Anarchive
What’s new
Each beta, newest first. Inside the app, Help › What’s New in Anarchive shows the highlights and what to try; Anarchive › Check for Updates… brings the next beta with its notes.
Beta 24.1
14 October 2026 · build 45Beta 24.1 sharpens and speeds up beta 24’s making: clip previews at full size, finer dots for clip styles, and a faster Combine.
New
- Detail for clip styles: Riso, Squares and Impact print with Coarse, Standard, Fine or Finest dots, so the picture can be made clearer. Standard is the look as before; the choice is kept with the clip.
- Help › Removing Anarchive… lists everything Anarchive keeps on your Mac, where it lives, and how to remove it.
- A privacy page says what stays on your Mac and what ever leaves it, and this page has the notes for each beta.
Changed
- Clip from Burst and Time-lapse preview at the size of the stage, not the old sheet’s: up to 2,048 pixels while it plays, sharp when paused or on the hero, and for clip styles too. The first frame shows as quickly as before.
- Combine shows its first picture in about a second and a half, and the settled one three or so seconds sooner.
- Combine lines frames up more finely again (optical flow), without the halo that kept it off in beta 24.
- Check for Updates names the beta (“0.1 beta 24.1”) instead of a build number.
- Steps says plainly that it holds each picture for two, three or four frames.
Fixed
- Closing Combine part-way no longer leaves its queued work running ahead of the next one.
Not yet
- Detailed downloadable offline maps (delayed), and a playing movie of a Time Wall.
Beta 24
13 October 2026 · build 44Beta 24 is about making things: new looks and timings for clips, the Make tools working in the panel beside the picture, and descriptions that learn your words.
New
- Clip styles, chosen under the preview when you make a clip or time-lapse from a burst or pictures: Steps (held beats), Squares (a contact page filling a beat at a time), Pan and Hold (the hero held while the camera moves slowly in), Riso (two inks on cream through a fine dot screen) and Impact (the hero struck with motion streaks). Riso and Impact print in Steel and Sunset, three other pairs, or two inks of your own. Styles are recipes you can read.
- Slow In, Hero First and Bounce shape a clip around its hero frame. Paused, or on the hero, the preview shows a sharp 1,024-pixel frame.
- Make in the panel: clips, time-lapses, Time Wall, Long Exposure, Slit-Scan, Spatial Photo and Print Frames open in the viewer with their controls in the inspector, as Combine does, instead of in a sheet. Return makes, Escape leaves. With the Make panel turned off, the sheets open as before.
- Descriptions use your library’s context: your albums, keywords, similar pictures you captioned yourself and pictures taken alongside. Change a word in a suggested caption once and pictures like it use your word. Your words, beside Your corrections, lists what was learned, with Forget. A project or album can carry one line of context. Nothing is trained, and it all runs on your Mac. Notes never go to the describing model.
- Import from Camera counts what you mean: “50 photos” picks 50 pictures, “random 20 from yesterday” picks 20 at random, and a camera recording a backup to its second card shows each picture once and imports one copy.
- The grid opens newest first and remembers the sort you choose.
Changed
- Combine builds its background from the frames that agree and leaves out the rest, so edges come out cleaner and doubled lines single.
- Closing or switching a library stops background work at once and waits only for what keeps the library consistent. Describing, faces, text and other analysis start again the next time it opens.
- The first read of a Photos library fills the grid from the newest, with Photos’ own small pictures, and no warning triangles. Analysis waits until the read is done.
- Your chosen highlight colour is used for the sidebar’s selection, the Settings tabs and Import from Camera’s ticks.
- Selection has a paper margin between its ring and the picture, everywhere a picture can be selected.
- Notes move from Info to Describe, beside the title and caption. Nothing about where a note may go changes.
- Faces in People & Pets are bigger, and a group shot’s face is marked by a fine dotted line.
- Takes split where the subject changes, and two files of one moment (a MOV and an MP4) show as one clip.
Fixed
- A pinch over a Make draft only zooms its preview. It no longer throws the draft away.
- Cancel and Make stay in view in the Make panel; only the controls above them scroll.
- A RAW written to both cards no longer shows twice in a search, the second named “Original copy”.
- Something made from a made thing stays with its burst.
- “50 images and videos” selected 70; backup copies are no longer downloaded twice.
- “Preview failed” on Photos items whose picture had just arrived.
- Echoes shows more different echoes, fewer repeats; a take’s running time counts each moment once.
Not yet
- Detailed downloadable offline maps (delayed), and a playing movie of a Time Wall.