Oct 31, 2026
Save from the sandbox and land on the sheet you just wrote
Write a call sheet in the sandbox, sign up and save it as a project, and you now land on that very sheet, ready to edit and publish. Before, it hid behind "Open this day's call sheet" with a blank new-sheet form at the bottom of the page, which looked like nothing had been saved. The project name no longer carries a "Day 1" tail. On phones, projects that already have call sheets fold the new-sheet form into a single "New call sheet" button, and the sandbox page puts the tool on the first screen. Pick producer during onboarding and the contact list files you under Production; the wrap report page no longer shows three empty figures before the first shoot day.
Open a call sheet and edit or publish it right there
Opening a day's call sheet used to show only a Print PDF button; editing or publishing meant going back to the list. Leads can now edit, publish or unpublish right on that page. Crew opening the Call sheet room see the latest published sheet straight away instead of a blank draft. Crew who can't see the budget no longer get a Budget tab on the finance page.
Export a whole project as a ZIP
The bottom of the project settings page now has "Export project": one ZIP with the schedule, scenes, shot list, call sheets, contacts, equipment, venues, tasks, documents, activity, expenses and fees — the budget only if you can see it. All CSV and plain text, so Excel or Numbers open them directly; receipts and frames are included as URLs. For archiving after wrap, or carrying on somewhere else.
Choose your notifications by type
Settings → Preferences has a new Notifications section: email is split into project mail, messages & social, and the weekly recap, each with its own switch. The Set app's push settings and quiet hours can be changed on the web too — it's the same setting. Login verification and project invites are unaffected.
There's a help page now
Open /help from the footer or the "?" button: what each tool does, the words we use, common questions and how to reach us, all on one page.
Search now finds projects, tools, locations and journal
The top-bar search used to cover only people, works and ideas. Now a project name takes you straight to a project you're on, "call sheet" opens the tool, and locations and journal posts show up too, with everyday things listed first. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) or / to open search anywhere.
Offline warning, plus a few keyboard shortcuts
When you lose signal on set, a bar at the top says you're offline so you don't fill in a form for nothing. Shortcuts: ⌘K or / opens search; g then p / t / l / i / h goes to projects / tools / locations / inbox / home. Press ? for the full list.
Oct 30, 2026
Budgets are now visible to leads only by default
Until now, a project’s budget sheet was open to the whole crew unless you set a passcode. Now only leads (including the delegate) can see it by default. The top of the budget page has a new “Who can see this budget” panel: let specific people in, set a passcode crew can enter themselves, or open it to the whole crew (view only, no editing). Existing projects without a passcode are now leads-only too — pick “Whole crew can see it” there to switch back. The workspace activity feed no longer shows budget amounts, and “budget confirmed” notifications only go to people who can see the budget. Expenses and compensation are unchanged.
Auto-schedule shoot days inside your project
Scenes and the rundown’s “⋯” menu now have Auto-schedule: grouped by location, day before night, a page target per day and at most 3 locations a day, the same way the sandbox’s shooting schedule works. Check the preview first (which date, new shoot day or added to an existing one, how many shots per scene), then confirm and the shots go straight into each day’s rundown. Only scenes that have shots and aren’t in a rundown yet are scheduled; scheduled scenes stay put, and scenes without shots are listed so you can add shots first.
Turn your scenes into a shooting schedule automatically
The no-signup sandbox has a new Shooting schedule tab. Your scenes are grouped by location, day before night within a day, and a new day starts when your page target is reached (about 5 pages by default), after 3 locations, or when a day scene would follow a night scene. Move scenes up, down or to another day, and make any day’s call sheet in one click. A day-out-of-days chart shows which days each cast member works and which days fall in between. Print it on A4; when you save to a project, each day becomes a shoot day and its shots go straight into that day’s rundown.
Paste a script, get a scene breakdown
Paste a whole script (copying from Word, PDF or Final Draft is fine) and it’s split into one row per scene: scene number, I/E, day/night, location, cast and pages. It recognises “INT. LOCATION - DAY”, “○場所（朝）” and “第1场 日 内 地点” headings, picks up cast from who speaks, and estimates pages at about a minute a page (you can edit them). The no-signup sandbox has a new Scenes tab: add any scene to the call sheet or give it shots, and it all comes with you when you save to a project. In a project’s Scenes, “Paste sheet or script” now takes scripts too.
Shot lists in the no-signup sandbox, with frames
You can now make a shot list without an account. Fill in scene, shot, size, movement, lens and duration for each shot, and add a frame by uploading an image, dragging one in, or drawing it. Switch the aspect ratio (16:9, 2.39:1, 9:16 and more) and print an A4 shot list with frames. Frames stay in your browser; when you save to a project, the shots and frames move into the project’s shot list. “Start using it” on the shot list tool page now opens this too when you’re not signed in.
Tool pages: “Start using it” works before you sign in
If you weren’t signed in, “Start using it” on the call sheet, shot list, rundown and scene breakdown pages used to flicker and do nothing. Now call sheets and rundowns open the no-signup sandbox on the right tab, and shot lists and scene breakdowns take you to sign up, then back to the same tool page.
Template articles now link to the online tool up top
Journal articles about call sheets, shot lists and rundowns now open with a one-line link: if you’d rather not print, write it in your browser, then export a PDF or share a link with your crew. The link used to sit only at the end of the article.
Oct 28, 2026
Small buttons, menus and rows are easier to tap on phones
The remove “×” in Scenes, Transport, Timesheet, Talent and Look sheet, the “⋯” in Permits and the “#” in Docs were only a few pixels wide on phones. They look the same but now have a finger-sized tap area. Menus in Permits, Budget and Assets are taller, and the alerts on Today, scene and look rows in Talent, the roster on Overview, the Finance sub-tabs and the language switch in the footer all have taller rows, so they're harder to miss. The “Owner” tag on the Overview roster is larger too.
Look import spots setting images; Look sheet on mobile
Location, backdrop and mood-board pages in a lookbook used to be imported as looks of their own. Pages labelled “Location”, “Set” or “Background”, and wordless mood boards of four or more images, are now left out by default, and you can choose which looks use their image as the setting. Within a look, the model shot and the setting shot are kept apart, with the setting going into “Setting · backdrop”, and one tap swaps them if they were read the wrong way round. On mobile, stills projects showed Shot list in the middle of the bottom bar; it is now Look sheet, and Shot list is under More.
Look import, roster and travel form now fill the page
The PDF Look import used to open as a large window with its content in the top-left corner while you picked a file. It now starts small and expands once the Looks are read. The crew roster on the project overview was narrower than the cards around it, and the “Add a leg” form in Travel was half width; both now line up with the rest of the page, and departure and arrival sit side by side so the form fits on one screen.
Timesheet, Finance and Transport fit better on laptops
These pages used to lay out in one row based on screen width, so with the workspace sidebar open, names, departments, descriptions and places were squeezed to a few characters. They now follow the width of the content area: one row when it fits, two rows when it doesn't, so names and descriptions show in full, and the budget total no longer wraps.
Look sheet: one card per look, plus PDF import
The look sheet no longer crams each look into one row: every look gets a card with a large reference image on the left (tap to enlarge), model, outfit, setting, lighting and notes in the middle (one outfit item per line), and status, count, shoot day and formats on the right. On phones the image sits next to that info and the rest stacks one field per row. Managers can also import a PDF: lookbooks labelled “LOOK 1” are split by label, otherwise one look per page; text after labels like model, outfit and location is filled in and images are cropped out. You review everything before importing, and the file isn't uploaded.
Phone: message box clears the bottom bar; captures get “⋯”
On phones, the message box and Send button now sit above the bottom bar, and the page no longer scrolls up and down. Capture cards have a “⋯” in the corner for archive and delete, and their checkboxes are always visible. Filters on Notifications and Captures stay put when you open something and come back.
Swiping back on phones now closes pop-ups first
This now works beyond the workspace too: on a phone, an open message thread, a full-size photo, work editing, posting a call, a selects photo or a call sheet preview closes first when you swipe back or press back, instead of dropping you out of the page.
Studio pages can be verified, and are linked from Creators
Studio page owners can press “Request verification” on the manage page, then send their website or write from their company email in the Team CREA conversation; once we've checked, the page shows “Verified” next to the name, can appear in search engines and sits higher in the directory. Renaming the studio means requesting again, and every studio page has a link at the bottom to tell us it isn't really that company.
Mobile workspace: swipe back now goes up one level
On phones, swiping back (or the back button) from Tasks, the Walkie-Talkie or the “More” sheet used to drop you out of the project to the home page; now it goes back one level at a time. Each module also has a real back button at the top: from a module it returns to the project's Work page, and from the bottom-tab pages it returns to your project list.
Reminders for selects deadlines, rentals and permits
A few things that used to live only inside their own module now show up where you look. The schedule calendar marks the delivery target, selects deadlines and rental pick-up / return days. The AD reminds you about rental gear due back tomorrow, permits still pending for shoots in the next 7 days, and selects that are about to close or closed without a submission. A permit that is approved but not valid on the shoot day is flagged on the call sheet. The today page shows your own call time, the day note, rain covers and travel; personal links add Looks, travel, wardrobe notes and custom blocks. The night-before push includes pickup time and the day note; calendar feeds use the call time from the sent call sheet and include the note. Wrap reports pick up missing gear and unmatched venue condition photos, and timesheets prefill from the sent call sheet. When a shoot day lands outside the planned dates, the project's shoot dates widen to include it. In contacts, the old "Accommodation" field is now "Lodging notes" and sits next to hotel and room.
Cancelled days, dropped venues and released talent line up
When a day is cancelled and later added back, new call sheets no longer attach to the cancelled one, and personal links, the today page, the workspace's next call sheet and the app's next shoot all skip cancelled days. Availability no longer counts cancelled days as booked. Moving a venue off Confirmed clears it from those days, renaming it updates the schedule, and editing a day's location by hand unlinks venues that no longer match. Released talent is left out of call sheet drafts.
A round of fixes across PDF exports
Location PDFs used to drop Chinese and Japanese names, addresses and descriptions; they now print in full. Wrap report PDFs are rebuilt: issues and notes are no longer cut to a dozen characters, completed scenes and next-day notes are included, and you can pick the language and preview. Shot lists no longer print raw keys like "shotsN", scenes sort 1, 2, 10, and shot sizes and moves follow the PDF language. Rundown location codes come with names, and the scene sheet has a shoot-day column. Finance sheets show foreign-currency fees in their own currency with a conversion, and projects with only expenses can export. Portfolio roles follow the language with a single footer, and two-column images no longer get split across pages.
Set venues as rain cover for shoot days, several per day
Open a venue card and use Rain cover to tick the days it's the fallback if it rains. Confirmed or held venues both work, and a day can have several. The call sheet, the crew page and the app API now list rain covers, and the advance rain alert names them along with any backup day.
Call sheets now show permits, venues, travel and wardrobe
Details entered elsewhere but missing from the call sheet now appear: permits (number, conditions, on-site contact), venue address and contact, rain cover, the day's travel, backup day, the day note, talent wardrobe notes and look time slots. Empty pickups fill in from the transport sheet. The web editor can add meeting points, green rooms and makeup rooms, plus episodes, artist arrivals and products, and custom text and image blocks are saved. Map links in the PDF are clickable, departments and roles follow the PDF language, and blank cells no longer print TBA.
App shoot-day edits keep your custom department calls
If you set a call time for a department you added on the web (say, a transport team) and then changed any department call for that day in the app, it was wiped. Departments the app doesn't touch now stay as they are, and the crew page shows department calls for custom departments too.
Call sheet PDFs come out true A4 from laptops and phones
Exporting a call sheet on a 13–15" laptop or a phone used to squeeze the page, so the PDF had oversized, wrapped text and an extra page. It now matches the large-screen layout on any device, and section headings no longer get stranded at the bottom of a page.
Export the look sheet as a PDF
The look sheet now has Export PDF. Anyone on the team can use it, in Chinese, Japanese or English, with a paper preview first. Each look gets its own block: reference image (uncropped), models, outfit, setting and backdrop (with its photo and map), lighting, photo count and formats, plus a box to tick on set. Looks spread over several shoot days are grouped by day.
A look can now have several models
The look sheet's Model cell now takes several models who appear together, suggesting names from your talent list as you type. Models you add join the talent list automatically, showing which looks they're in, and renames stay in sync. When a call sheet is drafted for a shoot day, the models from that day's looks fill the talent section, with wardrobe notes saying which look and what they wear.
Look sheets fixed on wide screens; places get maps
On wide screens the look sheet's cells were misaligned, so it looked like only the reference image could be changed. Columns now line up and empty cells have a border and a hint, so you can type model, outfit, place, lighting and count directly. The place column can take an image and a map link, or you can pick a location from the Locations module to bring in its name, map and photo. Today's looks on the shoot day show the map too.
Red dots for new items, and submit times on expenses
Expenses others submitted since your last visit, fees newly assigned to you, new asset versions and newly added locations now get a small red dot, and every expense shows when it was submitted. Fees can now be entered in any currency. The schedule list is colour-coded by type (scouts, meetings, travel, purchases…), with shoot days in blue. Input hints now just say what to write, without made-up names and places.
Your own departments, and budget categories for expenses
In the contacts department list, choose "Add a department…" to add ones that aren't built in, like Transport or Agency & client. They're saved to your account, so every project can use them, and call-sheet department suggestions and @department mentions recognise them too. In projects with a budget sheet, expense and fee categories now come straight from the budget (including your own, like Wardrobe or Hair & makeup), so budget vs. actual finally lines up. Projects without a budget keep the usual six categories.
Pick people one by one in availability checks
When you send an availability check, set "How many people". Once replies come in, choose Pick or Release for each person: picked people are notified right away, and confirmed dates only go to them. When you have enough, CREA lists the others who said they were free and offers a "not needed this time" message — it's only sent when you click. People who haven't replied are just marked, never notified. Talent with an email in the talent list can be asked as well, and picking or releasing them updates their hold status.
Talent, equipment and locations can now be put on hold
All three now share the same states: Option / On hold / Confirmed / Released. Holds can carry a rank, a reply deadline and the dates being held — the project overview lists them by deadline under "On hold", the schedule calendar marks them with a yellow dashed line, and the AD reminds you before they expire. When you confirm one, CREA asks whether to tell the others: you get a message to copy (Japanese, Chinese or English), or an in-app notice if they're on CREA. Nothing is sent unless you click. Equipment also takes a rental house and pick-up / return dates, and options or released items stay out of the gear check.
Oct 27, 2026
Photo shoots now speak in looks everywhere
For photo-shoot projects: Today puts today's looks first; the rundown lists "Looks not scheduled yet" on the right, one tap adds them to the day; call sheets stop mentioning scenes and shots, and the advance section lists tomorrow's looks; client links show progress in looks; the phone workspace and production chain switch to the look sheet; and the look sheet gets an unread dot when it changes. Looks with no count are counted as 1 everywhere, and the look sheet says so.
Date changes notify the crew; cancelled days go quiet
Changing a shoot day's date now notifies the whole crew. Cancelled days no longer send the night-before and rain alerts, and show as cancelled in subscribed calendars. Editing transport after a call sheet goes out reminds you to send a new version. Call times now match the version the crew actually has everywhere. Talent who signed a likeness release can't be deleted, so the release stays on record.
Backup days and custom types in the schedule
Tap “+ Backup day” on a shoot day to hold an alternate date — it shows on the calendar as a dashed blue box so the whole crew knows. If you need it, “Move shoot here” moves the shoot day, the call sheet and rundown follow, and the crew is notified. Add your own types like Rehearsal or Fitting under “Schedule types” on the schedule page.
Photo shoots count wrap reports in photos
When a project's type is Photo shoot, wrap reports and production pace count photos instead of shots. Pick a shoot day and the look sheet fills in how many photos were planned, how many are done and which looks are finished. The left bar shows the look sheet instead of the shot list (add the shot list back from “+” if you need it). Filed wrap reports can now be edited too.
Link LINE and Apple in settings
Under Settings › Account › Linked accounts you can add Google, LINE and Apple to your existing account, then sign in with any of them. Each LINE or Apple account can belong to one CREA account only, and you can't unlink your last way of signing in.
Sign in with Apple on the web
The sign-in, sign-up and invite pages now have “Continue with Apple”. If you already use Sign in with Apple in our app, the web takes you to the same account. Choosing “Hide My Email” is fine — our emails still reach you.
Sign in with LINE
The sign-in, sign-up and invite pages now have “Continue with LINE” — no password to remember. If you've connected LINE notifications in the Ready! Action app, signing in with LINE takes you to that same account.
Join from an invite link with just your name
People you invite no longer need to type an email and password or click a confirmation link: they continue with Google, or just enter a name and role and tap Join. Inside WeChat or Instagram Google won't work, but the name-only option does. They can add an email later to get back in from a new phone.
A new bottom bar on phones
On phones, messages used to be hard to find — the bottom bar now has a Messages tab, counting unread messages and invites waiting for your reply. Projects opens straight to your projects, with common tools along the top. Captures and Ideas moved into Me; Explore, Creators, Locations and Journal sit at the top of Home.
A monthly letter: “CREA this month”
On the first Monday of each month, people with a verified email get one letter: two or three things that shipped last month, and one question for you. Answer via the button or just reply — either way it reaches us. You can unsubscribe at the bottom of the letter.
An updates page
This page. Every time something new ships on CREA, it's logged here — a red mark on “Updates” in the left rail means there's something you haven't seen. You can tell us what you think right from each entry.
Talk to Team CREA directly
There's a new “Talk to Team CREA” link in the left rail (under “Work” on mobile). Tell us what's awkward, missing or wanted — we read every message and reply. The page you came from is attached to your first message, so you don't need to explain where you were.
New project? Set the shoot day and bring people in first
Right after you create a project, the first screen now asks just two things: when you shoot, and who's on the crew. Set the shoot day and the call sheet fills in the date, sunrise, sunset and weather; drop the invite link in your group chat and people join in about a minute.
Start right after signing up — verify your email later
After signing up with email you can start straight away — just click the verification link within 7 days. A few actions, like publishing work or inviting people from outside CREA, ask you to verify first.
Condition photos: shoot on arrival, compare at wrap
In a project's Locations, photograph the room when you arrive, then shoot the same angle at wrap. Overlay the two and anything that moved stands out — a record for deposit or restoration disputes.
Contacts now hold hotel details
Each person can add their hotel and room number, and the call sheet prints an accommodation block. The whole crew sees the hotel; only the project lead and the person themselves see the room number.
A new wordmark: “CREA.”
Four heavier, tighter letters and a red full stop. The site, emails and app icon all use it now.