How It Went

Get the beta

The release is on Google Play, the App Store and the Mac App Store. Beta builds run a little ahead of it, and anyone who wants them can have them — here is how to get each one.

Android

Android 11 or later

The stable version is already on Google Play. The beta runs alongside it, so joining is a step you have to take before Play will hand you the newer build — install from the listing without it and you will get the stable one and wonder what went wrong.

  1. Join the test with the Google account you use on your phone.
  2. Open the Play listing and install or update.
Get it on Google Play

Play takes a few minutes to start serving you the test build. If the listing still offers the stable version, leave it a while and reload — the join worked, it just has not reached your device yet.

iPhone and iPad

iOS or iPadOS 16 or later

Beta builds arrive through TestFlight, which is Apple's own app for them. It keeps the beta separate from anything else you have installed.

  1. Install TestFlight from the App Store.
  2. Open the invitation below and tap Accept, then Install.
Open the TestFlight invitation

Sixteen is TestFlight's floor rather than the app's — the release on the App Store runs on iOS 15. A beta build takes the place of the release on your phone, and installing from the App Store again puts the release back.

Mac

macOS 13 or later

The Mac version is a real Mac app rather than the phone one in a window: a ride can be dragged onto it or opened from Finder, and the film renders on your Mac and saves where you point it. It comes through the same invitation as iPhone.

  1. Install TestFlight from the Mac App Store.
  2. Open the invitation below on the Mac and click Install.
Open the TestFlight invitation

Thirteen is TestFlight's floor rather than the app's, same as on iPhone — the release on the Mac App Store runs on macOS 12. And open the link on the Mac itself: opened on a phone it offers you the iPhone build, because it is one invitation covering both.

What a beta build is like

It is the same app, built from the same commit as the release, a little ahead of it. Expect the occasional rough edge, and expect builds to arrive often. Each one stops working 90 days after it is uploaded — that is TestFlight's rule, not a trial period, and updating clears it.

Telling us what broke

Email hello.howitwent@codeux.design. On iPhone, iPad and Mac you can also take a screenshot inside TestFlight and send it straight from there, which attaches the shot and what the build was doing at the time. What we do with any of it is in the privacy policy.

The most useful report names the ride: how many days, roughly how many photos and clips, and which screen you were on. A film that came out wrong is worth more than a description of it — if you can still export it, send it.