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Chronoframe 1.1
This release is a major step forward: a complete rebuild of Chronoframe as a fast, native macOS app, a brand-new Deduplicate tool, smarter organizing, and a top-to-bottom visual refresh. Chronoframe is now available on the Mac App Store.
✨ Highlights
A redesigned app — "a darkroom for time"
Chronoframe has been reimagined with a clean, focused native macOS interface. Setup, organizing, and history all got a UX polish pass, plus a refreshed app icon with Light, Dark, and Tinted variants.
New: Deduplicate
Find and clean up duplicate and near-duplicate photos with confidence:
Visual review workflow with side-by-side comparisons and smart keep/delete recommendations
Burst-photo grouping toggle
Clear approval indicators so you always know which clusters you've reviewed
Responsive layout that adapts to your window size
Smarter organizing
Photos are now sorted into a clean YYYY/Mon/Event folder layout that preserves your original event folders
Smart event detection groups related photos automatically
New library Health dashboard and review workflow to spot issues before you commit
Revert and Reorganize let you safely undo or restructure past runs
🚀 Performance & reliability
Much faster organizing and deduplication, with smoother UI rendering and lower memory use
More resilient transfers on large libraries and network (NAS) drives
Fixed a crash that could occur while hashing files
Hardened crash recovery and durability so interrupted runs resume cleanly
Stronger safety guarantees: originals stay untouched, no overwrites, and deletes go to the Trash
🛠️ Fixes & polish
Clearer, friendlier error messages throughout
Run timeline improvements: fixed row clipping, added tooltips, and hover thumbnail previews
Fixed deduplicate preview rendering, spinners, and responsive layout
"Accept & Next" no longer overrides your manual keep/delete choices
Profiles moved into Settings; unread history badge added
Folder chooser button fix and a three-part version display
📦 Availability
Now available on the Mac App Store
New launch site at chronoframe.app
Under the hood: this release also completes the migration from the old Python backend to a fully native Swift engine, adds a meaningful test-coverage gate, and includes numerous supply-chain, security, and CI hardening improvements.