Photo Organizer Release Notes

What's new in each version, newest first. The latest is version 2.0 build 1008, released November 2026: download it here. To see which version and build you have, look next to the title "Photo Organizer" in the program's main window.

Version 2.0 October 2026

Highlights

A complete redesign. Tell us what you think, or use "Submit a bug report" if something goes wrong.
Photos and videos are grouped into events automatically, with descriptive names such as "Weekend in Paris", and trips kept together.
Choose how folders, events and file names are made, and see where each photo will go before anything changes on your disk.
Find duplicates and look-alike photos, and choose which copy to keep.
A calendar of your photos, month by month, that scrolls with them.
In English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Arabic and Hebrew.

Build 1008 Latest November 2026

Dark mode: in Settings, Appearance, choose Same as Windows (the default, which follows Windows when it switches between light and dark), Light or Dark. Every open window changes at once, title bars too.
Fixed: organizing straight into a drive (saving to N:\, for example) failed with "Value cannot be null". The preview's folder tree now names the drive too.
Fixed: the status bar could say "Scanned on Monday, January 1, 0001" for a folder opened from its saved events. It now shows when the folder was last scanned, or last opened.

Build 1007 October 2026

Faster to open and close: a folder you've scanned before opens from its saved events in seconds (a 63,000-file library: about 18 → 4 seconds), and the program closes in about a second. The first time you open a folder after updating is slower once, while its saved events are converted to the faster file.
A quick look instead of a full scan: opening a folder you've scanned before shows it as you left it, then quickly looks for new photos and videos, and for ones that are gone, and says how many with "Scan again" next to it. Files that are gone stay in the list until you scan again.
Copies are looked for when you ask: opening a folder no longer starts looking for copies by itself; click "Look for copies" in the status bar (or "Scan again") when you want it.
Contact support: a new button in the header, next to "Submit a bug report", opens an email to support@gearmage.com in your email program.
Opening a folder while looking for copies (or another task) is going on now asks to stop it first, instead of "Opening…" turning until it's done.
Fixed: scrolling the calendar soon after opening a folder could send the photos, and then the calendar, back to the first month. It stays where you scrolled.

Build 1005 October 2026

Big libraries, much faster: scanning is about 3 times faster (a 63,000-file library: 22 → 7 minutes), and you can keep working while it scans: a draft of the events shows as it goes. Opening a big folder shows "Opening…" with Stop.
Filters for everything: click any line of the summary (a camera, format, resolution, size, year, country, state, place…) or pick it from the filter button, which lists them all. Choose dates with a calendar, or sizes, resolutions and video lengths from one value to another; right-click a line for "or more" or "or less". The filter button shows when filters are on, with "Clear all filters", and how many photos and videos match.
Organize just what you want: organize only the folders or events you pick, leave some out (they stay in the list, dimmed, to look at), or keep the folders as they are. Thumbnails and previews inside photo libraries and other programs' cache folders are left out; screenshots, Live Photo videos and folders you choose can be too.
Edit details: change the date and time, place, title, description, author, copyright, camera, keywords and rating of one photo or many, and save them into the files now (with "Put back") or when organizing.
Copy, cut, paste and drag photos and folders, in and out of Explorer too, choosing Replace, Keep both or Skip when a name is taken.
Every task in one place, each with Stop: the status bar shows what's going on (scanning, reading details, looking for copies…) with progress and Stop, and what was done is kept. Tasks that read the same drive wait their turn.
A tidier summary: each list shows its first six (the newest years first) with "and N more", and folds away with the arrow on its heading. "Scan again" and the organize settings are on "All photos and videos".
Fixed: in a small window, the bar at the bottom no longer grows tall and the folder box at the top is no longer squeezed out of sight.
Fixed: looking for copies no longer makes a scan look stuck (it now waits for the scan to finish).
Fixed: a rare case where a folder's event names could be saved wrongly while another folder was opening.

Build 1004 October 2026

Installer: the installer is now in the program's 11 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Arabic and Hebrew). It follows the language of Windows, as the program does, and the Welcome page's version label and the shortcut's tooltip are translated too. The license agreement stays in English.

Build 1003 October 2026

Updates: "Install" in "Update available" now downloads the update. In builds 1001 and 1002 it stops with "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden": to get this build from one of them, download it from this website and install it.

Build 1002 October 2026

2.0 is released: Photo Organizer 2.0 is no longer a beta: the program shows "2.0" next to its name.
Back and Home, like a browser: next to the title of what's shown, ← goes back to what you saw before (an event, a folder, a search or a day), scrolled where you were, and ⌂ shows all your photos and videos again. Alt+← and the mouse's back button go back too, and Esc goes home.
The folders an event is in are over its title, from "All photos and videos": click one to see all its photos.
Calendar: its header names what's shown when it isn't everything, with a cross to show everything again.
Folder list: the top row reads "All photos and videos", with the destination folder under it ("No destination folder yet" until you choose one), and the number of photos and videos is always shown.
Updates: build 1001 offers this build when it checks for updates.

Build 1001 October 2026

2.0 beta: Photo Organizer 2.0 is now a beta: the program shows "2.0 beta" next to its name.
A new header: the Gearmage name plate with the program's logo and name, and "by Gearmage" with the version and build next to it. A line sets the bug report and Settings buttons apart, and the title bar shows the program's name only.
"Settings" › "Updates" links to the release notes.
"Settings" › "EULA & Privacy": opens the license agreement and the privacy policy on gearmage.com.
Calendar: a click on a day picks it at once, every time, with the folder that holds most of that day's photos. A day without photos inside an event's band picks that event, "All photos and videos" stays picked when you click it again, and days are marked only when less than everything is shown.
Updates: build 1000 offers this build when it checks for updates.

Build 1000 October 2026

Event grouping: a slider sets how many days without photos start a new event, or turn grouping off. Weekends can be grouped as one event, and trips away from home stay together.
Folders, events and file names each have their own settings: a folder per year or month, your own folder template, no folders at all, event names by date or descriptive, and your own file names. Save your choices under a name and switch between them.
Destination: you choose the folder the organized photos go into. Nothing on your disk changes until you click "Organize into folders", and a preview shows what will happen first.
Results: after organizing, a summary of what was done, and how to fix anything that wasn't. Organizing can be undone.
Duplicates: exact copies, the same photo saved twice, or photos that look alike. Choose copies yourself side by side, or keep one by a rule (largest, oldest...), then move the others to a folder or the Recycle Bin.
Large libraries: tens of thousands of photos, with a scan you can follow and cancel, and photos that load as you scroll.
Videos are organized with the photos, and play right in the program: in the details, in their tile when the details are hidden, or in a window of their own, full screen. Scrub to any point, also while paused; Space plays and pauses.
Only photos, or only videos: a filter next to the search narrows the photos, the folders and the calendar, and Organize offers the same choice.
Long weekends: by weekend, a Friday or Monday next to the weekend is part of it.
Runs natively on Windows on ARM (and on 64-bit Intel and AMD).