Changelog

What is new and improved in SudoMock: new capabilities, rendering improvements, integrations, and breaking changes. Updated as we ship.

  1. Breaking

    A font name that is not unique now asks instead of guessing

    • Some font names legitimately name more than one font. Corben names both the regular and the bold cut. Sending a name like that used to pick one for you, silently, and sometimes it picked the wrong one. It now returns 422 with error_code FONT_AMBIGUOUS.
    • The response carries a candidates list of font uuids. Send any value from it back as font and you get exactly the one you meant. A name is a claim, a uuid is an identity, so a uuid is the way to pin a font for good.
    • If the PSD carries an ambiguous font name of its own, nothing breaks: the render succeeds with a default font and the response says so with a TEXT_FONT_AMBIGUOUS warning, so you know why that layer looks different before a customer does.
  2. New

    Three more font families to render with

    • Decovar Alpha, Nevermind, and Valley Sans join the catalog, and the Akt family gains 8 more styles. That is 61 more fonts, open-licensed and free for commercial work, on top of the 2,000+ families already there.
    • GET /api/v1/fonts now returns 61 more fonts than before. If you paginate that response, cache it, or compare its count against a stored value, make sure the new total is handled.
    • Nothing was removed. Existing fonts keep the same ids and the same file urls, so anything you already reference keeps rendering.
  3. New

    Pay as you go, with no subscription

    • Buy renders without picking a plan: $0.10 per PSD render with a $5 minimum. Renders draw down the balance you funded, and at zero the API stops rather than running up a bill.
    • Free is no longer a plan. A new account starts on pay as you go with 500 one-time credits and no card, which is a starting state rather than a tier you sit on.
    • Funding the balance lifts the starting limits in one step: no watermark, no width cap, 500 stored PSD templates, and 25 renders running at once. The card and the $5 minimum go through together at checkout, and it is the funding that lifts them.
    • Those limits hold for 90 days after your last top-up, so spending a balance down mid-catalog does not drop you back to where you started.
  4. New

    Recolor every outline in a text stack

    • Recolor each outline independently, including a halo behind the front outline, while keeping every width and position intact.
    • stroke_color now accepts a front-to-back color list, with null for any outline that should stay as designed.
    • Upload responses now report stroke_count so stacked outlines are clear before you render.
  5. New

    Recolor text and outlines per render

    • Setting a text color now changes the color you actually see, even on layers the designer styled with a color effect. Requested by a customer personalizing city merch, live for everyone.
    • New stroke_color field recolors a text layer's outline effect while keeping its width and placement. The upload response now tells you which layers support it (has_stroke_effect) and which take their visible color from an effect (has_color_overlay).
    • No silent surprises: if a layer has no outline or an effect covers your color, the render succeeds and the response says so with a clear warning.
  6. Improved

    Longer text now fits the layer by default

    • A longer name or headline now scales down to fit its text layer automatically, so personalized text stays inside the design instead of getting cut off.
    • Need the exact size kept? Set fit to "clip" to cut the text to what fits, or "overflow" to keep the size and let it run past the layer.
    • More of your fonts are recognized automatically, so a font that is already in the catalog renders as itself instead of falling back to a default.
  7. New

    Warped and rotated text render live

    • Rotated text layers render live with your new text and keep their exact angle.
    • Ten text warp styles now render live with your new text, matched to the curve the designer set: Arc, Arc Lower, Arc Upper, Arch, Bulge, Flag, Wave, Fish, Rise, and Squeeze.
    • The remaining warp styles render with their original appearance for now, each with a one-step workaround in the support matrix.
  8. Improved

    Text rendering verified against Photoshop

    • Text output is checked side by side against Photoshop reference exports for documented supported cases. Validate each production PSD against the compatibility matrix before shipping.
    • Sizes, weights, tracking, caps styles, sub and superscript, area text, and warp shapes all hold up under close comparison, so personalized text looks like the designer set it by hand.
  9. Improved

    Predictable hidden layers

    • A hidden text layer is now kept as a fillable slot, so one template can carry optional lines, personalized fields, or language variants that appear only on the renders you choose to fill.
    • A hidden smart object stays out of the render instead of showing blank, and your upload flags any hidden smart objects so you know exactly which layers to turn on.
  10. New

    Text layers and fonts

    • Personalize the text layers in your PSD by API: swap the wording, font, size, and color at render time.
    • Character styling carries over: bold and italic toggles, underline, strikethrough, letter spacing, caps styles, sub and superscript, baseline shift, character scaling, text stroke, and multi-line text all render true to the original design.
    • Render from a full 2,000+-family open-licensed font catalog, or upload your own TTF and OTF fonts on Pro and Scale plans.
    • Original fonts render automatically when available; a missing font falls back and flags the render, so nothing is dropped and nothing fails silently.
    • Layers that mix styles in one line, like a thin name beside a bold surname, are now editable segment by segment, and every segment keeps its exact styling.
    • Area (box) text wraps inside its box exactly as designed, and anything past the box renders clipped, matching the original.
    • Point text, styled segments, and area text are editable; a few layer types like vertical and justified text render with their original appearance, each with a one-step workaround.
  11. New

    Video mockups

    • Turn any mockup into a short product video for ads, listings, and social posts.
    • Pick a duration and optionally add audio; you get a finished, downloadable clip.
    • Long video jobs run in the background so they never block your request.
  12. New

    Signed webhooks for async jobs

    • Get notified the instant a render, video, or upload finishes or fails, with no polling required.
    • Every delivery is signed and timestamped so you can verify it came from us and reject tampered or stale events.
    • Failed deliveries are retried automatically, and you can replay any past event on demand from the dashboard.
    • Subscribe an endpoint to the exact events you care about or to all of them, and send a test event to confirm your setup.
  13. New

    Job history

    • Browse your async render, video, and upload jobs in one place, newest first.
    • See each job status, result, and what it cost, and filter the list to a single job type.
  14. New

    Smart Filters, generally available

    • Render Photoshop smart filters, including Perspective Warp, Curves, Gaussian and Box Blur, Brightness/Contrast, Invert, Displace, and Find Edges, with Adobe-level fidelity.
    • Keeps all 27 layer blend modes and one-click filters accurate, verified to match Photoshop's own output.
    • New compatibility matrix documents every supported filter and the recommended alternative for the few that are not.
  15. Integration

    Shopify Product Customizer app

    • Let shoppers personalize your products and preview a live mockup before they buy, right in your Shopify storefront.
    • Install the SudoMock Product Customizer from the Shopify App Store in a few clicks.
  16. New

    Passkey sign-in

    • Sign in with a passkey using your fingerprint, Face ID, or device PIN, with no password to remember.
    • Passkeys autofill on the sign-in screen and can be added anytime from Security settings.
  17. New

    Product-photo mockups

    • Generate photorealistic product mockups from a text prompt or reference image.
    • Watermark-free output for every account, including accounts that have never paid.
  18. Improved

    Channel-aware billing

    • Accounts that installed through the Shopify App Store are now billed through Shopify automatically.
    • Billing screens adapt to your plan so you manage payment in one place.
  19. Improved

    Higher-resolution rendering and effects fidelity

    • Export large-format print mockups at higher resolution, ready for posters, canvas, and wall art.
    • Get sharper, truer results across smart filters, blend modes, drop shadow, stroke, and Blend If.
  20. Improved

    Larger PSD uploads

    • Bring even your largest PSD templates, up to Adobe's official file size limit.
    • Keep richly layered, high-resolution designs in a single file, with no splitting required.
  21. Integration

    MCP server for AI tools

    • Connect AI assistants and agents to SudoMock through the Model Context Protocol.
    • Render mockups and manage templates straight from your AI tools, with secure sign-in.
  22. Integration

    Shopify and WooCommerce integrations

    • Connect your Shopify or WooCommerce store and render product mockups from your catalog.
    • Guided, one-click setup for each platform.
  23. New

    Custom domains

    • Serve your rendered mockups from your own domain over a global CDN.
    • Guided setup verifies your domain and binds it to your API key.
  24. Integration

    Native automation integrations

    • Drop SudoMock into n8n, Zapier, and Make with first-class connectors.
    • Render mockups directly from your existing automation workflows without custom HTTP glue.
  25. New

    Custom PSD upload + perspective warp rendering

    • Upload your own PSD templates with Smart Object layers via the API.
    • Renders perspective warp and Photoshop transforms that template-only tools cannot reproduce.
  26. New

    Mockup library and full-text search

    • Browse a growing library of ready-to-use mockup templates by category, platform, industry, and style.
    • Full-text search with autocomplete narrows the template library as you type.
  27. New

    Photo to Mockup editor

    • A visual 2D editor that auto-detects the printable area on any product photo.
    • Place artwork, set print areas and blend modes, and preview the result on desktop or mobile.
  28. Docs

    Developer documentation and quick start

    • Go from zero to your first render in five minutes with the full REST API reference and quick start guide.
    • Copy-paste interactive code samples and test your API key right in the browser, with no local setup.