As we kick off 2026, I wanted to take a step back and reflect on what 2025 looked like for CANVID.
We’re a small team, and last year was less about big flashy launches and more about steadily turning CANVID into a tool you can rely on day to day. Faster. More stable. Better looking. And most importantly, easier to use, even if your mic, webcam, or hardware setup isn’t exactly ideal.
If you’ve been using CANVID throughout 2025, a lot of what I’ll talk about here should feel familiar. This post is mainly about zooming out and looking at the bigger picture of what changed, what we focused on, and where things are heading next.
The core goal hasn’t changed
At its heart, CANVID is still trying to solve the same problem:
How do we let anyone create professional looking screen recordings, without forcing them to become a video editor?
That idea shaped almost every decision we made in 2025.
We want your videos to look polished by default. We want bad microphones to sound decent. We want average webcams to look acceptable. And we want all of that without overwhelming you with controls, timelines, or complexity.
Everything below ladders up to that.
Performance and stability became a big focus
One of the biggest themes throughout 2025 was performance and stability.
As CANVID grew and more people started using it for longer recordings, heavier projects, and higher resolutions, we spent a lot of time reinforcing the foundations.
Some of the less glamorous but most important work included:
- Improving export reliability across different frame rates and resolutions
- Reducing editor slowdowns on lower end hardware
- Making AI features more predictable and faster once enabled
- Fixing edge cases that only show up after hours of editing
A lot of this showed up quietly in patch notes and changelog entries, but taken together it made CANVID feel noticeably more solid by the end of the year.
If you’re curious, you can scroll back through the full release history on our changelog page.
Making AI features feel practical, not gimmicky
AI has been part of CANVID for a while now, but 2025 was really about making those features feel usable in real projects.
Instead of chasing new buzzwords, we focused on improving things that directly impact how your final video looks and sounds.
Some examples:
- Better performance and reliability for AI background removal
- Faster generation for synthetic webcam and audio retakes
- Improved handling of less-than-perfect microphones
- Smarter defaults so features “just work” when you turn them on
The goal here was simple. AI should reduce friction, not add it.
If a feature requires a perfect setup, perfect lighting, or perfect audio, then it’s not really doing its job. CANVID’s AI features are there to help compensate for imperfect recording conditions, not punish them.
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UX polish and small quality of life improvements
A lot of 2025 was spent refining the experience rather than reinventing it.
Things like:
- Clearer export and quick share flows
- Better feedback during longer processing steps
- Improved defaults so new projects look good immediately
- Small UI tweaks that remove unnecessary decisions
Individually, these changes are easy to overlook. Collectively, they make the app feel calmer and easier to work in.
This is especially important for screen recording software. Most people hit record because they want to explain something, not because they want to think about video settings.
Cloud features started to mature
CANVID isn’t just a desktop app anymore. Throughout 2025, the cloud side of the product slowly became more capable and more useful.
This included:
- Better management of uploaded videos
- Improvements to sharing links and metadata
- Laying the groundwork for more collaborative workflows
We’ve been pretty intentional about not rushing this part. Cloud features need to be reliable, predictable, and respectful of how people actually share videos with teams, clients, or audiences.
You’ll see this area continue to evolve in 2026, especially around organization, sharing, and insights.
What we’re already working on for 2026
While this post is mostly about looking back, I do want to call out a few things that are already well underway.
Clip speed controls
This has been one of the most requested features for a long time. The goal is simple. Speed things up or slow things down without making the editor feel complicated.
Full screen camera layouts
More flexibility around how your camera is used, especially for talking head or presentation style videos.
Continued cloud improvements
Better organization, sharing, and insight into how videos are being watched.
Beyond that, we’re taking a lot of direction from our public roadmap. It’s where we keep track of ideas, experiments, and feature requests, and where users can vote on what matters most.
The bigger picture
If I had to sum up 2025 in one sentence, it would be this:
We focused on making CANVID feel more dependable, more polished, and easier to trust for real work.
There’s still a lot we want to do. Transitions, title graphics, deeper cloud insights, better sharing, and more. But we’re always trying to balance new features with keeping the app approachable and fast.
If you’ve been with us throughout 2025, thank you. Your feedback, bug reports, and feature requests genuinely shape what we build next.
And if you’re just getting started, this is a great time to jump in.
Here’s to an exciting 2026!
Gareth
Head of Product, CANVID
