What’s new in Blurwise – Release notes

Blurwise 2.8.0

LatestOctober 8, 2026

Blurwise in five languages, and one project for a whole job

Blurwise now speaks English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Pick the language from the globe button at the bottom of the window; "Automatic" follows the language of Windows.
The installer is in the same five languages, and messages about your licence now arrive in your language too.

"Join…" and "Separate" buttons on the Faces tab: select several rows and join them into one face in one go.
The face you pick stays highlighted, both in the list and on the video.
Del removes the boxes you drew, Ctrl+Z puts them back. They can also be removed with a right-click.
The eye strip now stays on a face even in the moments the face isn’t found automatically.

Draw the box, adjust it, then press Start: nothing is followed until you are happy with it. Pause to correct the box and carry on from there.
The box grows and shrinks with the object, so something coming towards the camera stays covered.
A 2x button makes the tracking pass up to twice as fast.

All the files of a review are saved in one project, and reopen together.
Opening a project takes a moment instead of up to a minute, and "Find faces" no longer searches again files you already reviewed.
If a video has moved, Blurwise asks where it is once and remembers. If it is gone, you can leave it out and keep working on the others: it stays in the list marked as not found.
Faces marked "Check" are still marked when you reopen a project.

Exporting or saving into a synced folder (OneDrive, Dropbox, Synology…) waits for the sync to let go of the file. If the sound still can’t be added, Blurwise tells you instead of leaving you a silent video to discover later.
Stop now works straight away while a long video is being measured, and the page says that is what it is doing.
The detection presets reset the advanced settings too, so a choice made in an earlier session doesn’t linger underneath.
Temporary files are deleted when you close Blurwise, instead of piling up hundreds of MB, and a downloaded update is removed once installed.
"Restart now" works in the installed app.

October 2, 2026

A much faster review, and nothing lost when you close

Moving through a video is now near-instant: clicking a face, jumping on the timeline and stepping backwards no longer make you wait, even on long or high-resolution videos.
A face lost for a moment and found again as a new row can be joined back into one face — right-click its row and choose "Join with…". The gap between the two is covered too, and "Separate" undoes it.
Change several faces at once: Ctrl+click or Shift+click rows, then switch blur on or off, or pick a cover, for all of them together.
A "Show" filter above the list: all faces, the ones worth a second look, the blurred ones or the ones left visible.
Faces that deserve a second look are marked "Check", and the list now follows the order faces appear in the video.
Play at 4x to cover long footage quickly.
Boxes you add yourself glide smoothly between the points where you place them, and start as rectangles so nothing you marked is left uncovered at the corners.

Steadier tracking: fewer duplicate boxes, a face is no longer split into many rows when it turns or moves, and boxes stay on faces as they enter the shot.
Choose how thorough detection should be — Thorough, Balanced or Precise — with a line explaining what each means for your video.

Save every file in the review in one go, next to each video or all in one folder.
Save projects from the first page too, for example after an export — and Ctrl+S saves from anywhere.
Blurwise now asks before closing if your work hasn’t been saved, so the faces it found are never lost by accident.

"Check for updates" in About and Manage license tells you when a new version is out and installs it for you — only when you ask, and without sending anything about you or your files. If your licence doesn’t include a new version, it tells you so instead of installing it.

September 29, 2026

True colours, better quality and a second look at any export

HDR videos keep their colours: no more washed-out or shifted tones in the review or in the exported file.
Choose the video quality of your exports: Standard or High.
Interlaced camcorder footage comes out clean, without the combing lines on moving edges.
"Review again" puts a file you already exported back into the review, to change a decision without starting over.

Disguise only the stretches that need it, with four tones so several speakers stay distinguishable.
A cleaner-sounding voice disguise, still irreversible.
Hear the video while it plays in the review, if you want to.

Hold the step buttons to move frame by frame, a faster 2x, and stepping backwards that keeps up.
"Restore default settings" brings back the original settings in one click.