Release notes
Bindery ships new features most weeks. This page lists every one — 33 so far — dated and newest first, each with a plain description of what it does. The same list appears inside the studio under the gift icon. Last updated 6 September 2026.
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Try the newest features — free to startPaste a YouTube link and the studio reads its captions — and when a video has none (a song, an animated short, a silent film), the studio now watches it and takes notes: every spoken or sung word verbatim, plus what’s on screen. The editor can also open a link you mention mid-chat itself, so “the links at the top” just works.
Anthropic’s newest flagship, released today, now writes every book on the Fable tier — the same credits per reply, stronger on long manuscripts and many-step work. Pick it per book from the composer or ⌘K (part of Pro).
The Opus tier now writes with Claude Opus 5 — the same credits per reply, stronger on ambitious rewrites and many-step work. Pick it per book from the composer or ⌘K (part of Pro).
The new Storybook tab turns an idea — or a book you've already written — into an illustrated picture book. Claude writes a storyboard first, every spread's words and what its picture shows, and you edit it line by line before anything is drawn. Character sheets lock the cast; then every spread is illustrated, checked against the sheets, and debited only when it's kept — the price sits on the button before a credit moves, and your first spreads are on us. Read it on screen two pages at a time, have it read aloud, typeset it with the words set off the art, and order it as an 8.5 × 8.5 in colour hardcover.
Enter while the editor is working no longer goes nowhere: your next message waits in the box and sends itself the moment the turn settles — keep typing to add to it, or tap “Don’t send yet”. Whatever you leave unsent comes back after a reload, per book. During a long turn a small “Notify me when it’s done” chip can switch on a system notification for when you’re in another window (only ever offered while something is running, remembered once you answer). Type /support to reach help from the composer. And the landing finally says what things cost — a plain price table at #pricing, read from the same numbers the checkout uses.
The composer is always listening, the way a terminal is: type a letter anywhere in the studio and it lands in the box, with no click first — on the landing too, where your first keystroke takes over the demo. Lose the connection mid-thought (a phone waking up, a deploy) and the box stays open: press Enter and the message waits, then sends itself the moment the editor is back. And when a long turn or a compose finishes while you’re in another tab, the tab’s title says so.
The shelf tripled: alongside Spanish, Japanese and Arabic, your book can now become an edition in Icelandic, Ukrainian, Yoruba, Armenian, Khmer, Welsh, Sanskrit, Cantonese — even Latin — 110 languages, every one typeset properly for its script: right-to-left where it reads that way, the covering fonts chosen for print, and Burmese, Khmer, Lao and Tibetan editions numbering their pages in their own numerals. Same promise as always: one style sheet holds every name and term consistent, the opening translates free first, and the price is quoted up front.
A finished screenplay can now leave the studio: Share on the Script tab puts it on a free public reading page of your book's site — the whole script in real screenplay type, on any phone, with a script PDF to take away and a door back to your book. Pasted links unfurl as the movie of your book, every reader can pass it on, and your link carries your referral. The room got sharper too: while Claude drafts you see how far into the format it is (“≈ page 34 of ~105”), it checks its own pace against the industry page bands act by act, a draft that lands over or under length gets a one-tap “Bring it to length”, and after a taste the whole-book adaptation is one click from the opening scene it just showed you.
Every published book has a face on it — the portrait on the back cover, the page at the end, the picture beside the byline. Almost no self-published one does, because a headshot has always meant a photographer and an appointment. Now it means a selfie. Take or upload one photo of yourself and the studio makes professional author portraits of you in the looks you pick: a classic grey-backdrop headshot, warm window light, a literary black & white, a bold editorial colour, a book-lined study, golden hour, a café candid, or a painted illustrated portrait for a children's book. Claude directs the shoot for your book, checks every shot against your real face, and reshoots anything that drifts. Pick your favourite and it prints on your back cover, opens an About-the-Author page at the end of the book, and becomes your profile picture everywhere — with a bio Claude will draft from your book if you'd rather not start from a blank box. Your first photos are free once your book has its first pages (members get the whole first set), the photo you like is one tap from your back cover and your book's website, and your selfie stays private to your account.
There’s a community shelf of page designs now (/designs): real typography from finished books, each with its own page. Start a new book inside any of them from Add a book → Blank — the design travels, the words are yours, and the designer is credited on your colophon. Finished a book you’re proud of? Publish → Share the design names it, gives it a page to send people to, and pays you $1 for every copy printed in it, with your book royalties. Every published book’s website also offers “Make a book in this design” to its readers.
For the birthday book, the memorial, the wedding, the family cookbook: Share → Collect contributions turns on a link anyone can use — no account, no app. They leave a note, up to six photos and a voice note recorded on the spot; each piece lands in your book’s contributions folder and rings your bell. One button weaves them in, crediting each person by name. Contributors can pass the invitation on, and say they’d like a printed copy — the Order dialog counts them when you size the run.
The mic in the composer takes a voice note and lands the words in the box, ready to send — say what you want changed, or dictate a whole passage. And the recordings you already have work the same way: a voice memo, an interview with your grandmother, a lecture, a video — attach it (the ⌄ beside the mic, the paperclip, or just drop it into the chat) and the editor transcribes it and writes from your words. Priced by the minute (15 credits) and quoted before anything is charged; a two-hour interview is a few minutes' wait. YouTube links are still free.
Translate makes a whole edition of your book in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic — thirty-odd languages at launch — as its own book beside the original: the manuscript translated passage by passage with one style sheet so every name and term stays consistent, typeset for its language, compiled, and ready to print, publish, narrate or export like any book here. See your opening translated for free first, side by side with the original; the price is quoted up front in credits (a 60,000-word novel is about 400 on Haiku, 1,800 on Sonnet), and it runs in the background while you write.
Every book now exports as an editable Word manuscript (.docx) — chapters as real headings, footnotes and images intact — ready for your editor, a co-writer, or any submissions inbox that asks for Word. It rides the same one-time unlock as the PDF and EPUB (free with a membership): look for the Word button beside EPUB in the proof toolbar once your book is unlocked.
The new Music tab turns your book into real songs with sung vocals. Claude writes the lyrics first — one song per moment of your story, revisable by chat like everything else — and you read every word before recording. Recording is priced per minute and quoted before it starts: a 30-second hook of your own song costs about 150 credits, a full track about 900. Songs land one by one, playable the moment they finish, with your cover as the album art.
The new Script tab turns your book into a real screenplay — a feature film, a TV pilot, or a short — written scene by scene in industry-standard pages while you watch. Revise it the way you revise the book, just by asking (“punch up the dialogue”, “cut scene 12”), and export it as a script PDF or a Final Draft file. The cost in credits is quoted before anything starts, and you can taste it first: the opening scene alone, for a fraction of the price.
Published book sites are no longer islands. Every one now ends with a shelf — your other books, then the freshest titles from other Bindery authors — and every other book's page returns the favor, sending its readers toward yours. There's a public shelf of every published book at /books, and search engines now see one connected web of books instead of lonely pages. Publishing your book's website is what puts you on it.
Pair your book’s editor with a stronger model — Opus or Fable — that reads the whole conversation mid-task and sends back strategy at the moments that matter: before a big draft, when a design won’t converge, before calling it done. Your editor keeps writing at its own rate; you pay the advisor’s rate only for the consults, and each one shows in the chat as its own card. Pair it from the model menu in the composer, or just type /advisor — your next message opens with the advisor’s first read, no special ask needed. Part of Bindery Pro.
A 9,000-word draft was never the ceiling — Claude can elaborate your whole manuscript to a comprehensive 80,000-word edition: every chapter deepened in your voice, new ones where they belong, nothing replaced. Pick a target from novella to epic; the proof toolbar now shows your live word count after every compose.
Upload the volumes you’ve already written and start the next one. The editor reads them all first and keeps a series bible — characters, timeline, open threads, your voice on the page — so the new volume never contradicts what your readers already know.
The wallet in the header now drains in real time while the editor writes — the count ticks down, a running “−N” shows what the current turn has cost so far, and the popover breaks it down. No more wondering what a turn spent until it finished.
Publishing now prices both formats in one step: readers preview the opening pages free, then buy the ebook and the paperback at the prices you set. About 95% of every ebook sale is yours (minus card fees) — or keep it free, one tap.
The interview now works on a finished book too: the editor reads what’s on the page, asks what you want different — a rewrite, more chapters, a new voice — then makes the changes when you say go. Your current edition stays one Rewind away.
Every book can now carry a signed Certificate of Authorship — fingerprinted to your exact manuscript, with a public verification page anyone can check. Free, from the proof toolbar.
Claude performs every chapter into a real audiobook. Sample the voices on your own words — or clone your voice and read it to your readers yourself.
Turn the narration on for your book’s website and readers can buy it alongside the paperback — you keep 80% of every sale.
The files unlock now includes an EPUB edition beside the print-ready PDF — ready for Kindle, Apple Books and Kobo.
An IngramSpark pack — interior, wrap cover, barcode — takes your book toward worldwide store distribution. The preflight check is free.
Anthropic’s flagship tier writes beside Haiku, Sonnet and Opus — pick it per book from the composer or ⌘K (part of Pro).
Publishing gives your book its own page with a built-in checkout — paperback, ebook, audiobook — and the royalties come to you.
Only an idea so far? The editor interviews you about it, then writes the manuscript from your answers.
Composes and milestones become restore points — jump the whole book back when a direction doesn’t pan out.
Invite co-authors as editors — or view-only readers — and see who’s in the book live, right in the header.