Aperture Image Viewer v0.8.0-beta1

Added

• Live indexing feedback — adding a folder now jumps straight to it and streams its thumbnails in as they're
  indexed, with a determinate progress bar in the status bar (indexing X / Y), so a large import never looks frozen.
• Preview on the tile right-click menu (top entry, Space shortcut) — opens the full-screen quick-look.

Changed

• Smoother, steadier grid — switching views and live re-indexing now reuse existing tiles instead of rebuilding
  every cell, so thumbnails no longer blank-and-reload on each refresh. A background reconcile that finds no changes
  no longer rebuilds the grid at all, removing the re-render flicker that appeared a couple of seconds after launch.

Fixed

• Space / Enter open the quick-look preview for the selected tile instead of collapsing its date section.
  Collapsing a section stays on the arrow keys, the chevron, and clicking the header.

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

Download

Aperture-v0.8.0-beta1-win-x64.exe — single-file, framework-dependent build (~25.18 MB).

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (x64)
• .NET 10 Desktop Runtime — https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0

Notes

• The download is signed by Funcular Labs via Azure Trusted Signing (Authenticode). If Windows SmartScreen warns on a very new release, the reputation graph builds up quickly for signed installers.
• Your index/thumbnail cache lives under %LocalAppData%\Aperture and never leaves your machine.

Aperture Image Viewer v0.7.1-beta1

Added

• View → Refresh (F5) — reloads the library and rebuilds the grid; also the graceful recovery when the
  tile display gets into a wonky state (stale/garbled tiles after alt-tabbing, or a file deleted from under the preview).
• Context-menu icons — folder / image / tag / copy / cut glyphs on the tile and preview menus (Windows-standard, on select entries).

Changed

• Copy full path now double-quotes the path only when it contains whitespace, so it pastes cleanly as a
  single shell argument while plain paths stay unquoted.

Fixed

• Aperture.Core retargeted to net10.0-windows, clearing the CA1416 platform-compatibility warnings honestly.

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

Download

Aperture-v0.7.1-beta1-win-x64.exe — single-file, framework-dependent build (~25.17 MB).

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (x64)
• .NET 10 Desktop Runtime — https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0

Notes

• The download is signed by Funcular Labs via Azure Trusted Signing (Authenticode). If Windows SmartScreen warns on a very new release, the reputation graph builds up quickly for signed installers.
• Your index/thumbnail cache lives under %LocalAppData%\Aperture and never leaves your machine.

Aperture Image Viewer v0.7.0-beta1

First public beta — a fast, local image & video browser for Windows, and a real-world showcase for
FunkyORM (its SQLite data access runs entirely on it).

Highlights

• Instant browsing of large, image-heavy folders (a Dropbox Camera Uploads, a Screenshots dump)
  via a persistent local index + thumbnail cache; the first scan is the only slow one.
• "Everything" library (the union of every included folder) plus a folder tree, with a date-grouped,
  virtualized grid that stays smooth at tens of thousands of items.
• Tags & notes per file, Gmail-style search (tag:, note:, is:video…), multi-select, a full-screen
  quick-look overlay, and a toggleable inspector pane.
• Image + video thumbnails (SkiaSharp + ffmpeg) with EXIF-aware orientation, and drag-out of tiles
  as real files onto email, folders, or any drop target.
• Everything stays on your machine — no uploads, no telemetry.

Notes

• Framework-dependent build; requires the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime.
• Signed by Funcular Labs via Azure Trusted Signing (Authenticode).

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

Download

Aperture-v0.7.0-beta1-win-x64.exe — single-file, framework-dependent build (~25.17 MB).

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (x64)
• .NET 10 Desktop Runtime — https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0

Notes

• The download is signed by Funcular Labs via Azure Trusted Signing (Authenticode). If Windows SmartScreen warns on a very new release, the reputation graph builds up quickly for signed installers.
• Your index/thumbnail cache lives under %LocalAppData%\Aperture and never leaves your machine.