The card

Top to bottom:

• Video or image. A poster until the video is ready. Video not downloaded if the file is not on this machine — or Downloading… while the background queue is fetching this particular card. A ⚠ badge with a plain-language reason when something went wrong: the post was removed or made private, it needs a sign-in, the platform is asking us to slow down, or the fetch simply failed. Four different reasons, one badge.
• Converting… instead of a poster while a file you brought in is being re-encoded into something the player can open (section 2).
• An audio card looks different on purpose. No poster, no video, no hover: a ♪ mark, the name and the duration. There is no frame to show, so it does not pretend to have one.
• Platform tag in the corner.
• Frame counter (1/8) for carousels.
• A row of buttons on hover.
• The title.
• ♪ Artist — Track, clickable, opens the track in your browser.
• @author, also a button: clicking it puts the author into the search box.
• Stats: ▶ views, ♥ likes, 💬 comments, ⏱ duration, abbreviated (12.3K, 1.4M). Only what the source actually reported. Your own uploads and some posts arrive with none.
• A resize handle in the bottom-right corner.

The seven buttons

The first three appear only when there is something to hand you, and the rule is stricter than it sounds. A YouTube card never shows either download button — not "when there is nothing to save", but always, because ReelPile never has that file and never will. A silent clip shows no ♪ Download music, even though its file is right there. An audio card shows ♪ but no ⬇ Download video, because there is no video to give. So a card carries anywhere from one button to three.

⟳ Re-sync does one of two things, depending on what is wrong. On a card that came from a link it fetches the clip again from where it came — except a YouTube card, where there was never anything to fetch, so it simply re-checks whether the link still embeds. On a file you brought in yourself there is no remote to fetch from, so it repairs instead: a conversion that failed is attempted once more, on the untouched original. Either way the button reports what it actually did rather than claiming a success it did not have.

It also refuses to spin for nothing. A working silent clip counts, technically, as a file that "needs converting" — remuxing a silent file leaves it silent — so a broad rule would have re-run ffmpeg on it at every press, forever. ⟳ acts only when the card is genuinely complaining.

Something here wrong, or something missing? Tell us — the manual is corrected against the app, not the other way round.