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v0.1.1
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Phokus is a local-first desktop media library for Windows — point it at
your image and video folders and it builds a fast, searchable gallery with
thumbnails, semantic search, visual discovery, AI tagging, and duplicate
cleanup. Everything is processed on your machine; nothing is uploaded.

This is a quality-of-life release on top of 0.1.0: a new in-app folder
picker, themes, smoother scrolling on large libraries, and a batch of fixes.
If you're updating from 0.1.0, the built-in updater will fetch this for you.

Install / update

  • Updating from 0.1.0: the in-app updater will offer 0.1.1 on launch — one
    click downloads, installs, and relaunches.
  • Fresh install: download Phokus_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe below and run it.
    Windows SmartScreen will warn that the publisher is unrecognized — this
    build is not code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway.
  • Requires Windows 10/11. WebView2 is fetched automatically if missing.

NVIDIA users wanting GPU embedding speed can use the
Phokus_0.1.1_x64-cuda-setup.exe variant instead (larger download; bundles the
CUDA runtime DLLs).

Highlights

Added

  • Custom multi-folder picker — navigate and stage folders from multiple
    locations and add them in one go, replacing the native OS dialog.
  • Themes — Phokus, Subtle Light, and Conventional Dark chrome, with an
    inline theme picker in first-run onboarding.
  • Timeline scrubber — a year/month rail to jump anywhere in the library.
  • Folder reordering in the sidebar (drag-and-drop or keyboard), persisted,
    plus A–Z / Z–A / Custom sort for the Libraries list.
  • Video playback settings — autoplay-in-lightbox and start-muted toggles.
  • Rebuild semantic index maintenance action — fixes "dimension mismatch"
    search errors after switching CLIP models.
  • Locate and filter images with failed AI-tagging jobs.

Changed

  • Gallery grid and Duplicate Finder list are now row-virtualised — large
    libraries and large result sets (5,000+ pairs) scroll without lag.
  • Settings now open on General by default.

Fixed

  • AVIF thumbnails now generate correctly (routed through bundled FFmpeg);
    previously-failed AVIF jobs are requeued on startup.
  • Video embedding jobs no longer churn through failed states before their
    thumbnail exists; previously-failed ones are requeued.
  • Timeline scrolling is smooth on large libraries (per-row virtualisation);
    background batches no longer re-sort the whole loaded set.
  • Numerous Subtle Light theme readability/parity fixes.

See the changelog
for the full list.

Checksums

SHA-256 (Phokus_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe)      = 1c19cbeb77f38a44149380c42c76b633add65777d317e1f3ff7e45d96d12d287
SHA-256 (Phokus_0.1.1_x64-cuda-setup.exe) = a7337ef5ee0478a785b48acc8012e8fc5c957341161d6103409213ad78eb845f
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