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These are the canary docs, read from main: they can describe changes no release has shipped yet. Read the v1.8.66 docs.

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Every screenshot below is generated by driving a real instance with Playwright (bun run screenshots, or mise run media for these and the feature graphics with the desktop and mobile apps) against a band's drive: real, freely licensed photos, footage and music (credited in tests/e2e/fixtures/CREDITS.md), a song in three takes, a document, a sheet and a deck written through the API, and one file of every other kind — a PDF, some code, a 3D model and an archive. There is no demo instance to keep alive, and no hand-retouched marketing shot: if a screen stops rendering, the run fails rather than publishing it.

Each pair is light and dark. Appearance is a per-account setting, so both are the real thing.

#The drive

The grid view, with thumbnails — photos, video frames, the first page of a PDF, document, sheet or deck, and waveforms drawn from peak data so they follow your accent colour.

The drive in grid viewThe drive in grid view The drive in grid view, dark

The list view, with a track's earlier takes unfolded under it: each plays, with its own waveform, from the same row.

The drive in list viewThe drive in list view The drive in list view, dark

A folder, a category (Music, Documents, Images, …) or your starred items can run to tens of thousands of files (a Reaper project's media folder, say), so each loads a page at a time instead of the whole thing at once. Settings → Display has a Loading mode for it: infinite scroll keeps appending more as you scroll down, or switch to Pages for prev/next controls instead. Either way the sort order you pick there (name, size, last modified or type) is applied on the server, so a page further down the list is still in the right order.

#Previews and notes

Files open in place. Images, video, PDFs and highlighted source sit beside a notes thread; on a track or a video a note can be pinned to a moment, and clicking the timestamp moves the playhead there.

The preview dialogThe preview dialog The preview dialog, dark

#Music

Audio plays in a persistent bottom player whose progress bar is the waveform itself, filling with the accent colour as the track runs. Click anywhere on it to seek.

The music playerThe music player The music player, dark

#Documents, sheets and presentations

Word, Excel and PowerPoint files open in their editors and save as themselves. A document has the menus and the toolbar of a word processor, comments in the margin and the initials of whoever else has it open.

A Word document in the editorA Word document in the editor A Word document in the editor, dark

A sheet is a real workbook: formulas, several sheets as tabs, and references that follow rows and columns as they move.

An Excel workbook in the sheet editorAn Excel workbook in the sheet editor An Excel workbook in the sheet editor, dark

A presentation is designed on the slide itself, with shapes, pictures and freehand drawing, and starts from one of ten templates.

A presentation in the slide editorA presentation in the slide editor A presentation in the slide editor, dark

The presentation templatesThe presentation templates The presentation templates, dark

#Categories

Files sort themselves as they land — images, video, music, documents, code, archives and 3D objects — with no tagging to do.

The images categoryThe images category The images category, dark

#Recent, shared and trash

Recently modified filesRecently modified files Recently modified files, dark

Share links you ownShare links you own Share links you own, dark

The trashThe trash The trash, dark

#Notifications

Each kind of notification can reach you in the app, by email or on your phone, chosen one by one.

Notification settingsNotification settings Notification settings, dark

#Appearance

Three attributes on <html> — typeface, corners and accent — re-theme the whole app, including the aurora behind it.

Appearance settingsAppearance settings Appearance settings, dark

Storage settingsStorage settings Storage settings, dark

#Administration

Instance statistics, per-user storage, user management, and an audit log that deliberately records no file names.

The admin dashboardThe admin dashboard The admin dashboard, dark

The admin activity logThe admin activity log The admin activity log, dark

This guide lives in the project repo: edit it there, and this page follows within a day.