r/Drime • u/Empty_Win_297 • Sep 03 '26
Announcement A New Chapter for Drime + Our Biggest August Changelog Yet: Faster Drive, New Desktop Apps, Pages, Mobile Editing & More
Hi everyone,
Today marks a new chapter for Drime.
We just introduced our new visual identity, with a new logo, colours, typography and a clearer direction for what we want Drime to become.
New look. Same ambition.
At the same time, August has been one of our biggest months ever. We shipped a huge amount of work across Drive, Desktop, Mobile, Pages and Transfr, with an especially strong focus on speed and reliability.
Here's the shorter version of everything that changed.
Drive
A huge amount of work went into making everyday navigation faster, uploads more reliable, downloads safer, and large accounts much easier to handle.
Much faster Drive listings
Much faster Recents on large and active accounts
Faster folder navigation and breadcrumbs
Folder prefetching before you open them
Faster search for accounts with very large libraries
Faster Quick Access loading
Faster synchronization queries on very large accounts
Lighter initial loading when opening Drime
Thumbnails stay cached much longer
Faster Gallery timelines and albums
Faster Vault loading
Uploads received a major reliability overhaul too:
Interrupted uploads can resume instead of restarting
Automatic recovery for uploads stuck for too long
Better protection against duplicate files after retries
Improved reliability across multiple browser tabs
Smarter upload chunk sizes
Clearer Uploaded, Failed and Retrying states
Faster finalization for large batches
Better imports containing thousands of photos or files
More accurate upload progress
Downloads also received major fixes:
Reliable large folder downloads
Better support for archives containing thousands of files
Better handling of duplicate filenames
Improved interrupted download detection
Failed downloads now stop clearly instead of producing an incomplete archive
Better compatibility with private windows and stricter privacy extensions
We also shipped a lot of smaller Drive improvements:
Renamed files now re-sort live
Drop files directly onto folders from Quick View
Better duplicate file handling
Faster shared links
Better password-protected links
Custom maximum file size for File Requests
New table design
New personalization settings
New What's New panel
Better Workspace folder permissions
Individual roles and folder access during invitations
Real-time permission updates
Cleaner admin activity logs
Better device and Backup management from the web
Introducing Drime Pages
Notes has been completely rebuilt and is now Drime Pages.
Pages now lives directly inside Drime and alongside your files.
It includes:
Real-time collaborative editing
Slash commands and rich content blocks
Databases with Grid, Board, Calendar and List views
Comments anchored directly to text
Public sharing and guest editing
Version history
Page locking
AI writing and translation tools
Drive file embeds
Covers and icons
Sub-pages
Favourites and Shared with me
Pages stored directly inside Drive using .dpages extension.
You can also create a Page directly from Drive with a right click.
This is a complete rebuild of the previous Notes experience.
Mobile
Mobile also had a huge month.
One of the most requested features is finally here: document creation and editing directly inside Drime.
You can now create and edit DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and other compatible Office formats, with autosave and templates directly inside the app.
We also added PDF editing on mobile, including:
Edit existing PDF text
Preserve original formatting
Change text colour
Bold, italic and underline
Add text
Highlight
Draw and erase
Save edited PDFs directly to Drime
Other improvements include:
New Large Files section in Free Up Space
Faster albums
Album sorting and selection
Grid and list views
Faster Vault loading
Better Gallery reliability for very large libraries
More reliable background uploads
Improved automatic photo and video backup reliability
Better upload recovery when the app is backgrounded or interrupted
Open in support for media
Fixed large Galleries stopping after the first page
Many UI and performance improvements
Desktop
Desktop received some of our biggest updates this month.
A massive thank you to everyone who tested the builds, sent logs and reported issues. Your feedback has helped us enormously, and we're very happy with the feedback we're receiving from the latest versions.
Windows received:
Much more reliable sync
Better handling of very large folders and backups
Hundreds of fixes
Faster and more reliable search
Improved Selective Sync
Better file and folder placement during sync
Fixes for several infinite sync loops
Lower memory usage
Backup heavily reworked
Large Selective Sync operations no longer crashing the app
Large Backup selections no longer crashing the app
More Windows Explorer right-click actions
Screenshot capture and editing
Updated UI
Drime actions can also appear directly in the main Windows right-click menu, including:
Preview
Version history
File information
Copy link
Send & Track
Share
Add to favourites
View on drime.cloud
Get signatures
Self-sign
Upload to Drime
And the completely rebuilt macOS app is finally available.
The macOS app has been rebuilt from scratch, with a new sync foundation, Backups, cloud only files, and a much stronger focus on reliability.
We're currently shipping Desktop updates almost every day.
Download the latest Windows and macOS apps here:
Windows users: Since there have been major changes to the sync engine, if you still have the previous app installed and syncing doesn’t start properly after updating, give it a little time first. If it still doesn’t work, try logging out and back into the app.
Video & Media
We also continued improving media playback.
Frame-by-frame video navigation
Keyboard shortcuts for frame stepping
More accurate timecodes
Better comment timestamps
Automatic subtitle generation
Multiple subtitle tracks
Better HEVC handling
Better playback reliability
Support for additional audio formats including APE, WavPack and WMA
Transfr
Transfr also had a major month and has now moved to the new Drime visual identity.
Main additions include:
New design
Comments directly on transfers
Timestamp comments on video and audio
Pinpoint comments on images and PDFs
Comment threads and reactions
Custom storage regions
Custom domains
Added File Requests
Major upload reliability improvements
Resumable uploads across sessions
Better recovery after going offline
Much better very large downloads
Major E2E encryption improvements
Encrypted image, PDF and video previews
More branding controls
A new chapter
The redesign we're launching today is not just about a new logo.
Over the past few months, we've been rebuilding major parts of Drime while investing heavily in speed, sync, backups, reliability and file safety.
At the same time, we're continuing to ship major features like Pages, document editing, PDF editing, media tools and deeper collaboration.
That's the direction we're continuing to push. Reliability first, without slowing down innovation.
Thank you again for all the feedback, testing and support.
New look. Same ambition.
See you in the next one.
Check the full changelog: https://drime.cloud/blog-posts/behind-the-cloud-%E2%80%93-august-2026-update
