Kollaborate Quarterly Update - Q2 2026

This quarter we introduced some major updates to Kollaborate on the cloud and self-hosted version.

New player and side-by-side comparison

We overhauled our video player with improved polish, new keyboard shortcuts, safe area overlays, aspect ratio mattes and the ability to speak captions or audio descriptions out loud. We also introduced new viewers for images, documents and text files.

Two files of any type can now be compared side-by-side. If they're both video/audio files the playheads will sync.

Major annotation overhaul

You can now add different shapes to an annotation including boxes, circles, arrows, and text. Shapes can easily be moved, scaled and deleted after creation, with undo and redo available. Colors are now per-shape instead of taking the comment's color.

Annotations can now be added to PDF documents too.

Organizations

Linked Accounts has been replaced with Organizations on the cloud. At the moment we're just duplicating the old Linked Accounts functionality of allowing users to create and access projects under your subscription, but we plan lots of options in future to make managing a large team with a large number of projects easier.

Coming up next

These new features are in opt-in preview, so our immediate goal is to stabilize the new features and roll them out to everyone. We've had a great response from customers and less than 1% of people who opt in end up opting out for technical or other reasons.

Some of the things we're working on are our new help center, Single Sign-On on the cloud, new workflows, and a captioning overhaul, but not all of these will launch next quarter.

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