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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 (legacy Pro alias 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), image crate 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.

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