1.12Layers, animated emoji & an honest preview
October 2026Planned as 0.05, 0.06 and 0.07, released together
- Layers timeline: every text and emoji gets its own row on one timeline. Tap a row to pick it, drag the round handles to set when it appears and disappears, drag the bar to slide it. Double-tap or long-press to open its options.
- Scrub to place: drag the time ruler (or empty space on a row) to move through the GIF, stop on the right moment and place your text there.
- One timeline at a time: switch between Video and Layers, so the preview stays big. The right one opens by itself for the tool you pick.
- Text + Emoji share one button in the tool bar.
- Animated emoji (883 of them) in GIF Taxi, with search, categories and skin tones.
- Quick text: 16 ready-made text stickers (WOW, LOL, OMG… in English and Spanish).
- Fonts: 8 new trending fonts and a font browser grouped by style that shows your own text. Star your favourites.
- My styles: save a text look (font, colours, outline, shadow, animations) and reuse it with one tap. Favourite animations are listed first.
- Delete a single text, and empty texts clean themselves up.
- Honest preview: Preview runs your frames through the real GIF encoder, so what you see is exactly what you get.
- Better quality: no more ghosting with strong compression, and plain warnings when a setting (few colours, low frame rate) will hurt the result.
- Autosave: your edit is saved as a project a moment after every change and before every export, so nothing gets lost.
- Built-in tips: a short guide pops up the first time you use emoji, text, layers, speed, crop, loop styles and the video picker. Replay them anytime from Settings.
- One-tap save: Save GIF keeps it in the app and in your phone gallery (Pictures/GIF Taxi), with Open in gallery and Share.
- Fixes: a memory problem that could close the app while exporting long GIFs with animated emoji, a crash with very short clips, smoother scrubbing, and more.
0.04Smaller GIFs
September 30, 2026
- Smaller GIFs at the same quality: new lossy packing tied to the Quality setting (about 22–28% smaller by default).
- Start with my last settings: new GIFs use the look of the last GIF you kept.
- FPS moved next to Trim; canvas sizes listed from smallest to biggest.
- Fixes: text fits narrow and tall canvases, Back closes the Export sheet, discarded text no longer comes back, clearer save buttons.
0.03Hello, GIF Taxi
September 28, 2026
- New name and look: GIF Taxi, taxi-yellow theme, sticker-style titles and an animated splash.
- Full-screen Preview at the real size, frame rate and colours, and an export preview with the exact file size.
- Emoji tool with 881 Noto emoji, search, categories and skin tones.
- Library with day folders, multi-select, a 7-day trash, and shake to clear Recent.
- Camera lens buttons (ultra-wide and tele where your phone has them).
- Privacy: raw recordings and temporary files are deleted on every start.
0.002Getting started
September 27, 2026
- Animated welcome pages and guide bubbles that show you around the app the first time.
0.001The first ride
September 27, 2026
- Our own GIF engine: smart palettes, dithering, frame-to-frame compression and a live size estimate.
- Editor with trim, speed, rotate, mirror, canvas shapes and sizes, crop with pinch and drag, Fill or Fit with a colour or blurred background.
- Animated text with In, Loop and Out effects and 14 fonts.
- Loop capture with the camera and loop styles (forward, boomerang, crossfade).
- Round, oval and rounded frames with a transparent outside for sticker GIFs.
- Export presets with a size estimate for each, and projects you can reopen and keep editing.
·Coming next
Planned
- Pick a video and choose just the part you want (in and out) before editing.
- Speed ramps: speed up and slow down smoothly inside one clip.
- Stronger text animations with an intensity control.