Changelog

09 September 2026

Bannerbear App

• AI credits: AI operations (background removal and generation, AI images, AI subtitles, face / subject detection) now draw on a dedicated AI credit balance, separate from API credits, with usage warnings and top-ups
• New Generate AI Image tool
• AI background generation for animation templates
• Auto Animate: generate an opening animation from a template's layout as a starting point
• Animation editor: grouped keyframe presets, draggable timeline markers and preset durations
• Blur is now animatable, and gradients are back on shapes
• Media library split into separate Images and Animations sections
• Max template size raised to 5000px
• Template layers can choose which AI model they use
• Subtitle tool: words-per-segment control, a presets picker, and background colour and opacity
• Join Videos tool: transitions between clips, joined at the first clip's size
• Workflows: named steps, sample data, an API console and a live in-progress run view
• API keys are now scoped to the workspace
• AI detection is now deterministic, and every workspace font shows in the editor
• Fixes: rating, QR, bar code, SVG shape and group layers no longer render black outside the editor; joined videos no longer read as corrupt in some players; failed tool jobs are no longer charged

Bannerbear API

• Workflows: full create, read, update and delete endpoints
• Animations: a deterministic animate endpoint, plus corrected animation template docs
• ai-prompt supported in the template builder and API for AI-generated layers
• Choose an AI model per template layer
• Workflow image steps can set their output format
• Tools: numeric inputs stay numeric, and AI background generations run concurrently

Bannerbear MCP Server

• New tools: animate a template, author workflows, create a GIF preview, and generate an AI image
• Animations are now part of the default tool set
• The server now introduces itself to newly-connected and unauthorized callers

Bannerbear Integrations

• Skip-if-populated now correctly leaves already-filled fields untouched

18 August 2026

Bannerbear App

• Animation templates: animate a single image canvas
• Workflows: chain tools, images and animations into one API endpoint
• New media tools: join multi-page PDF, subtitle video, add audio, AI voiceover, colour filters, soften video and images-to-slideshow
• Redesigned V5 dashboard with sidebar navigation
• Assets library with automatic deduplication
• API keys with scoped permissions and origin allowlists

Bannerbear API

• Media Tools: 8 async tools plus a tool_jobs endpoint
• Animations and Animation Template endpoints
• Workflows and Workflow Runs
• Assets endpoints with content-hash deduplication
• API key scoping (22+ scopes, allowed origins)
• Overlay layers gain position and margin parameters

Bannerbear MCP Server

• Tools for Workflows and animation templates
• Media tools: voiceover, subtitle, add audio, slideshow and colour filters
• Curated default tool set for lower token usage
• Tools automatically match your API key's permissions

Bannerbear Zapier

• Workflows: Run Workflow action and completion trigger
• Animations: Create Animation action and completion trigger
• New tool actions: subtitle video, voiceover, add audio, cover art, slideshow, colour filter and soften video

Bannerbear Figma Plugin

• New plugin: convert a Figma frame into a Bannerbear V5 template
• Live upload progress, and skips re-uploading stored assets
• Better text rendering for glyph overhang

Bannerbear Integrations

• Dozens of new data sources: news, market data, dev tools, CMS and social APIs
• API Playground with no-auth demo datasets
• Pagination for GraphQL and custom APIs such as Notion and Linear

31 July 2026

Bannerbear API

• Publications: browse and install from the public library

Bannerbear MCP Server

• New Bannerbear MCP server for AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT and more)
• Tools for templates, image & video generation, batches, webhooks and Instant URLs
• OAuth auth
• Local and hosted deployment options

31 May 2026

Bannerbear App

• V5 Forms: generate images from a public form
• AI background removal in the editor
• AI background generation in the editor
• Version switcher between V2 and V5

Bannerbear API

• V5 Instant URLs API (full CRUD)
• Official V5 SDKs: Ruby, Node, Python and PHP

30 April 2026

Bannerbear App

• V5 Instant URLs: generate images from a signed or open URL
• Bring your own storage with custom S3 / R2 buckets
• Publications: share templates to a public library
• Browse and clone templates from the public library
• V3 to V5 template converter
• Template thumbnails and version history

Bannerbear API

• V5 Webhooks API (full CRUD)

Bannerbear Zapier

• V5 API support: Create Image action and Image Completed trigger
• Responsive template fields

31 March 2026

Bannerbear App

• V5 Batch image generation
• Responsive templates: generate multiple sizes from one design
• Webhooks with event types and signing keys
• Redesigned V5 editor layout
• API console with usage and quota tracking
• Show / hide individual layers

Bannerbear API

• V5 API: Images, Image Templates and Batches endpoints
• AI-detect parameters (focus, anchor, on-fail)
• New hidden and proxy image parameters

28 February 2026

Bannerbear App

• V5 New Rating object type, with shadows
• V5 Barcode support and text image masks
• V5 Object anchoring and text-fit modes (auto-fit / resize / off)
• V5 Layer descriptions
• V5 PNG stroke and shadow on image containers

31 January 2026

Bannerbear App

• New V5 image editor: layers, SVG shapes, colour picker and layer locking
• AI subject detection and face detection with selectable zoom
• V5 Custom fonts and a font browser in the editor
• V5 API key management UI

24 January 2024

• API: Template Sets
• API: Video Templates
• API: Hydrate a Project
• Custom S3 Buckets now support folder name prefix
• Airtable Access Token compatibility

30 July 2023

• API: Sessions
• API: Projects
• API: Signed Bases
• Master API key feature
• DPI can be set at the Project level
• Version locking for signed and simple URLS
• Template listing now has an optional grid style view
• Optional Open AI Whisper engine for voice transcribing
• HEIC support
• Custom S3 Bucket now supports Video media

08 August 2022

• API: Added timestamp support for the Video API
• API: Rasterize PDF API
• API: Join PDF API
• API: Target template versions via API
• API: Register project webhooks via PI
• API: Added an extended JSON response for templates
• API: Screenshot API now has language attribute
• Videos: Added a Ken Burns video effect (see zoom_factor)
• Images: More layer attributes modifiable via API
• Editor: Ability to duplicate template set
• Editor: Batch template actions
• Editor: Added a truncate text option for text boxes
• Editor: Ability to add optional layer descriptions
• Integrations: update to Zapier / Integromat integrations enabling modification of all layer attributes

17 December 2021

• Official SDKs now available:
• Bannerbear Ruby
• Bannerbear Node
• Bannerbear PHP

27 September 2021

• API: can now render PDFs in addition to images

23 September 2021

• Images: can now set Custom Compression Level for JPG output
• API: can now set gradients for shape objects
• Videos: can now set a custom size and position for video container

24 August 2021

• Editor: New Uppercase, Italic options for text boxes
• Templates: View historical changes with restore feature
• Forms: Added an Embed feature to copy-paste forms to your site
• Forms: Collections (multiple images) now have a Download Zip feature
• Dashboard: New Playground tool

14 July 2021

• Editor: All new editor launched, with various updated features
• Editor: Larger canvases now possible
• Editor: Added optional AI face detect to image containers
• Editor: Added 1000+ fonts
• Dashboard: Added optional Two Factor Authentication
• API: added new /movies endpoint to join video clips together
• API: added create_gif_preview parameter to /videos
• Zapier: updated integration
• Integromat: updated integration

28 April 2021

• New API Reference site
• New Bannerbear Mini apps launched
• New sync.api.bannerbear.com endpoint for synchronous calls
• New logs viewer and diagnostic tool
• Videos: added Multi Overlay build pack
• API: added shift_x and shift_y parameters

15 March 2021

• Editor: Image containers now have a Smart Crop setting
• Video: Transcription layers can now have word highlighting
• Integromat integration launched

02 March 2021

• Videos: can now add animated layers to videos
• Videos: new blur effect
• Animated Gifs: are now better quality
• Animated Gifs: can set number of loops
• Editor: can set templates as editable by other team members
• Editor: can save without exiting editor

16 February 2021

• New Line Chart template object
• Rendering engine improvements to handle up to 100 layers

01 February 2021

• You can group layers in the template editor for ease of moving multiple objects
• Animated Gifs now have a {loop: false} flag if you want to prevent looping
• Animated Gifs now have a {frame_durations} property that allows setting frame lengths on a per-frame basis

19 January 2021

• API enhancement: Change the font_family of text boxes
• Project Advanced Settings: add webhooks to be notified of template changes
• Template Settings: add tags for organization inside your app

05 January 2021

• New Screenshots API endpoint
• New API enhancement: Change the Anchor X/Y of Image Containers

15 December 2020

• Faster image generation via signed urls and query string urls
• On-demand (synchronous) is now the default option for signed urls
• New animated gifs API endpoint

30 November 2020

• New "Query String" integration for simple on-demand image generation
• New demo tool - Github Social Preview Image Generator Tool

13 November 2020

• Signed URLs now have an "on demand" option for synchronous image generation
• Airtable integration added to Template Sets
• Sepia effect added to image container effects

27 October 2020

• Team management now features standard and extended permissions
• Extended permissions allow team members to use integrations
• New QR Code object in template editor

19 October 2020

• Textbox Secondary Style options now include font family and weight
• Video API page added to marketing site

12 October 2020

• Special effects for image containers added to editor: blur, grayscale, gameboy
• Forms integration added for Video API
• Fix for videos recorded on phones with rotation data
• Dashboard UI update
• Transparency option added to Airtable integration
• Video quota added to free trial

24 September 2020

• Video API v1 is now live
• Developer and Marketer plan limits increased

07 September 2020

• Updated Tweetagram demo to 2.0
• Added "Anchor to…" feature in Template Editor (currently only on Image objects)

01 September 2020

• Added {hide: true} property to the modifications API

31 August 2020

• Added Star Rating object in template editor
• Added Auto Fit Text setting in template editor

27 August 2020

• Added Forms integration for Template Sets
• Added more Forms settings to enable default data, dropdowns
• Added CSV data export

26 August 2020

• Added Template Set feature (one API request → multiple images)
• Added Bar Chart object in Editor
• Added Signed URL integration
• Added Crawlers integration
• Added Emoji support
• Added Secondary Text styles in Editor
• Added API Endpoint for Airtable Import
• Added text Auto Fit feature
• Added Airtable integration