EditsInsta Guide, updated August 2026
What has actually changed in Edits since launch
If you tried Edits in its first few months and haven't opened it much since, quite a bit has moved. Here's the honest version of what's different now.
Edits launched in April 2025 as a fairly focused app: a multi-track timeline, basic trimming tools, green screen, and direct publishing to Reels. It did the core job well but didn't have much beyond that. What's shipped since then has mostly been about depth, giving creators more control over the same core workflow, rather than turning the app into something completely different.
Organization got a lot more serious
Early on, managing more than a handful of projects meant scrolling through an undifferentiated list. Folders and Project Versions changed that, letting you group work and branch alternate cuts without duplicating an entire project by hand. If your library has grown past a dozen or so drafts, these two features alone are worth revisiting the app for.
The AI tools expanded past captions and cutouts
Auto-captions and subject cutouts were there at launch. Since then, Edits added a teleprompter, AI restyling, and keyframes for animating position, rotation, and scale. None of these existed in the first version, and together they cover a meaningful chunk of what used to require exporting into a separate app to finish.
Audio got quieter attention, but real improvements
Loudness Match and the ability to import your own audio both arrived after launch. Neither is flashy, but both solve genuinely common frustrations, uneven volume between clips and being stuck with only the built-in sound library, that were minor annoyances in the early version of the app.
The Ideas tab is new territory entirely
Nothing at launch addressed the "what do I make next" problem. The weekly Ideas tab, pulling suggestions from your own post history, is a genuinely different kind of feature from everything else Edits has added, less about editing and more about the planning that happens before you even open the camera.
And the desktop version, still not here
The most requested addition since roughly the app's second month has been a proper desktop version. Meta demoed one publicly in June 2026 alongside an AI production assistant, but as of this page's last check it's still limited to a small group of testers. If that's the update you're waiting for, it hasn't shipped yet.