chapter 18 of 18

What ReelPile does not do

An honest list, so nothing here is a surprise after you buy.

  1. No drag into an editor. Not Premiere, not Resolve, not Finder. Files leave only through the download button.
  2. No PNG export of the board. Removed.
  3. No drawing. Pen, arrows and rectangles are hidden from the palette. Text notes only.
  4. The whole board does not play. The ceiling is 16 cards, and by default nothing plays except the card under the cursor.
  5. No scrubbing on a card. No controls on the board. Sound there is limited on purpose: the hovered card plays with it, every other playing card is muted.
  6. 720p is what you get, almost always. The download format asks for it first and falls back through looser options, the last of which have no height limit — so a clip offered only above 720p arrives large rather than not at all.
  7. Moving a card is not undoable. ⌘Z covers notes and drawings only.
  8. Arrange makes rows, not a grid. Ragged right edge; sizes are never changed.
  9. Auto-snapshots are not browsable. 60 exist; no interface reaches them.
  10. The data folder cannot be changed or revealed from the app.
  11. No sync between machines. The code exists but is switched off in every build.
  12. No account, sign-up or trial. A licence key, entered once, is the only thing asked of you.
  13. Not fully offline. Importing needs the network (yt-dlp) and music recognition needs the network (Shazam). Offline, you can browse what you already have.
  14. No password on a published board. Only an unguessable link.
  15. One shared link cannot serve two clients. The second overwrites the first's picks.
  16. Client picks do not come back into the app. You read them in a browser.
  17. Update failures are never shown.
  18. Search does not cover captions, URLs or notes. Only title, author, track and artist.
  19. Windows is not a shipping product (unsigned, no updates).
  20. There is no About box and no credits screen. The GPL notices themselves are surfaced: Settings → Licences → Third-party notices opens NOTICES.txt, which ships inside the app and carries the full third-party licence list and the written offer of source required by GPL §3(b).

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