WinCatalog 2026.3

Released on July 31, 2026.

New features

• GPS search for photos. WinCatalog reads GPS coordinates from images and RAW files and lets you search by location offline. Two new rows on the Exif tab, Has GPS coordinates and Within a distance of a place, plus a location picker that lists the places already in your catalog. Right-click a photo to show it on a map or to find photos taken nearby. New Place and Map link property rows and the %gps_city% / %gps_link% tokens for Dynamic Columns. Place data by GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
• Path filter on the Main tab of the additional search options. Filter search results by the full file path, with Contains and Advanced query conditions.
• Duplicate selection commands. A toolbar above duplicate search results selects copies by date, size, path length, folder depth, drive or folder in one click. See Selecting Duplicates in Search Results.
• Drag or paste an image to set a thumbnail. Drop an image file onto any Properties page, or paste one from the clipboard, and it becomes the item’s thumbnail. See the Thumbnails tab.
• Reorder report columns by dragging column headers. See Configure Columns in the Grid View.
• New %drive_letter% token for Dynamic Columns: a bare drive letter for local disks, the server name for network paths.
• Explorer button on the Info page of the backstage view, opening the folder that holds the current catalog file.

Improvements

• Faster folder sorting in large catalogs.
• Files that failed to scan once are marked and skipped on later updates instead of being retried every time.
• Scan plugins now stop when they stall rather than after a fixed timeout, so one stuck file no longer holds up the scan.
• More accurate scanning speed shown during a scan.
• The post-scan errors and warnings window is hidden by default. Turn it back on in the scanning profile options.
• The Tags, Locations and User-Defined Fields managers scale with the zoom setting.
• Custom keyboard shortcuts now carry over correctly when upgrading from an earlier version.
• Refreshed translations for all supported languages.

Fixes

• The Contains condition in text search filters no longer loses its wildcard, so partial-word searches return the expected results.
• Fixed filter chaining when conditions are combined with duplicate search or restrict by fields.
• Fixed a crash when deleting more than about three duplicate files or folders at once.
• Deleting real files runs as a single batch through the Windows shell, which fixes a race condition and correctly reports success when files go to the Recycle Bin. Deleting a folder also removes its children from the file operation queue.
• Fixed the false “Scanning Interrupted” message after restoring a minimized update window.
• Fixed a case where WinCatalog refused to open a catalog that was not actually open.
• Fixed pop-up menus collapsing as they opened, and flickering of the backstage view on mouse movement.

WinCatalog 2026.3.1

Released on August 5, 2026.

A maintenance release. AI Bridge now works with Bionic, and the translations added in 2026.3 were revised.

AI Bridge

Bionic is LM Studio’s new app. AI Bridge finds it and uses it the same way it uses LM Studio (Classic), including on machines where Bionic is the only one installed. Bionic runs on the same engine as LM Studio, with the same models and the same local server on port 1234, so there is no separate provider to choose. The setting is now called LM Studio / Bionic and covers both apps. See Getting started with AI Bridge.

• Per-user installations are found as well, not only machine-wide ones. A per-user install of LM Studio (Classic) could previously be reported as not installed.
• Status messages name the app that AI Bridge found, such as “Bionic is installed and running”.
• If Bionic is installed but has never been started, AI Bridge asks you to run it once. Bionic unpacks its command line tools on the first start.

Languages updated (in Unicode order)

Bahasa Indonesia, Dansk, Deutsch, Español Europeo and Español Latino, Français, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Polski, Português Brasileiro and Português (Portugal), Română, Slovak, Slovenski, Suomi, Svenska, Türkçe, Český, Ελληνικά, Русский, العربية (Arabic), 日本語, 简体中文 and 繁體中文, 한국어.

If a phrase in your language still reads wrong, please let us know. These releases are built from user reports.