Release notes

1.6.0 — Beta hardening

The release prepared for Play testing and TestFlight, focused on finishing complete books reliably on real phones.

New

Editable covers with first-page artwork by default, replacement artwork, crop and position controls, title, subtitle, author, optional editable footer, and matching exports. Blank Book starts without a theme footer.
Page narration timing keeps a still photo visible for the full recording instead of clipping narration to a fixed page duration.
Video trimming with a visual timeline and selectable start and end points.
Built-in story music choices alongside imported music, narration, and original video sound.
Help & diagnostics in Account shows the exact app version, build, environment, and a copyable support summary.

Changed

The page editor keeps the canvas visible while text, media, sound, and layout controls are adjusted.
Project canvas ratio and per-page layout are independent. Crop and position controls handle portrait, square, and landscape source media without silently stretching it.
AI image and video requests follow the project canvas when choosing a supported generation ratio.
AI video currently offers the remotely controlled Economy and Balanced tiers. A tier may be hidden temporarily when provider capacity changes.
iOS video export now mixes narration and music, matching Android behavior.
The supported iOS minimum is consistently iOS 15.

Safeguards made clearer

Studio Plus provides 20 credits per monthly period with a 16-credit daily creation safeguard.
Up to six creation requests may start per minute, and only one AI video runs at a time.
Provider failures, safety refusals, and empty or corrupt outputs return their reserved credits automatically.

The release that turned Doodle Dragon from a set of drawing tools into a studio for making books.

New

Projects and books replace the old Sketching, Tracing, and Imagen screens. Work is organised around a project you keep, not a tool you open.
AI page planning — turn one written idea into editable page text, layouts, and artwork suggestions, with optional matches from your existing Library.
The illustration recipe — the description and style sent for every AI image are now shown to you in editable fields before anything is generated.
Page editor with per-page layout overrides, drag-to-reorder, and confirmed page deletion that leaves the page media in Library.
AI video clips at four, six, or eight seconds, individually priced and confirmed through a remotely controlled capability catalogue.
AI narration in a choice of voices, alongside the existing recording and audio import.
Story music with a “lower music under narration” control.
Project export and import as .ddstory archives, with safe validation.
Plan and credits screen showing the remaining balance and the next reset date, with per-action costs shown before you confirm.
On-device photo editing — light, contrast, colour, warmth, and the Original, Warm, Storybook, and Clean B&W looks. Free and offline.

Changed

Repositioned for parents. AI creation belongs to an account holder aged 18 or over. The books remain for everyone.
Credits replace token quotas. Costs are shown in units you can understand, before you spend them.
Video is priced per model and duration rather than at one flat rate, so a short Economy clip is not charged like a longer Balanced one.
Failed and safety-refused generations now refund automatically.

Removed

Older releases predate the Studio rework and are not documented here. Have a question about a change? Get in touch.