What changed, version by version.

3.0.5 September 2026

Your Taste

A popup tells you when your profile is ready. The Your Taste card shows what it has learned so far, and the profile name once it is built.

Reviewed photos

A photo counts as reviewed only after you tap Done in Batch Process. New: an Exclude → Reviewed photos switch in Filters, and a reviewed count with a reset in Settings.

Batch Process

• Add picks to several albums in one pass.
• The button stays dimmed until a pile has a photo.

Review

• Pick, Keep and Discard share one look.
• Dedupe Autopick discards the copies and leaves the best one for you to decide.
• The subtitle on the Review grid names the profile that sorted the photos.

Various bug fixes.

3.0.1 July 2026

Fewer interruptions. The in-app tips no longer appear on their own. Every screen that had a walkthrough keeps a “?” button, so the guidance is there when you want it and out of the way when you don't. The one that still appears on its own is the note telling you your Taste profile is ready.

The Review grid now opens flat. Only true duplicates stack on arrival — Sequence and Similar start off, so no photo is hidden behind a cover before you've asked for grouping. Whatever you change is remembered next time.

Discover → Timeline opens on your three most recent months instead of every month collapsed. Older months stay folded.

Fixed a tip on the Home screen that named controls the app no longer has. The rate-this-app prompt now appears after you finish a review session, rather than only after a bulk action.

3.0 July 2026

SpectraSort 3.0 is a ground-up redesign — one engine, three ways in.

Toolbox

Six one-tap tools, each pointed at a different photo you're looking for: Your Taste, Best Shots, Find a Subject, Like This Photo, Photos of a location, and Dedupe. Pick the tool, get the photos.

Discover

Your whole camera roll, in order. Scenes gather trips, themes, and series on their own; a Timeline takes you year to month to day. Sort any slice.

Studio

Full control, for when you want it — set your own quality mix, split subject against quality, run up to three subjects at once, save it all as profiles. If you used SpectraSort 2.x, the controls you know live here now. Included with Premium.

New pricing

Five free sorts a week, for everyone. One $19.99 purchase removes the weekly limit for good and unlocks Studio. No subscription.

Faster re-sorts

The first sort builds a one-time on-device index; every sort after runs on it and lands nearly instantly.

2.4 July 2026

Scenes

Pull down on Home to flip through the life you've photographed — trips, days, themes, and look-alike shots, gathered into scenes automatically. Each card sorts on its own: tap Sort to keep the best of that moment.

Personal taste, your way

Your Taste profile can now learn from exactly the photos you choose. Build it from your whole library, or apply a filter first so only those photos teach it.

Refinements

• Long-press the Personal or Customized profile to bookmark it, or reset and rebuild.
• The Albums filter now sorts only the albums you pick.
• Various fixes.

2.3 June 2026

Image Search filter. Pick an example photo and your sort narrows to just the ones that look like it — same scene, same subject. Under Filters → Include → Image search.

Faster repeat sorts. After the first sort, sorting and image search reuse a cached index instead of re-reading every photo, so they finish much faster.

Fixes. The keyboard no longer covers the Select button when you type a custom subject.

2.2 June 2026

Two big additions: search your library using a photo as the example, and clear whole sequences in a single swipe.

Image search

Find more shots like one you already have. Pick a photo as the example and SpectraSort sorts your library by visual similarity — the closest matches surface to the top. It compares photos on-device with CLIP; nothing is uploaded.

Stacking

After a sort, sequences and near-duplicates group into stacks in the Review grid. The sharpest, best-exposed frame becomes the cover. Swipe a whole stack right to keep that frame and discard the rest in one move — recoverable from Recently Deleted. Choose what groups together — duplicates, sequences, or similar shots — in Stacking Options.

Skip albums

Leave albums out of a sort. In Filters, the Exclude section lets you skip Screenshots, app folders like WhatsApp, Favorites, or any album you pick — or invert the list to sort only the albums you choose.

Multi-select

Press and hold, then drag across the Review grid to select many photos at once, then pick or discard them in bulk.

Also: reset controls for quality adjustments and Autopick, more accurate duplicate detection, smoother Review grid scrolling.

2.1 June 2026

• After the first sort, each photo sorts over 3× faster thanks to a new indexing system.
• Visual feedback while the Review screen is prepared after sorting, so the app does not appear frozen.
• No more freezes or crashes after review: opening Bulk Actions (previously Next Steps) is now instant.
• Fixes: filtering by location no longer crashes; restoring a purchase confirms clearly; the upgrade screen fits without scrolling; the Technical / Artistic slider handle stays faintly visible as a hint.

2.0.4 · 2.0.5 May 2026

Fixed a freeze when applying filters to very large libraries, a crash when selecting a custom date range, and a crash when opening the Location filter on very large libraries.

2.0 May 2026

A complete redesign — engine and user experience.

• Over 10× faster sorting. A new on-device vision engine processes up to 100 photos a second on the latest iPhones.
• More accurate. Subjects detect cleanly across 8 categories — landscapes, portraits, urban, travel, food, architecture, street, night — plus your own custom keywords.
• Three profile modes: Taste (formerly My Sort), picked up automatically as you sort; Custom (formerly AI Sort), full manual control; Bookmarked, to save multiple profiles.
• Fine-tune everything. Up to 3 subjects, preset or custom. 7 quality dimensions, one by one or as a group with the Technical/Artistic slider. A balance dial to weigh subject relevance against raw quality.

1.0 January 2026

First release. Two sorting modes: AI Sort, which scores every photo for sharpness, exposure, composition and aesthetic appeal with a Technical–Artistic slider; and My Sort, a personal profile that learns your taste after 30 picks. Swipe review, on-device.