Apply your packs in one click, on desktop and phone

What's new in v1.9.133?

• Own a Companion pack? Sign in with your purchase email and its contents show up right inside the editor.
• Pack looks: under Color Correction, one click applies any cinematic or retro look to the selected clip. Looks from a pack don't count as the Pro Color Grade.
• Pack styles: in the Text panel, one click sets font, size, colour, background, shadow, animation and position on the selected caption or title.
• Pack graphics: in Stickers, one click lays a podcast or retro overlay frame over the whole video, and it keeps covering the whole video if you add clips later.
• Phone editor: your pack looks sit next to the filters, and the full grade is baked in when you export.
• Phone export now lets you choose Faster export or Best quality.
• Fixed: on a phone, exporting a single clip ignored the filter you picked. Filters and looks now apply.
• The Honest FAQ's 'Last updated' date and version now follow each release automatically, with a small 'Updated' badge on your first visit after a new release.

Getting started with packs without redoing your edit

If you have a pack but have never used it inside the editor, the easiest way to think about this update is that packs now behave like finishing tools, not setup work. You do not need to build a project around them from the start. You can rough cut first, trim your clips, place your captions, and only then try different looks, text styles, and overlay graphics on top. That makes it much faster to test a few directions without committing too early. A simple workflow is to open an existing project, select one representative clip, and try a pack look there first. If the mood feels right, apply that same look across the rest of the clips that need it. Then move to your titles and captions and click through pack styles until one matches the tone of the footage. Because these are separate parts of the edit, you can decide the visual mood, then the typography, then the frame treatment instead of changing everything at once and losing track of what improved the video.

A practical example: say you are cutting a short talking-head video with b-roll and a few on-screen captions. Start by choosing the primary camera clip and testing a cinematic or retro look under Color Correction. Once you like one, apply it to the other spoken clips so the interview sections match each other. After that, check your b-roll separately rather than assuming the same look will suit every shot. Some clips may look stronger with the pack look; others may be better left closer to neutral if they already have heavy lighting or colour in them. Next, open the Text panel and click a pack style on one caption. Since the style controls more than just the font, it is worth checking the result against both dark and bright footage before you apply it to every title. A background box or shadow that looks clean on one clip can feel too heavy on another. Finally, if you want a framed or themed finish, add a pack graphic from Stickers and scrub through the full timeline to make sure it still feels intentional during cuts, zooms, and scene changes.

The most common mistake is treating one-click packs as one-size-fits-all presets. They save time, but they still work best when you apply them selectively. If a look is making skin tones feel off, test it on a different clip before assuming the whole pack is wrong. If a text style looks cramped, the issue may be that the caption is too long for that style, not that the style itself is unusable. Shortening the caption, splitting it into two captions, or moving it to a different part of the frame can be enough. The same goes for graphics that span the whole video: because they continue covering the full project as you add clips later, it is smart to double-check intros, outros, and any section where you want a clean full-frame image. One click gets the design in place, but a quick pass through the timeline keeps it from feeling accidental.

On phone, the best approach is similar but even more important because you are often making faster decisions on a smaller screen. Try your look early enough that you can still compare it against the unstyled clip, then export a short test if you are unsure how strong the baked-in result will feel outside the editor preview. If you are choosing between Faster export and Best quality, use Faster when you want to quickly review how the look and text style play together, especially for drafts or social approvals. Use Best quality for the final export once you know the pack choices are staying. That small extra check is useful after this update because your looks and filters now carry through properly on phone exports, including single-clip exports, so what you approve in your workflow is much closer to what viewers will actually see.