What's new and where things moved in the new version

The new version moves a few things around to make room for the New Timeline, but almost everything you used before is still here, usually with a little more you can do. Here's where the main things went.

The frames viewer

It's now part of the New Timeline, and it does a bit more than before. Slide the timeline up from the bottom of the screen to see everything at once. A few things you'll want to know how to do:

See your frames on each layer. The timeline shows the frames for every layer separately, so you can find and fix the exact one you mean.
Grab the same moment across every layer. Press and hold a frame on the time ruler (the numbered strip at the top of the timeline) to select everything at that point in time, across all your layers.
Select a run of frames quickly. Press and hold any frame to start selecting, keep holding, then swipe sideways to sweep across a whole run of them in one go.
Hold a drawing on screen without copy and paste. Instead of pasting the same frame over and over, drag the edge of a frame to stretch it. Or select several frames, group them, and then stretch the group to repeat or loop it for as long as you like.

The audio editor

Audio now lives in the timeline, right next to your frames, instead of on its own screen. That means you can see your sound lined up against your animation while you work. A few things this makes possible:

Add audio from either layout. Tap Add audio. You can now do this from the Classic layout too, and the timeline comes up so you can see exactly where the clip landed.
Mute or set the volume on a single clip, not just everything at once.
Put an audio track wherever you want in the stack, including in between your layers.

Undo Everything

Undo goes further now. You can step back from things that couldn't be undone before, including deleting a frame or a whole layer. That makes the new version a safer place to experiment, since almost anything can be walked back.

A few other things that moved

Saving a frame as an image is now called PNG. Tap the current frame, in the strip along the bottom in Classic or on the numbered strip at the top of the timeline in Studio, to open its menu and choose PNG. For now this works from that current frame only, not from a frame sitting inside a layer track. Saving a frame as PNG is currently missing on iOS, and it's on the way.
Add image and add video are now one button, Image/Video, in the bar while you draw. Importing a video brings its sound along with it.
Copy and paste are still here, just moved to the other side of the bar. And for repeating a drawing, you'll often reach for stretch or group now instead of pasting the same frame over and over.
Merging layers is done by pressing and holding a layer to select the ones you want, then tapping merge. It combines them into one new layer, and unlike before, you can undo it. Dragging one layer onto another doesn't merge them.
Tell your layers apart in Studio: tap a frame and choose "Set as thumbnail" to show your drawing on the layer. To go back to the name, tap Rename, then OK.
No limit on layers with FlipaClip Plus. The free plan includes 3 layers, and with a subscription you can add as many as you like.
Blending modes are out of beta and stable in the new version, with a range of modes to choose from.
The three dots menu at the top right holds Take a quick tour, Project settings, Onion skin, Grid, Magic cut, and Make movie.

Lighter projects, and your work is safe

Behind the scenes, the new version was rebuilt from the ground up. One of the payoffs is that projects take up less space on your device, and the editor can do things it couldn't before, like drawing outside the canvas and showing your frames on each layer. Drawing quality has been greatly improved too, thanks to a lot of work behind the scenes.

None of this changes your existing work. Nothing is converted automatically, and every project keeps opening in the version it was made in. If you open one of your older projects while the new version is on, you'll be asked once whether to open a copy, and your original is left exactly as it was. The version you work in is always your choice, and you can change it anytime in the app settings.

New to the two layouts?

The new version gives you two layouts, Classic and Studio. For a quick tour of both and what each part is called, see Getting around Classic and Studio.