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“Boats at sunset” ranks the whole library, on your PC.
Details
Everything it does.
The whole of firelet.media Gallery for Windows, one line per feature — and, at the end, what isn’t finished.
Find
One search box over everything, and filters for the rest.
Text in photos
Words in signs, slides and screenshots are searchable.
More like this
Nearest pictures by content — or by colour.
Filters
Camera, lens, ISO, date, size, rating, flag, label, quality.
Query language
One clause per line; match all or any. Saved as presets.
Suggestions
Recent searches and suggestions as you type.
Organise
Sort a lifetime of photos without moving a single file.
Stars, flags, labels
0–5 stars, pick or reject, five colour labels — one key each.
Keywords
A keyword tree with counts; keep an AI tag as a keyword.
Albums
Albums inside albums, with covers. No copies made.
Titles & rights
Captions, copyright templates, corrected dates and places.
XMP sidecars
Read and write Lightroom-style sidecars — only when you ask.
Multi-select
Click, Shift, Ctrl, select all or invert — then act once.
People & culling
The AI that saves hours — all of it running on your machine.
People
Faces found, grouped and named; find everyone in one click.
Duplicates
Exact and near copies, side by side; merge tags into the keeper.
Bursts & series
Shots taken together are grouped and ranked best first.
Quality checks
Sharpness, exposure and an aesthetic score from 0 to 10.
AI tags & groups
Fifty everyday tags, visual themes and the odd ones out.
Only flags, never deletes
Culling sets flags for you to review. Nothing is removed.
Places & time
Where and when, at a glance.
Map
Clusters, heatmap, trip trail, and a box to filter by area.
Place names
A place tree from a geocoder you choose — optional.
Calendar
Years to days, the busy months lit up.
Events & On this day
Trips split by time gaps; memories from this date.
Statistics
By year, camera, lens, ISO, aperture, focal length.
View
A viewer made for going through photos fast.
Full-window viewer
Fit or 1:1, filmstrip, video playback.
Info panel
EXIF, histogram, rating, keywords, faces and scores.
Compare
2 to 6 pictures side by side, zoom linked.
Slideshow
Interval, shuffle, transitions and captions.
Focus peaking
See what is sharp, with a thirds grid overlay.
Quick review
Rate a picture and jump straight to the next.
Edit & share
Change the look, never the file.
Crop & straighten
Any ratio, turn and level.
Tone & colour
Exposure, contrast, warmth, vibrance — or Auto.
Presets
Save a look; copy and paste edits between photos.
Export
Size, quality, renaming and a watermark, as presets.
Print & more
Print, copy the picture, set as wallpaper.
Import & scan
Bring pictures in without ever risking an original.
Cards, phones, sync folders
Filed by date, duplicates skipped, every copy verified.
Your folders, in place
Finds OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud folders too.
Scanning projects Untested on hardware
Named projects with their own settings; multi-page feeder.
RAW + JPEG pairs
Kept together as one picture.
Phone link
With the Android app, coming soon.
Pair with a code
Scan a QR code or type the code shown. Several phones at once.
Encrypted, no cloud
TLS between your devices, on your own network only.
Auto-import
New photos come in when the phone is home.
Both ways
Browse, copy and send between phone and PC.
Privacy
What leaves your PC
No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports and no account inside the app. Only these, and you can see each one:
Licence check
Your key, a machine fingerprint and the app version — about once a month.
Update check
The app version and platform, to tell you when a new release is out.
AI models
Downloaded once when you switch search or faces on, each checksum-pinned.
Map tiles & place names
Only from a provider you set up yourself. Off until you do.
Never sent Your photosFaces or peopleWhat you searchTags, ratings, albums
Keyboard
One key for most things
- 0 – 5
- Star rating
- 6 – 9
- Colour labels
- P · X · U
- Pick, reject, clear
- C
- Compare the selection
- F5
- Slideshow
- Alt + 1 – 9
- Switch sidebar panels
- Ctrl + 1 · 2
- Library or Imaging
- Ctrl + B
- Add to an album
- Ctrl + K
- Add a keyword
- Enter · ← →
- Open, previous, next
- I · G · K
- Info, thirds grid, focus peaking (viewer)
- Z
- Fit or 1:1 (viewer)
Honestly
What isn’t finished
Worth knowing before you decide.
Mac & Linux
Built and being finished.
Android
Built and being finished.
Camera RAW
Not decoded yet — only paired with its JPEG.
Scanners
Written and tested in software, not on hardware yet.
Maps
Ship without tiles — bring a provider you have rights to.