Fixed an issue where the results list lost keyboard focus after using Quick Look, so you can now press space to preview an image and keep arrowing through your shots.

Undo - Moved, renamed, or tagged a batch on accident? Undo File Changes puts everything back where it came from. Sidecars travel with their photo, renames are reversed along with the move, and any keyword Eye Focus Check added is removed. Review before applying - A new option that separates checking from committing. Scan a folder, look through the results, adjust the cutoff, deselect the keepers you want to hold onto — then Apply. Nothing on disk moves until you say so. See where your scores fall - The sharpness cutoff now sits on a chart of the current batch. Instead of reading numbers out of the columns and guessing, you can see the soft cluster and the sharp cluster and drag the line into the gap between them. Focus map - Shade any photo by sharpness to see where focus actually landed — on the eye, or on the ear behind it. Green passes your cutoff, red doesn't. Useful for the frames where you trust the score but want to know what it's telling you. Fixes • Keywords are now written correctly to XMP sidecars created by Lightroom. Previously, if a photo already had a sidecar containing no keywords — which Lightroom writes as soon as you rate or adjust an image — the keyword was silently skipped and nothing was tagged. • Focus-point detection is now accurate on vertical shots. • Removing images from the list while a scan is running no longer quits the app. • Resuming an interrupted scan now says so, rather than only offering Rescan.

Drag photos onto the app icon You can now drop images or a folder directly onto the Eye Focus Check icon in the Dock or Finder to start a scan. Autofocus-aware analysis When no face or animal is found, Eye Focus Check reads the focus point your camera recorded rather than guessing at the centre of the frame. Canon raw files are read directly and work in every version. Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm raws require the free exiftool utility and are supported in the direct download only. Faster scanning of photos without faces Focus-point data is now read directly from the file instead of by launching a helper tool, which removes several minutes of overhead from large shoots. Fixes Show Crash Logs in Finder now opens the correct folder. The command-line tool no longer quits unexpectedly when printing results.

Faster scanning Sharpness analysis now runs on the GPU, and scanning uses more of your Mac's cores. Large batches finish noticeably quicker, and the results list stays responsive while a scan is running. Better focus detection on photos with no face When Eye Focus Check can't find a face or animal, it now reads the autofocus point your camera recorded — supporting Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm raw files — instead of just checking the center of the frame. If the focus point landed on something intentionally soft, the app scans the frame and reports the sharpest area it finds. Resume interrupted scans Progress is saved automatically while scanning. If the app quits or your Mac restarts mid-batch, you'll be offered the chance to pick up where you left off. Filter and search your results New filter buttons for Sharp, Soft, No Face, and Errors, each showing a count, plus a search field for finding files by name. Export results any time Export your results as a CSV whenever you like with ⇧⌘E — you no longer have to turn on logging before scanning. Also added Select All Visible (⇧⌘A) for acting on whatever the current filter shows. Lightroom keyword compatibility XMP keywords are now written in a second format Lightroom uses, so tagged photos show up properly in your keyword list. Safer file moves Moving files across different drives now copies, verifies, and only then removes the original. Sidecar files (XMP, LRC) only move after the photo itself moves successfully, so you can't end up with orphaned sidecars. Name collisions are handled reliably when scanning multiple folders at once. Consistent wording The command-line tool and Bridge panel now use "soft" to match the app, including the _soft_eyes folder name.

What's New in 1.5 Preview panel and eye visualizations Click any row to open a side panel showing the full image. Detected eye regions are drawn directly on the image as labeled boxes — left eye, right eye — so you can see exactly what was scored and where the focus landed. Animal detection Eye Focus Check now detects and scores animals — pets, wildlife, birds — using Vision's animal pose detection. Animals are treated the same as faces: the best-scoring animal clears the image if it meets the threshold. Enable or disable animal detection in settings. Subject fallback scoring When no face or animal is found, the app now scores the image at the camera's autofocus point (read from EXIF SubjectArea metadata), or the centre 30% of the frame if no autofocus data is available. These results appear with a distinct status so you always know what was scored. New format support WebP and AVIF are now supported alongside JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, PNG, and RAW formats. Shallow depth-of-field mode At wide apertures (f/1.2, f/1.4), depth of field may only cover one eye. With Shallow DOF mode on, an image passes if the sharper eye meets the threshold. Off by default — with it off, both eyes must clear. Actions on soft images Any combination of the following can now run automatically during the scan: Move soft files and their sidecars (XMP, LRC, RAW+JPEG pairs) to a destination folder Rename soft files with a custom prefix or suffix Write an XMP keyword to the sidecar, visible as a filterable label in Lightroom, Capture One, and Bridge Export a CSV log of all scan results Session save and load File → Save Session saves the current results and threshold to a JSON file. File → Open Session reloads them later — useful for revisiting a batch or sharing results. Keyboard shortcut ⌘↩ starts or rescans from anywhere — shown in the Scan button and the File menu. Smarter scans Scanning now scans multiple files at once and the rescan re-evaluates the current list with updated threshold or action settings. Files are only re-read from disk when a detection option that wasn't active during the original scan is now enabled. Everything else re-thresholds instantly. Bug fixes and polish Threshold now persists across launches Loading a session restores its threshold Sidecar rename no longer silently overwrites colliding filenames — a numeric suffix is added instead Best-face selection in multi-face shots now correctly respects Shallow DOF mode