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Every update, from the latest release to the very first beta.

v0.19.1

2026-05-12

Highlights

  • New first-run consent screen for anonymous error reporting and telemetry. Easy to change anytime from Settings, with clearer wording about what's collected and why.
  • Faster CPU tagging when the GPU isn't available. The visual tagging sidecar now applies all ONNX Runtime optimizations on the CPU path, so automatic GPU-to-CPU fallback is noticeably quicker.
  • Redesigned third-party licenses screen with a categorized layout and per-component license text, plus offline copies of every LICENSE file under the install directory for audit-friendly access.

Changes

  • • Smoother 14-day trial start and exit experience
  • • Email templates and the license screen now clearly state the 500-video search limit that applies after the trial ends
  • • Native-speaker translation polish for the credits and licenses screens (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean)
  • • Portuguese translations consolidated to European Portuguese (pt-PT) for consistency
  • • Bumped Python sidecar dependencies across tagging, face, text, and vision sidecars
  • • Improved tagging-sidecar error reporting
  • • Disabled processing stages on the directory sync view now show a clear 'Off' label with a tooltip explaining where to enable them, replacing the previous misleading 0%

Your library keeps getting better

A short note when we ship something worth grabbing — new features, faster processing, and fixes. About once a month, never more. Just product updates, no spam.

v0.19.0

2026-04-30

Highlights

  • Free 14-day trial extension — enter your email on the license screen for a one-time extension. The license screen has also been redesigned to show what's been indexed and what's still waiting.
  • Faster, higher-quality transcription with the new whisper q8 model — about 5x faster on CPU and noticeably better on noisy audio. The ~850MB model will download automatically on first run; the previous model is removed to free disk space.
  • Per-stage GPU overrides — pick a different GPU for tagging, face detection, transcription, and vision. Helpful on systems with both an integrated and a discrete GPU.

Changes

  • • Significantly faster thumbnail generation by running multiple full-decode paths in parallel for 4K and lower videos
  • • Better sync progress feedback — realtime processing speed, accurate ETAs, percentage progress per stage, and smoother updates
  • • Default to integrated GPU for transcription where supported — much faster on recent integrated GPUs
  • • Add in-app review prompt with optional anonymous feedback
  • • Rework benchmark results dialog with per-workload pills and an apply-preview block
  • • Improve CPU fallback — vision sidecar now correctly falls back, hybrid CPU/GPU mode is shown distinctly from pure CPU fallback, and the warning wording is clearer
  • • More resilient transcription — recover when whisper-server crashes mid-job (no more lost videos), probe the GPU with exponential backoff to detect when it comes back, and stopping a sync during transcription now cancels in-flight FFmpeg WAV extraction
  • • Fix 360 thumbnail generation failing for 10-bit HEVC videos (DJI Osmo 360, Insta360 HEVC Main 10)
  • • Fix FFmpeg hardware acceleration not being used after upgrading from versions where GPU acceleration was disabled in the old settings
  • • Fix paid licenses being silently downgraded to trial when the license token expired while offline
  • • Smoother in-app updates — the installer now waits for the running app to close instead of racing the file copy
  • • Various polish: clearer processing-event wording, better tail-corruption detection during the thumbnail stage, restored hand cursor on the top navigation bar, improved check-for-updates reliability, and translation fixes for the benchmark button and preview-thumbnails label

v0.18.1

2026-04-16

Highlights

  • Dropping Windows shortcuts (.lnk files) and Network Locations into the app now correctly resolves the target path, so you can add directories via shortcuts from your Desktop or Explorer's "This PC" network locations.

Changes

  • • Fix adding a folder that was previously added but has since been renamed
  • • Fix directory re-link when the directory contains duplicate video files
  • • Fix directory re-link falsely reporting hidden files (e.g. GoPro chapter files) as new videos
  • • Fix spurious processing warning when stopping sync during the vision stage
  • • Add SQLCipher license notice to the credits screen

v0.18.0

2026-04-09

Highlights

  • NAS and network drive support — you can now add directories on NAS devices and mapped network drives (Windows UNC paths and macOS network volumes)

Changes

  • • Fix NAS volume not updating to unavailable status on disconnect
  • • Fix directory merge issues on mapped network drives (path separator normalization)
  • • Fix showing "whole volume" instead of the selected subfolder in the relink popup
  • • Fix total video size and duration not updating on the directory screen after metadata analysis
  • • Fix multiple localization issues in add directory and volume popups
  • • Reduce log noise from corrupted video files (downgraded from error to warning)
  • • Fix NAS volume polling causing log spam and UI hangs on disconnect

v0.17.9

2026-04-05

Highlights

  • Significantly improved 360 video thumbnail generation performance (10-30% faster for DJI and Insta360 cameras)
  • Volume type (internal, external, remote) is now shown in the directories screen and volume info overlay. This requires running the "Synchronization" operation so the app can determine the volume type for existing volumes.

Changes

  • • Fix 360 thumbnail scheduling and full-decode failures
  • • Fix issue where low-res thumbnails could not be created during thumbnail generation
  • • Stopping a sync is now more responsive during the thumbnail stage
  • • Improve localization on the license screen (add missing translations)
  • • Better error handling for files that disappear during sync

v0.17.8

2026-03-29

Highlights

  • Significantly improved search results scrolling performance and responsiveness

v0.17.7

2026-03-27

Changes

  • • Fix hardware device (GPU) selection not persisting correctly between sessions
  • • Fix thumbnail processing issues
  • • Improve memory usage by scoping exif pool to metadata stage only

v0.17.6

2026-03-26

Changes

  • • Improve UX when launching versions 0.17.1 and later when the AI models had already been downloaded. In this case, they should not need to be downloaded again.

v0.17.5

2026-03-26

Changes

  • • Fix thumbnail paths mismatch introduced in the last release

v0.17.4

2026-03-26

Highlights

  • The app can now be installed for multiple users on one computer. Every user gets their own database and trial mode individually.

v0.17.3

2026-03-24

Highlights

  • This version contains small bug fixes

v0.17.2

2026-03-21

Highlights

  • Processing errors are now replaced with a more detailed Processing Events log with severity levels, giving better visibility into what happened during synchronization

Changes

  • • Fix Natural Language Search thumbnail borders to correctly indicate matches
  • • Improved GPU device settings and benchmark accuracy — CPU fallback no longer inflates GPU performance numbers
  • • Improved stability when stopping synchronization during metadata analysis
  • • Various sidecar stability and error handling improvements

v0.17.1

2026-03-18

Highlights

  • Natural Language Search result thumbnails get better highlighting

Changes

  • • improvements around app stability and UX
  • • Hardware acceleration benchmark can now properly be skipped

v0.17.0

2026-03-15

Highlights

  • New feature: Natural Language Search Filter. Describe what you are looking for in natural language and configure how strict you want to be about this. Requires re-processing of videos to make them discoverable in the search
  • More streamlined hardware acceleration settings with more control over each processing stage and a benchmark option which finds the best performance for visual content detection and transcription
  • Performance improvements for thumbnail generation and metadata analysis stages

Changes

  • • use webp for thumbnails in the future, roughly 20% less space consumption without quality loss
  • • highlight score computation improvements to work better with big libraries
  • • small bugfixes and UX improvements

v0.16.0

2026-03-01

Highlights

  • Application shutdown UX improved
  • The Transcription benchmark dialog now allows the user to skip a device he doesn't want to have considered anyway
  • Fix thumbnail artifacts when processing 8K videos on a weak GPU

Changes

  • • The installer now properly uses the system language
  • • progress indicators during sync now always show total percentage, not current work percentage which is much less confusing
  • • various small UX improvements

v0.15.0

2026-02-28

Highlights

  • Improve app startup time by up to 6 seconds
  • Add Splash Screen on app startup

Changes

  • • add tooltip for synchronization stop button to indicate that no progress is lost
  • • fix GPUs not getting detected in some cases
  • • the search results now offer the expand button and the "find more videos with faces from this video" button even when the volume or directory is not available

v0.14.1

2026-02-24

Changes

  • • fixed the automatic folder re-linking / relocating when the user has moved or renamed the path to a directory which he added as a video directory into ClipCatalog

v0.14.0

2026-02-22

Highlights

  • Improved the performance of search against big video libraries greatly when common detected content labels or words were used
  • Removed the limitation of 32000 videos in the video library - now you can have an even bigger library

v0.13.6

2026-02-22

Highlights

  • the changelog is now machine translated into all supported languages
  • the changelog now also shows on the website

Changes

  • • Improvement: Search by spoken words filter: when entering multiple words separated by a space then the app will split the input into multiple words at the spaces

v0.13.5

2026-02-21

Changes

  • • installer is now available in 10 different languages
  • • installer auto-picks the current language, shows language selector otherwise

v0.13.4

2026-02-21

Changes

  • • Improve the video duration filter so lower durations (<60seconds) can be selected much easier
  • • Add a hint to the spoken words filter to indicate that the user needs to enter a single word
  • • Auto-split words at the spaces in the spoken words filter

v0.13.3

2026-02-21

Changes

  • • improve the UI when downloading assets at first app start

v0.13.2

2026-02-20

Changes

  • • minor bugfix in initial asset download screen

v0.13.1

2026-02-20

Changes

  • • small bugfixes

v0.13.0

2026-02-20

Changes

  • • Bugfix: In-App Update functionality
  • • Bugfix: In-App Video Player causing video stretching

v0.12.1

2026-02-19

Changes

  • • fix links to our privacy document

v0.12.0

2026-02-10

Changes

  • • First public release

v0.11.1

2026-02-10

Changes

  • • Improve the updater
  • • update indicator
  • • auto check for new version on app start

v0.11.0

2026-02-09

Changes

  • • Re-link functionality for moved directories
  • • Bugfixes with search filters and non-existent videos

v0.10.3

2026-02-08

Changes

  • • Fixed installer packaging to include newly added binaries
  • • Improved application startup error handling

v0.10.2

2026-02-06

Changes

  • • Upgraded Flutter to a newer version
  • • Made highlight scores available only after videos finished processing
  • • Made footage type available only after full processing and with face detection enabled

v0.10.1

2026-02-06

Changes

  • • Improved footage type calculation
  • • Improved highlight score calculation

v0.10.0

2026-02-05

Changes

  • • Added selection of the transcription backend (CPU can be faster than GPU in some cases, especially on iGPUs)
  • • Improved the visual design of the Directories screen
  • • Improved performance of the Directories screen

v0.9.8

2026-02-04

Changes

  • • Improved overall performance

v0.9.7

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Released an internal testing build

v0.9.6

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Fixed minor bugs

v0.9.5

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Improved the directory filter user interface

v0.9.3

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Improved the update process
  • • Improved asset downloading to fetch only missing or outdated files

v0.9.2

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Optimized metadata processing

v0.9.1

2026-01-30

Changes

  • • Added a GPU selection option
  • • Improved thumbnail extraction performance

v0.9.0

2026-01-29

Changes

  • • Released a beta version