Limecraft 2026.6 – Better Control over Notifications, Mobile Ingest and a Sneak Preview of AI-Assisted Story Editing

Limecraft today announces the 2026.6 release, bringing more control over notifications, uploads of media via the mobile app, improved support for professional media workflows, and a series of everyday usability improvements. And with IBC just around the corner, we’re also offering a first glimpse at what comes next: AI-assisted story editing.

Media organisations are producing more content, for more channels, with less time and increasingly tight resources. At the same time, AI compagnon services rapidly became part of the production landscape. The question remains how to make it genuinely useful within existing production workflows.

That is also the thinking behind our presence at IBC 2026. Great media operations aren’t built by adding more isolated tools; the key success factor is better connections between people, content and technology. This is the key message we are bringing at IBC: one platform, different realities, a single source of truth.

Release 2026.6 takes numerous steps in this direction. It gives users more control over how they work, makes it easier to bring material into Limecraft from the field, and improves interoperability with established professional media formats and systems. And behind the curtain at IBC, we’ll show where connected media and AI can take us next.

More Control over Notifications on a Workspace by Workspace Basis

As organisations rely Limecraft across more productions and workspaces, notifications become increasingly useful. Provided they remain relevant. Until now, notification preferences were effectively global. With 2026.6, notifications can be controlled more fine-grained at the level of the workspace.

Users can choose between an opt-in or opt-out model and then specify the workspaces for which notifications should be enabled or muted. A workspace can also be muted or re-enabled directly from the workspace dropdown in Limecraft Flow. When entering a workspace for which notifications have been disabled, Limecraft provides an in-context indication and the option to turn them back on immediately.

It’s a relatively simple change with an important objective. Less noise, relevant information only. Users working across many productions can stay closely informed about the workspaces that matter to them without being distracted by activity elsewhere. Combined with the notifications made available through the mobile app in the last 2026.5 release, as every click matters, this is a significant efficiency win.

From Capture to the Workspace: Uploads Arrive in the Limecraft Mobile App

The Limecraft mobile app took an important step forward in our previous release with mobile notifications. With 2026.6, it becomes an active entry point into the media workflow as well.

The updated Limecraft app for iOS and Android can now upload media directly into a workspace. Users can select photos, video, audio or documents using the device’s native file and media pickers, or share material into Limecraft directly from another application.

Large transfers continue in the background, with upload progress available both inside the app and through a persistent system notification. Uploads can also be cancelled when necessary.

That closes another gap between production in the field and the connected media operation. Instead of capturing something on a phone, transferring it elsewhere and only later bringing it into the production environment, contributors can send material straight from the device into the appropriate Limecraft workspace.

Limecraft Edge | More Resilient Ingest Workflows

Behind every smooth editorial workflow is a considerable amount of less visible work involving media formats, metadata, timecode and interoperability. Release 2026.6 contains several improvements in Limecraft Edge aimed precisely at those demanding production environments.

Duration detection has been improved for spanned legacy MXF clips. We have also made Avid-related processing more resilient by explicitly releasing Avid SDK locks when Edge starts, reducing the risk of sporadic transcode hangs when producing MXF OP-atom output.

The release also improves timecode detection when importing AAFs describing OP-atom media generated by external transcoding systems, including Telestream Vantage and EVS XTAccess. Limecraft now more thoroughly inspects the available source packages to identify valid timecode information.

These may be less visible than a new button in the interface, but in professional media operations they matter enormously. Reliable interpretation of files, metadata and timecode is what allows content to move between acquisition, Limecraft, transcoding infrastructure and editorial systems without unnecessary manual intervention.

AI-assisted story editing (Sneak preview at IBC)

The 2026.6 release itself is only part of what we’ll be showing at IBC. Behind the curtain, we’ll also demonstrate a private beta of our AI-assisted approach to story editing.

The concept is rooted in familiar editorial problem. Productions can accumulate hundreds if not thousands of hours of material. Even when that material has been transcribed, logged and enriched with metadata, finding the right moments for a particular story remains an intensely time-consuming editorial task.

Instead of navigating material exclusively through folders, metadata filters or keyword searches, an editor can now describe what they’re looking for in natural language. Limecraft searches the available media and returns relevant portions of clips rather than simply entire assets. Each result includes an AI-generated explanation of why the material is considered relevant, while detected information such as people, voices, shot classifications, key events and transcription can provide additional context.

Search becomes a conversation. The search doesn’t have to end with the first prompt. The editor can ask follow-up questions to refine the selection step by step, with the system retaining the context of the conversation. Earlier responses can be revisited together with their corresponding media results and the story is built one step at the time without loosing the overview. The AI-agent behaves like a true edit assistant, and becomes increasingly smarter over time.

Selected results can then feed back into the established workflows. For example by playing the selection, adding it to a collection or exporting it towards an editorial environment.

Our goal isn’t to replace editorial judgement, but to remove mechanical work and iterations between having an editorial idea and finding the material needed to realise it.

AI-assistant is in an early stage, and is not part of the formal 2026.6 production release as such. But it offers a glimpse of what we mean when we talk about the progression from connected , to automated and more intelligent workflows.

Other Quality-of-Life Improvements

As usual, 2026.6 also contains several smaller improvements designed to make everyday work in Limecraft smoother.

AAF export is now available directly from the Review and Logger screens, making it easier to take editorial selections into downstream environments. The multicam player has been extended to the Review and Subclip screens. And account administrators can now see which users have Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled.

We’ve also addressed a number of issues around multicam synchronisation and loading, search indexing for tagged review comments, user invitations, probing media containing multiple video tracks, and category ordering in the Library View.

Visit us at IBC and to Find out about 2026.6 and what’s Coming Next

Limecraft 2026.6 is available as of today 8 September 2026. IBC gives you the opportunity to entertain a hands-on demo, and to take a sneak peak beyond the release as well.

The organisations that succeed in the coming months will not be the ones that accumulate the most technology. They’ll be the ones that are able to set up better connected, more automated and intelligent workflows — while keeping people and editorial judgement at the centre. That’s the direction we’re building towards with Limecraft.

If you’re attending IBC, come and meet us for a closer look at Limecraft 2026.6 and a private preview of our AI-assisted story editing demonstrator.

→ Book a meeting with Limecraft at IBC
→ Read the full Limecraft 2026.6 Release Notes

Not going to IBC? Feel free to get in touch and we’ll be happy to arrange a private demonstration after the show.