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That is the app. Universal: it runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, macOS 14 or later. Open the disk image and drag the app to Applications.
The models are inside it, so nothing is fetched on first launch.
It is not notarized by Apple. macOS will refuse the first double-click. Apple's own override opens it: System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the message naming the app, then Open Anyway. You do this once.
The other three assets are optional
| Asset | What it is | Do you need it? |
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SHA256SUMS |
98-byte digest of the disk image | Only to verify the download. See below. |
Source code (zip) |
Added automatically by GitHub for every tag | No. This repository distributes the built app and holds no source; the archive contains the README and nothing else. |
Source code (tar.gz) |
Same, other format | No. |
GitHub attaches those two source archives to every release and they cannot be removed.
Checking the bytes (optional)
Download SHA256SUMS into the same folder as the disk image and run:
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS
OK means you received what was built. GitHub's CDN serves the download, not darce.xyz, and this digest is the only check covering the whole path from build to your disk.
Changes since 0.2.4
This release includes 0.2.5, which was not published here separately.
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Fixed: the app could crash when it opened a photo. It happened at launch, or while dragging the Explore time slider, whenever the preview reached a photo from certain cameras (seen with Nikon D800 JPEGs). The metadata in those files holds a value that the reader for people's names mistook for a different kind of value, and it crashed on it. It now skips that value safely, and people's names are read exactly as before.
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The Explore time slider responds as soon as you touch it. The selection and the result count follow the handle while you drag. Releasing it, clearing it or changing the time axis always settles on the range you last asked for, never an older one that happened to finish late. Explore also draws its plot and timeline before it has finished reading dates and locations, and fills them in when that work completes.
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The Settings folder pane grows with the window. Folders that share a name are shown with enough of their path to tell them apart.
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The count of photos whose dates and locations have not been read yet now uses the right singular or plural, both on screen and in VoiceOver.
Licences for the bundled models are in the README and inside the app bundle.