What's New in Reel Brand 2.0: Our Biggest Update Yet
We've been heads-down building for a few weeks, and today it finally ships: Reel Brand 2.0 is live on iOS and Mac, and it's the biggest update we've shipped for the app.
This isn't a version bump for the sake of a bigger number. Reel Brand started as a simple way to slap your logo on a video and export it fast — and it still does that. But the update adds a handful of features people have been asking for since the early days: stitching clips together, auto-splitting long videos into shorts, exporting in real 4K, and keeping your brand icons in sync across devices.
Here's everything that's new, and why we built it.
Stitch multiple clips into one branded video
This is the feature we're most excited about. Until now, Reel Brand worked on one video at a time — brand it, export it, done. That's fine for a single reel, but a lot of you are building videos from several clips: a few takes, some B-roll, a closing shot.
Now you can pick multiple clips and merge them into a single branded export, complete with cinematic transitions between each one. Your logo stays consistently placed across the whole thing, so the final video looks like one continuous piece rather than clips awkwardly glued together.
It's a small workflow change that removes a whole separate app from a lot of people's process.
Split for Shorts, now fully automated
We added manual video splitting a couple of updates ago, and it turned out to be one of the most-used features in the app. In 2.0, we've made it smarter: Split for Shorts now automatically segments a longer video into short-form clips for you, instead of you eyeballing the cut points yourself.
Feed it one long video, and you get a set of properly branded, short-ready clips on the other end — built for how people actually post to Reels, TikTok, and Shorts these days.
Real 4K export, and a faster 1080p option
Export quality has always had a few presets in Reel Brand, but 2.0 adds proper 4K UHD export for anyone who needs full-resolution output for a client, a portfolio, or a bigger screen.
If you don't need 4K, there's also a new Balanced 1080p preset built for high-efficiency encoding — great when you want a solid-looking export without waiting around for it. Both presets ride on an updated Metal GPU rendering pipeline, so batch exports are noticeably quicker across the board, and we trimmed the memory footprint during 4K processing so bigger jobs don't bog down your device.
Your brand icons, synced everywhere
If you use Reel Brand on both iPhone and Mac, this one's for you: custom brand icons now sync automatically through iCloud. Add a logo on your Mac, and it's ready to use on your iPhone a moment later, no exporting and re-importing required.
It sounds small, but if you manage more than one brand or client logo, not having to re-upload the same icon on every device adds up fast.
Introducing ReelBrand Pro Lifetime
Alongside all these new tools, we're introducing ReelBrand Pro Lifetime. It's a one-time purchase that unlocks 4K/1080p export, Split for Shorts, multi-clip concatenation, and iCloud icon sync — the heavier features that took the most work to build and that we want to keep investing in long-term.
The core app — icon placement, exporting a single branded video — stays exactly as accessible as it's always been. Pro Lifetime is there for the people who want the full toolkit, once, without a subscription.
What this means if you already use Reel Brand
Nothing changes about the workflow you already know. Open the app, pick your icon, place it, export — that part hasn't moved. The new features sit alongside it, ready when you need them.
Update to 2.0 on iOS or Mac, and you'll see the new tools right where you'd expect them. As always, if something feels off or you've got a feature request, we're a message away — a lot of what shipped in 2.0 came directly from people telling us what they were missing.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Reel Brand 2.0 a free update?
- Yes. Updating to 2.0 is free on both iOS and Mac. The core app — icon placement and single-video export — stays free to use, while the new heavier tools (4K export, Split for Shorts, multi-clip merging, iCloud icon sync) are unlocked with the new ReelBrand Pro Lifetime one-time purchase.
- What is ReelBrand Pro Lifetime?
- ReelBrand Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase introduced in version 2.0 that unlocks 4K UHD and Balanced 1080p export presets, automated Split for Shorts, multi-clip video concatenation with transitions, and iCloud sync for custom brand icons.
- Can I merge multiple video clips into one branded export?
- Yes, that's new in 2.0. You can select multiple clips and merge them into a single branded video with cinematic transitions between each clip, with your logo placement staying consistent throughout.
- Does Split for Shorts work automatically now?
- Yes. In version 2.0, Split for Shorts automatically segments a longer video into short-form clips, rather than requiring you to set the cut points manually.
- Do my brand icons sync between iPhone and Mac?
- Yes, as of 2.0. Custom brand icons sync automatically through iCloud, so an icon added on one device is available on your other Reel Brand devices without re-importing it.