: the replay button beside a caption plays that line again, handy when you’re learning a language.
- Crop a video: Crop, in the Library, saves the part of the picture you frame as a new video: any shape, or 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or the video’s own. The original stays as it was.
- Plus and Pro speed, in caption settings, slows Plus and Pro down to spare your processor. They still keep ahead of the video, and work at full speed where no captions are ready yet.
- A video saved with captions drawn in is named for them, such as “Home · Japanese · Plus · Core translation”.
- Free translation starts with one question: the first time you turn translation on without Pro, Wuai asks before it starts your free minutes. The minutes used are kept with wuai.app, so they carry over if you install Wuai again.
- Wuai no longer checks for updates by itself. Choose Check for updates in Settings › About Wuai.
- Save no longer offers Record as it plays.
- Wuai tells wuai.app once that it’s installed, after each install or update: the app, its version and its install ID (see Privacy).
- Android: the video bar stays out of the way until you tap the video dot, which shows while a video is on screen. The toolbar’s ▾ holds your sites and recent pages, the Library, your tabs and New tab.
- Android: Save with captions keeps one video with its captions drawn in, not the video and a captioned copy. Where a video can’t be saved, Share offers the page’s link.
- Windows: speech, and Plus and Pro translation, try your graphics card once and keep using it only where it gives the same result faster. If it fails, they go back to the processor.
Android 0.1.50 · Windows 0.1.28
- You choose the translation model: Flash, Core or Plus (and Pro on Windows) in Translation model. Wuai no longer picks one for you, and translates nothing until you do.
- Model downloads start right away and show their progress until the model is ready. Cancel stops the download.
- A translation model that stops answering is asked again with more time, then Wuai moves on to another installed model, or shows those lines untranslated, without asking you.
- Settings ends with About Wuai: its version, updates, and credits for the models and engines it uses.
- ALL IN (allin.taipei) articles no longer hide behind the site’s pop-up.
Android 0.1.49 · Windows 0.1.27
- Wait for captions is on from the start: a video waits for its captions instead of playing on without them. Turn it off in caption settings, and it stays off.
- Plus and Pro translation keep every line they translate. When the model trips on a line, only the missing lines are tried again, and the rest of the video’s translation is kept.
- Translation model shows each model by name. How much a model downloads is shown when Wuai asks to download it.
- Chinese captions stay in one script: Simplified or Traditional, as chosen in Spoken language, or else the one heard first. Before, a video’s captions could switch between the two.
- Android: Wuai keeps the speech model you chose when it starts again, instead of going back to Core.
- Android: the Plus speech model no longer drops sentences that come after a pause, and closing a video while Plus translates no longer closes Wuai. Plus translation is quicker and no longer stops on captions with speaker marks (>>).
- Android: captions for a long video start once its first 5 minutes of sound are read, not the whole file. On phones with less than 8 GB of memory, the Pro speech model makes the captions of saved videos, and Plus makes them while you watch.
- Windows: the latest Chromium security fixes.
Android 0.1.48 · Windows 0.1.26
- Models are named by tier: Flash, Core, Plus and Pro. The speech models Lite and Standard are now Core and Plus. Speech model and Translation model show how much each model downloads.
- A new Flash speech model on Windows and Android: quick captions for Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese, a 228 MB download.
- Plus translation is new: one 1.2 GB model for 89 languages, on Windows and on Android phones with 8 GB of memory or more. It translates on your device and uses the free minutes like the other models.
- Pro translation on Windows is more accurate: a new 5.4 GB model replaces the old one, and the old one’s files go once it’s here. The line under the list says Pro needs 16 GB of memory.
- Windows: Core translation now uses the same models as Android, about 31 MB for each language. Settings › Models can remove the old Core files.
- Translate captions into up to 95 languages on Windows and 91 on Android.
- Windows also gets the improvements Android had in 0.1.46 and 0.1.47: captions in the video’s own language are free with no limit, Pro comes back by itself after a reinstall, captions keep every word, and long speech is cut every 16 seconds rather than 8. Cantonese speech gets captions with the Pro speech model, and captions start on Plus where the computer is fast enough. Uninstalling Wuai tells wuai.app that copy is gone, sending only its install id.
Android 0.1.47
- Captions keep every word: when someone talked without a pause, some words could go missing or show up late. They now show on time.
- Fewer broken sentences: long speech without a pause is captioned in pieces of about 16 seconds, not 8, so fewer words and sentences are cut in two.
- Choosing a speech model that isn’t on your phone pauses the video, asks to download it, and starts the download right away.
- Opening caption settings pauses the video. Closing them plays it again.
- Captions use a video’s own subtitles on more sites.
Android 0.1.46
- Captions in the video’s own language are free, with no limit: the Standard speech model no longer counts free minutes. Translation keeps its 30 free minutes, and the Pro speech model comes with Wuai Pro.
- Pro bought in Wuai comes back by itself when you install Wuai again on the same phone or computer. There’s no key to type and nothing to pay twice.
- Android: captions keep a minute ahead of more sites’ videos. Choosing Not now for a translation model’s download turns translation off. A feed such as TikTok’s no longer asks with every video, so swiping works again.
Android 0.1.45 · Windows 0.1.24
- CC turns captions on at once, with the caption settings you chose before. The settings open by themselves only the first time; press CC again while captions are on to see them.
- When your 30 free minutes of Standard or of translation run out, Wuai asks: get Wuai Pro, or continue with Lite (or without translation).
- Captions are ready sooner when people speak without a pause.
- Android: captions keep further ahead of streamed videos such as X’s, and a video waiting for its captions no longer stops at the end of what has loaded.
Android 0.1.44
- Save with captions, drawn in or not: turn off Draw into saved video to keep the video as it is and save its captions as .srt files.
- Every video saved with captions gets an .srt for each language, beside it in Movies › Wuai, where Files shows it and players such as VLC load it with the video.
- Playing a saved video, CC › Video’s captions lets you choose which .srt to show.
Android 0.1.43 · Windows 0.1.23
- Each translation model has its own languages: Translate to lists the ones the model you chose translates well. Windows: 93 with Pro, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Welsh and Irish among the new ones, and 71 with Lite. Android: 60 with ML Kit and 58 with Firefox Translations.
- Cantonese captions are translated as Chinese, in Traditional characters.
- Spoken language lists every language Wuai hears, 100 in all.
- The screen stays on while a video waits for its captions.
Android 0.1.42 · Windows 0.1.22
- Translate captions into 49 languages, up from 20: Bengali, Urdu, Persian, Marathi, Tamil, Malay, Tagalog, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Norwegian, Croatian, Catalan, Albanian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Galician, Afrikaans and Icelandic are new.
- Wuai Pro lists the languages it translates into, A to Z.
- Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Urdu captions end on their left, punctuation included, over the video and in saved copies.
- An update's notice shows once and can be closed; Settings still offers the update.
- Windows: translated captions no longer repeat a phrase over and over, and the start screen shows the sites you visited last.
- Android: the start page shows the Wuai icon beside its name.
Android 0.1.41 · Windows 0.1.21
- Try before you buy: every device gets 30 free minutes of the Standard speech model and 30 of translated captions, in place of the 7-day trial.
- Buy Wuai Pro inside Wuai: Stripe's checkout opens over the app and Pro turns on by itself. Windows can also pay in your browser, with Google Pay; Android's checkout is Chrome's own page.
- Pay in your own currency, and in your country's way where Stripe offers it, such as Kakao Pay, Pix or UPI.
- Settings shows your Wuai Pro license ID, and Get Wuai Pro turns Pro bought on this device before back on without paying again.
- A post of photos alone no longer offers CC, and on a page of many videos Save takes the one playing.
- Vimeo, Dailymotion, Bilibili and Twitch clips save better, and Vimeo, Internet Archive and Wikimedia saves get cleaner names.
- Windows: remove an address from the recent list, recent files say when they're missing, and captions work on streams that can't skip ahead.
- Android: deleting from the Library removes the copy in your Gallery too, and pages no longer reload over and over.
Android 0.1.40 · Windows 0.1.20
- Windows on Arm: Wuai runs natively, with its own installer.
- Save on a page with several videos lists them on Windows, as on Android: tick one or several.
- Android: Save ▾ › Record as it plays records a clip of a player Wuai can't fetch, with its sound.
- Android: share videos, photos and sounds to Wuai from other apps, and they go into the Library.
- Saving a clip of a part already in the Library asks first: replace it, keep both, or cancel.
- Captions: a translation language that is the one spoken shows the spoken line; a site's own captions follow the spoken language; a thumbnail's hover preview is never captioned.
- Windows: Share… opens Windows' Share window, Open with lists Wuai, and AMD and Qualcomm PCs draw captions in with their own hardware.
- Windows: a save that won't fit says how much more space it needs before it downloads, and after a crash Wuai offers to send a report.
- Android: clip sounds and WebM or MKV videos, the Library reopens a video where you left it, Douyin saves, Export .srt saves a .vtt too, and a link opened while Wuai starts is no longer lost.
Android 0.1.39 · Windows 0.1.19
- Saves are named by the video's title, and a video saved before says Already saved, with Save again.
- YouTube saves are much faster on Android, and YouTube no longer breaks over its ad-blocker message.
- CC › On is for the video on screen; Always on is for every video.
- Save takes the page's largest file, up to Quality; a page lists each video once, with its length.
- Floating ads go without hiding the site's own menus or videos.
- Windows: Ctrl+S saves, Twitch clips save, and Export .srt makes one file per language.
- Android: BBC videos play and save, and Back on the Library goes to Browse.
Android 0.1.38 · Windows 0.1.18
- Captions made once are ready wherever you watch that video again, and Save with captions keeps them beside the saved video.
- Captions are kept as they are made, in .srt files named by the speech model that made them.
- Caption size: Small, Medium or Large, on every platform.
- Shorter messages: each says what went wrong and one way to fix it.
- Phone: Recent sits above the site tiles on the start page.
- Phone: a finished save shows once in the Library, with a green dot until you have seen it.
- Windows: Post suggests a title that follows the video.
- Translation fixes, Traditional Chinese on Android among them.
Android 0.1.37 · Windows 0.1.17
- Try Wuai Pro free for 7 days, in the app, with no card.
- Saves go on from where they stopped.
- CC is Off, On or Always on, on every platform.
- Captions for a player inside a frame, on every platform.
- A speech model not installed yet: Wuai pauses the video, asks, installs it, then plays on.
- Windows: picture-in-picture, and the Library's Rename, Delete, Try again and Report a problem.
- Phone: tabs, Save as…, Quality, Save photos, and keyboard shortcuts.
- Android: captions translate with Firefox Translations where Google's cannot.
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