MetaEdit 0.1.0

First public release. Notarized and stapled — download, unzip, drag to Applications, open.

MetaEdit is a fast, standalone EXIF/IPTC metadata editor for macOS, built for photojournalists and photographers who care that their metadata round-trips correctly with Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, and the rest of the industry's tools.

Highlights

• Three-pane browser with embedded-preview thumbnails (fast even on RAW folders)
• Single-image and batch editing (multi-select, conflict detection, keyword append/replace policy)
• IPTC IIM + XMP dual-write on JPEG/TIFF, always UTF-8, kept in sync
• .xmp sidecars for RAW files (Lightroom convention; embedded RAW writes available as an opt-in setting)
• Metadata templates for boilerplate (credit, copyright, usage terms, creator contact)
• Archive repair: set file dates from capture date, with independently verified results
• Every write is verified by re-reading; nothing you didn't edit is ever touched
• All metadata I/O through a bundled, pinned ExifTool — no network, no telemetry, no AI

Requirements

• Apple silicon or Intel Mac, macOS 14 or later

See USER_GUIDE.md for a walkthrough.

License

FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available). This release converts to MIT on 2028-07-09.

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MetaEdit is the free companion to a larger AI-assisted captioning and archiving app for working photojournalists, currently in beta. More on that soon.

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