Free tier expanded to 20 tools (was 12)
AetherCut v1.9.106 shipped on with 4 updates to the private, browser-based video editor. Everything here is already included in the latest version. AetherCut edits on your own device, so your footage never has to be uploaded to a server.
What's new in v1.9.106
- Free tier widened from 12 → 20 tools by promoting 8 previously-Pro tools back to free: Background Removal (bgremove), Color Match (colormatch), Ken Burns (kenburns), Keyframes (keyframes), Loudness Normalize (loudnorm), Template Gallery (templates), Animated Titles (titles), Transcript Review (transcript). Two v1.9.88-promoted tools remain Pro: Multi-Resolution Preview (multires) + Performance Mode (perfmode)
- Auto-sync propagated the change everywhere at once — TOOLS_FREE: 12→20, TOOLS_PRO: 70→62, AI_FREE: 0→2 (bgremove + colormatch are AI features), AI_PRO: 35→33. Total counts (82 tools / 35 AI) unchanged
- Stale hard-coded copy fixed: PaywallPivotNotice + StrategicUpdateDialog now pull TOOLS_FREE from marketingCounts. SEO landing pages updated. Historical comments (v1.9.88 restructure rationale) left intact as design history
- Regression tests updated to lock the new counts and to explicitly verify the 8 promoted tools no longer appear in PRO_FEATURE_IDS
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