We work on this every week.

August 2026

• The keys your hands already know

  Hold Cmd and click to add another frame to a pile, or hold Shift and click further down the list to take everything in between — the two gestures every photographer has in their fingers from Lightroom and the Finder, working here the way they work there. A chosen file now lights up whole, so what you have gathered reads by running your eye down the page, and the picking is no longer the loudest thing on it. Once you have the set you want, you can share it, move it, delete it, or take the four out of nineteen you chose as a single zip, which was the one thing missing. Escape lets the whole lot go.

• The same file page, whatever you opened it on

  Open a photograph on your desk and you now get the action bar you have been using on your phone all week, in the same three positions, holding the same things: share on the left, download on the right, and everything you might add to the file — a comment, a request for sign-off, a note to the team, a new cut of a video — on the plus in the middle. The camera that took the shot moved up beside the filename where the rest of what the file is already lives, and the players wear a transport we drew ourselves, with the ten seconds a skip button jumps written on the button.

• Moving anything stopped taking time

  Dragging a folder into another Area used to copy every frame and every thumbnail across, then delete the originals. On a real shoot that meant minutes of waiting, with the library looking wrong the whole time it ran. Now the move changes a name and nothing else, so it finishes the moment you let go, at any size. Shares, comments and pinned tiles all still point at the right files afterwards.

• Made for the hand as well as the desk

  The phone had been a smaller version of the desktop, which is the wrong shape for a thumb. Where you are now sits along the top and what you can do sits along the bottom, on one action bar that follows you from the file browser into a preview, so share, add and download stay in the same place and stay in reach. The dialogs that used to interrupt with a system alert now ask in the page, beside the thing they are asking about.

• Pin a folder to a wall

  A grid sorted by name is the wrong shape for a folder you are making a case with. Any folder can now become a wall: drag the images into the arrangement you mean, put the hero large and the alternates around it, and everyone who opens it lands on that arrangement instead of the alphabet.

• Redrawn around one blue

  Every surface redrawn around a single Mediterranean blue, with a great deal taken away. Solid blue now marks one thing only, which is where you are. The small capitals retreated to the places that genuinely are labels, and the hairline rules that used to fence everything in have gone. The emails got the same treatment; they had been wearing somebody else's design.

• Keep what someone sent you

  A transfer that arrives from Vidual Send can now be saved straight into an Area without a download-and-re-upload detour, and a zip that lands in Spaces can be opened out into a real folder in place, with the archive left alone. Both run in the background, so a slow one never holds up the page.

July 2026

• Straight from Lightroom and Capture One

  The two editors our photographers live in now hand their work to Spaces without a detour. Connect once, and Export in Lightroom Classic — or Publish in Capture One — sends your selects at full resolution straight into an Area, subfolders and all, with nothing to drag and nothing to re-upload. They’re sitting in Spaces by the time the export dialog has closed.

June 2026

• All our AI, run by us, in Europe

  We finished what we started: every piece of intelligence in Spaces — reading your documents, making them searchable, picking out the names and dates — now runs on open models we operate ourselves, in the EU. No part of your work is handed to a third-party AI company, trained on, or mined. We wrote up why it mattered enough to bother, in the journal: “A mind of our own”.

• It notices the dates you’d forget

  Spaces now reads the contracts and invoices you upload and quietly gathers what’s coming up — a licence that lapses, a renewal that auto-charges, an invoice ageing past its terms — onto one calm page. A noticer, never a nag, and every line names the file it came from.

• Our own AI, your files in the EU

  Two load-bearing moves. The model that makes your work searchable is now one we host and run ourselves — no forwarding of your files to a big provider — and your files now live on EU infrastructure in Amsterdam. Nothing you upload trains a model, ours or anyone’s.

• Spaces in the light

  A proper light mode to sit beside the dark — light, dark, or following your system, and it sticks across visits. Every surface tuned to read cleanly either way.

• Vectors you can see

  SVG and vector files now preview in place, safely rasterised, so you can eyeball a logo or an icon set without downloading a thing.

• Keep what you need offline

  In the Mac app, pin a file or a whole folder to hold it on your disk for offline; the rest stays on-demand, so the library lives in Finder without ever filling the drive.

• Uploads that don’t tie you to the page

  Start a big upload and wander off — check Activity, start a Select, open another folder — and it keeps climbing in the background, with a small dock to tell you where it’s up to. Only closing the tab can interrupt it now.

• Did your share land?

  Every share link keeps its own record: how many times it was opened, whether the files were taken, and a nudge the first time someone reaches it. The end of wondering whether the email even arrived.

• A word on what changed

  When you upload a new cut, you can leave a note — “lifted the shadows, new grade” — and it’s kept with the version and dropped straight into the review timeline.

• Take the whole folder

  Download an entire folder, subfolders and all, as a single zip — straight from the app or from a share page.

• At home on a phone

  A thorough pass over the small screen: tidier toolbars, calmer menus, and the rough edges sanded off across the board.

May 2026

• Review film where it lives

  Timestamped comments welded to the exact frame, versions side by side, and a resolve handshake so a note gets addressed instead of argued in circles.

• Shoot Selects

  Put the shortlist in front of the team and let everyone vote without seeing who picked what — the room’s real preference, without the politics.

• Tidy

  A read-only eye on the duplicates and the long-untouched files, and how much space sits behind them. It never deletes a thing; you decide.

• Search the way you remember

  Ask in plain language and search reaches into what was in the frame, where and when it was taken, the camera and the lens — not the exact filename.

• It lives in Finder

  A native Mac app with on-demand sync: the whole library sitting in Finder, there to open in an instant, without filling the disk.

• Yours, and accountable

  Owner-only areas you can seal to yourself, an activity trail you can read back, and a recoverable trash that holds anything deleted for thirty days.