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Releases

The current release is ArchiveMind 1.1.6, available for all three platforms from archivemind.app. Every feature works free up to 10,000 catalogued files; a one-time licence removes the limit (pricing).

Current release lines

Platform Current release Notes
Windows (x86_64) 1.1.6 Portable zip or per-user installer; both code-signed (publisher Dominik Krzanowski). SmartScreen may still warn while the signature's reputation is new.
macOS Intel (x86_64) 1.1.6 Zip containing ArchiveMind.app; Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled, so it opens with a plain double-click.
macOS Apple silicon (arm64) 1.1.6 Native arm64 zip containing ArchiveMind.app, built from the same source as the Intel zip; Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled, so it opens with a plain double-click.

Download links

Every download below is a direct link, with a .sha256 checksum file at the same address plus .sha256. Each platform guide explains how to verify the checksum. Do not download ArchiveMind from unofficial sources.

Release notes

1.1.6 — October 2026

OCR now works, and the free tier says where it stands. Free, as every 1.x update is; install over any earlier version and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • Scanned PDFs and images can be read. The scan area has offered "Enable OCR" for a long time, but every shipped build was missing the small component that runs it, so the option could never do anything. 1.1.6 includes it. OCR still needs Tesseract, a free open-source program you install once (brew install tesseract on a Mac; the Tesseract installer on Windows), and ArchiveMind now finds it even when the app is opened from Finder or the Start menu. Tick Enable OCR before a scan; for documents already in your catalogue, tick Force re-extract as well. The words it reads are searchable like any other text.
  • The OCR checkbox tells the truth. It is enabled only when Tesseract was found, and says "Tesseract is not installed" when it was not — instead of a promise the app could not keep.
  • The scan area says when a free catalogue nears its limit. From 8,000 of the 10,000 free files, one quiet sentence under the scan status gives the count, says that new files found past the limit are not indexed, that everything already catalogued keeps working, and that a one-time license removes the limit. Licensed catalogues never see it.

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and Tesseract, like ffmpeg, is a program on your computer, not a service.

Downloads (each has a .sha256 file beside it at the same address):

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (the installer offers it when it is missing). OCR needs Tesseract installed separately — see the FAQ.

1.1.5 — October 2026

PDFs get a picture, and two small honesty fixes. Free, as every 1.x update is; install over any earlier version and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • PDFs show their first page. Search results, the Browse table, the file details panel and the large preview now show the first page of a PDF instead of a generic document icon — rendered on your computer by the same PDF engine the app already uses to read text, so nothing new is downloaded or installed. It happens during a scan; for PDFs already in your catalogue, run Generate missing thumbnails in Catalogue Enrichment once. A password-protected or damaged PDF keeps the placeholder rather than showing a blank page as if it were the document. PDFs do not appear in the Photos grid; that stays for photos.
  • "Generate missing embeddings" says when there is nothing to do. With every image already indexed for visual search, the button used to answer "Generating…" and do nothing. It now says so plainly, and when there is work it says how many images are left.
  • "Files checked" replaces "Hashed" in the scan area and the search status filter — the same count, in plain words.

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed.

Downloads (each has a .sha256 file beside it at the same address):

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (the installer offers it when it is missing).

1.1.4 — September 2026

All three platforms. Free, as always, for every licence holder; install over any earlier version and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • A quick first scan is indexed for visual search. In 1.1.3, if a new catalogue's first scan was small enough to finish in the few seconds visual search takes to start, its photos were never indexed for visual search. Now they are, however quickly the scan finishes.
  • Windows gets everything in 1.1.3 (below), which shipped for Mac only: visual search from the very first session, People (face recognition) at about 3.5 GB of memory at most instead of 10 GB or more on large photos, documents that contain your word ahead of loosely matching photos, and plain messages when something goes wrong, when ArchiveMind is reopened straight after quitting, or when it is opened while already running.
  • Windows: a cleaner upgrade. Installing over an older version now clears out files the older version left behind, and every program file in the Windows download is now code-signed, not only the main program and the installer.

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.2 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.4-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.4-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows 64-bit, portable zip (about 720 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.4-win-release-windows-x86_64.zip — guide: Windows
  • Windows 64-bit, installer (about 790 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.4-win-release-windows-x86_64-setup.exe — guide: Windows

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (the installer offers it when it is missing).

1.1.3 — September 2026 (Mac only)

Visual search from the very first session, People that fits in an ordinary Mac's memory, and plainer messages. Free, as always, for every licence holder; install over 1.1.2 (or any earlier version) and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • Visual search works from the first session. Before, a new catalogue's first session ran without visual search: describing a photo ("beach", "birthday party") found nothing until ArchiveMind was quit and opened again. Now it starts as soon as the catalogue is created, and photos are indexed for it during the first scan.
  • People uses far less memory. Face recognition used to read every photo at full size and could use 12 GB or more on large photos. It now looks for faces on a reduced copy of very large photos, then reads each face from the original, so recognition quality is unchanged: about 3.5 GB at most in our tests, including on a 48-megapixel photo, and faster too. It concentrates on the people a photo is about; very small faces far in the background of a very large photo may be skipped.
  • People works in the first session. Turning on People right after creating a catalogue used to fail with "no such table: files" until the app was reopened.
  • Documents that contain your word come first. A file whose text contains the word you searched for now ranks above photos that only vaguely resemble it. Searching "friday" on a test catalogue used to show one matching document; now it shows all fourteen first. Strong photo matches still rank as before.
  • Clearer messages when something goes wrong.
    • If ArchiveMind stops unexpectedly, it says so and tells you your catalogue is safe, instead of simply vanishing.
    • Reopening ArchiveMind straight after quitting shows "Opening ArchiveMind…" while the previous copy finishes closing, instead of nothing.
    • Opening ArchiveMind while it is already running brings the open window to the front, without a second window flashing up.
    • A Time Machine backup disk that macOS will not let ArchiveMind read is named as one, with the exact Full Disk Access steps.
    • The scan area says "Files checked" instead of "Hashed".

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.2 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.3-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.3-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows: there was no 1.1.3 for Windows; it went from 1.1.2 straight to 1.1.4, which carries everything here.

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).

1.1.2 — September 2026

One fix, in two halves: a scan that indexed nothing now tells you why. Free, as always, for every licence holder; install over 1.1.1 (or any earlier version) and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • A scan at the free limit says so. The free version catalogues up to 10,000 files. Before, a scan of a new drive on a full free catalogue ended "Complete, 0 files" with no explanation, because the files it found but did not index were never counted. Now the scan area, the scan history and the scan's detail panel all say how many files were found but not indexed, and point to the License section where a licence lifts the limit. Everything already catalogued keeps working, as always.
  • A scan that could not read its files says so. If the operating system lets ArchiveMind list a folder but not read what is in it, the scan used to skip every file quietly and report success over nothing. Now it ends as failed, with the cause named: on a Mac, the privacy setting that grants ArchiveMind Full Disk Access; otherwise the account's permissions on the folder. A scan where only some files could not be read completes and says how many were skipped. The same explanation appears when the folder picker itself is refused, and the details are written to the app log for support.

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.2 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.2-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.2-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows 64-bit, portable zip (about 720 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.2-win-release-windows-x86_64.zip — guide: Windows
  • Windows 64-bit, installer (about 790 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.2-win-release-windows-x86_64-setup.exe — guide: Windows

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (the installer offers it when it is missing).

1.1.1 — September 2026

Two fixes found in everyday use of 1.1.0, one on each Mac. Free, as always, for every licence holder; install over 1.1.0 (or 1.0.0) and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged.

  • The large preview no longer covers a result's buttons. Hovering a search result in the list opens the large preview beside the row. In 1.1.0 a tall preview — a portrait photo, say — could land on top of the row's own buttons (Reveal, Open File, Copy Path, File Details) while the right half of the row stood empty. The preview now keeps clear of the buttons themselves and, when a wide row leaves no room beside its thumbnail, sits to the right of the buttons instead.
  • Quitting a moment after launch no longer crashes on some Macs. ArchiveMind loads its visual-search engine in the background a few seconds after it starts. On a slower Mac, quitting during those seconds could end with "ArchiveMind quit unexpectedly" — nothing was lost (the catalogue had already been closed cleanly), but the message was wrong. ArchiveMind now ends the process itself once its work has stopped, so the quit is quiet whatever the engine is doing. Windows was never affected.

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.2 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.1-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.1-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows 64-bit, portable zip (about 720 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.1-win-release-windows-x86_64.zip — guide: Windows
  • Windows 64-bit, installer (about 790 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.1-win-release-windows-x86_64-setup.exe — guide: Windows

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (the installer offers it when it is missing).

1.1.0 — September 2026

ArchiveMind is now its own application. Free for everyone who bought 1.0 — your licence covers it; install 1.1.0 over 1.0.0 and your catalogue, settings and licence carry over unchanged. As before, every feature works free up to 10,000 catalogued files; a one-time licence removes the limit.

  • ArchiveMind owns its window. No browser is involved at any point. On the Mac, ArchiveMind appears in the Dock, in Command-Tab and in the menu bar under its own name, with File, Edit, View, Window and Help menus; on Windows it is a single ArchiveMind.exe window rendered by the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, with its own taskbar entry. The browser tab and the "app-mode" Chrome window of 1.0 are gone.
  • Normal close and quit behaviour. On the Mac, closing the window (the red button or Command-W) keeps ArchiveMind running in the Dock; clicking its Dock icon brings the same window back. Command-Q, Quit ArchiveMind, and the interface's own Quit button all end the application. On Windows, closing the window quits.
  • Quit asks before interrupting work. If a scan or a background job is running, a native "Quit ArchiveMind?" dialog offers Cancel and Quit. While the application stops, the window says "Stopping the scan and closing ArchiveMind…" (or "Closing ArchiveMind…") and closes on its own — no more "you can close this tab".
  • A stopped scan is "Stopped by you", not "Failed". A scan you stop (Stop, or Quit during work) is recorded as stopped; the scan area and the history show it as incomplete, with the number of files saved so far, and the next scan picks up the rest. Genuine errors still show "Failed".
  • A useful message when ArchiveMind could not start. If a launch is refused — for example because a previous copy is still shutting down for the same catalogue — a native alert says exactly that, instead of nothing.
  • Windows without the WebView2 Runtime. The installer carries Microsoft's standalone runtime installer and offers it only when the runtime is missing, after you click Install; the portable zip's README explains the same. ArchiveMind itself never downloads anything.
  • Signed builds on all three platforms, as with 1.0. Both macOS builds — Apple silicon (arm64) and Intel (x86_64) — are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed (publisher Dominik Krzanowski).
  • Quitting during a scan is safe and quick. Every worker is stopped and waited for before the application ends; a quit while scanning takes a few seconds, an idle quit under a second.

Also fixed since the first 1.0.0 packages (the replacement 1.0.0 downloads of September 14, 2026 already carry these):

  • The Photos tab of the search results no longer fails with "Search could not be completed".
  • Optional tools (ffmpeg, ffprobe, rsvg-convert, tesseract) are found in their usual install locations even when the app is started from Finder or the Start menu, so waveforms, spectrograms and video frames work without a terminal-side PATH.
  • Place names for photos with GPS data work offline (the geocoder is bundled).
  • Relaunching right after quitting no longer refuses with "another ArchiveMind is starting".

What did not change: the app makes no network connections — no telemetry, no online licence checks, no model or update downloads — and everything ArchiveMind knows about your files stays on your computer.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.2 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.0-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.1.0-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows 64-bit, portable zip (about 720 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.0-win-release-windows-x86_64.zip — guide: Windows
  • Windows 64-bit, installer (about 790 MB): ArchiveMind-1.1.0-win-release-windows-x86_64-setup.exe — guide: Windows

Requirements are unchanged: macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel); 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (present on nearly every Windows 10/11 installation; the installer offers it when it is missing).

1.0.0 — September 2026

The first public release. Compared with the last betas (beta.6 on macOS, win-beta.5 on Windows), 1.0.0 brings:

  • The free tier. Every feature works free up to 10,000 catalogued files in a catalogue; any valid licence removes the limit. The limit only applies to indexing new files once it is reached — everything already catalogued keeps working — and the only reminder is a small meter in the License section. See Is ArchiveMind free?.
  • A larger hover Quick Preview. Hovering a result shows a bigger preview, fed from the app's bounded large-preview cache.
  • Version 1.0.0. The app reports 1.0.0 (the betas reported 0.1.0-beta.x / 0.1.0-win-beta.x).
  • Signed builds on all three platforms. Both macOS builds — Apple silicon (arm64) and Intel (x86_64) — are Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled; the Windows zip and installer are code-signed (publisher Dominik Krzanowski).
  • Public downloads. Everyone downloads from the website; the Windows installer ships for the first time alongside the portable zip.

Downloads (no longer available; download the current release instead):

  • macOS, Apple silicon (about 2.1 GB): ArchiveMind-1.0.0-release-macos-arm64.zip — guide: macOS (Apple silicon)
  • macOS, Intel (about 2.3 GB): ArchiveMind-1.0.0-release-macos-x86_64.zip — guide: macOS (Intel)
  • Windows 64-bit, portable zip (about 680 MB): ArchiveMind-1.0.0-win-release-windows-x86_64.zip — guide: Windows
  • Windows 64-bit, installer (about 545 MB): ArchiveMind-1.0.0-win-release-windows-x86_64-setup.exe — guide: Windows. Both Windows packages were replaced on September 14, 2026 with a build fixing a photo-search crash.

Upgrading from a beta: install 1.0.0 over the beta in the same place. Catalogues are kept, and every beta tester's existing .amlicense licence keeps working — nothing to re-import. The steps are in the "Coming from a beta build?" note on each platform guide.

Before 1.0.0 — the beta series

Before the public release, ArchiveMind was distributed to a small group of invited testers as 0.1.0 betas: beta.6 was the last macOS beta (both architectures, notarized) and win-beta.5 the last Windows beta (portable folder, the first code-signed Windows build). All betas are superseded by 1.0.0.