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