The AI groups bursts and near-duplicates for you. Now you can correct it when it gets one wrong. Select two or more photos and group them yourself. Add a loose shot to a group the AI already found, or merge two groups it split apart. The rest of the app treats a hand-made group like any other: the best shot gets suggested, and the stack collapses in the grid the same way. Take photos back out Pull a single photo out of a group, or ungroup a whole stack in one tap. In the compare view you can drop any frame out of the group while you are looking at it. Your groups stay put A hand-made group survives a re-run of the analysis, including a forced one. Start an auto-cull, discard it, and your grouping is exactly as you left it. Tidier toolbar Move, grouping, and Organize by Date now share one Organize menu, so Delete has the corner to itself. Everything still runs on your device. No photo leaves it.

You decide what auto-cull does now. Each AI verdict, blurry, eyes shut, low quality, becomes a reject, a star rating, or no change at all. Set the table once in Settings and auto-cull follows it. Badly out-of-focus shots and eyes-shut frames get proposed as rejects even when they are not part of a burst. Before, the app labelled a photo blurry and then gave it two stars anyway. Suggestions still land in the review grid first, and Discard puts everything back. Connect over HTTP Manual connections now offer an HTTPS or HTTP picker. If your DSM only serves plain HTTP on the LAN, you can browse and cull without turning on HTTPS at the NAS. Two-factor login works over HTTP too. HTTPS stays the default. Much faster on Mac Switching folders or tabs no longer pins a core while the whole photo cache gets scanned. Timeline and album views load only the photos that belong to them. Fixed - Culling from an SD card lost decisions when you pressed Save - The photo grid came up blank on folder and SMB connections - Clear Cache left the app in a broken state - Deleting or moving a RAW + JPEG pair left the RAW file behind - Whole folders went missing over SMB when a directory could not be read - Picking one frame in a group left its siblings with no rating - A failed sync showed an empty sidebar instead of the error - AI culling offered itself on devices that cannot run it Everything still runs on your device. No photo leaves it.

Reject, hearts, and colour labels are proper culling states now. Swipe left to reject a photo without touching its stars, and rate, favourite, and label it in the same pass. Reject is its own state. A genuine one-star photo stays a genuine one-star photo, and Restore gives the old rating back. Rejects go into your XMP sidecars with the standard reject value, so Lightroom sees them as flagged rejects. Hearts and colour labels work the same way. Each has its own swipe direction, and each writes back to Synology Photos and to your sidecars. You decide what every direction does, including nothing at all. Moves wait for Save Folder moves and album adds no longer happen mid-cull. Work through the shoot, check the summary, then commit the lot when you press Save. Until then your NAS is untouched. Better on Mac - The same keyboard shortcuts in the grid, the viewer, and culling - The culling review opens from the grid, so Done no longer leaves you stranded - Move a collapsed group and all of it moves, not just the suggested pick Also fixed - Mirrored deletes in Apple Photos picked the wrong asset and skipped videos - The card flashed black when a swipe brought up the next photo - Swipes could snap back instead of committing - The favourites filter did nothing in the grid - Groups of similar photos kept reopening as you scrolled - Blurry RAW thumbnails in local folders Everything still runs on your devices. No photo leaves it.

AI culling is faster now, and one bad bug is gone. Auto-cull used to crawl on large folders because it saved every photo one at a time. It now applies your whole shoot in a single pass at the end. On an Apple Photos library it could also stop dead at "Analyzing 0 of ..." and never recover. Fixed. The bigger one: photos could end up marked for discard no matter which way you swiped or what rating you gave them. If a burst was grouped too loosely, a single swipe spread across the whole group and the remaining frames were skipped past. Ratings now stay on the photo you rated. Also fixed and improved - Grouping strictness now controls how close together in time frames must be, as well as how alike they look - Make Pick hands the previous pick's stars to the new one instead of clearing them - Tap the star, keeper, or reject badge in the review screen to filter by it - Cleaner photo grid with the AI overlays removed - Grouped shots get a filmstrip in the viewer, matching the review screen - The review summary no longer appears without its background Everything still runs on your device. No photo or score leaves it.

CullKit can now cull for you. On-device AI scores every photo, groups bursts and near-duplicates, and suggests keepers and rejects. You review, adjust, and apply. New - AI Assist: on-device scores for sharpness, face quality, eyes open, and aesthetics on every photo - Auto-cull: one tap suggests star ratings and rejects for the whole shoot; every suggestion is revertible - Burst and duplicate grouping with a suggested best shot, side-by-side compare, and full-quality zoom - Review screen with AI verdict filters, key faces close-ups, and a summary of what was kept and why - Cull intensity slider: keep more or keep less, you decide how strict the AI is Everything runs on your device. No photo, score, or decision ever leaves it.

Browse your library even without a NAS connection. Plus: edit keywords, captions, and copyright that write to XMP for Lightroom and Capture One. New - Offline browsing: your photos stay accessible when your NAS or network is unreachable - Edit keywords, captions, and copyright directly in CullKit; changes write to XMP sidecars that Lightroom, Capture One, and Bridge read - Every photo now gets a standard XMP sidecar so star ratings and colour labels stay portable across desktop tools Improved - Faster, sharper full-screen RAW previews: CullKit reads the embedded preview so big shoots fly by without waiting on full-size decodes - Apple Photos grid loads faster; thumbnails appear right away when you reopen the app - Smoother switching between online and offline; CullKit detects connection changes and recovers without restarting Fixed - Keyboard no longer covers the keyword field on iPhone and iPad

Cull your Apple Photos library on iPhone and iPad. No NAS required: point CullKit at the photos already on your device and rip through them with full-screen gestures and star ratings. New - Apple Photos as a source on iPhone and iPad: connect your library and cull it with the same swipe gestures, ratings, and keyboard shortcuts you use everywhere else - Browse your albums, move photos between albums, and review Live Photos and videos right in the viewer - Ratings are written to XMP sidecars, and your rated shots can mark themselves as Apple Photos favourites - On-demand full-resolution loading for faster, smoother browsing Plus fixes and refinements across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Navigate your shoot at a glance. The photo viewer now shows a scrollable thumbnail strip so you can jump to any frame instantly, on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New - Thumbnail strip in the photo viewer: see all photos in your folder as a horizontal filmstrip below the viewer, with your current photo centred and highlighted - Scrub through a shoot in seconds: drag along the strip and navigate live; on iPhone, a haptic tick confirms each frame as you pass it - Tap any thumbnail to jump to that photo directly

CullKit now goes beyond Synology. Point it at any local folder on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone (an external SSD, a Lightroom working folder, or a synced copy of your library) and cull it with the same fast workflow. No NAS required. New - Local folders: add any folder on your device as a photo source - Any NAS, not just Synology: mount a QNAP, TrueNAS, or UGREEN share over SMB and cull it like Synology Photos - Play videos and Live Photos inline during the culling session - Filter your grid by media type: Photos, Videos, or Live Photos - Same fast culling, star ratings, and XMP sync everywhere your photos live Fixes - Crash when syncing a favourite immediately after a swipe in the culling session - WhatsApp images sometimes not matched in Camera Roll delete confirmations - Improved Camera Roll filename matching for edge-case formats

You can now pick a thumbnail quality level in Settings. Go higher for a sharper gallery, or lower to save bandwidth on slower connections. Improved - Thumbnail quality: choose Low, Medium, or High under Settings > Cache - Cache labels: the cache size now shows in plain MB or GB - Cache: clearing the cache reloads the gallery automatically

Video thumbnails now load reliably across your library. No more blank placeholders or long hangs while browsing or culling a shoot. Fixed • Video thumbnails: poster frames now appear consistently in the gallery and culling viewer, including mixed libraries with HEIC and video • Grid performance: thumbnails that aren't ready yet fail fast and retry quietly, so scrolling stays smooth

You can now share photos and videos directly from CullKit to any app on your device. Also new: sort shoots into year/month folders automatically, and CullKit reopens where you left off. New • Share / Send To - share any photo or video from your Synology library to Messages, Mail, or any other app • Organize by date - move photos into year/month folders with one tap to keep big shoots manageable • Resume where you left off - CullKit remembers your last folder or album and opens it on launch

Send your keepers straight to Apple Photos - rated picks from Synology Photos flow into your iPhone library without a second pass. New • Apple Photos sync - push rated keepers from Synology Photos into your Apple Photos library • Album management - create, rename, and delete albums, and add photos through a new picker • Folder management with undo for safe reorganising on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Swipe to select on iPhone and iPad for fast multi-photo actions • Filenames now appear in the viewer and culling session, so you always know which frame you are rating • Friendlier review experience with an in-app feedback shortcut Improved • Smoother grid scrolling - thumbnails now decode off the main thread • Sharper thumbnails and smarter lazy-loading in large folders • Real shared-folder names in the sidebar instead of generic labels • Drag and drop folders directly on the macOS sidebar • Redesigned Start Culling sheet to begin a review faster • Cleaner Settings layout with reactive Apple Photos toggles Fixed • XMP sidecar ratings now write reliably for photos in team spaces • Add team-space photos to albums without errors • Resolved connection issues for QuickConnect and remote setups • Folder name conflicts now show a clear, actionable message