Magic Hour Changelog: 2026

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You can now create colorized videos directly from the dashboard. Choose a video, select a resolution from 480p, 720p, or 1080p, and adjust the color strength between low, balance, and high.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/create/video-colorizer

Improved LTX 2.3 Talking Photo Expressive mode.

Talking Photo Expressive now uses an improved LTX 2.3 model. Provide an image, audio, and text prompt to anchor the subject’s identity and composition while the audio drives timing and lip sync.

Create Moodboards for Consistent Styles

You can now create Moodboards to capture and replicate an art style, mood, or visual vibe. Moodboards use a collage of reference images and are available alongside Characters, with presets to help you get started quickly.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/create/moodboards

You can now replace a character in a video using a simple two-input workflow: upload a video and an image. The tool automatically selects the character and uses the first 3 seconds of your video—no trimming required.

The free tool supports up to three generations per day at 480p. Explore the new experience at https://magichour.ai/products/character-replace

Google Omni Video Editor now supports up to 10 additional image references alongside the primary video. Upload images through the compact Add media box, then review or remove them as compact thumbnails before generating.

The primary video remains unchanged, with inline validation for unsupported files, duration, and size limits.

Save Cloned Voices for Reuse

You can now save a cloned voice after uploading or recording audio in AI Voice Cloner. Saved voices are available in AI Voice Generator, AI Voice Changer, and in-app text-to-speech tools.

Newly saved voices appear first, followed by voices ordered by recent use, so your most relevant voices are easy to find.

You can now use the AI Video Editor as a free tool with LTX 2.3. Generations are limited to 3 seconds and 3 uses per day, using the first 3 seconds of your video automatically.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/products/ai-video-editor

Manually Select Characters for Character Replacement

Character replacement now supports manually selecting the character you want to replace, giving you more control over the editing process.

You can now continue creating directly from outputs that use a character. Choose Create with character when a single character is used, or Create with characters when multiple characters are included.

Image outputs continue to AI Image Generation, while video outputs continue to Text-to-Video.

You can now transform existing videos with an LTX-based video editor mode. Upload a video, describe the changes you want, and choose an output resolution up to 1080p.

Star Your Favorite Voices

You can now star voices using the heart icon on voice cards. Starred voices appear first in the voice selector across voice tools, as well as in your library and creation sidebar.

Use Characters in Headshot and Selfie Generator

Headshot and Selfie Generator now supports Character references. Select Add Character from the model dropdown to create a character, or choose an existing character to use its reference image and generation settings in your result.

Selecting Add Character takes you to /create/characters, making it easier to create and reuse consistent characters across your generations.

You can now use Character Replace through the API, with the option to switch to Animate. The mode defaults to Replace when no option is provided.

You can also provide character selection points in the format x,y,f, where x and y are image coordinates and f is the frame number. Pass multiple points separated by semicolons, or omit them to let Magic Hour select characters automatically.

Added Seedance 5 Pro to AI Image Tools

Seedance 5 Pro is now available in AI Image Editor and AI Image Generator for sharp, pro-level detail. Choose from 640px, 1K, or 2K output sizes.

640px and 1K images cost 75 credits per image, while 2K images cost 150 credits. 4K output is not supported.

Create and Reuse Characters Across Magic Hour

Characters lets you save a person once and reuse them across Magic Hour tools without repeatedly uploading the same reference images. Create a Character with 1–12 photos, choose a primary image, rename or update it, and use it in supported workflows.

Characters are now available in Text to Video, Image to Video, AI Image Editor, and AI Image Generator. Text to Video and Image to Video use the primary image, while the image tools use a collage of the Character’s reference images.

Added End-Frame Support for Veo 3.1

Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Lite now support an end-frame option in the web app, giving you more control over how generated videos conclude.

You can now use the AI Video Editor through the API. The initial release supports the Google Omni model, with additional models planned for a future update.

Updated Library Layout for Folders

The Library UI has been updated to prepare for folders, making it easier to organize image, video, and audio outputs into collections such as projects or favorites.

Added Preset Characters to Character Replace and Animate

Character Replace and Animate now include preset characters. Preset names are based on their filenames and use the same interface as other presets, making them easy to find and select.

Video uploads in Character Replace and Animate now include the Auto/Select Person field, giving you control over how the person is identified in your video.

We added more than 200 free, no-signup AI tool pages under /tools/. Browse new image editing, image generation, and hybrid tools with ready-to-use workflows for transforming photos or creating images from prompts.

Try it out now: Explore the free AI tools

Use Magic Hour from MCP Clients

Magic Hour’s MCP endpoint is now available at `https://magichour.ai/mcp/`. Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP clients can connect with a Magic Hour API key to call Magic Hour tools, including generating presigned URLs and creating and waiting for image projects.

Authentication is passed through securely, invalid keys return a clean authentication failure, and bearer tokens are not logged.

Try it out now: Connect to the Magic Hour MCP endpoint

Shared History for Swap Workflows

Face Swap, Head Swap, and Body Swap now share a history by default, making it easier to manage related projects together in one workflow.

Added a Switch Feature to Body Swap

Body Swap now includes a switch feature, giving you more control when working with body swap inputs.

Explore Characters, a new way to upload 1–12 reference photos of a person once and reuse them consistently across Magic Hour tools. Select saved Characters in Text to Video, Image to Video, AI Image Editor, and AI Image Generator without re-uploading or re-describing the same person.

Create and manage your Characters at https://magichour.ai/create/characters.

Added Nano Banana 2 Lite to AI Image Editor and Generator APIs

Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in the AI Image Editor and AI Image Generator APIs, giving developers another model option for image generation and editing workflows.

You can now browse dedicated AI Video Translator pages for 54 supported languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and more. Each page includes language-specific market context, FAQs, supported-language links, and details on how Magic Hour translates, voice-clones, and lip-syncs your video.

The pages also link directly to the translator flow with the selected language prefilled once the tool is available. Farsi searches are redirected to the Persian page.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/products/ai-video-translator

New Character Replace

We added the Character Replace. Upload a video, select the person to replace by clicking a point on any frame, and choose a replacement character by uploading an image or selecting a preset.

The workspace also supports Character Only and Full Scene modes, along with negative points that mark objects to preserve in the generated video. The initial version focuses on the core replacement flow for uploaded videos.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/create/character-replace

Added Nano Banana 2 Lite to AI Image Tools

Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in AI Image Editor and AI Image Generator. It is built for speed and high-quality results, with the same credit cost as Nano Banana at 1K resolution and the same higher-resolution scaling used for Nano Banana 2.

The AI Video Editor creation flow now brings the core setup into one place: upload and trim a video, add a prompt, choose a model, and select a resolution.

The flow uses existing creation components to make it easier to prepare and generate AI video edits.

Try it out now: https://magichour.ai/create/ai-video-editor

Gemini Omni is now available for high-quality video editing with flexible control. It supports 720p output and video lengths from 3 to 10 seconds in 1-second increments.

Gemini Omni uses a 6x credit multiplier.

Added References to Kling 3.0

Kling 3.0 now supports reference inputs for more flexible video generation. Add image and video assets to your prompt, then reference them with identifiers such as @image_1 and @video_1.

Kling supports up to one video reference. The input type is inferred from the asset itself, and references can be combined in prompts like:

@image_1 fighting @image_2 in the style of @video_1

Create new videos with Character Replace by swapping a person in a driving video with a reference image. You can also use Animate mode to make a reference image follow the motion—including lip sync—from a video while keeping the image’s background in the final result.

The workflow supports multiple tracking points, up to 60 seconds of video, and output resolution capped at 1024px. Generation costs 48 credits per second.

Seedance 2 Mini is now available for text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation. It delivers fast, consistent video with strong motion quality.

Credit multipliers vary by output: 480p uses 2× credits, 720p uses 4×, and 720p with a video reference uses 6×.