Drift v0.5.0
This is the first public release of Drift for Android. On the desktop, preview and export stay on the GPU, the media bin gets folders, and Face Swap, video stabilization, and several new languages land in this version.
- First public Android app — edit on a phone with a touch UI, including crop and trim from the bin, and AV1 playback
- Preview stays on the GPU instead of copying every frame through the CPU, so Full / Half / Quarter match the preview panel size
- Export converts frames to the encoder format on the GPU; typical 8-bit exports are faster
- Folders in the media bin: create, rename, nest, and move clips between them
- Preview, trim, and crop a clip from the bin before putting it on the timeline
- Face Swap effect: replace a face in a clip with a still photo
- Video stabilization to smooth camera shake, with a smoothness slider and optional tripod lock
- Settings → Interface scale (100–200%), and a first-launch language chooser
- Timeline scroll pans left and right, Shift+scroll moves between tracks, and middle-click drag also pans
- Closing a project with unsaved changes now asks Save / Don't Save / Cancel
- Translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), French (Canada), Spanish, Italian, and Sinhala
Thanks to @CathodeAnode for the French (Canada) translation, SVG icons, translatable UI strings, and restoring a maximized window after fullscreen on KDE; to @yosenstar for Chinese (Simplified); to @alexbassani for Brazilian Portuguese; to @roger-fernandes-Dev for timeline scroll and pan; and to @jmn8718 for folders in the media bin.
Installing
- AppImage (Linux, any distro):
chmod +x Drift-*.AppImage && ./Drift-*.AppImage - Windows installer: run
Drift-Setup-*.exe - Windows portable: extract
Drift-Portable-*.zipanywhere and rundrift.exefrom
theDriftfolder inside it. Nothing is installed, but settings and addons are still
stored per-user under%APPDATA%\Drift. - macOS (Apple Silicon): open
Drift-*-arm64.dmgand drag Drift to Applications. The
app is signed ad-hoc rather than notarised, so the first launch needs right-click →
Open, orxattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Drift.app. - Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -U drift-*.pkg.tar.zst - Flatpak: requires
flatpakwith the Flathub remote added (flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo), thenflatpak install --user Drift-*.flatpak - Android: install the APK for your ABI (
arm64-v8aon virtually all phones;x86_64for emulators). Sideload withadb install Drift-*-arm64-v8a.apk.
Fonts, stickers, speech models and GPU/CPU acceleration runtimes are not bundled — install
the ones you want from the Addon Manager in the app header.