🚀 New Improvements

• Undo: deleted a round or asset by mistake? Bring it back in one click, or with Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z on Mac).
• Alphabetical suffix automatic round stacking: files ending in an alphabetical suffix (e.g. "_a", "_b") are now recognized as part of the Smart Rounds matching criteria.

• 3 active sessions only: for extra security, you can now be signed in on up to 3 devices or browsers at once. Signing in on a 4th will automatically sign you out of your oldest session.

• Comments UX: Pin your most important comments to the top, attach files behaviour fixes, and shortcut to select all comment text with ⌘+A.

• Hide markups: with H shortcut to hide them on/off instantly.

⚙️ Behind the scenes

We also kept working on performance and reliability across uploads, downloads, and large-file handling.

• Sharper previews for large PSD, TIFF, and PSB files.
• Faster, more reliable uploads & downloads, especially on high-volume accounts.
• Mobile: a handful of UI improvements for a cleaner overall experience in commenting, folders structure and navigation.

And a handful of additional fixes reported directly by our users — thanks for flagging these!

We've rolled out pricing and seat updates, clearer roles with more granular permissions, flexible billing for your team's seasonality, and a fully private way to talk internally on a project, plus a much more powerful free reviewing experience. Here's everything that's shipping.

✏️ Editor Role: What's Changing

Editors are the core of how retouching ops actually run on VeryBusy.

Starting today, the Editor role in projects will require a workspace seat.

Owners and Managers already require a paid seat today. That doesn’t change. Editors are the only role moving from free to paid. Reviewers stay free with no limit on how many a project or workspace can have.

More on the transition:

Editors without a seat get 30 days of free Editor access. This applies to anyone who has Editor permissions without a seat on August 1, as well as anyone invited as an Editor for the first time after August 1. This gives projects room to start without automatically adding a paid seat.

After 30 days:

• If they’re assigned a paid seat, they keep Editor permissions
• If not, they automatically switch to a Reviewer

👉🏽 Full details here.

Editors can:

• Upload and stack rounds
• Manage assets
• Create and add labels

• Full download permissions, including layered PSDs with comments.
• Invite other Editors or Reviewers onto a project via email.
• Full version history: internal comments and compare to any previous round.

• Markup, comment and approve assets

Ideal for: Retouchers (in-house and external), Art Directors, Producers or anyone who does editing and operational work.

⭐ Reviewers: free, unlimited, and more powerful than ever

If someone only needs to review work, leave feedback, compare versions, or approve assets, they can stay a Reviewer.

Unlimited Free Reviewers: There is no limit on how many a project or workspace can have.

Reviewers can:

• Comment and markup on any asset

• Approve assets
• Download assets (when enabled by the Project Manager)

• 🆕 Compare against any previous round.
• 🆕 Rate and star assets

• 🆕 Upload R0 or a new asset (when enabled by the Project Manager)

👉🏽 Learn more about managing reviewer permissions.

👥 Workspace Roles: Manager & Editor

More granular permissions on who can access what across your workspace, not just within a project.

• Workspace Manager: full workspace access. They can create and manage projects, see everything in the workspace, have seat management permissions, and create labels and contact groups.

• Workspace Editor: scoped access. Works only inside the projects they're explicitly invited to. Can't create projects, see the rest of the workspace, or manage members.

Billing and workspace settings are Workspace Owner only.

• 🆕 Managers can assign available seats themselves, from the pool the Owner has already purchased.

👉🏽 Learn more about workspace member roles.

💳 Flexible seats for your seasonality

Running a busy season or a short-term push that needs more hands?

• Mixed billing on the same workspace: add seats whenever you need them, monthly or annual, regardless of your plan's billing period. Scale up for the weeks you need it, then let them lapse. Learn more about mixed billing here.
• No more seat limits in any plan.

👉🏽 Learn more about mixed billing.

💬 Internal Comments

Internal Comments let your team discuss feedback notes privately, completely invisible to clients, leadership, and external reviewers. Only workspace members have full internal commenting permissions.

• Same asset, only source of truth: no more duplicating assets or spinning up a second project just to separate internal notes from client-facing review.
• Full control over who sees what.
• Available on the Studio Plan only.

👉🏽 Learn more about internal comments.

🔐 SCIM Provisioning

VeryBusy now supports SCIM 2.0 (System for Cross-domain Identity Management), so your identity provider (IdP) can automatically create, update, and deactivate VeryBusy accounts for your team.

SCIM Provisioning is an Enterprise-plan feature. If you're on Studio or Pro and want to enable it, contact us at enterprise@verybusy.io.

👉🏽 Learn more about SCIM Provisioning.

⚡ Performance & Reliability

We also shipped a round of under-the-hood work: faster project deletion, quicker load times, and smoother day-to-day performance across the app.

Plus a bunch of other fixes, including a smoother markup panning experience, mobile UI improvements, ⌘+A (Select All) in comment fields, activity tag behavior, thumbnails comment updates speed, clearer round naming, and more.

We are happy to announce a set of new features that create a pipeline from set directly to post-production.

✅ Watch Folders: see your selects from set instantly in VeryBusy

✅ Star-rating support: see ratings from set and refine selects directly in VeryBusy

✅ iPad Markup support: full access to comments and markups on a mobile device

✅ …and more!

All features below are available in all plans.

⚡ Watch Folders

Automatically send images from set directly into VeryBusy, kicking off the retouching process. Nothing to download. In VeryBusy, just select the folder from your hard drive, and as long as the browser window stays open, new images will appear in your project.

Still need to finalize selects? Invite the decision-makers to VeryBusy and work collaboratively toward final selects.

👉 Learn more about Watch Folders

This feature is in beta. Click the ? at the top-right of the app to let us know what you think.

⭐ Star Ratings

Make selects using star ratings within VeryBusy. VeryBusy will also now reflect any star ratings made before upload. Additionally, with Watch Folders, star ratings made on set will also carry over.

👉 Learn more about the Star Ratings

📱 Markup on iPad

iPad now supports the full markup experience. Draw annotations and leave precise on-image feedback.

Combined with Watch Folders, you can even do this while the shoot is still happening.

👉 Learn more about iPad support

🌗 Dark Mode

Switch to dark mode with a simple toggle! We’ve configured our entire platform to support late-night reviews and color-critical work. Toggle once, and settings persist across sessions.

Something look weird? Click the (?) at the top-right of the app to let us know.

👉 Learn More about Dark Mode

🆕 Fixes & Polish — straight from your feedback

• CSV downloads: export a full snapshot of a project to CSV, including filenames, round numbers, asset status, assignments, labels, and more. Useful for archiving, sharing project state with stakeholders, or pulling data into your own reporting. Learn more
• Scroll position: your scroll position within a project is saved! When you return to project thumbnails from markup view, you’ll land right back where you last were. No more re-scrolling through hundreds of files to find what you were working on.
• Expanded round-deletion permission: Project Owners and Project Managers can now delete a round regardless of who originally uploaded it. This expanded functionality keeps projects from being delayed if the original uploader isn’t available.
• Move-to-assets: This is a bug fix you found. Moving assets between projects and folders now works reliably in all scenarios, including nested folders and cross-project moves.

VeryBusy is built specifically for commercial retouching workflows so supporting large production files in high-volume projects was always core to our product.

⚡ Technical Performance: Larger file support & uploads speed.

• VeryBusy now processes and renders assets up to ~3.5 GB. Upload and preview layered compressed and uncompressed PSDs, high-res tiff composites, and more!

Before, we supported files up to 750 MB.

Learn more about limits for different file types here.

• We rebuilt how batch uploads are processed under the hood, making it significantly faster and more reliable to push large sets of files into a project at once.

✨ Toggle to Round 0 — you asked, we built it.

One of the most upvoted requests. You can now A/B compare any retouched version to the original version in one click.

The UI has also been redesigned alongside this, grouping the round selector, compare side-by-side and A/B toggle in the right bar; giving you and all reviewers a cleaner, more focused compare experience.

🛠 +10 Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Paste a list of emails in the share modal. Comma-separated emails now work in the invite field so you can paste your whole team at once.
• Resolved comment thumbnails. See a visual reference (grey comment icon) on asset thumbnails when all feedback was resolved in current round.
• Roles & permissions polish. The manage review role section is now visible to all relevant roles, and permission request behavior is more consistent across the product.
• Auto @mention on reply. VeryBusy tags the last commentener automatically when you reply in a thread.
• Redesign Plan tab and studio trial workspace members add-ons breakdowns.
• Fixed a bug related to notifications servers and monitoring.
• Fixed a reported bug related to navigation with active filters.
• Supported a reported issue related to forgot password flow.
• and more!

🔒 Security & Compliance

Your creative work deserves enterprise-grade protection.

VeryBusy has achieved SOC 2 Type 1 certification, audited in accordance with AICPA standards. This means your projects, assets, and team data are protected under industry verified standards for security, availability, and confidentiality.

👉 Learn more about our security infrastructure →

✨ Recap 2025 Analytics

You've been busy. Now you can prove it.

The panel aggregates all your 2025 project activity in one place; surfacing the real impact of your work across every retouching project you were part of.

Here's what you'll find inside:

• Total projects, assets managed, and review rounds
• Feedback generated and resolution rate
• Team collaboration stats
• Time metrics: cycle time, feedback response time, average time per round, and more

You can share the link and send it to your team, your manager, the client or any stakeholder who needs to see the numbers behind the work.

👉 Think there are other metrics worth tracking? Let us know here!

Note: Only available to users who collaborated on a project created in 2025. If you don't see the button in the nav bar, you may not have active projects from that period.

📊 Project Overview — Now with Assignment Metrics

Managing workload just got a lot clearer.

Get a bird's-eye view of workload distribution across your projects and folders. The Project and Folder Overview panel now shows a people-based breakdown of asset assignments alongside existing label tracking, so you can quickly see who owns what and where things stand.

• Get instant visibility of your team's assignments across projects and folders
• Go deeper when you need to by clicking on any assignee or label to instantly filter the asset view and focus on the details
• You can access from anywhere. Open the panel from project and folder thumbnails on the dashboard, or directly from inside
• Always stay in flow. The panel stays open as you navigate between projects and folders

🔒 Only available to users with an Owner or Manager-role in the project.

🛠 Improvements, bug fixes, and more!

• One unified view for all file types + Filter options

TIFFs, PDFs, EIPs, RAWs, and all other file types now live alongside your images in the main project view. No more switching tabs, no more missing files buried in a separate section.

Use the File Type filter to surface specific formats when you need to.

• Collapsible filter categories

The filter panel keeps growing with new criteria (rounds, document type, assignments, and more), so we made it easier to manage. Categories can now be collapsed and expanded, and your preferences are saved per project — so you only see what matters to you.

• Studio Plan Trial now available.

You can now explore all features included in the Studio Plan trial, no need to request access.

• Implemented 3 technical improvements for upload performance and speed for large files and big batch uploads.
• Fixed a bug where copying a reply above a comment would include unintended content when using auto-mentions.

Keep ownership clear, your team aligned and your projects organized.

Project Owners and Managers can now assign assets to specific people in projects so everyone knows exactly what they’re responsible for.

• Assign assets in batch to multiple assignees, regardless their role.
• Filter by “Assigned to me,” “Not assigned,” or by teammate to drive your focus where you need to and track progress easily.
• Get real-time notifications via email and in-app to never miss anything. Feel free to customize your settings.

🔒 This feature is only available in Studio Plan.

Learn more about how it works here.

⚡️ Download PSD Markups — Performance Improvements (Beta)

We’ve rebuilt core infrastructure to make .PSD layered markups file download — dramatically faster and more accurate.

They now load up to 9× faster; going from minutes to seconds, even on large files with many comments and annotations.

We know this feature is a lifesaver for retouchers and producers working on heavy files, and we’re not stopping here. Thanks for giving us feedback, we hear you!

You can now pull files straight from Dropbox into VeryBusy; no downloads and re-uploading, no switching tabs.

✅ Start retouching faster

✅ Skip manual file transfers

✅ Import from shared client folders

✅ Auto-stack duplicate filenames

👉 View full guide

👉 Give feedback or suggest integrations

🛠 Improvements

• Advanced Filters: You can now filter by Round Number to quickly surface version-specific feedback and spot bottlenecks in approvals.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• PDF stacking fix: PDFs will no longer stack as rounds under image-based base assets. Can only upload PDF rounds for PDF files to maintain consistency.

• PSD Download stability: layered markup PSD download background jobs are now handled more reliably by our server queue.

We're constantly working to make your experience smoother and more efficient. Here are the latest updates:

1.Control Comment Permissions

You can now hide previous rounds comments for the Reviewer-role.

• Give clients a clean view: just the latest round, no internal noise.

• Keep feedback focused on the current version.

• Control comment visibility without duplicating files. Just toggle on/off project level permissions when you need them.

This feature is only available in Team Plans for Project Owners and Managers.

-> Learn more about custom permissions.

2.Batch resolve comments

Speed up your QC process in just one click! You can now mark all unresolved comments as resolved instantly.

3. Scale your process, consistentlyStreamline your project setup by adding label group templates when creating new projects, alongside collaborator groups. This feature helps you save time and smoothly reuse groups, making it easier to nail & scale your content production.

4. Auto @mention replies

Now, when you reply to a comment, the original commenter will be automatically @mentioned. This ensures that the right people are notified without the extra steps, keeping everyone on the loop.

5. Infrastructure Improvements for download PSD beta

We've made performance improvements to the PSD Beta download feature, ensuring faster speeds and smoother performance. This means you can work more efficiently with your PSD files, now optimized for better results.

6. Feature feedback made easier

Your voice matters! We've made it simpler to share your ideas and vote on requested features. Just click the lightbulb icon in the top-right corner of the app to submit feedback. Every suggestion helps guide what we work on next.

Improvements

• Enhanced spacebar interaction for panning images and commenting
• Implemented better interaction in the sort panel unifying sort direction and criteria.

• Changed to default role Editor in sharing modal.
• Added educative placeholders for better onboarding of users with reviewer role of not allowed actions: uploads & creating new labels.
• Added Manager option in the Role category of the project dashboard filter panel.
• Reviewer role UI made cleaner: cannot see unresolved comments or mentions count thumbnails in assets.
• Fixed UI element misalignment for View-only link screen.
• Added comment loader skeleton in mark-up view.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug where the enter key to was not submitting labels & collaborator groups
• Fixes a login issue with Microsoft SSO
• Fixed a bug where the cancel comment modal was not properly erasing the comment
• Fixed a bug where the side panel was not loading in the view-only sharing link
• Fixed a bug where labels were being carried over when moving assets to another project.

We’re always striving to make your workflow more efficient. Excited to announce some powerful new features that will set you apart and take your retouching operations to the next level.

1. Download Markups & Comments as Layers in a .PSD file 📥

Get precise feedback from verybusy directly into Photoshop to kick retouching off in seconds. Download your feedback and annotations as separate layers in a .PSD file, scaled to your original-size verybusy upload.

Your feedback is positioned right where you need it.

👉 Check out the new beta feature here!

2. Share & Win

We’re all about spreading the word and growing our community. Now, it’s your turn to earn while helping us out! Invite your colleagues and fellows to join verybusy via your unique referral link, and earn raffle entries to win a $500 giftcard.

The more you refer, the better your chances! All September live.

🔗 Learn more about the referral program here!

3. Improved Filters for Faster Work

• Filter criteria saved for each project: No more reapplying them every time you get back to work.

• "Search Active" pill: Makes it easier to see and identify active filters at a glance.

Seamless and secure collaboration is key to faster feedback and on-time delivery. That’s why we’ve improved collaboration in verybusy—giving you more control, precision and visibility.

Here’s what’s new:

1️⃣ Role-based collaboration: Assign Managers, Editors and Reviewers and control access. Learn more about their permissions.

2️⃣ Cleaner, Action-Focused Interfaces: Collaborators see only what matters, to drive action quickly where it matters.

3️⃣ Redesigned Sharing: Simpler, more intuitive way to invite people and manage their roles.

4️⃣ Role links: Invite both editors and reviewers via no-account required links for easy and fast collaboration.

5️⃣ Manage Download Permissions. Decide whether downloads are allowed at the project level. Your assets are valuable, and you get to toggle on when finals are ready to be delivered. Check out how it works here.

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Note: All previous collaborators are now Editors, with similar access as before.