Picasa .ini and WLPG metadata are ready.
Live Gallery now reads Picasa sidecars and Windows Live Photo Gallery metadata in place: face names, tags, stars, captions and album names. The source folders remain read-only.
Release notes · updated 11 November 2026
What changed, and when.
Short, dated notes about the app and the site. The full Beta 2 detail lives on its own page; this is the running record.
A clearer path through the library.
New feature guides, a detailed FAQ, a grouped sitemap and a preview of the coming export tool. The support, feedback and licence-interest forms now reach us through Formspree instead of opening an email draft.
Browse the feature guidesBeta 2 is the current public beta.
More than 1,000 fixes and improvements across the library, people, tags, metadata and performance work. The free beta remains capped at 5,000 images for testing.
Read what changed in Beta 2Still ahead
On the roadmap, not in this build.
Export is coming soon. Free-text search and object recognition are coming soon. Metadata write-back into source files will not be supported.
Try the current build
The latest beta
is ready.
Download Beta 2 and point it at a folder. The originals stay where they are.
Windows 11 · Free 5,000-photo beta · No account needed