New Features: - **Auto-Select Best Photos**: Implemented auto-selection of the best photos within groups based on their AI aesthetic scores. A huge timesaver for picking the winning shot from a burst sequence, complete with dedicated settings and shortcut bindings. - **Aesthetic Badges**: Aesthetic score badges are now displayed directly in the main viewer and filmstrip panels, making it easier to instantly eyeball the best shots. Status icons were also moved to the title area for a cleaner look. - **XMP Star Ratings Preserved**: When importing photos with existing XMP ratings, the app now preserves and displays your exact star rating rather than just automatically marking them as "Keep". Your 5-star shots stay 5-star shots! - **Auto-Advance Toggle**: Added a new setting (and configurable shortcut) to automatically advance to the next photo the moment a photo's status is changed (Keep/Reject). - **Secondary Shortcuts**: Added support for secondary shortcut bindings across all primary application actions. Improvements: - **Blazing Fast Large Imports**: Optimized how LibRaw handles photo processing. When importing massive folders, the app now extracts thumbnails concurrently in the background, significantly slashing wait times. - **Lightning Fast Apple RAW Previews**: Replaced the underlying preview mechanism so that RAW files using Apple's native decoder load drastically faster and use far less memory. - **Under-the-Hood Polish**: Major structural upgrades to the entire RAW decoding engine to ensure greater stability when handling diverse camera formats. Fixes: - **Sorting Reliability**: Fixed a glitch where sorting by date could behave unexpectedly if some photos lacked an internal creation date. - **Enhanced Stability**: Cleaned up internal background processes and fixed a memory leak, keeping the app running buttery smooth during long sessions.

Welcome to Renzu Select (formerly SwipeCull Desktop)! This minor update brings small improvements to make photo culling faster and smarter than ever. Improvements: - Smarter Import Sessions: Starting a new import now automatically exits grouping mode and clears the current group. No more accidentally mixing your Tuscany trip with your cat photos. - Better Grouping Out of the Box: Raised the default similarity threshold to 0.8 for more precise photo stacking from the very first launch. Because "close enough" wasn't close enough. - Faster Similarity Search: Increased the number of nearest neighbors considered during visual search, so stacking finds better matches across large libraries. More candidates, better stacks. - Security-Scoped Bookmark Access: Import folders with bookmark-backed access now correctly request and refresh permissions — including subfolders. Your Mac asked nicely, and it actually worked. - Thumbnail Caching Overhaul: Merged thumbnail caching directly into the preload pipeline — faster, leaner, and one less thing that could go wrong. Marie Kondo would approve. - Lighter Footprint: The AI similarity index now lives entirely in memory with no disk persistence. Faster startup, nothing left behind when you quit. - Correct Image Orientation: Photos with tricky EXIF rotation data now display the right way up. Every time. Revolutionary, we know.

New Features: - Aesthetic Scoring: Rate the visual quality of your photos automatically using on-device AI. A new toolbar button lets you calculate aesthetic scores on demand, or enable automatic scoring after import in Settings. Photos within stacks are sorted by aesthetic value, so the best shot floats to the top. Your Mac now has better taste in photos than your friends. - Photo Sorting: Sort your photos by date, name, or aesthetic score to find what you need faster. Because scrolling through 2,000 photos "by feel" was getting old. - Native AI Engine: Migrated from ONNX Runtime to Apple's native Vision framework for image analysis. Faster processing, smaller app size, and your Mac finally gets to use its own brain. - Improved Stacking Accuracy: Upgraded image feature analysis to Vision Framework Revision 2 and fine-tuned the similarity threshold for more accurate photo grouping. Fewer "wait, why are these together?" moments. Improvements: - Similarity Slider: The stacking threshold slider now applies changes only after you finish dragging, preventing unnecessary re-grouping while adjusting. No more disco party every time you nudge the slider. - Adaptive Performance: Import and AI processing concurrency now scales automatically based on your Mac's core count. More cores, more fun. - Faster Import: Optimized XMP metadata extraction and thumbnail processing for quicker imports. We shaved off the milliseconds so you don't have to.

Welcome to Renzu Select (formerly SwipeCull Desktop)! This major update brings a fresh identity and powerful new features to make photo culling faster and smarter than ever. New Features & Improvements: - Renzu Select: SwipeCull Desktop is now Renzu Select! A new name and updated icon that better reflects what this app is all about - intelligent photo selection. As we continue evolving beyond simple culling, the new identity represents our commitment to building the best selection experience for photographers. (Don't worry, the app still does everything you loved, just with a better haircut.) - Smart Stacking with Local AI (Cmd+T): Automatically group visually similar photos using 100% on-device AI. Declutter burst sequences and pick the best frame from each stack. Your photos never leave your Mac - all processing happens locally for complete privacy. Finally, an AI that doesn't need your data for breakfast. - Dynamic Viewing Themes: Choose between PhotoCard, Full, and other viewing modes with rich metadata display. See lens, ISO, aperture, and filename at a glance while you work. Your theme preference persists across sessions. Because staring at the same interface gets boring, even for us. - Updated Camera Support: Updated RAW decoding library to support the latest camera models. - 5-Star Rating System: Rate your photos with keyboard shortcuts or the UI, then filter by rating instantly. Import and refine in-camera ratings from XMP files. Five stars for that perfect shot, one star for your thumb over the lens. - Enhanced Filtering: Added 'unreviewed' filter and file type filtering (show only RAWs or specific formats). Find exactly what you need with Cmd+F. Like Ctrl+F, but cooler because you're on a Mac. - Improved Navigation: Scroll anywhere in the app to flip through photos - scroll down for next, up for previous. Redesigned filmstrip for more precise scrolling and better photo centering. Smooth like butter, fast like... well, fast butter. - Metadata Presets: Save frequently used photo information and apply it automatically during export for consistent project organization. Stop typing the same stuff over and over. Your fingers will thank you. Performance & Stability: - Faster Import Pipeline: Completely rebuilt RAW preloader and import services for significantly faster thumbnail generation and preview loading. We made it zoom. - Enhanced AI engine with faster and more accurate visual similarity clustering - Lightning-fast thumbnail caching system - Smoother interface responsiveness with all heavy processing in isolated background threads