FIXED - Export names that include a sequence number (Date-Sequence, Camera-Date-Sequence) now number the photos in the order you see them in the grid. Before, the numbering could come out in a different order each time. - The Export sheet could appear with its left and right edges cut off. The Filename Pattern is now a pop-up menu. - A date filter now reads as what it covers. A three-day range shows its dates, not just the year. NEW - Export… is in the right-click menu of a photo, and exports the whole selection when the photo is part of one. IMPROVED - A saved view with unsaved changes now shows a dot beside its name in the sidebar. Leaving it tells you once that the changes weren't saved, and hovering gives the way back: click the view to restore what you saved.

NEW — Not Edited, in the Edited filter, shows photos with no Photo Developer or Camera Raw settings in their sidecar: the ones still waiting for you. NEW — Option-Command-S saves the current view.

1.4 - Several folders at once, and views you can come back to. NEW — Browse several folders as one grid. ⌘-click a second folder in the sidebar and both show together. Only the folders you pick are scanned, so looking at two years of a large archive doesn't mean reading all of it. NEW — Saved Views. Save folders together with a filter under a name, such as "2025 + 2026, 4 stars and up", and reopen it from the sidebar with one click, even after the folder has left your recent list. A view rescans its folders when it opens, so it always shows what's on disk. Changes to an open view are never saved on their own: Update View or Save as New is your choice. If a folder has been moved or renamed, the view tells you which one and offers Locate. NEW — Quick Filters of your own. Save any filter to the Quick Filter-menu next to All Picks and Unrated, and use it in whatever folder is open. IMPROVED — Help has been rewritten: every shortcut, a short guide to each task, and how Photo Archive stores your work in XMP sidecars. FIXED — Folders renamed or added in Finder now show in the sidebar when you come back to Photo Archive, without a restart. When a recent folder can't be opened, the reason is now shown instead of the welcome screen. Photo Archive is still database free, every view and filter working live. Revisiting folders should be quick though, due to caching and indexing. All photo related metadata is still saved to XMP only.

NEW — Sidecars named with the full file name, such as photo.cr2.xmp, are now read alongside the Lightroom-style photo.xmp. Ratings, keywords and rights saved by those tools now show up, and edits you make here are saved back into that same sidecar rather than a second one beside it. Moving, copying and renaming keep every sidecar with its photo. IMPROVED — Camera names in the filter, the Inspector and the loupe are tidied. FIXED — Some cameras appeared twice in the Camera filter, because the maker name was written slightly differently in different files. This should now be fixed. As before, Photo Archive reads metadata from .xmp sidecars; metadata written inside the photo files themselves is not read.

Photos developed in Lightroom or Camera Raw are now recognised. NEW — The Edited filter has a Camera Raw option next to Photo Developer. Photos carrying Camera Raw develop settings show a CRS badge in the grid and appear under Processed By in the Inspector, so you can separate the photos you have worked on from the ones you have only imported. FIXED — The window could stop responding while a folder was being scanned, most noticeably on large folders and on external drives. Scanning now stays clear of the interface. Two things worth knowing. A photo that was developed in Lightroom and later edited in Photo Developer is listed under Photo Developer rather than Camera Raw, because that is the most recent tool to have worked on it. And like everything else in Photo Archive, this reads the .xmp sidecar next to the photo: develop settings that live only inside a Lightroom catalogue, never saved out to XMP, are not visible to it.

The Inspector now works with multiple photos. FIXED — With several photos selected, editing in the Inspector applied to only one of them. Keywords, ratings, flags and rights now apply to everything you have selected. NEW — The Inspector shows what you have selected: how many photos, whether they share a rating or flag, and which keywords are on all of them versus only some. A keyword on part of the selection is marked with a count, so you can see what removing it will affect before you click. NEW — Right-clicking a photo and setting a rating or flag now applies to your whole selection, the same as the keyboard shortcuts always did. Note: Title and Caption still apply to one photo at a time. They describe an individual image, so they are not written across a selection.

Photo Archive now shares the same XMP engine as the rest of the suite. IMPROVED — Sidecar files Photo Archive writes are now valid XMP in every case, including files that mix several metadata blocks. Some previously written files could not be read back correctly by other applications.

IMPROVED — Undo now covers every edit Photo Archive writes. IMPROVED — Stamp Rights now tells you exactly what it did. The message names which fields were applied; if you haven't filled in your defaults yet, it says so and points you to Settings instead of reporting a stamp that never happened. FIXED — Settings › "Default sort order" and "Thumbnail size" now actually take effect when Photo Archive starts. The toolbar sort menu and size slider still adjust the current session without changing your startup defaults — the Settings section now explains that split. IMPROVED — Lower memory use while browsing. Thumbnails (and video poster frames) are now built at the size they're actually displayed rather than one fixed larger size, so a long session in a big folder holds a fraction of the memory it used to. Most noticeable on Macs with 8 GB of memory. NOTE — Thumbnails rebuild once, the first time you open each folder after updating. Nothing is lost; the first scroll is briefly slower than usual, then back to normal.

A reliability release. The theme: your edits either save, or you're told. IMPROVED — Your metadata is better protected in unusual situations. If a photo's .xmp sidecar exists but can't be read (for example, one written by another tool in an unexpected text encoding), Photo Archive now refuses to touch it rather than risk replacing it — ratings and keywords written by Lightroom or other apps stay intact. NEW — If a rating, keyword, or other edit can't be written to disk, Photo Archive tells you right away with a clear message, instead of quietly noting it in a log you'd never see. NEW — Write access is verified the moment you open a folder from Recent Folders. macOS can occasionally degrade a remembered folder permission so that reading works but saving doesn't; Photo Archive now catches this immediately and offers a one-click way to restore write access — before you rate a hundred photos, not after. Genuinely read-only locations (like a locked network share) simply show a notice, and browsing works as always. IMPROVED — Lower memory use in long sessions. Switching to a different folder now releases the previous folder's image caches. Thumbnails already built are kept on disk, so returning to a folder is as fast as ever.

A stability fix and smoother, truer full-screen viewing. FIXED — Resolved a crash that could happen when opening a folder containing certain photos with unusual or incomplete metadata. NEW — Moving between photos in full-screen is now instant. Stepping from one photo to the next no longer flashes to black — the next photo is there immediately. IMPROVED — 100% now means 100%. Press Z (or double-click) and the photo zooms to its true actual size. Before, on high-resolution displays, "100%" stopped short of full magnification. NEW — Keep your zoom level as you move between photos. Turn on Settings → Display → "Keep zoom level when navigating photos" to inspect a whole series at the same magnification — handy for checking focus across a burst. Each photo is shown at its own actual size, portrait or landscape. Off by default; otherwise each photo opens fit-to-window. NEW — Pan a zoomed photo with a two-finger swipe on the trackpad. Before, only mouse-dragging panned. FIXED — A zoomed photo can no longer be pushed off-screen — panning now stops at the edges of the image. IMPROVED — Move and Copy now start at the last folder you moved or copied into this session, instead of always the folder you opened — fewer clicks when sorting into subfolders. IMPROVED — The current folder is more clearly highlighted in the sidebar, especially in Dark Mode. IMPROVED — The thumbnail filmstrip gained a View › Toggle Filmstrip menu item and tucks away automatically while you're zoomed in, so two-finger swipes pan the photo, not the strip. It returns when you zoom back out.

Faster, safer culling in full-screen — and steadier memory on heavy folders. NEW — Cull without leaving full-screen. Delete a photo in the loupe and you move straight to the next one, instead of dropping back to the grid. NEW — Skip the delete prompt. Turn on Settings → Behavior → "Skip delete confirmation" for fast culling. Deletes still go to the Trash, and ⌘Z undoes. FIXED — Deleting in full-screen after moving between photos could remove the wrong photo. It now always acts on the one you're viewing. IMPROVED — Folders that contain very large images (multi-hundred-megabyte TIFFs, big panoramas) no longer let several of them decode at once and spike memory — large files are processed one at a time, keeping the rest of the folder responsive.

A quick fix and two refinements on the heels of 1.3. Fixed: opening a video in the full-screen view could crash the app on recent macOS. It no longer does — playback now uses the system's native video player. Fixed: on an external display running at native (non-Retina) resolution, the loupe — including 100% zoom — now renders at full resolution instead of half. Fix: open a photo full-screen, then delete it — you now return cleanly to the grid instead of being left on a blank frame. New: "fit" can fill the window. Turn on Settings → Display → "Loupe fit: Fill window" and low-resolution photos and clips scale up to fill the loupe — handy for reviewing screen-grabs or low-res footage. Z (or double-click) toggles between filling the window and actual size. New: press Tab to hide or show the sidebar while you review — quick room to work at 100%. (⇧Tab still toggles both side panels; ⌘I the inspector.) Also includes everything from 1.3, of course: ORGANIZE IN PLACE Move, copy, and delete photos — and create, rename, and reorganize folders — without ever leaving the app. The whole shot travels together: a RAW, its JPEG, and its XMP sidecar move as one. Name clashes ask Keep Both / Replace / Skip; deletes go to the Trash and ask first; everything is undoable. VIDEO, ALONGSIDE YOUR PHOTOS Browse MOV, MP4, and M4V clips in the same grid — poster thumbnails, duration, sort, filter, ratings, picks, and keywords, exactly like stills. Open a clip in the loupe and press Space to play or pause; ⇧← / ⇧→ skip back and forward 10 seconds, with native controls. Still no database, still no lock-in — your metadata lives in XMP sidecars next to your files, photos and footage alike.

A big update: organize your folders directly, and bring video into the mix. ORGANIZE IN PLACE Move, copy, and delete photos — and create, rename, and reorganize folders — without ever leaving the app. The whole shot travels together: a RAW, its JPEG, and its XMP sidecar move as one. Name clashes ask Keep Both / Replace / Skip; deletes go to the Trash and ask first; everything is undoable. VIDEO, ALONGSIDE YOUR PHOTOS Browse MOV, MP4, and M4V clips in the same grid — poster thumbnails, duration, sort, filter, ratings, picks, and keywords, exactly like stills. Open a clip in the loupe and press Space to play or pause; ⇧← / ⇧→ skip back and forward 10 seconds, with native controls. Still no database, still no lock-in — your metadata lives in XMP sidecars next to your files, photos and footage alike.

New in v1.1.2) Smoother in large folders. Scrolling and scanning thousands of photos — including libraries on external drives — no longer stalls, and thumbnails keep loading as you move.

What's New (v1.1.1) - Keyword autocomplete should now be close to instant on large folders. - Send Feedback is now in the Help menu — opens a pre-filled email with your version and macOS info attached.

Exported JPEGs now carry full XMP — ratings, keywords, copyright, and rights URLs arrive intact for other apps. A new Metadata picker in the export sheet lets you choose what travels with each file: everything, rights only for client delivery, or none for anonymous web sharing. Also other bug fixes and general under-the-hood improvements.

NEW - Press Z (or double-click) in loupe to toggle between Fit and 100% — no trackpad needed - Technical filter bar: filter by camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO FIXED - Grid badges update live after rating or pick changes - Loupe returns to grid when switching folders - Duplicate "View" menu in the menu bar - XMP keyword writing improved for broader compatibility with other photo apps