FiltersUIType exact values into range filters — Every range slider in Advanced filters on Long Form, Shorts and Viral now has min and max boxes under it. Type a value like 37K, 2.5M or 45d and press Enter.
SearchDiscoveryKeyword search sticks to your keyword — Searching a word like bigfoot no longer fills the list with lookalikes of a channel that happens to carry that name. Results now match the word you typed.
Oct 11, 2026
CollabsCollab orders count videos the seller already accepted — If a seller accepts your waiting videos in YouTube Studio ahead of their turn, the order now shows them as done instead of still in line.
SearchDiscoveryPaste a channel URL into channel search — Pasting a youtube.com/channel link into Long Form or Shorts Channels search now opens that exact channel instead of loose matches. Handles and video links already worked.
Oct 10, 2026
MCPLeaner MCP results — YouTube search, channel videos and other tool results now take far fewer tokens in Claude and other apps, with nothing removed. Searches are about 44% smaller.
ThumbnailsAPIMCPDownload every thumbnail from a scrape — The scraper's Export menu has a new Thumbnails (.zip) item. The same download is on the API, and the MCP can fetch up to 20 video thumbnails in one call.
DiscoveryCustom video count on the scraper — Clicking Custom now opens a box where you type how many videos to scrape, from 1 to 100. The page also says scraping is free.
TTSAll your clones on the MiniMax engine — On the MiniMax engine, My voices now lists every one of your MiniMax clones, not just the first.
DiscoverySimilar channels live in the lists — The old Similar Channels page is retired. Paste a handle, URL or channel ID into the Long Form or Shorts Channels search, or click Find similar on any channel card.
Oct 8, 2026
CollabsTaken-back collab videos free up your weekly slot — A video you take back before the seller accepts it no longer counts toward your two-a-week buyer limit.
UISign-in no longer loops back to the login page — On some networks a successful sign-in sent you straight back to the login page. The app now reaches its API through the same address as the site, so sign-in works everywhere.
Oct 7, 2026
APIPlansAPI keys show See plans when you need a subscription — Settings > API keys now shows a See plans button up front if your account has no plan, instead of a form that fails after you fill it in.
CollabsEasier collab ordering — Listings and the buy box now show the next available collab date. You can add your video at any time and it waits in line for its turn, and the order page walks you through sending the YouTube Studio invitation link.
PlansPlan upgrades from any device — Upgrading your plan now works for current subscribers, opens checkout with your chosen plan already picked, and works on phones.
UIA new changelog page — This changelog was rebuilt in the new app design, with every release listed by month on the left.
Oct 6, 2026
TrendsUINew Cards view on Trends — Channel Trends now shows the top three channels as large cards with their best videos. Every other channel leads with its 24 hour gain and how it compares to the day before.
MCPAPIMCP and API page with docs inside the app — A new MCP/API page shows how to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps, with your keys and usage in one place. The docs now open inside the app, and you can filter your usage chart by key, endpoint, tool or app.
MobileUIAlgrow on phones and big screens — Every sidebar page now works on phones, with the sidebar in a slide-out menu. On 4K screens the pages scale up instead of leaving empty space.
StudioAIUp to 4 images at once in AI Studio — AI Studio can now make up to 4 images from one prompt. Your reference images stay attached after you press Generate.
FoldersUISaved Channels as cards — Saved Channels now uses the same cards as Long Form Channels, with recent videos and views gained since you saved each channel. The table view is still there if you prefer it.
Oct 5, 2026
MarketMarket open to everyone — You can browse the Market and Collab Market without signing in or having a plan. Subscribers still get member prices.
CollabsClearer collab listings — Collab listings now show the channel's main audience age and gender, and sellers can correct it. Scheduled and private videos are accepted and held until they go public.
Oct 4, 2026
UIA new look for the whole app — Every page in Algrow now uses one new design, with a cleaner sidebar, smoother page changes and the same cards, menus and filters everywhere. Settings, Voice Generation, Thumbnail Studio, Caption Remover and the channel pages were all rebuilt.
CollabsMarketCollab Market — You can now buy and sell collaborations between YouTube channels. Listings show channel growth and recent video views, and you can search them by topic and filter by Shorts or long form.
DiscoveryFiltersMCPAPISee who a channel collabs with — Channel cards show a Collabs chip that opens the partner channels and their latest videos. A new Collabs filter finds channels by partner count, and the API and MCP can list fast-growing collab channels and recent collabs.
DiscoveryFiltersBrowse viral videos by topic and title format — Viral Videos now has pages for each topic and title format, plus Niche and Sub-niche filters. Click a niche tag on any card to filter by it.
AnalyticsDiscoveryLatest uploads in More Stats — More Stats now shows a channel's latest videos and Shorts with outlier scores. Sort them by latest, most popular or highest outlier, and scroll through the full history.
FoldersNotificationsShared folders and notifications — Saved Channels folders can now be shared with your workspace. A new notification bell tells you when thumbnails, scrapes and other jobs finish, and you can get these alerts by email too.
Oct 2, 2026
PlansTTS30 voice clones on Professional — The Professional plan can now keep up to 30 cloned voices, up from 15.
Sep 29, 2026
APIMCPTranscripts for more videos — Transcripts now work on videos with regional English captions and on videos that only have non-English captions.
Sep 28, 2026
TTS134 more stock voices — Over a hundred more stock voices now show in the voice list, ready to use.
Sep 23, 2026
MCPAPISort a channel's videos by most popular — Getting a channel's videos now supports sorting by most popular, so you can see its biggest hits first.
Sep 22, 2026
MarketMCPAPINotes on your Market orders — You can now add a short note to each Market order so similar orders are easy to tell apart. Search matches notes too, and you can read your orders from the API and MCP.
Sep 19, 2026
MCPAPIDiscoverySubjects and title formats for any channel — Enter a channel and get the subjects and title formats that work for its closest peers, minus what it already made. Available in the API and MCP.
Sep 6, 2026
TTSStudioSave your favorite voices — TTS Studio has a new My voices list. Save a voice with its settings under your own name, then apply, rename or delete it in one click.
Sep 5, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioShorts thumbnails in Thumbnail Studio — Thumbnail Studio now makes vertical 9:16 thumbnails for Shorts. Switch to Shorts mode and references, channel style and the final design all follow the vertical frame.
APIMCPDownload TikTok and Instagram videos — The video download tool now accepts TikTok and Instagram links, not just YouTube. Vertical videos keep their portrait format.
Sep 2, 2026
APIMCPFiltersFaceless filter in the API and MCP — Long-form channel search and channel trends now accept a faceless yes or no filter through the API and the MCP search tool, the same filter the long-form page already had.
Aug 29, 2026
PlansStudioBuy any amount of credits — Pick a custom credit amount with a slider under the credit packs, from 150 up to 6,000 credits. It works in the top-up window, the video studio and billing settings.
Aug 27, 2026
TrendsSee what trending channels sell — Cards on Channel Trends now show what each channel sells. Each chip names the product, shows the price when known, and links to where it is sold.
Aug 23, 2026
FiltersSearchWider ranges on long-form filters — The subscriber, total views, uploads, channel age and date-added sliders now reach the largest and oldest channels in the database. Leave a slider at its max to set no upper limit.
Aug 20, 2026
FoldersNo limit on folder size — Folders no longer stop at 100 channels. Save and move as many channels into one folder as you like, from the app or through MCP.
APICheck your credit balance from the API — A new credits endpoint returns your studio credit balance and your remaining TTS characters, so scripts can check before they spend.
Aug 15, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioMCPAPIThumbnail history everywhere — Every thumbnail you make in the Studio, MCP or API now goes into one shared history. Open it from the Studio header and reuse any past thumbnail as a style reference.
Aug 14, 2026
DiscoveryFiltersSee a channel's CMS network — On Pro and Ultimate plans, Long Form channel cards show the CMS network that manages the channel. Click the badge to see every channel in that network.
FiltersUISimpler Advanced Filters — The Advanced Filters panel is now one scrolling list with four plain sections: Channel, Views, Money and Videos. Each filter says why you would use it.
Aug 13, 2026
TrendsFiltersFull advanced filters on Trends — The Trends page now has the same advanced filters as Long Form channels, including total views, recent view gains, monetized, faceless, outlier score and category exclusions. The filters are grouped in clear sections with simple toggles.
Aug 8, 2026
PlansStudioAPIImage generation on Starter — Starter plan users can now generate images in the Studio, the API and MCP. Before this, it needed a Pro or Ultimate plan.
Aug 7, 2026
APIMCPNew docs hub — Algrow docs now live at /docs with a page per topic, full-text search and a dark theme. A new MCP-first quick start makes it easier to connect Algrow to Claude or ChatGPT.
Aug 6, 2026
MarketUIMarket in the menu, easier order history — Market now has its own place in the sidebar. Your orders page shows what each order delivered, and you can search and filter your orders once you have more than a few.
Jul 29, 2026
TTSName and rename your audio — Give each audio a name before you generate it, or rename it later. The download uses that name.
Jul 23, 2026
TTSPlayback speed on audio — Play your generated audio at 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x or 2x. The speed you pick applies to every player.
Jul 22, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioChannel presets in the thumbnail Studio — Save a channel preset with its face, instructions and style, then reuse it for every new thumbnail. The Studio now walks you through each step in order.
MCPBetter MCP results in code editors — When you use Algrow from Claude Code or another code editor, results now come back as clear text instead of a widget the editor cannot show.
Jul 21, 2026
PlansPricing page open to everyone — You can now see all plans and prices on the pricing page without logging in.
Jul 16, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioPick any thumbnail as your channel style — Browse a channel's full thumbnail catalogue with outlier scores and click the one to use as your style reference. You can also save channel styles and load them again in one click.
Jul 15, 2026
DiscoveryFiltersSort long form channels by outliers — Sort long form channels by recent outlier videos. Cards show a badge with the outlier count, and the video strip leads with the biggest outlier.
Jul 9, 2026
DiscoveryUIOutlier badges on Shorts channel cards — The video strip on each Shorts channel card now shows recent outliers first. Each outlier has a badge with how many times it beat the channel average.
Jul 7, 2026
FiltersDiscoveryFaceless filter on long form channels — Filter long form channels by faceless or on-camera. Pick one in the new dropdown to see only that kind of channel.
Jul 5, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioUIMCPRedesigned Thumbnail Studio with one-click Generate — The Thumbnail Studio has a cleaner step-by-step layout and a fast mode toggle. Generate now builds the prompt for you, so one click takes you from title and reference to a finished thumbnail.
Jul 4, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioMCPEdit a finished thumbnail — Describe a change in plain words and Algrow edits your finished thumbnail without starting over. Every edit is saved as a new version, so you can go back to any earlier one. This works on the web and in Claude and ChatGPT.
Jul 3, 2026
FiltersDiscoveryHide categories in long-form channel search — Gaming and challenge channels are now hidden from the default long-form feed. You can hide or show any category from the category dropdown.
Jul 1, 2026
StudioChoose how a reference image is used — When you attach a reference in the image creator, pick Match style, Use subject or Edit image. A short line under the toolbar explains what each choice does.
TTSBulk voiceover downloads in order — Downloading several voiceovers at once now numbers each file in the order it was generated, so your clips are easy to find and line up.
Jun 25, 2026
ThumbnailsStudioUse your own face in thumbnails — When a reference thumbnail has a person in it, the Studio now offers to use your own photo instead. Upload a face and the thumbnail is drawn with that person.
Jun 21, 2026
StudioEasier reference images in the image creator — Paste images with Ctrl+V or drag them onto the prompt bar to add them as references. Hover a reference to see it larger, and every attached image is now used, not just the first.
ThumbnailsStudioChannel style thumbnails in the Studio — The Thumbnail Studio has a new Channel style tab that builds a thumbnail in the look of any channel you pick. Your work is saved per title, so coming back to a title restores it.
Jun 10, 2026
ThumbnailsMCPUp to three thumbnail variants at once — Thumbnail generation in Claude and ChatGPT can now make up to three versions in one go. They show side by side so you can compare A, B and C.
TTSAPIMCPStealth 2.0 voice model — Turn on Stealth 2.0, our newest voice model with richer expression and better quality in other languages, in the Studio, the API (stealth_model=2.0) and MCP. It bills 2x characters against your Stealth balance.
May 17, 2026
MCPPlansMCP in onboarding — New users get a featured Algrow MCP tile on the dashboard, a setup checklist item, and land on the MCP page after picking a plan.
May 16, 2026
MCPThumbnails in MCP results — New get_video_thumbnail tool, thumbnails included in scrape results, and viral-video search renders as a visual grid in Claude.
May 15, 2026
TTSAuto-generated SRT captions — Long TTS jobs now come with auto-generated SRT caption files.
May 13, 2026
SearchFiltersBetter longform search results — Longform channel search now filters out low-quality format categories.
May 9, 2026
TTSLong scripts on every voice — Long-form TTS scripts now work on every voice model, not just a select few.
APIFirst upload date in folders API — The folders endpoint now includes each channel's first upload date.
May 8, 2026
APISettingsUp to 10 active API keys — You can keep up to 10 API keys active at once instead of just a few.
May 7, 2026
UIAnalyticsRicher Videos & Shorts on channel pages — Channel pages now show accurate upload dates, exact view counts, and full metadata for every video and short.
May 5, 2026
Discord/issue Discord command — Support can file GitHub issues straight from a Discord channel with the new /issue command.
DiscoveryFiltersCleaner shorts discovery — Shorts discovery now defaults to channels with 2K+ subscribers so you start with less noise.
May 4, 2026
TTSStudioFaster voice picker — The voice picker now opens instantly and previews play right away.
StudioRefunds when a video fails — If a video generation fails you get your credits back automatically.
May 2, 2026
MCPAIAnalyze TikTok and Instagram videos — Drop a TikTok or Instagram link into Claude and get the same breakdown as YouTube.
Apr 30, 2026
TTSStudioClone your own voice for TTS — Upload 30 seconds of audio and use your own voice for any TTS generation.
StudioGeneration history shows the right time — Timestamps were an hour off. They now match your local time.
Apr 29, 2026
SettingsSign out of every device — One click to sign out everywhere from Settings. Also runs automatically when you change your password.
TTSVoice previews actually play — Click any voice in the picker and you hear it right away.
TTSLive character-count hint on TTS — An inline hint tells you exactly how many more characters you need to hit the minimum.
Apr 27, 2026
TrendsTrending scoped to your folders — Filter the trending page to only the channels you've saved, and your filters now stick when you click into a channel.
DiscordLink your Discord account — Connect Discord in Settings and your subscriber roles sync automatically.
UIDedicated changelog page — Browse everything that's shipped on a standalone /changelog page.
Apr 25, 2026
MCPAIDrop a YouTube link in Claude and get the video analyzed — Paste any URL and Claude pulls back a full breakdown (hook, pacing, why it works) using the new analyze_video MCP tool. Useful for studying competitor videos without watching them.
Apr 23, 2026
MCPSee thumbnails when you search inside Claude — Channel and video search results now render as a real visual grid in Claude instead of plain text rows, so you can scan thumbnails the way you would on the Algrow site.
Apr 20, 2026
DiscoveryFilter longform channels by outlier score and upload age — Find channels that just had a breakout video, or filter to channels still actively uploading. Two new sliders on the longform discovery page.
Apr 19, 2026
MCPTrendsAsk Claude what's trending in your niche — New channel_trends MCP tool lets you say "show me trending faceless finance channels this week" and get answers without leaving Claude.
StudioPrompt generator now saves your projects — Close the tab and your work-in-progress is still there next time you open it.
Apr 18, 2026
DiscoverySmaller shorts channels now show up in search — Removed the 2,000-subscriber floor, so you can find emerging channels before they blow up.
Apr 15, 2026
MCPAPIPull any channel's data straight from Claude — Ask for a channel's about page, recent videos, shorts, playlists, or daily growth and get it in one message. Useful for one-off competitor lookups.
MCPAPISearch YouTube broadly through Claude — The new search tool lets you do open-ended YouTube queries (not just Algrow's database) right inside the chat.
Apr 14, 2026
DiscoverySearch viral videos by outlier score alone — No keyword needed. Just sort by outlier and see what's blowing up across the database right now.
Apr 13, 2026
MCPAIConnect Algrow to Claude & ChatGPT — Use Algrow directly inside Claude or ChatGPT. Search channels, read transcripts, generate TTS, and manage alerts without leaving your AI assistant. Set it up at /mcp.
Apr 12, 2026
AlertsGet alerted when a channel ships a video matching a title pattern — Set up a watch like "alert me when MrBeast uploads anything with 'I gave away' in the title" and you'll get a ping the morning it lands.
StudioStrip captions from TikTok and Instagram videos — Paste the URL, get the clean version back. Same flow as YouTube, no extra steps.
Apr 11, 2026
AlertsGet pinged when a saved channel has a breakout video — New alert metric watches your folders for unusually high-performing new uploads, so you don't miss the next big idea from a competitor.
Apr 10, 2026
MCPAIAlgrow now works inside ChatGPT too — Same workflow as Claude. Connect once and ask ChatGPT to find channels, pull transcripts, generate TTS, and more.
DiscoverySee outlier score on every viral video — Filter and sort the viral discovery page by outlier so you only see videos massively outperforming the channel's average.
AlertsBuild alerts with multiple conditions — Chain rules together (e.g. "subscriber count > 100K AND avg views > 50K") and alert on more channel metrics than before.
Apr 9, 2026
FoldersSave up to 100 channels per folder — Folder limit raised from 30 to 100, so you can track whole niches.
FoldersSaved channels now sort newest-first — Your latest adds are at the top instead of buried at the bottom.
Apr 8, 2026
MCPWorkspaceManage Algrow from inside Claude — Create alerts, save channels to folders, and pull folder contents without leaving the chat. Useful for "scan my finance folder and tell me which ones uploaded breakout videos overnight."
MCPOne-shot tool for overnight breakouts — find_recent_outliers returns every channel in a folder that shipped an outlier video last night.
DiscoverySearch is dramatically faster — Viral discovery queries that took 5+ seconds now feel instant.
Apr 7, 2026
DiscoveryPaste a YouTube video URL into viral discovery — Instantly see what channel it's from and what similar videos are blowing up. No need to figure out the channel name first.
Apr 5, 2026
DiscoverySmarter default filters per discovery tab — Switching between shorts and longform automatically applies the right defaults for that content type instead of carrying over irrelevant filters.
Apr 4, 2026
StudioMobileTTS works properly on your phone — The page now fits the screen, the textarea is centered, and the generate button is always visible. Was unusable on mobile before.
Apr 3, 2026
DiscoveryFind terminated channels by thumbnail — Upload a thumbnail and get back terminated channels that used similar imagery. Useful for tracking what got banned in your niche.
PlansAnnual subscribers now get monthly studio credit refresh — Credits reset every month instead of yearly, so you don't have to ration them across 12 months.
Apr 2, 2026
DiscoveryFind Similar Channels by URL — Paste a YouTube URL, @handle, or channel ID directly into the shorts or longform search bar to find similar channels instantly.
UIMobile Sidebar Fixed on iOS — The sidebar now scrolls properly on iOS, no more content cut off at the bottom or overlapping the search bar.
DiscoveryBetter Data Quality — Low-quality reposts are now filtered out more consistently from discovery results.
Apr 1, 2026
YouTube Transcript Reader — Paste a YouTube video link in Claude to get the full transcript instantly through MCP.
Better Search Results — Less irrelevant channels showing up across all search.
Cleaner Shorts Discovery — Low-quality repost channels and non-English content are now filtered out.
Clear Upgrade Prompts — Starter users can see exactly what's locked and how to upgrade.
API Credits on Settings Page — See your total API credit balance (plan + purchased) in one place.