v1.1.0 — People, Places & Persistent Caches

Release notes:

What's new

👥 People & Face Groups

• Face clustering rewritten — tighter threshold + proper single-link grouping, so distinct people actually end up in separate
  groups instead of one giant blob.
• Face detection results now persist to disk. Re-opening a folder hydrates from cache; no more re-scanning every session.
• New Rebuild Faces button in the People browser to wipe the cache and regroup from scratch.
• Tap any photo in a face group to mark it for deletion; right-click for the full Keep / Delete / Favorite / Skip menu.

🗺️ Places

• Every place card is now reliably clickable (fixed hit-testing on the grid).

🛠️ Under the hood

• FaceIndexService + FaceIndex with archived VNFeaturePrintObservation and PNG face thumbnails.
• appState environment injection cleaned up so Rebuild actions work from both the in-session overlay and the post-session
  review view.

Install

Download PhotoTriage-1.1.0.dmg, drag to Applications. macOS 26+ required. Ad-hoc signed — right-click → Open on first launch
to bypass Gatekeeper.

PhotoTriage 1.0

PhotoTriage

Version 1.0 of PhotoTriage, a little Mac app I built because I got tired of deleting files manually one at a time. Right-click, move to trash, confirm, repeat — multiply that by ten thousand photos and you never actually clean anything up.

PhotoTriage

Keyboard-first photo cleanup for macOS.

Download latest release · Report a bug

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Why

Got tired of deleting photos one by one. Made something that turns it into a keyboard game. Arrow keys do everything, nothing actually deletes until you confirm at the end.

Features

• Keyboard-first triage — arrow keys only
• Finder folder support
• Apple Photos library support
• Review queue before final delete
• Dark glass macOS UI
• Menu bar + full window
• Zero telemetry, zero network

Install

1. Download the latest DMG from Releases.
2. Drag the app into Applications.
3. First launch: right-click → Open → Open (ad-hoc signed, so Gatekeeper warns once).

Keyboard map

Key	Action
←	Keep
→	Mark for delete
↑	Favorite
↓	Skip
Z	Undo
⌘↩	Finish & review

Requirements

macOS 14+. Apple Silicon or Intel.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.
So I made this. Four arrow keys, a review queue, one final confirmation. Somewhere between a game and a productivity tool — fast enough to not feel like chores, safe enough that you can't accidentally nuke your library.

The whole workflow

• ← keep · → mark for delete · ↑ favorite · ↓ skip · Z to undo

Nothing is actually deleted until you hit confirm on the review screen at the end.

What's in this build

• Finder folder support
• Apple Photos library support (via PhotoKit)
• Post-session review queue with a final confirm step
• Dark, glassy desktop UI
• Menu bar access + full app window
• Zero telemetry, zero network calls

Install

1. Download PhotoTriage-1.0.dmg below.
2. Open the DMG and drag the app into Applications.
3. First launch: right-click → Open → Open (ad-hoc signed for now, so Gatekeeper will warn you once).

Requirements

macOS 14+. Apple Silicon or Intel.