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Heirvo 1.1.0 — Family Memory Vault
Heirvo 1.1.0 — Family Memory Vault
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Heirvo started life as a tool to rescue dying optical discs. With 1.1.0 it grows into the family memory vault those discs were always trying to become — somewhere your home videos, audio, and photos can live forever, side by side with the discs you've recovered, every spoken word searchable.
This is a free upgrade for everyone, including all existing customers. The new vault features unlock at the new Archive ($99) tier; everything you bought before keeps working.
What's new
A vault for everything you've ever filmed
- Import home videos, audio, and photos — drop them into Heirvo alongside your recovered discs. Originals are never touched; Heirvo keeps a safe copy in a managed vault under
%APPDATA%\com.heirvo.app\vault\. - Drag a folder of 200 wedding photos onto the Library → Heirvo creates one album with a 2×2 collage cover instead of 200 separate cards.
- Real thumbnails for everything: photos as resized JPEGs, videos as keyframe stills, audio as brand-blue waveforms.
- EXIF dates — your 1995 scanned wedding photo finally shows "1995" in the library year column, not "2026."
Find anything
- Title search — type to find any item by name across the whole library, including photos that have no transcript.
- Filter tabs — collapse a growing vault by media type: All · Albums · Videos · Photos · Audio · Recovered discs · All imports.
- Whisper transcription runs automatically on every imported video so spoken words become searchable just like on recovered discs.
Albums you actually control
- Folder drops become auto-named albums.
- Rename inline, delete with "ungroup vs delete files" choice.
- Pick any photo as the album cover — hover any member, tap the star.
Tools for cleaning up
- Bulk delete in the filter tabs — multi-select cards, delete in one batch.
- Vault storage panel in Settings — see file count, bytes used, free space on the volume. Thumbnails no longer double-count.
- Remove from library confirms what gets deleted (DB row + vault file) and what doesn't (original source files outside the vault).
Pricing
Four tiers now, all one-time purchases — no subscriptions:
| Tier | Price | What's in it |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Full disc recovery, sector map, preview |
| Recover | $59 | + Save (MP4 / ISO / all-files / chapter extract) |
| Archive | $99 | + Personal media vault, unlimited imports, albums, Whisper transcription on imports |
| Family | $149 | + Multi-user library sync (coming soon), priority support |
If you already bought "Pro" before this release, your key keeps working and is treated as Archive — no action needed.
Critical bug fixes
- Transcription jobs were enqueued with the original file path, so moving or deleting an imported file after import would silently break transcription mid-job. Now correctly uses the safe vault-copy path.
- Folder drops used to create empty albums if the user closed the paywall — albums are now created only after the user has committed.
- Bulk-select mode used to silently navigate away when you clicked a card to select it — fixed to capture the click correctly.
For developers
- New backend commands:
delete_library_disc,delete_library_discs_bulk,get_vault_stats,get_import_size_preview,ensure_disc_thumbnail,list_importable_media_in_dir,create_album/list_albums/get_album_with_discs/rename_album/delete_album/set_album_cover/add_disc_to_album/remove_disc_from_album. - Plan enum extended:
Free | Recover | Archive | Family(legacyProalias retained). - Two additive migrations (
20260518000000_media_type.sql,20260518100000_albums.sql) apply cleanly on top of v1.0.0 databases. - Frontend now has Vitest + React Testing Library — 13 baseline tests covering paywall, disc card render, license default state.
- New dependencies:
kamadak-exif 0.6(EXIF date extraction),imagecrate features expanded to jpeg/gif/webp/bmp/tiff.
Install
Windows 10 / 11:
Heirvo_1.1.0_x64-setup.exe — same one-click installer, works over an existing v1.0.0 install (no uninstall needed; your recovered discs are preserved).
SmartScreen will warn on first run because the binary isn't EV-signed yet. Click More info → Run anyway. EV signing is on the v1.2.0 roadmap.
Rollback
If something breaks, the previous release is still available at v1.0.0.
Full developer-facing changelog: CHANGELOG.md.
Heirvo 1.0
Heirvo 1.0
Recover photos, videos, and data from scratched, damaged, or unreadable DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray discs, and Kodak Photo CDs — on Windows 10 and 11.
What's included
- Free sector-by-sector disc scan
- Multi-pass recovery over damaged areas
- Support for DVD, CD, Blu-ray, Kodak Photo CD, unfinalized discs
- Local Whisper transcription — make home videos searchable
- One-time purchase from $59 — no subscription, fully offline
Installation
Download and run Heirvo_1.0.0_x64-setup.exe. Windows SmartScreen may show a warning on first run — click More info → Run anyway.
System requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit)
- A USB or internal disc drive