Aranea Image Manager alpha
You've got an image editor, and your files all synced in a structure you like. You just want some software to categorise them. Enter Aranea.
Current Features
This is not the final list of features. We've got a lot of awesome stuff planned for Aranea and this page will be updated with the current feature list as we release!
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Bring your own directory structure
Aranea doesn't mess with your directories or move your files around. Simply tell it where your files are!
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Multiple Libraries
Create as many libraries as you like, and place them in your synced folder provider to share them between machines
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Tagging images
Aranea features a powerful tagging system to allow you to organise your library quickly and effectively.
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Tag Categories
Organise your tags into People, Places, Things, Animals, Events and Activities to keep your library in control!
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Huge Libraries
Support for enormous image lists is out of the box, 10 or 10,000,000 images, Aranea can handle it.
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Duplicate Detection
Quickly find and resolve duplicate images within your library.
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Powerful search
Find images by tag, resolution, orientation, type and more, all in combination.
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More coming soon...
We've got a load more features planned, right now Aranea is in the very early stages of development, so keep checking back here for more info!
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Aranea 0.14 20th April 2020
Rewritten viewer component, configuration segmentation and performance bumps
Features
- Rewritten Viewer to be more performant and fully localised
- Zoom and Pan on the viewer
- Support for HEIC and .tif files
- Better display of unsupported videos
Bugs Fixed
- Viewer doesn't advance when deleting images
- Deletion missing from the image viewer
Housekeeping
- Upgraded to latest Electron
- Migrated to new database library
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.13 29th December 2019
Saved searches and bug squashing ahoy!
Features
- Searches can now be saved and replayed from the sidebar
- Imports can now be named
- Renaming tags from the All Tags list and display of counts
- Exif parsing moved to on-demand, speeding up import
Bugs Fixed
- Imports getting stuck if requested from the menu
- Tag categories "name" sort being case sensitive
- Rolling back an import doesn't remove images from the list
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.12 5th December 2019
Design overhaul of the inspector and sidebar
Features
- Sidebar redesigned to consume less space
- Inspector totally redesigned and organised
Bugs Fixed
- Thumbnailing repeating failures
- Thumbnailing using excessive resources
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.11 11th August 2019
Housekeeping release sorting out code signing and bug fixes
Features
- App is now fully signed and notarized
- Caching of file presence for speed
Bugs Fixed
- Drag Selection does not always place the cursor on the last item selected
- Selection dropping when spanning multiple rows
- Loading screen cannot be dragged
- Title bar undraggable with a search field
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.10 19th June 2019
Adding advanced searching of your library.
Features
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You can now search for images by a variety of attributes:
- tag
- resolution
- orientation
- filesize
- mime type
- type (image or video)
tag:puppies resolution:>=1024x?
to find large images of puppies! - More attributes and search areas coming soon
- Tag Category pages remember last used sorts
Bugs Fixed
- Pressing down in tag field with no suggestions captures keyboard
- Janky display of Tag Categories
- Pressing Escape from Image View would always send back to All Media
- Autocomplete suggesting tags that are already present
- Inspector would show "Manage Duplicates" for images that had been marked as not dupes.
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.9 16th June 2019
Housekeeping release with bugs and quality of life fixes.
Features
- Resizable sidebar and inspector
- File association for .aralib files
- Parallel duplication checking
- Footer will show "X of Y items" in more scenarios (most notably, the image detail view)
- Aranea will offer to delete files from the filesystem as well as just the library
Bugs Fixed
- Cancel import button misbehaving
- Add More button on Import crashes app
- Cmd+Left and Cmd+Right not working on Image detail view for navigation
- Adjusting Zoom level on Image List will make the list draw incorrectly
- Clicking on tags in autocomplete won't add them to the list
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.8 10th June 2019
First version supporting video files!
Features
- Aranea can now import, display, tag and organise several video file types!
- Supported video formats: mp4, webm, m4v, wmv, flv, mkv, mov
- Image format support extended to now be: jpg, png, gif, jpeg, tiff, svg
Bugs Fixed
- Thumbnail generation wasn't starting correctly
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.7 29th May 2019
Big performance tweaks and huge improvements to duplicate detection
Features
- Duplicate detection is now hugely more accurate
- Import is now around 10 times faster
- Thumbnailing, hashing and other image ops now significantly faster
- Support for internationalisation (though no new languages supported yet)
Bugs Fixed
- Import Rollback screen was not displaying the images to rollback
- Import would fail on certain corrupted gifs
- Import failing to import directories
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Aranea 0.6 28th April 2019
Largely a refactoring and bugfixing release, but with a few new features
Features
- Support for MacOS Dark Mode
- Design changes around title bar and dock icon
- Upgrade to Electron 4 and React 16.4
- Huge refactor to the backend for performance and stability gains
Bugs Fixed
- Newly created tags are not immediately able to be categorised.
- Categories list view has alignment issues
- Import history, when empty, shows no friendly message.
- When opening and closing windows, MainMenu can lose track of which window to send events to.
- Weird characters on Import History list and About page on prod build.
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.10+: Download .zip here
Alpha.5 20th December 2018
A huge release with a load of new features and some hefty performance boosts!
Features
- Import History: see when images were imported, view them and roll them back
- Tag Suggestions: When tagging images, you'll now see suggestions of other tags to use
- Duplicate detection, phase 1: view and resolve duplicate images within your library
- Collapsible sections within sidebar and inspector
- HUGE performance boost to image list views
- Bump to Electron 2 for more performance and features.
Key bugs fixed
- Adding tags is now a lot smoother with less focus losses
- Did we mention some huge performance fixes?
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.9+: Download .zip here
Alpha.4 9th April 2018
This one took a bit longer than planned, mostly cos I moved halfway across the world in the middle of development! This release focuses on building on tags with categories, being able to group images together into Sets, and lots of navigation improvements! Enjoy!
Features
- Tag categories: Classify your tags into various buckets to aide organisation
- Image Sets: grouping together images that shouldn't be separated
- Back and Forward global navigation
- Searching images
- Sorting images
- Lots of UI improvements
Key bugs fixed
- Another round of major performance improvements to large image lists
- Better handling of multiple windows
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.9+: Download .zip here
Alpha.3 5th December 2017
An absolute monster of a release, focusing mainly on library support, extending tagging and addressing a tonne of performance issues!
Features
- Multiple Libraries now supported
- Tag multiple images at the same time in the Inspector
- Tag Images on import
- A true background task framework
- Thumbnail generation
- Brand new, super performant image list view
- Theming support
Key bugs fixed
- Import becoming slow and unresponsive on large queues
- Image list becoming slow and unresponsive on large image sets
- Import failing on corrupted images / exif data
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.9+: Download .zip here
Alpha.2 4th August 2017
This release adds some core functionality; tagging! Add tags using the Inspector and view them and the images attached to them in the sidebar.
Features
- Tagging single images in the Inspector
- Exif data captured on import and displayed in the sidebar
- Mouse drag + keyboard selection
- Displaying image titles (filenames for now)
- UI size, state and positioning persists
Key bugs fixed
- Exif orientation values not respected
- Fatal error when pressing Cmd+A with Import dialog open
- UI and stability fixes
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.9+: Download .zip here
Alpha.1 21st July 2017
This release focused on getting the core application up and running with importing into the library being the killer feature.
Features
- Import image files
- Import folders
- Listing all images
- Viewing single images
Download
This version is only available on macOS 10.9+: Download .zip here