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✨ What’s new on Netcast

Everything that’s been added lately. Want something else? Drop it in the Idea Box.

November 10, 2026

🎥 Record right in Netcast

  • Record a video now opens the camera inside Netcast, on iPads, computers and Chromebooks too, instead of sending you to Files.
  • The first time, your browser asks to use the camera and microphone: tap Allow. Then tap the red button to record, and again to stop.
  • Watch it back, then Use this video or Record again. Flip switches between the front and back camera.
  • Recordings are always HD, and anything up to 5 minutes can be posted as a Short.
November 9, 2026

📱 Shorts are here!

  • Shorts are quick videos, up to 5 minutes. Open Shorts in the menu (or the 📱 button at the bottom on phones) and swipe up for the next one.
  • Tap a Short for sound. Like it, open its comments, or share it, right from the side buttons.
  • Post your own: upload a video of 5 minutes or less and switch on Post as a Short. In Netcast Creator, the same switch is on the posting screen, and tall projects start with it on.
  • The newest Shorts also have their own row on the home page.
November 2, 2026

🔴 More people can go live

  • Going live isn't just for the admin any more. The admin can turn it on for you (or for everyone), and then a Go live button shows up on the Live page.
  • When you go live, you can tell your subscribers with a notification.
  • Streams are still watched by the whole school, the live chat is still screened, and the admin can end any stream.
October 2, 2026

📷 Profile photos

  • Put a photo on your account instead of the letter in a circle. Go to Settings, then Profile photo, and pick a picture.
  • It shows everywhere you turn up: your channel, your videos, comments, Messages, live chat and Who's on.
  • The middle of the picture is used, as a circle, and it's shrunk on your device before it's sent, so even a big phone photo is quick.
  • Changed your mind? Tap Remove and you're back to the coloured circle.
September 28, 2026

🔑 Pick your own invite codes

  • The admin can now make the invite codes anything, even a phrase, just by tapping them on the dashboard.
September 27, 2026

📺 Netcast TV and Who's on

  • Netcast TV: a channel that's always on. It plays the school's videos one after another, and everyone who turns it on is at the same moment of the same video, like real TV. Sound starts off — tap Sound on.
  • Who's on: see who else is using Netcast right now and what they're watching, and tap Watch too to join them. The little number next to it in the sidebar is how many people are on.
  • Both live in the sidebar, right under Class chat.
  • Categories are gone. Every video is just a video, so there's nothing to pick when you post.
  • For the admin: pick the invite code yourself. Admin, Overview: tap Type my own and make up any code (even a phrase), or tap Make one for me.
  • Trending this week: when two videos have the same views, the one with more likes gets the higher place. Popular works the same way.
  • Pick your own thumbnail in Netcast Creator: when you post, slide to any moment of your video or upload a picture. Already posted? Creator's home screen now has Your videos, with Change thumbnail on each one.
  • A new Netcast logo: the silver N play button, at the top of every page, in Netcast Creator, and as the app icon. Added Netcast to your Home Screen before? Remove it and add it again to get the new icon.
September 24, 2026

🎬 Netcast Creator is a real video editor now

  • Creator was rebuilt from scratch as a proper editor, like CapCut: a timeline at the bottom, the preview in the middle, tools down the left, and settings on the right. It has a blue aurora all around it.
  • It has its own address as well: netcast-creator.pages.dev, with the same account and the same videos. You can also reach it from the sidebar or your profile menu.
  • Timeline: drag clips around, drag their ends to trim, split at the playhead with S, duplicate with D, change speed from 0.25× to 4×, and layer video, text and sound on separate tracks.
  • Text and stickers: titles, captions, outlines, fonts and colours, plus an emoji sticker board. Drag any of them around right in the preview.
  • Sound: add music, record a voiceover straight into the browser, set volume, fade in and fade out.
  • Looks: filters (warm, cool, black & white, film, night and more), brightness, contrast, colour and blur sliders, start and end animations, and transitions between clips.
  • Export: Netcast records your project into one real video file, then you can post it to Netcast and save a copy on your computer. Choose 480p, 720p or 1080p.
  • Your projects save themselves as you work, and every project keeps its own picture on the Creator home screen.
September 23, 2026

⏱️ Much longer videos

  • Upload videos up to 20 GB: about 4½ hours in HD, or 50 minutes in 4K. The old limit was about 5 minutes.
  • If your phone locks or the Wi-Fi drops mid-upload, pick the same video again and tap Continue upload. It carries on from where it stopped instead of starting over.
  • The upload bar now says roughly how many minutes are left.
  • Videos have to be HD now: 4K videos won't upload. The upload page shows how to switch your phone camera to HD in 30 seconds. HD videos upload 4 times faster and look the same on phones and laptops.
  • If a video is too long, the message now tells you in minutes, not megabytes.
  • Disliking a video now also takes back your view. Take the dislike back and your view returns.
  • No more categories: every video is just in Videos. Nothing to pick when you post.
September 15, 2026

🔴 Live streaming

  • The admin can go live from the new Live page, with a camera or by sharing a screen.
  • Watch live from the home page banner or the Live page. You're a few seconds behind, like any live stream.
  • Live chat next to the video. Rule-breaking messages are blocked, and the admin can remove any message.
  • You get a notification when a live stream starts, and the recording can be posted as a video afterward.
September 15, 2026

🎬 Netcast Creator

  • Netcast Creator is your own studio, like YouTube Studio. Find it in the sidebar or your profile menu, and add it to your Home Screen as its own app.
  • Copy from Loom: paste your Loom links (one or lots at once) and Netcast downloads the videos and keeps its own copy. Loom videos already on your channel can be copied in with one click, keeping their views and comments.
  • Trim and cut: drag the yellow handles to trim the start and end, or pick any part in the middle and cut it out. Viewers skip the parts you cut.
  • Nothing is lost: your original video is kept, so you can put any part back at any time.
  • Thumbnail picker: use any frame of your video, or upload a picture.
September 15, 2026

A better player and a smarter home page

  • Resume where you left off: videos remember your spot on this device, and thumbnails show a red bar for how much you've watched.
  • Keyboard shortcuts on the player, like YouTube: Space, J/K/L, arrows, M, F, T, I, 0–9. Press ? on a video to see them all.
  • Chapters: write times in a description, one per line (0:00 Intro, 1:30 The build…), and they become clickable chapters.
  • Times in comments like 2:45 are clickable and jump the video there.
  • Theater mode, picture-in-picture (Pop out), and Autoplay next with a 6-second countdown you can cancel.
  • Share button that copies the link, or opens your phone's share sheet.
  • Home page: Continue watching, New from your subscriptions, and Trending this week rows, plus how many videos were posted since yesterday.
  • Full-screen announcements from the admin now reach phones that stay open, and have an aurora look.
September 14–15, 2026

Messages, Errors, Idea Box, announcements, iPhone

  • Messages app with your own (555) number, the class group chat, DMs and groups.
  • Errors tab: tell us what broke, by typing or with the microphone. It gets checked every 2 days.
  • Idea Box: suggest features and vote on other people's ideas.
  • Full-screen announcements from the admin that everyone has to read or watch.
  • iPhone: upload from Photos, record straight into Netcast, add it to your Home Screen, and a bottom bar for your thumb.
  • Guest mode, a new logo, and the subscribe button.