Photo Curator v7.0 (Mac, Win, Linux)

🆕 HEIC / iPhone photos

Photo Curator now reads HEIC/HEIF straight from an iPhone import — no
conversion step, no detour through Photos.

• Formats — NEW .heic, .heif, .hif (iPhone and Android stills, plus
  Canon/Sony HEIF), decoded by pillow-heif
  (libheif). EXIF — date, lens, GPS, orientation — comes through exactly as it
  does for JPEG, so the map view and burst timing work unchanged.
• HEIC filter chip in Cull, beside All types · RAW only · JPG only.
• Real format tags — every card now shows its actual format (HEIC, CR2,
  NEF, PNG, TIFF…) instead of a two-state RAW/JPG label.
• Browser-safe display — only Safari renders HEIC natively, so the
  full-size view is served as a cached JPEG transcode. Your .heic files are
  never modified, and exports always copy the untouched original.
• Mixed folders just work — JPEG + PNG + HEIC + RAW in one pass.

Full format list: JPEG · PNG · HEIC/HEIF/HIF · TIFF · BMP · WebP · every RAW
format LibRaw reads.

📦 Downloads

Build	Notes
PhotoCurator-Mac-AppleSilicon-Offline-v7.0.zip	Apple Silicon M1–M6 · macOS 11+ · fully offline
PhotoCurator-Windows-x64-Offline-v7.0.zip	Windows 10/11 x64 · private Python 3.11 · fully offline
PhotoCurator-Linux-x64-Offline-v7.0.tar.gz	Linux x86_64 · glibc 2.28+ (Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 10+, RHEL/Rocky 8+) · bundled Python 3.11 · fully offline
photo-curator-7.zip (in repo)	Run from source · Python 3.9+

All three offline bundles ship pillow-heif 1.1.1 and rawpy, so HEIC and RAW work
with nothing else installed. Verify a download against CHECKSUMS-bundles.txt.

Linux: extract and run — no sudo, no system Python, nothing installed
outside the folder.

tar -xzf PhotoCurator-Linux-x64-Offline-v7.0.tar.gz
cd PhotoCurator-Linux
./start-photo-curator.sh

x86_64 only — ARM (Raspberry Pi, Ampere) and musl distros (Alpine) are not
supported by this bundle; run from source there instead.

Both offline bundles ship pillow-heif 1.1.1 and rawpy, so HEIC and RAW work
with nothing else installed. Verify a download against CHECKSUMS-bundles.txt.

🛠️ Running from source

pip install -r requirements.txt

HEIC needs pillow-heif, RAW needs rawpy — both are in requirements.txt.
Without either, the app keeps working on the remaining formats and says so in
the sidebar.