What's new

A niche playbook is the brief a social media manager hands their team: what's going viral in a niche right now, and why. Build one in Automations with Run now, or have it sent every Monday.

New

• Niche playbook reports. Add a Generate report step in Automations and pick a niche playbook. Choose how many videos (top 10, 25, …) and what "best" means: most viral (views against the creator's following), most viewed, most liked, highest engagement, or all of them side by side. Each playbook has the winning videos, the hook types they use, common traits, takeaways for your next post, and the top sounds.
• Sounds you can open. Sounds in a playbook link straight to the sound's TikTok page, in the report card, the PDF and the CSV export.
• Download as PDF or CSV. Every playbook exports as a PDF to share with your team or a client, or as a CSV.
• Scheduled reports. The new Generate report step in Automations builds a playbook on a schedule and sends a link to it to Slack, Discord, a webhook or email. Start from the "Every Monday 9:00 → niche playbook → Slack" template. Report links open on their own page in fypnow.

Improved

• Faster pages. Home, Creators, Growth, Insights and Scripts make fewer, lighter requests, and Growth's heaviest query is several times quicker. Media Library thumbnails and the Automations list load faster too.
• Better answers in Claude and other AI assistants (MCP). Asking for "top 10 videos by views" now works for every sort. "Find similar videos" is much faster. Creator reports accept a TikTok handle. Niche hook questions come back with examples and the next videos worth analysing.
• The Analyze box on a new workspace's Home page now spots a creator's profile link and moves it to "Track any creator" for you, instead of failing. A link that isn't a video gets a clear message.
• Drafts survive a tab switch. Text you type into the New niche popup is kept if you switch tabs and come back.

Fixed

• Deleted TikToks no longer appear on niche walls, in niche hooks or in reports.
• Analysis results show the creator, views and thumbnail wherever they're shared, including the MCP server.

Worth knowing

• One free trial per customer. Free trials are limited to one per person, workspace and payment method. See the Terms and Refund policy.

See the niche playbook guide to make one, or the Automations guide to put it on a schedule.

Alerts tell you something happened. Automations do the next steps too: pick a trigger, connect the steps below it on a canvas, test it with Run now and turn it on. Automations are included on every paid plan.

New

• Triggers. A breakout from a creator you track (limit it to 5x, 10x or 20x+), your Viral Content Agent finding new videos, a tracked creator posting, an analysis finishing, a Studio batch finishing, a slideshow reaching your TikTok drafts, a time you set (hourly, daily or weekly, in your time zone), or Run now.
• Steps. Filter, branch, "for each" and wait; read your breakouts, niche videos and stats, creator reports and Growth scorecard; analyze a video, write a video or carousel script, run a trend search, save to your Library or track a creator.
• Slideshows to your drafts. Slideshow Studio steps make slideshows from your own photos and send them to your TikTok drafts. Nothing goes live until you post it yourself in the TikTok app.
• Notify. Slack, Discord and signed webhooks use the destinations in Settings → Integrations, and email goes to you or members of your workspace.
• Six templates to start from, including "Breakout from a tracked creator → analyze → script → Slack" and "Every Monday 9:00 → growth scorecard → email me".
• Run history. Every run from the last 30 days, with each step's input, output and errors.

Worth knowing

• Plan allowances. Creator 1 automation turned on with 500 runs a month, Starter 5 with 2,000, Pro 25 with 10,000 and Business 100 with 50,000. Runs reset on your billing day, and runs stopped by a filter don't count.
• Same allowances as by hand. An Analyze video step uses a catalog slot and a Generate script step a script credit. If a step hits a plan limit, the automation pauses and resumes by itself when there's room again: your monthly allowance resets, you free a slot (catalog slots don't reset, but dropping a video frees one) or you upgrade.
• Built on a computer. Editing needs a tablet or computer; on a phone you can turn automations on or off and check their runs.
• Dashboard only. The REST API and MCP server can't create or run automations.

Read more on the Automations page or in the Automations guide.

Breakout alerts were already the part of fypnow that works while you're not looking. Now they go where your team already works, instead of only to one person's inbox. Integrations are included on every plan.

New

• Slack in one click. Press Add to Slack in Settings → Integrations, pick a channel, done. fypnow can only post into the channel you choose, and can't read anything.
• Discord. Paste a channel's webhook URL and alerts post there as "FYP Now", with mentions switched off.
• Webhooks for n8n, Zapier and Make. Point a webhook at any HTTPS address and every alert arrives as signed JSON, so you can verify it came from us. From n8n, Zapier or Make, alerts can go on to Notion, Google Sheets, Gmail, Telegram or WhatsApp. There's a ready-made n8n workflow that checks the signature and writes the message for you.
• Choose what each channel gets. Breakouts (optionally only the 5x, 10x or 20x+ ones), Viral Content Agent updates with the top five new videos, finished analyses you asked for, and new posts from creators you track. The last two are off until you switch them on, so nothing gets noisier unless you ask.
• Test, retries and a log. Send test checks a destination in seconds. Failed sends are retried automatically, Recent alerts shows what was delivered, and if a destination is deleted the integration turns itself off and tells you why.

Worth knowing

• Up to 10 destinations per workspace. Owners and admins set them up; everyone in the workspace can see what's connected.
• No native WhatsApp, Notion or Zapier app yet. Those work through a webhook into n8n, Zapier or Make. WhatsApp also needs a Meta Business account and an approved message template.
• TikTok creators. New-post and breakout alerts cover the TikTok creators you track; analysis alerts include YouTube Shorts you analyze.

Everything's in the Integrations guide, including the payload and copy-paste signature checks for Node.js and Python.

The last release taught fypnow to read TikTok slideshows slide by slide. This one helps you make your own, starting from the ones that are already working. Slideshow Studio is included in every paid plan.

New

• Slideshow Studio. Start from a slideshow that is overperforming in your niche, ranked by views against the creator's follower count, and Slideshow Studio writes yours on the same hook and slide structure, in new words. See how it works.
• From a creator. Pick a creator you track and make a batch from their best analysed slideshows: on the same topics as theirs, on a brief you write, or on topics picked from your niche.
• From a brief or a script. Write a brief (topic, audience, key points, call to action), let Slideshow Studio pick a topic from your niche, or use any carousel script you saved. Choose 3 to 12 slides, in your brand voice or the voice of a creator you track.
• Your own photos. Slideshow Studio fills the slides from the new Media Library, where you upload your own photos (JPEG, PNG, WebP or iPhone HEIC), sort them into folders and get tags added automatically. It uses no AI-generated images. More on the Media Library.
• Edit by chat. Ask for "rewrite this slide", "make the cover shorter" or "swap this image for something brighter", and the chat searches your whole Media Library for the image. Or change the text, images, slide order, caption and hashtags by hand. Each slide holds up to 400 characters of text.
• Batches and daily recipes. Make a batch of drafts in one go, or save the settings as a daily recipe that makes a fresh batch of drafts every day. A recipe can also send its drafts to your own TikTok drafts, up to five a day.
• Download or send to TikTok. Every slide renders at 1080×1920, TikTok's full-screen size. Download the slides as a ZIP, or connect your TikTok account and send a slideshow, a whole batch, or several drafts you tick to your TikTok drafts to finish in the TikTok app.

Worth knowing

• TikTok only. Slideshow Studio makes TikTok photo slideshows. It doesn't make videos, Instagram carousels or YouTube posts.
• What it uses from your plan. Each slideshow counts toward your plan's Slideshow Studio allowance, listed on the pricing page. Starting from a niche slideshow you haven't analyzed yet also uses one analyzed video.
• Your account, only when you ask. Slideshow Studio only sends to TikTok accounts you connect yourself, and only when you press send or turn on a recipe's automatic sending. It never posts: nothing goes live until you finish it in the TikTok app.
• In the dashboard. Neither the REST API nor the MCP server makes or sends slideshows yet.

A lot of what works on TikTok isn't a video at all. It's a swipeable set of photos with text on them and a sound underneath. Until now FYP Now treated those posts like broken videos. This release reads them properly.

New

• Analyze any TikTok slideshow. Paste a photo slideshow link (tiktok.com/@user/photo/…) into the analyze box on the homepage or in the app. FYP Now reads every slide in order, plus the sound, and gives you a slide-by-slide breakdown: what each slide says and shows and the job it does (hook, setup, value, proof, payoff, call to action), how strong the cover is, which slide pays the post off, the look of the set, the role of the sound, and what drives people to swipe through, save, share and comment. You get three scores: Cover, Swipe-through and Save-worthiness. Slideshows that TikTok renders as a video get the same treatment. A slideshow uses one analysis from your plan, like any other post. See how it works.
• Slideshows on the niche walls. The 23 niches and your Viral Content Agents now keep TikTok photo slideshows alongside everything else, ranked by the same multiplier. A new All / Videos / Slideshows filter lets you study slideshows on their own, and every slideshow card is badged, with its slide count for photo slideshows.
• The same filter everywhere you browse. Video Analysis, the niche walls (including your Library) and Search all have the All / Videos / Slideshows filter.
• Slideshow scripts. Pick Slideshow as the format in Scripts, or press Make this for me on a slideshow you analyzed, and the script comes back as numbered slide cards in swipe order: the words for each image, the job that slide does and what the image should show, plus a caption, hashtags and a sound suggestion. More on scripts.
• Growth grades slideshows fairly. Your own slideshows are graded against other slideshows, on cover, swipe-through, slide count and save-worthiness, never against the rules for a video.
• Breakout alerts tag slideshows. When a tracked creator's slideshow breaks out, the feed and the email say so and link straight to it.
• API and MCP. Posts now carry post_format and image_count, and video searches and niche lists accept a format filter (video or slideshow). get_video_analysis returns the slideshow breakdown for a slideshow. See the API docs.

Worth knowing

• A slideshow has no scenes or spoken script, so there is no scene timing, hook length or transcript for one. That is not missing data; it is a different kind of post.
• Swipe-through is a score, not a measurement. TikTok doesn't publish where people stop swiping, so the Swipe-through score is the model's read of the slides.
• TikTok only. YouTube Shorts and uploaded drafts are always treated as videos, and Instagram carousels aren't analyzed.
• Hashtag trend search doesn't tell slideshows apart yet. The niche walls and Search do.

Most short-form creators post the same video to TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Until now, FYP Now could only tell you why half of that worked. This release adds YouTube Shorts as a second platform.

New

• Analyze any YouTube Short. Paste a Shorts link into the analyze box on the homepage or in the app. It works with youtube.com/shorts/…, youtube.com/watch?v=… and youtu.be/… links. You get the same breakdown a TikTok gets: hook type and exact hook text, format, niche, visual style, energy and pacing, scene-by-scene timing, a sentence-level transcript, presenter and production signals, what made it work, and what to improve. A Short uses one analysis from your plan, the same as a TikTok. See how it works, or read the step-by-step guide.
• Shorts on the niche walls. The 23 niches, and any custom niches you have set up, now show viral YouTube Shorts alongside TikToks. Both platforms are ranked the same way: views divided by followers or subscribers. A new TikTok / Shorts / Mixed filter lets you look at one platform or both, and every card has a platform badge.
• "Why it went viral" works on Shorts cards. One click from the wall gets you the full analysis.

Worth knowing

• YouTube doesn't publish shares or saves, so Shorts cards show views, likes, comments and the subscriber-based multiplier, but no share or save rate.
• Creator tracking, the growth scorecard, hashtag trend search, breakout alerts and the weekly recap are still TikTok-only. You can analyze any competitor's Short one link at a time today.

Deciding where to post first? We compared the two platforms in TikTok vs YouTube Shorts.

New

• Video teardowns on the growth guides — the profession guides now show real TikToks from that niche with the actual analysis attached: hook type, hook text, scene count and pacing, and what made each one work. Product output first, rather than a description of it.

• Three guides on TikTok payouts — how TikTok pays, whether it pays for views, and what a million views is actually worth.

Improved

• The analyze box moved above the fold on the guide pages, so you can try it without scrolling.

• Mobile creator pages got a further pass.

Fixed

• Page-load flicker on several pages caused by content rendering twice.

• Video URLs with tracking parameters now scrape correctly.

• Password reset from the dashboard.

Most people check analytics on a phone. Until now FYPNow was a desktop app that happened to shrink. This is a proper mobile redesign.

New

• Bottom tab bar — Home, Creators, Trends, Scripts and More, always within thumb reach.

• Bottom sheets — modals now slide up from the bottom on phones and stay as centred dialogs on desktop.

Improved

• Tables hide secondary columns instead of forcing you to scroll sideways to read a row.

• KPI strips stay two-up on phones rather than collapsing into a single tall column.

• Settings navigation became a scrolling tab strip instead of a squeezed sidebar.

• The billing plan comparison scrolls and snaps card by card.

• Search results, sounds and hooks stack cleanly instead of overflowing.

• Long creator handles truncate rather than breaking the layout.

Fixed

• The onboarding button and panel no longer sit underneath the tab bar.

• Layout now accounts for the safe area on notched devices.

• Opening the recreate flow from a video no longer closes the sheet underneath it.

• Background scrolling is properly locked when a sheet is open, including when two overlays stack.

Note added 2026-09-27 (no longer offered): when this shipped, fypnow also had a free plan, which ended in August 2026. The niche walls and the Library are still included, unmetered, on every paid plan; see pricing. The entry below is kept as it was published.

The hardest question in short-form isn't "how did my video do" — it's "what should I make next". This release is our answer.

New

• Niche Viral Catalogue — the week's best-performing videos, grouped into 23 niches: Fitness, Finance, Reddit Stories, Would You Rather, Food, Gaming and more. Zero setup, nothing to track first, and it's open on every plan.

• Custom niches — the 23 are the same for everyone, which can't answer "what's working in my corner of TikTok". Name a niche, give it up to three keywords, and it refreshes alongside the others. Allowances scale with your plan.

• Edit a custom niche — rename it or change its keywords in place. Changing keywords removes only the videos no longer covered by any remaining keyword, so a small edit doesn't wipe your niche.

• Library — "Save to library" on any video card, with a saved view alongside Most liked and Recent. Free on every plan, because a save costs us nothing and a library you come back to is the point.

A saved video is a permanent snapshot, not a pointer — editing a niche's keywords can never delete something you saved.

Improved

• Most liked / Recent sort on every niche wall.

• The catalogue is a rolling library, not a nightly snapshot — each niche gets deeper over time rather than being wiped and rebuilt.

• Thumbnails load reliably. TikTok's own image links expire within a day; we now host our own copies.

• From any catalogue video you can jump straight into "Why it went viral" or "Generate a script like this".

Fixed

• Saved-video state now loads completely on large libraries, so an already-saved video never shows as unsaved.

• Quota messages when you hit your custom-niche allowance are now accurate and actionable.

• Several ordering, freshness and empty-state issues on the niche wall.

Improved

• Four refreshes a day on recent videos. The full catalogue still refreshes daily, but every video posted in the last seven days now gets its own pass four times a day.

This is the window that matters. A breakout is only useful if you hear about it while the video is still climbing — a once-a-day check was often reporting yesterday's news. Alerts now fire on numbers that are hours old, not a day old.

Included on every plan, with nothing metered.

New

• Add a teammate immediately — no invite to accept. Add them from billing, they get a set-password link, and they're in. The old pending-invite flow is gone.

• Weekly creator recap email — one email a week per workspace, showing every creator you track: views gained, engagement gained, new posts, and viral hits, ranked by views. Workspace totals in the subject line so you can read it without opening it.

The recap is per creator, never per video — individual video callouts are the breakout alert's job. You can turn it off in notification settings.

Improved

• Seat limits now count pending members correctly, so the seat count on your plan matches reality.

Fixed

• Password reset and set-password links now work reliably from the emails.

• Adding a member no longer leaves an orphaned record if the email fails to send.

Note added 2026-09-27 (no longer offered): free scrapes ended in August 2026, when fypnow dropped its free plan. Analysis now starts with a paid plan, or a 7-day trial on monthly Creator and Starter; see pricing. The entry below is kept as it was published.

Improved

• Ten free scrapes instead of one — one video was never enough to judge whether the analysis was useful. Ten is.

Fixed

• Signup verification was rejecting legitimate users behind some networks. Fixed.

• Search-engine and structured-data corrections across the marketing pages.

New

• Lifecycle emails — a proper sequence that reacts to what you have and haven't done yet, instead of one welcome message and silence.

• Admin sending — we can now send announcements and updates from the admin portal, so product news reaches you without a deploy.

Improved

• Marketing emails rebuilt end to end — shorter, more specific, and easier to unsubscribe from.

Fixed

• Shortened TikTok links now scrape correctly, so a vm.tiktok.com URL works the same as a full one.

• Language detection no longer mislabels English videos.

• Crawler rules corrected so search engines index the right pages.

Note added 2026-09-27 (no longer offered): the free signup scrape ended in August 2026, when fypnow dropped its free plan. Analysis now starts with a paid plan, or a 7-day trial on monthly Creator and Starter; see pricing. The entry below is kept as it was published.

Two weeks after launch, the biggest gap was the price of getting started. This release closes it.

New

• Creator plan — a lower entry tier for individual creators, below Starter.

• A free scrape when you sign up — analyze a creator before deciding whether to pay.

• 120 growth guides by profession — content ideas, hooks and strategy for barbers, therapists, musicians, real estate agents and more, at /grow-on-tiktok.

• Rebuilt landing page — a full-width "see it work" demo, viral trends on the homepage, and clearer proof above the fold.

Improved

• Pricing page — clearer tier comparison and plain-language limits.

• Script generation — scripts now write to your account as they generate, so you can leave the page and come back. Finished scripts redirect you straight to the result.

• Creator timeseries — view and engagement charts now plot against a baseline, so a spike reads as a spike.

Fixed

• Billing bugs around trials and plan changes.

• A stale pending-checkout state when moving from a plan change back to pricing.

• Assorted wording and naming inconsistencies across the app.

When a creator you track suddenly blows up, you want to know that day, not a week later when the trend is already crowded. Breaking Out does exactly that.

New

• Breaking Out feed: a new section on your Home and Viral Trends pages that surfaces tracked creators whose latest video is massively outperforming their own usual numbers. See the creator, how far past their norm it is running, and how recently it broke, then open the full breakdown in one click.

• Daily breakout email: get an email the day a tracked creator breaks out, so you catch the winners without logging in. Refreshed daily, on every paid plan.

• From alert to action: every breakout links to a frame-by-frame breakdown of why the video worked, so you can run the same play on your next post instead of just admiring theirs.

Track any creator to start watching them. You can turn the emails on or off anytime in your notification settings.

FYPNow is live. Version 1.0 turns short-form video into decisions: point it at creators — your own or competitors — and it breaks down what's working, tracks performance over time, and helps you make more of what wins.

Analyze any video

• Frame-by-frame breakdowns — hook detection, scene pacing and retention signals, with concrete fixes for next time.

• Content DNA — format, niche, visual style, energy and pacing on every video.

• Single-video or whole-creator — paste one TikTok URL, or scrape a creator's catalog at once.

• Similarity search — find videos like any other.

Track creators automatically

• Daily tracking — new videos are picked up automatically and metrics refresh on a schedule, so your numbers stay current without you lifting a finger.

• Side-by-side creators — compare momentum across everyone you track or own.

• Competitor breakout alerts — get an email when a tracked creator posts a video that massively outperforms their own norm, so you catch the winners without logging in.

Create with the data

• AI scripts — generated from your top-performing videos, with a forecast for hook score and reach before you film.

• Viral trends — sounds, hashtags and formats gaining velocity in your niche, ranked by how early you still are.

Built to onboard fast

• Guided welcome — a Get started widget with a setup checklist and a 60-second interface tour.

• Documentation — written guides for every page, plus concepts and how-tos, at /docs.

And a free toolset

A caption generator, a hashtag generator, an engagement-rate calculator, and a best-time-to-post tool — no login required.

Welcome aboard. This is just 1.0 — watch this page for what's next.