the everything update 09/06/26✧

The last two weeks were... a lot. In the best way (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) The free plan got way bigger, Arcade grew a whole Cabinet, your profile can be a scrapbook now, forty-plus new effects landed, the dashboard got rebuilt, Events grew up, Overwatch is here, TikTok is here, and Glow+ has a free trial. ♡

the free plan glow-up

Honest version: while we kept adding new features, we never quite settled where the line between free and Glow+ should sit, so some things ended up on the wrong side of it. We finally sat down and sorted it out properly. These live on the free side now, where they always belonged ♡

• Featured cards: 1 to 3. The big highlighted cards at the top of your links, now you can pin three
• Custom link icons: open any link in Links & Connections and upload your own. Any PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP works, we resize it for you
• Sparkles cursor trail + Sparkles particles: two real effects from the catalog, a trail that follows your visitor's mouse and particles floating over your background. Design > Effects
• Corner frames and every heading font in Design > Typography
• Animated avatars: GIFs and animated WebPs keep wiggling on your profile
• Profile audio: upload a track in Design > Audio with a cover and a title, and visitors can vibe while they browse. Clicking your avatar starts the music ♪

Glow+ still keeps the extra-fancy stuff: the full effects catalog with intensity, tint and react-to-music controls, avatar rings, username effects, ambient overlays, entrance animations, 3D tilt, the music equalizer, cursor and sticker uploads, custom favicons, 100 MB video backgrounds, 30-day analytics with export, 20 featured cards, premium domains and the badge. Basically: free is for falling in love with your profile, Glow+ is for going completely feral about it ♡

If you're on Glow+, you lose nothing: everything you had is still yours, and most of what shipped this month (the whole new effects catalog, entrance animations, 3D tilt, ambient overlays) is Glow+ only. Thank you for keeping the lights on ♡

Arcade Cabinet

Arcade was a card. Cabinet is the whole arcade. Your profile becomes full-screen sections that snap into place as you scroll, like flipping through an arcade machine's menu.

• Hero screen: your avatar with a pulsing ring, name and badges, stats, social links as pills with real brand icons, and your platform avatars (Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Discord and friends) in the corner. Got profile audio? A now-playing card shows your cover art, tap to play or pause. On Glow+, the equalizer wraps around your avatar while it plays
• Sections: Games, Trophy cabinet, Anime, Movies, Characters, Connections, Links, and a Guestbook at the end. Empty ones hide themselves, and every section has a "see all"
• Navigation: a rail on the right on desktop (labels or dots, you pick), a floating pill bar on phones
• Scanlines toggle for the retro feel, and you can hide any section
• Show detailed links turns Connections into the full cards from Arcade and Deck (live Discord presence, your Steam library, League, Overwatch, Roblox, GitHub, chess and more), and you choose exactly which ones show
• Your background, effects and accent colors all come with you

Where: Design > Layout > Arcade, then pick Cabinet ♡

Diary, unfolded: Journal

Diary was a book you flip through. Journal is the same diary laid out as one long page you scroll down: your about page, games, anime, movies, links, notes and trophies come one after another, with your connections as little stickers on the margins. It uses Diary's own settings, so your paper (dots, lines, grid, smooth), the tilt of the pages (neat, gentle, scrapbook) and your colors carry over, and the music equalizer works here too.

Where: Design > Layout > Diary, then flip the Diary / Journal toggle.

cut, glue, sparkle: Stickers

A scroll-down scrapbook. One long page that looks like you made it by hand with tape and love.

• The hero is a taped polaroid of your avatar: name, badges, pronouns, location, local time, a Discord online chip, your bio, a now-playing line and a little cassette for your audio
• Then your stats as a receipt, links, games, favorite characters, anime & manga, movies, connections as sticker cards, your genres, and the guestbook as sticky notes with each commenter's avatar on their note
• A dot rail scrolls you through the pages, and every "see all" opens on a sheet of paper
• Your accent colors, background color and heading font from Design drive the whole look, so it still feels like you
• Hide any page you want, and the music equalizer (Glow+) on or off

Where: Design > Layout > Experimental > Stickers.

effects, effects, effects (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Design > Effects got forty-plus new options. And they finally play in front of your card on Diary, Arcade, Deck and Stickers, where people can actually see them. Every effect has a live preview in the picker.

• Background particles: snow, rain, sparkles, petals, bubbles, fireflies, hearts, stars, sakura, confetti, music notes, matrix rain, embers, bokeh, plus Seasonal, which follows the calendar by itself, and React to music, which makes them pulse with your audio
• Cursor trails: sparkles, hearts, petals, stars, bubbles, music notes, snow, butterflies, rainbow, comet, a spotlight that follows the cursor, and a custom trail with any emoji you type
• Avatar rings: glow, spinning, pulse, gradient, rainbow, neon, flame, segmented like an HP bar, dashed, orbit, heartbeat
• Username effects: glow, gradient, shine, rainbow, glitch, wave, neon flicker, chrome, typewriter, outline, 3D extrude
• Ambient overlays (new category, sits over the whole page): film grain, scanlines, CRT, light leaks, vignette, aurora, noir
• Entrance animations: your card fades, rises, pops or drops in
• 3D tilt: on Deck and Arcade the card leans toward the visitor's mouse

The Sparkles pair is free, the rest is Glow+.

your new home base

The dashboard got rebuilt around a left sidebar: Overview, Links, Design, L!VE and Analytics on top; Badges, Pricing and Settings below. It collapses to cute little icons when you want room, slides in from the left on phones, and holds your plan badge, a Discord chip with how many people are in the glow server right now, and your account chip. Every page finally uses your whole screen. Wide monitors are no longer a narrow hallway.

• Links & Connections: stat cards up top (views, clicks, top link), a full-width editor, and a phone preview that shows your profile exactly like a visitor's phone sees it. It refreshes by itself while you edit ♡ Links can have a little description under the title now
• Favorites is its own page: characters, games, achievements, anime and movies together. Drag games into any order, or sort by recently played or hours
• Events is its own page too
• Settings: hide platform chips on your profile one platform at a time
• Mobile: settings tabs wrap nicely, effect pickers fit the screen, and nothing scrolls sideways anymore

events, all grown up

The new editor keeps upcoming and past events on the left, the form on the right, and a "next up" timeline so you always know what's coming. Everything saves as you type.

• Start and end times, or an all-day switch
• Location: Twitch, YouTube, or anything you type, even a real place
• Recurring: daily, weekly or monthly, and they roll forward on their own
• Descriptions and color-coded types: stream, convention, release, other
• Add to calendar: one switch gives every event Apple/Outlook and Google Calendar buttons
• A LIVE badge while it's happening
• Visitors can tap a heart to say they're coming ♡ the count shows on the card, and you get a notification when a signed-in fan taps it
• Events show on Classic, Deck, Arcade, Diary, Widgets, Simple and Links. On Simple and Links only when something's happening in the next seven days, so your page stays tidy

And events are for everyone, no plan needed.

overwatch, assemble

Add your BattleTag in Links & Connections and your profile gets an Overwatch card: your rank for each role, endorsement level, title, your five most played heroes with their art, and your win rate. One thing: your Battle.net career profile needs to be public for stats to show. It refreshes with your other connections.

your TikTok, on your profile

TikTok is a connection now. Link your account in Links & Connections and your profile gets a TikTok card: your avatar and @handle, your follower count, and a grid of your latest public videos with their covers. Tap one and it opens on TikTok. It shows up on Classic, Simple, Diary, Arcade, Deck and Cabinet, and it refreshes with your other connections ♡

your fave belongs here

Favorites > Characters searches the big game and anime catalogs, but no catalog has everyone. If your favorite is missing (yes, even your niche gacha fave), open a Support ticket with their name and where they're from. We add them to the shared catalog with their own art, and from then on anyone can pin them too.

sign up in seconds

No more staring at your inbox before you can touch anything. Sign up and you're in, your profile exists immediately. A little banner reminds you to verify (with a resend button), connecting accounts unlocks once you verify, and unverified profiles stay out of Discover until then. Accounts that never verify are removed after seven days, so a username never sits taken by an empty account. The sign-in and sign-up pages got a full makeover too: real glow profiles on one side, the form on the other ♡

try Glow+ free for 7 days

The pricing page now has a 7-day free trial. Cancel any time during the week and you pay nothing; keep it and it becomes a normal subscription on day 8. One trial per account, and it may not be available in every region.

talk to us

There's a new Support page in the sidebar. Open a ticket with a subject, category and priority, and it turns into a real chat with the team, messenger vibes. You get a notification when we reply, our replies show the actual name and avatar of whoever answered, and you can close, reopen or delete tickets.

For now it's for verified creators while we settle in. It's opening up to everyone soon ♡

little things ♡

• The comments button moved inside your profile card on Arcade, Simple, Links, Deck and Diary, and it shows even at zero comments, so someone can be your first
• Fixed: typing your handle with the @ sign broke the social link
• Fixed: saving in the Design tab reloaded the page
• Fixed: guestbook comments and likes on custom domains
• Discord sign-ups now count as verified automatically
• This page is a real changelog now: every update has a type, you can filter, and the important ones get pinned

That's everything!! If something looks weird or broken, hop into our Discord, open a Support ticket in the dashboard, or email us at support@glow.moe. We read everything ♡ Now go make something that glows ✧(⁠ ◜‿◝ ⁠)♡