Release notes

1.3.0

17 August 2026

Darkness & Light: HDR photos now show their full brightness on supported displays. A rebuilt histogram reveals more shadow and highlight detail. New tonal-range warnings mark clipping on standard photos and show which HDR highlights exceed the current display.

Photos That Move: Live Photos stay together as one item when browsing, renaming, moving or deleting, and their motion plays in the viewer. Animated GIF, PNG, WebP and HEICS images now play too.

Keep Culling: Jump straight to the next unflagged or unrated photo without changing views or filters.

Also in this update:

• Browse pages in multipage TIFF and MPO files.
• Faster large folders, metadata loading and HEIC navigation.
• The info panel now identifies color profiles, depth data and panoramas.
• Focus peaking is now drawn in cyan and magenta. If you had chosen red or blue, that choice moves to the nearest new color.
• With RAW+JPEG bundling turned off, a photo now keeps its rating, label, rotation and flag in its own sidecar (IMG.JPG.xmp) instead of the one named after the shot (IMG.xmp). That shot sidecar belongs to the RAW, and sharing it is what made rotating one file turn the other. Two consequences worth knowing: values written before this update stay in IMG.xmp and are read again as soon as bundling is switched back on, and Lightroom reads only IMG.xmp, so a value in the per-file sidecar is invisible to it. With bundling on — the default — nothing changes, and a non-RAW file that shares a name with a RAW still shares the shot's sidecar with it.
• Clearer settings and a sidebar that always shows the open folder.
• Dozens of fixes, most of them in file operations, stacks and metadata handling.

1.2.0

6 August 2026

Stacks in the Viewer: A burst reads as a pile in the viewer too, and opening or closing one is animated. Command-Down opens a stack, Command-Up closes it. A closed stack behaves as a single photo, so ratings, labels and rotation apply to every frame.

Smarter Burst Detection: Grouping now compares the images themselves, not just capture time and camera, so more real bursts are found.

Survey Upgrades: Visible pick and reject buttons on every tile, adjustable tile size, and an animated step in from the viewer.

Pick Up Where You Left Off: Seula reopens the folder, the photo, and the view you were last in. A photo opened from Finder lands straight in the viewer, with its folder behind it.

Faster and Lighter: A large photo releases its memory when you leave it, scrolling no longer touches the disk for every tile, and refreshing a folder skips the metadata re-read.

Also in this update:

• The rating bar can be always visible, shown on hover, or hidden.
• The info panel now works in Compare.
• Arrow keys navigate the grid, and Shift extends the selection.
• Double-click a filmstrip thumbnail to swap the focused pane in Compare.
• An unreadable folder now says so and offers to retry instead of looking empty.
• Dozens of smaller fixes, including a long freeze when opening the first photo in a large folder.

1.1.0

29 July 2026

Stacks. Seula groups burst shots automatically by capture time and camera, collapsing them into a single stack card in the browser. Expand, split, merge or dissolve a stack anytime; every correction is undoable. Jump into a stack from the viewer, or open one straight into Survey or Compare.

Burst Review. Work through every stack in a folder one at a time. Pick your keepers with one tap and the rest are marked rejected automatically. Undo anytime, even mid-save.

Blink Compare. Press B in the viewer to flip between a photo and its nearest neighbor at the same zoom and position — for spotting the sharper frame in a burst.

Metadata Filters. Filter by camera, lens, file type, orientation or ISO, with a live count for every option, alongside the star, color and flag filters.

Mouse Button Shortcuts. Bind a mouse's side and middle buttons to any command, just like keyboard shortcuts.

Also in this update:

• Color and flag filters are multi-select, so picks and unflagged, or yellow and red, can share one view.
• Survey gets a full-window peek with the spacebar and bigger action buttons.
• Opening several selected photos scopes the viewer to just that selection.
• Removable drives get a one-click eject button in the sidebar.
• Faster perceived RAW loading — no more staring at the previous photo while a RAW decodes.
• Dozens of smaller fixes, including thumbnails permanently vanishing from the browser for certain photos.

1.0.2

July 2026

The first public release of Seula.