v2.1.0
Current release
July 20, 2026
Easier license entry and a signed Windows installer
Version 2.1 fixes the license problems that could block ordinary customers. It also introduces a Microsoft-verified Sputnik Digital LLC publisher signature.
Fixed and improved
- Wrapped license keys now work. Spaces and line breaks added by email clients no longer cause a valid key to be rejected.
- License keys can be replaced in the app. Help > Activate License lets you enter a renewal or upgrade without reinstalling.
- Expiring licenses are clearer. The status bar shows the remaining days, and an expired license still allows previews while blocking export with useful next steps.
- Buy links go to the correct page. License prompts now open the VanityFilter purchase page.
- Windows publisher verification. The application and installer are signed as Sputnik Digital LLC and timestamped through Microsoft Artifact Signing.
v2.0.0
July 2026
An all-new interface, new skin controls, and faster processing
This started as 1.4 and grew into a full 2.0: a redesigned interface, three new skin controls, and a documented pass over the speed work.
Added
- An all-new interface. The whole app got a redesign. Your footage now fills the window,
the controls sit in floating panels you can slide out of the way, and a slim icon rail runs down the side
with view and zoom chips right over the image. On a laptop the preview is about 2.5 times taller than the
old layout, so you see far more of your video as you work. Cleaner chrome throughout, with the gradient
Start button as the one strong accent.
- Amount slider (master wet/dry). A new dial at the top of the Smoothing column. Set
your look with the detail sliders, then ease the whole effect (smoothing, texture repair, shine, redness,
and brighten together) back toward the untouched original with one move. No re-tuning.
- Shine removal. A new slider that tames the specular hot spots from oily skin or hard
lighting. Each bright spot gets rebuilt from the surrounding skin tone, color included, so corrected areas
keep natural skin color instead of going gray. Normal highlights on the nose and cheekbones, and the
catchlights in the eyes, stay exactly where they should.
- Reduce redness. A new slider that evens out red blotches, rosacea, and flush by
easing them toward your own baseline skin tone, not a flat cold shift, so your overall warmth stays exactly
as shot. It works on color only, so skin texture and lightness stay untouched, and your lips keep their
color.
- In-app update notifications. VanityFilter checks for new versions on launch and shows
a banner when one is ready, with a one-click link to download and a Skip this version option. A Check for
Updates item sits in the Help menu, and you can switch automatic checks off any time. No account, no
telemetry, fully offline-safe.
- Remembers your window. VanityFilter reopens at the size and position you left it, so
your layout is right where you want it every time.
Under the hood
- Downscaled face detection. Faces are found on a smaller copy of each frame and mapped
back with no loss, so detection stays quick even on 4K footage.
- Half-rate cached segmentation. The heaviest step, separating skin from everything else,
runs at reduced resolution and reuses its result on alternate frames during export. The temporal blend hides
the difference and roughly halves that step's cost.
- Smarter smoothing. The smoothing filter works only on the area around each face and
scales down when that area is large, so 4K exports stay fast.
- GPU export. With an NVIDIA card, H.264 export runs on the GPU, freeing your CPU cores
for the processing itself. It falls back to CPU automatically.