Release & reliability log
What we shipped, and when.
Every ReelPull release, the engine versions it carries, and what changed. Sites change their APIs without warning; this is the record of how quickly we keep up. Dates are when we shipped, not when upstream fixed it.
Licence keys from the site now activate
Fixed- Licence keys issued from reelpull.app are now accepted. Keys issued before 5 September 2026 were signed with the wrong key and could not activate — request a fresh one from the site with "Lost your key?" and paste it again.
ffmpeg rebuilt as LGPL-only; licences now inside the app
Added- Settings → Open Source shows the engines ReelPull is built on and reads the real ffmpeg configuration live.
- Licence texts now ship inside the app; source, build script and checksums are on reelpull.app/licences.
- HTTPS inside ffmpeg via Apple's Secure Transport; AV1 decoding via dav1d.
Changed- ffmpeg is now an LGPL-only build we produce ourselves from unmodified upstream source. The bundled build was a third-party one configured with GPL components ReelPull never used. Same features, a cleaner licence, and a 19 MB smaller download.
First public release
Added- First public release. Signed and notarised by Apple.
- Free tier, uncapped: 720p and audio, no watermark, no account, works offline.
- Pro: edit-ready 4K ProRes export, source-ceiling quality, three downloads at once, batch paste, auto-renewing offline licence.
How this log works
Entries come straight from the changelog in the app’s own repository, written by hand when a release ships and published with it. We check upstream yt-dlp releases against what we ship and note the date of the last check above, also by hand. When a site breaks and we fix it, the entry says how long that took, including when it was slow.
What you won’t find: uptime percentages, an SLA badge, or claims about competitors. If a statement here can’t be checked, it doesn’t go in. The engines themselves, and what we owe their authors, are on /licences.