We've been heads-down building for a while, and we have a lot to share with you. From an offline gallery experience to a better feed, faster ML, and improvements in sharing - here's everything that landed and what it means for you.
Offline Gallery
You can now use Ente Photos without creating an account. No sign-up, no friction. Once you're in, you can explore smart search, face recognition, and curated memories alongside your photos and albums.
This is our first step toward a genuinely great offline gallery experience, and we have a lot more planned to improve it over time.
Masonry Layout for Links
Public links will now show your photos and videos in a beautiful masonry layout by default. It makes a big difference to the experience when someone opens a link. You can customise the layout for each shared album, choosing between masonry, trip, and grouped depending on what you're sharing.
Quick Links on Desktop and Web
Quick links for single photos and videos can now be created from the desktop and web apps. Links to single photos and videos will now open the item directly in a full screen view.
Social Feed for Your Family
Incoming shared albums and photos will now appear in your feed. Notifications for any sharing activity also take you straight there. It makes keeping up with your family and other Ente contacts a lot more natural - view, like and comment from the same space.
If you've been thinking about getting your family onto Ente, this is a great time to do it.
Machine Learning Improvements
We've integrated a vector database into our ML infrastructure, making search noticeably faster and people suggestions more accurate.
We're also migrating to a shared, high-performance Rust core across all our apps, something that will keep paying dividends in speed and reliability across all our platforms. More on this soon.
Custom Recovery Periods for Legacy
You can now set the waiting period for account recovery independently for each of your trusted contacts: 7, 14, or 30 days.
A small change, but an important one for anyone who's taken the time to set up Legacy properly.
Hidden Photo Management
Hidden photos on mobile got a meaningful upgrade. You can now delete hidden files directly from your device so they don't linger in your camera roll.
You can also clean up hidden files from non-hidden albums to avoid any accidents. And shared albums can now be hidden too.
A few more improvements
- Ignore named people on mobile
- More collage layouts
- Search for on-device albums
- Catalan support across all platforms
- Fixed window controls hiding app UI on iPadOS
- Fixed iOS video player crash
- Fixed broken map view
- Fixed pinch-to-zoom accidentally opening the info sheet on videos
- Fixed file picker galleries getting clipped on wider screens
That's a lot — but it is a good reflection of where we're headed. Over the course of the next few months, we want to build a much better family and sharing experience, have a great offline gallery mode, while also improving the look, feel and performance across platforms.
We are incredibly excited about what's coming next. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please join our Discord, and let us know.