• All MOTION templates now publish on the free plan, the animated pre-save ones included. No PRO badges in the gallery
• Pro still removes the Stage brandmark and adds Smart Link analytics, EPK export and full-scale Fan Email

• A daily pick notification: every morning at the hour you usually open Stage, the one move worth doing today, headed by what moved overnight. One a day at most, never at night
• Mondays bring last week in your numbers and this week's step from your own strategy
• A notification right after you turn alerts on, so you know it works on that phone
• Get the app from the bell at the top right, or from a small card that appears after you've spent a little time in Stage. It never shows if Stage is already on your Home Screen

Improved

• The alerts bell is there from your very first visit
• Morning report is now called Daily pick in your alert settings

• New members get three personal picks from the first minute: publish the Smart Link Stage built for your release, pitch an outlet that fits your sound, and the next step of your 30-day plan
• A pitch pick opens your drafted email right where it is. Send it yourself, tap I did it, and the next outlet takes its place the following day

Improved

• While Stage researches you after signup, Today says so and fills in by itself when it's done
• Setup has its own list under SETUP at the top, so Today stays about your music

• Home is three columns: You, a wide Today column with up to three moves picked from your own numbers each day, and HANI
• Every move has a clear next step, an I did it button and a streak for the days you get one done
• When your listeners have a strong month and nothing is lined up next, Stage reminds you to plan the follow-up while new listeners are still finding you
• All your tools sit in one row at the bottom of Today

Improved

• One setup list for your profile, going live and trying each tool. Steps tick themselves when Stage can see they're done
• Every similar artist on your profile opens on Spotify
• Dates and numbers on your dashboard always read the same way, whatever your browser's language

• Home opens with your latest numbers right away and refreshes them in the background, so coming back from a tool is instant
• Switching back to Stage from another app no longer reloads your dashboard
• Tools open faster: Stage gets them ready while you're on Home

Fixed

• A tool's pop-up no longer stays on screen for a second after you open the tool
• Tool and Calendar pop-ups open in the middle of the screen again

• The Artists on Stage page lists every featured artist with a short bio written by Stage

Improved

• Your Smart Link page's background now takes its colours from your card, so the whole page matches

Fixed

• The Open in app button and the pre-save sheet on Smart Links respond to taps again

• Artists with 100,000 or more monthly listeners confirm they own the profile before their Smart Link or press kit goes public. Everything can still be built in the meantime

Improved

• Your signup research also reads the platform links you add on your profile

• Press & Editorial is now three steps: your story, find outlets, and a board of every pitch you've sent, with your next step on top
• Outlet cards show country, size, last post, contact and whether they run interviews
• Every tool page follows your light or dark setting
• Larger, easier-to-read text and better contrast across the dashboard
• Emails about your traffic name the source in plain words, like Instagram
• The landing page loads much faster on phones

Fixed

• Smart Links built for you at signup now publish without an error
• On photo templates, your logo sits in the right corner of the photo
• Campaigns never hands out an ad link for a Smart Link that isn't live yet

• Soundbite Finder, a free tool at /tools/soundbite-finder: paste your lyrics and get the best part of your song for TikTok and Reels, plus video ideas and hooks to test
• HANI knows short-form content: what to post, which fan types to speak to and what to film, built from a review of 100 posts
• Campaigns shows Ad formats that work, and Make this opens the ad maker in that style

Improved

• Campaigns shows your spend, which ad version to keep, your listeners' countries and your ad text in one place
• Release Pulse uses your profile photo when your Smart Link has no cover yet

• Campaigns open on Release Pulse: the path from ad views to listens to fans, a day-by-day timeline and the moments that mattered
• A world map of where your listeners are, with cities on Pro
• Each ad version gets its own tracked link, and Stage shows which version performed best
• See how your campaign compares with others on Stage, once there are enough campaigns to compare fairly
• Share your results as a story-sized card

• Pressed: turn your tracklist into a poster, receipt, cassette or liner notes card, sized for stories and posts
• Spotify Canvas converter: check, crop and loop a video into a 9:16 Canvas, plus a cover art resizer for every major platform
• Music distributor picker: answer seven questions and get a ranked shortlist of 12 distributors with your first-year cost

Fixed

• Amuse no longer offers free distribution, and our payout table and release planner now say so

• Spotify Wrapped for Artists: the 6 November video deadline, a spec checklist, a script helper and a year card
• Pick my Friday: the release planner suggests a release day around holidays, Spotify and Apple pitch windows and your distributor's lead time
• A fee calculator in the Artificial Streaming Checker, plus guides for reporting a botted playlist and for when DistroKid removes your music
• Streams to money has pages for 1k to 10m Spotify streams and for Apple Music, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and Audiomack, with a currency switch

Improved

• The tools page is grouped by job, with a place to start and a suggested next tool under every result
• Spotify stats is now the Spotify Save Rate Calculator, with shareable result and milestone cards

• Search the help center: type a word like pre-save, refund or export and the matching answers open
• A brand page at /brand with the Stage logo files, colors and a Made with Stage badge for your own site
• Follow this changelog in any feed reader at /changelog.xml

Improved

• Links to Stage shared in WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and social apps show the current card: Paste one link. Get a page that moves.
• The cookie notice is a small card in the corner and no longer covers the page
• Every changelog entry has its own link you can copy and share

Fixed

• A Smart Link or press kit that is not live now says so plainly, with a way back to Stage and a login link for the artist
• Our 404 page speaks plain English and links to Home, Help, Changelog and Pricing

• Free tools at /tools, no account needed: AI music rules, streams to money, an artificial streams check, Spotify stats and a release planner
• The tools read in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Indonesian

• Promote a song is now Campaigns. It opens on your own numbers and the free tools first
• Email Agent is now Fan Email
• Tools are listed by how much they help, most useful first

• A new menu: every tool is in it, grouped by job (Release, Fans, Promote), with plain names and keyboard access
• New members see one prompt at a time instead of several at once
• No text smaller than 12px, clearer focus rings, and less motion if your device asks for it
• Dark mode follows your device setting; the by-time-of-day option is still in Settings
• The upgrade window shows one clear price and is easier to close

Fixed

• The profile column no longer scrolls sideways on phones
• The Start free and Upgrade to Pro buttons on the pricing page go to the right place

• Future Save: fans leave their email on a pre-release link and hear from you on release day
• Where your fans are: a card on your Smart Link stats showing the cities your visitors come from
• One-tap listen: fans jump straight to the song on their favourite platform
• Smart Links open a two-step published panel, with quick-start looks for free accounts

• Make vertical 9:16 ad videos from your own song, with nine versions side by side
• Mood clips and ready looks to start from, plus caption and hook patterns that have worked for music ads

• Meta Ads Reach: campaign links for each Smart Link, your Meta pixel, and the Conversions API, so you see which ads bring real fans
• HANI drafts a campaign plan and sends a daily and weekly brief on your ads
• The REACH tab is open on the free plan: pixels plus one campaign link per Smart Link

Fixed

• The password reset link opens Set New Password instead of the dashboard

• Two MOTION templates made for events: GIG POSTER and AFTERHOURS
• GIG POSTER prints the running order when you fill in set times
• Free shows get an Event info button instead of Tickets

• Same price, same limits, new name: built for managers and agencies who run several artists
• If you were on Label, nothing changes for you

• The MOTION templates are now part of Pro, marked PRO in the gallery
• Free accounts can still open, customise and preview every one of them; publishing a Pro template asks you to upgrade
• Lava, Gathering, Caustic and Ridgeline stay free, alongside every classic template
• Links already live on a MOTION template keep it

• Turn your MOTION page into an 8-second video sized for Instagram Stories, with your countdown and a link-in-bio prompt
• Tap a MOTION page and the background answers: ripples, scattering flocks, fireworks, sky lanterns
• Set your BPM or tap the tempo, and the background pulses on the beat
• Visitors see how many people are on the page with them, and once 25 fans have pre-saved, some pre-save pages show the count and light up as more arrive

• A seasonal pack for winter and holiday releases: Candlelight, First Snow, Midnight, Frost, and Lantern
• Five templates each for techno, hip-hop, folk, and jazz & classical, with a gallery filter for each
• Many pre-save pages change as release day gets closer, like a VHS picture that cleans up or a score that fills in

• A data study on how many music blogs are still publishing, and what that means for your press outreach

• 30 new templates with animated backgrounds, tinted from your cover art
• Pre-save pages follow your release countdown and switch to Out now after release, alongside link pages for every day
• Visitors who prefer reduced motion see a still frame

• Install Stage as an app on iPhone or Android, with steps for your browser, or scan a QR code from your computer
• On iPhone, the app opens already logged in
• Free members get 10 extra HANI credits the first time they open the app

• Your first visit each day opens a Morning Report: your listener change, yesterday's Smart Link visits, and your next listener goal
• Daily moves rotate, you can mark each one Done or Skip, and a streak counts the ones you finish
• Opt-in phone notifications and email alerts arrive only when something happened, at most one push a day, around the time you usually open Stage and never at night
• Choose what you hear about: wins, the Morning Report, or streak reminders

• New press kit templates for Rock, Indie / Alt, Pop, and Rap, plus four classic EPK layouts
• Upload your stage plot and rider as a PDF, Word file, or image, up to 20 MB

Improved

• Fill from Spotify fills any empty fields with your name, genres, listeners, player, photo, and releases

• HEADLINER, a new release-first template lit by your own cover

Improved

• Paste a Spotify, Apple Music, or Deezer link and the Smart Link builder finds the same release on the others, filling in the cover, title, and release date
• Each link row shows whether it is live or still needs a link, and you can drag rows to reorder them

Fixed

• Button Shape, Link Layout, and Show my name now work in every template

• Public press kits get a Book button, and shared links preview with your name and a Press Kit, Out Now, or Pre-Save label

Fixed

• Smart Links and EPKs no longer show example text, empty rows, or duplicate links to visitors

• Replies appear as they are written, with a note of what HANI is doing, like checking your stats or searching the web
• HANI points you to the Stage tool that fits your question and stays focused on music
• Today's Move now sits in the header, and the mobile menu has a light / dark switch

Fixed

• Fixed long answers that searched the web being cut short

• Your strategy now uses your actual top tracks and latest release from Spotify instead of guesses from the web

• Send a test to yourself before it goes out
• Every email you send now has a report with opens, clicks, and unsubscribes

Improved

• Write your email step by step, with a live preview of exactly what fans will see

• Look at all your links together or one at a time, and compare them side by side
• See which places and countries turn visitors into listeners, not just which bring the most traffic

• Playlist Fit is now included on the free plan
• You can see what each tool costs and when your credits refresh, and Pro and Label now show as unlimited under fair use

• Free members get 10 genre-matched outlets open to pitch every week
• A new Premieres tab shows outlets that premiere new music, timed to your release

Improved

• Your list now favors outlets that realistically cover artists at your stage

• A new Radio tab lists stations in your genre that accept music from artists
• Set your next release once and Outreach walks you through it, from premiere offers to release day
• Stage writes your pitch emails for you, ready to edit and send

• Blogs, interviews, and labels matched to your genre, with a fresh set of outlets to pitch
• A Today box shows your next moves: follow-ups that are due and drafts still waiting
• Search every outlet, save the ones you like, and preview each one before you write
• Mark a pitch Covered and the article goes straight into your EPK, and HANI can suggest who to pitch next

• The dashboard header and HANI's goal now track your monthly listeners, refreshed daily

• Wrongly flagged as an AI Persona on Spotify, and how to get the badge removed
• Moving distributors without losing your streams, and whether you have to declare AI on a release
• What to do when someone else's song lands on your Spotify profile

• Each month you get a Story card in your own Smart Link's colors, celebrating your milestones
• Share it to your Story in one tap, from the recap email or the dashboard

• Free plans now get the complete Artist Core

Fixed

• Artist research is more accurate and no longer mixes you up with artists who share your name

• Links saved with or without https or www now open correctly everywhere on your Smart Link

• The royalties you are owed and have never collected, and split sheets that stop a collaboration becoming a dispute
• Music promotion on $0, $100, and $1,000 a month, and when to stop or scale an ad campaign
• Apple Music for Artists vs Spotify for Artists, and what changed about AI training on your music

• PRISM leads with what is new, shows your profiles as icons, and runs your artwork edge to edge

Fixed

• Release artwork now fills its thumbnail cleanly across every template

• Text on every template is easier to read on phones, while keeping each design's own style
• On desktop, your page shows as a centered card, the layout fans already know from link pages

• Add an upcoming release date and your Smart Link runs as a countdown page until launch, on any template
• Fans who join your list now get an instant welcome email in your voice, with a one-click unsubscribe

• The cookie Accept and Decline buttons work again on public Smart Links
• Artist bios pulled from Spotify now show special characters correctly

• Tour and live templates carry an upcoming shows block: list your dates, venues, and ticket links right on the page
• A new toggle lets you show or hide your artist name on the page, so the artwork can stand on its own

Improved

• Every template now opens on the links that fit it, streaming for a release, buy links for a store, tickets for a tour

• Three new guides on the AI shift: how to get your music cited by AI chatbots, how artists actually use AI, and whether ChatGPT can promote your music

• Paste a Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, or TIDAL link and the cover art, song title, and artist fill in automatically
• Every row shows the release artwork and the platform logo, the polished look fans expect from a link page
• Event links from DICE and Eventbrite pull in the event name, date, and venue; Patreon, Substack, and your socials detect too
• For platforms we cannot read automatically, add your own artwork and details in a couple of clicks

• What Spotify really pays per stream, and how the math actually works
• How to get booked for shows, and how to build a direct fan base on Bandcamp, Patreon, or Ko-fi
• Honest comparisons of the major distributors, Discovery Mode, and how often to release

• Your listener numbers now refresh on the same daily cycle for everyone, free plans included

Fixed

• We swept out placeholder zeros: a number you see is a real number, or we tell you it is still loading

• New in-app feedback: a quick rating and a note box, so you can tell us what is working and what is not

Improved

• Your setup checklist now detects real progress and checks off each step as you finish it

• New quick controls: one accent color that syncs across the whole page, a font-style switch, and a toggle for the small action labels

Improved

• Every Smart Link template is cleaner and bolder, and now runs edge to edge and truly fullscreen on mobile
• Redesigned fan email capture on every template with a working skip, plus an opt-in call-to-action button with its own link
• The EPK templates got the same decluttering pass for a more focused, premium press kit

• Connect your streaming and social profiles in Settings to keep your public presence in sync

Improved

• Playlist Fit now runs real audio analysis for any artist, with honest loading while it works

• Fixed a bug where a published Smart Link could fail to load for signed-out fans; every public link now opens reliably
• The clickable Stage brandmark in the corner works again

• How to pitch your music to Spotify playlists, and check if your song fits before you send
• How to grow your monthly listeners the honest way, with no bots
• How to announce a tour and sell tickets using email

• A new Auto setting switches between light and dark by your local time

Improved

• One dark mode that follows you across the whole dashboard and remembers your choice
• Cleaner contrast and brand-correct lime accents throughout

• Your Data Stream now leads with your real monthly listeners and the next milestone to aim for
• HANI's growth plan is built around moving that number

• Our first artists joined as Founding members, with early access to new features
• Founding members get early access and a real say in what we build next

• Pro at $9.99 a month, and Label at $39.99 a month
• Every Smart Link and EPK template stays free; Pro adds brandmark removal, EPK PDF and HTML export, and Smart Link analytics
• Manage or cancel anytime, and your public links never go dark

• 15 HANI questions a month on the free plan, with Pro and Label refreshing daily
• Every Smart Link and EPK template is free to use

• New artifact templates: WAX, CASSETTE, PLAYBILL, LAMINATE, CHROME, VAPOR, COLLAGE, AURORA, BLOCKS and more
• Pick a world and drop in your art, no design skills needed
• Upload your own cover and artist photo on every template

• Schedule a release link that flips from pre-save to live automatically on drop day, with a countdown
• A release-day reminder email goes out to everyone who pre-saved
• Supports retargeting pixels and adds a follow-to-unlock reward gate

• Send real emails to the fans your Smart Links capture, with a Smart Link segment and built-in sending safety
• Press and Editorial: generate interviews, blogs, and press, then reach genre-matched outreach contacts

• A real dashboard: views, clicks, funnel, a per-link leaderboard, best time to post, and geo, source, and device breakdowns
• Honest metrics only, no vanity numbers

• A wide chat page with multiple saved conversations, like the chat apps you already use
• Grounded in your live data, with clean, readable answers

• HANI chat no longer gets stuck on 'Analyzing'
• Calendar events now save reliably, with clear errors when something is missing
• Mobile dashboard layout and dark-mode contrast cleaned up, and published Smart Link buttons and icons always work

• Check how your song fits any playlist with real audio analysis of energy, tempo, mood, and key
• Get a match score and a shareable report before you pitch

• A booking page so fans and promoters can schedule a session with you
• Timezone-aware slots, confirmation and reminder emails, and a unique meeting link per booking

• Your Data Stream shows 100 percent real numbers from public sources: monthly-listener milestones, cross-platform reach, and a 30-day trend

Fixed

• We removed every placeholder and fabricated panel across the dashboard

• Your AI growth manager runs every tool, with credits tracked in one place
• A daily Today brief and a Drop Day release command center, plus a Superfan Radar in Insights

• See where every Smart Link click comes from: country, region, city, device, browser, and source
• New breakdowns on the analytics page: Top Cities, Browser, and Operating System

• A growing library of honest, research-backed guides for independent artists

• Build a press kit that gets you booked, with a live preview that matches the published page exactly
• Auto-save, photo uploads, and a growing set of templates

• Sign up, connect your Spotify, and follow a setup checklist: claim your handle, build a Smart Link, build your EPK
• Password reset, email verification, and session handling