What's new in Litria 1.1

Litria 1.1 is about culling. Bursts stack into one tile, ratings can travel to your other editor, and your first folder shows up already in order. It also opens in Firefox, gives phones a Menu tab, and fixes a long list of things in publishing, albums and the Library.

Stacks for culling

Shoot a burst and you get ten frames that look almost the same. Litria now groups them into one stack, so the Library shows one tile where it used to show ten.

Litria works out the stacks on your device, in the background, after a folder opens. Frames from the same folder taken no more than 2 seconds apart, that look alike, go in one stack. The sharpest frame is the pick and stands for the stack in the grid. A photo with no capture time is never stacked.

• A stack's tile shows how many photos it holds. Press the count to open the stack in the editor, where the filmstrip holds only its frames.
• Found a better frame? Use this frame makes it the pick. It takes the old pick's edits, rating and flag with it, and one Undo, right after, puts it all back.
• Split stack, in the editor's ⋮ menu, breaks a stack up. Select tiles in the Library and pick Merge stacks to join them.
• With a filter on, the Library shows every frame, and the folder's count still counts photos, not tiles.
• Don't want stacks? Turn off Stack similar photos in the Library's ⋮ menu.

To make room for the stack, the Library tile's marks moved. Your rating, Favorite and Reject sit on a small chip in the photo's corner, and a bar with all three opens from it when you rest the pointer on the photo. The heart is now called Favorite everywhere. In the editor's filmstrip, the flag and the rating sit together as one pair, so they no longer overlap.

A Menu tab on phones

On a phone, the last tab in the bottom bar is now Menu. Signed in, it shows your avatar and name. Menu holds your account, the Settings categories, Help, Theme, the version and its update check, and Sign out, all on one page. Pick a category and Settings slides up over it. Close Settings and you're back on Menu.

The top bar no longer carries your avatar on a phone, since Menu has it. On a computer nothing changes.

Litria in Firefox

Firefox on a computer now opens Litria. Firefox can't keep a folder open between visits the way Chrome and Edge can, so when you add a folder, Litria asks what you want:

• Import into this browser copies the photos into the browser's own storage, after showing how much room they take and how much is free.
• Open without copying reads the photos where they are. You choose the folder again on your next visit, and your edits come back.
• Get the desktop app.

In Firefox, Export always saves to your downloads, and Back up now downloads the backup. Safari, and every browser on an iPhone or iPad, still can't run Litria.

Star ratings for your other editor

If you cull in Litria and edit somewhere else, your stars can now go with the photo. Turn on Write star ratings to XMP sidecars in Settings › Library, and each time you rate a raw photo, Litria writes the stars to the .xmp file beside it. Capture One and Photo Mechanic read it on their own. Lightroom Classic reads it when it imports the photo, or through Metadata › Read Metadata from Files.

Only stars go across. Favorite and Reject stay in Litria, because Lightroom Classic and Capture One ignore a reject written there. If the sidecar already holds another app's edits, Litria changes only the rating and leaves the rest alone. DNG and JPEG photos get no sidecar, and Litria never writes to the photo itself. The switch is off until you turn it on, and it covers ratings you make from then on.

Your first folder, already sorted

The first time Litria scans your photos, it used to show them in the order it found them, then shuffle them into date order when the scan ended. Now the Library waits and shows them once, newest first, and they stay put. While you wait, the ring beside All photos and beside the folder fills up, so you can see how far the scan has got.

A storage meter that warns you

The storage meter in the sidebar, in Settings and in the publish dialog now warns you as your storage fills. It changes color at 90%, and turns red once you're full. Its label tells you what's left, such as "92% used · 80 MB free", and "Storage full" once there's none.

Fixes

Most of this release is fixes, a lot of them in publishing and albums. Starting a publish no longer freezes the page, and an album stays editable while its photos upload. You can publish an album again at a new size. Ratings, flags, album edits, pins, removed folders and deleted photos change on screen at once, without waiting for the save. An album's own order now comes out the same on every device. In the editor, the crop tools flip a photo vertically again, and Export with several photos selected in the filmstrip exports all of them.

The desktop app

The desktop app is available for Linux and Windows. On a Mac, use Litria in Chrome, Edge or Firefox.

Open Litria

Open Litria in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, or download the desktop app.