Feature Requests

The Descript MCP server ( api.descript.com/v2/mcp ) issues an OAuth access token with roughly an 8-hour lifetime and no refresh_token alongside it. I verified this by inspecting the stored credential in my MCP client: accessToken and expiresAt are present, no refresh token. Because there is nothing to refresh with, every MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, any other MCP host) is forced through the full browser re-authorization flow every 8 hours. For automation workflows, the main reason to connect over MCP in the first place, the connection dies mid-workday, every day, and a human has to click through the OAuth consent again. Request: return refresh tokens from the MCP OAuth flow (the MCP spec's OAuth 2.1 profile supports the refresh token grant), or offer a longer-lived access token. Either would let MCP clients keep the connection alive without daily manual re-auth. Other MCP servers I use do not behave this way, so Descript's stands out. The MCP integration itself is excellent. This is the one thing keeping it from being reliable for unattended workflows.

It seems the only option right now is to generate YouTube thumbnails, but I need a quick way to generate thumbnails for Reels/YT shorts (9:16 format) and be able to upload brand colours, logo, choose a title etc. Please!! It would save me so much time.

Never has there existed in the history of humanity a NLE whose keyframes get moved if you make cuts or delete sections to a completely different part of the timeline (like two minutes after where the second keyframe of the animation is!?). In fact the keyframes don't just get moved, the entire animation jumps forward to just after where I deleted the section. Absolutely nowhere near where I initially placed it. It's chaos. Please let the keyframes be set until I decide to change them, regardless of whether I delete part of the timeline etc. I am cancelling my subscription until I hear this is implemented.

Installed Descript via Homebrew, which pulled an older cached build (114.0.4-release.20250509.32955). App got permanently stuck on the loading screen, before ever reaching the project list, with a "This is taking longer than normal" message. Install ID: 71b5d201-0ee2-4701-bbcf-64f63e277592 Confirmed not a network issue (tested on two separate networks). Confirmed not corrupted local app data (reset local Application Support folder, no change). App appears unable to complete a self-update handshake against current backend from that old build, with no error message or recovery path shown to the user. Only resolved by manually downloading and reinstalling the current build directly from descript.com/download/mac .

I would love to be able to create alias or shortcut to a Project like Apple or Google has with their files so I could store a single project in multiple folders. For example, I have a folder for Short Subject Videos and a folder for Client Meetings. Sometimes I turn part of a client meeting into a short subject video. It would be great to store the project in the client folder and drop an alias into the short subject video folder. Thoughts?

I want to make a AI based app that run with proper workflow and generate visual image and animation outputs with export/save options. The app is coding or making without any paid Gemini API key and run for support for all devices browser and app install way. Worldwide user friendly AI Generative app that creates visual outputs like image,animation, image to video(duration set 5-10sec) based on users input data/script/prompt that the app internally optimize for best matching visual outputs, character face swap into scenes/images/animations. App is specially designed and features for social media content creating like Facebook/YouTube/Instagram etc. Multiple export options with multiple ratio suggestions.

Allow looping of individual clips rather than only entire tracks to fill scenes.

Sometimes I don't like to remove filler words because it doesn't feel natural or it creates too many noticeable edit points. But I don't want this to appear in the captions either. Would love to see this as a possibility or I may stick to premiere pro just for the closed captions

As part of my guest onboarding workflow, I use Calendly to allow guests to book interviews with me. I currently have it automated so that the new booking triggers the creation of a new room in Squadcast. However, since Squadcast is no longer actively developed, I'd like to start using Rooms instead. It would be great if Descript provided a way to automatically create new rooms via Zapier or other API integrations.

If I only get 99% of the remote user's video/audio, I then have to manually append the backup. As this happens a lot you should have a single button that does this append.