Changelog

We announced Framebird to the world a little over one year ago. Since then most of the updates were just bug fixes and smaller changes. But today we are very excited to announce our biggest update yet: Framebird 2.0.

🎥 Video Support

Framebird now supports video with slick preview generation. Hover over grid tiles to seek through previews.

📢 Notifications & Live Updates

Never miss a change with our new notification area in your Dashboard. Keep track of all the latest activity on your shares in one centralized spot.

🔄 Real-Time Collaboration: Live Updates in Shares

Collaboration just got better! Experience live updates for Share Status and Comments, making teamwork feel like you're all in the same room.

🎨 Metadata Makeover: A New Info Panel

We redesigned the metadata panel for better visibility and usability. From extracted color info to all the EXIF data of an image or video file, it's all there and beautifully displayed.

📁 Organize Like a Pro: New Gallery Tree

Have better control of your content with the new Gallery View in the new resizable Sidebar. Expand, collapse, and drag-and-drop galleries to your liking.

🔍 Smart Filters: Find What You Need, Fast

Introducing smart filters for your shares. Want to see only approved media? You no longer have to setup filters over and over again.

👤 Put a Face to the Name: Avatar Support

Upload your avatar and make your mark in the comments. It's time to let your personality shine!

🚪 Framebird Login in Shares

No more typing over your name and email address. Log in to shares with your Framebird account so others can recognize you.

🖌️ Annotations on the Go

Our annotation tool got a sleek makeover. With new rectangle and circle tools to mark up images and videos quicker. And with full support for mobile touch devices and the iPad with Apple Pencil, communicating ideas on the go has never been easier.

📤 Uploader 2.0: Smarter and Smoother

Drag, drop, and experience the smoothest upload experience yet. Our new uploader checks for duplicates before starting, saving you time and storage space.

📝 Add Context: Private Notes

Add context to your media with private notes. It's your little secret – they won't show up when you share.

📧 Email Makeover: Clean and Clear Updates

Subscribe to share changes and enjoy our redesigned emails. See the latest updates at a glance in a modern, clean format to quickly decide what's important and what's not.

🚀 And There's More!

• Support for text files 📄
• New share list view 📋
• Refreshed dashboard with clearer action buttons 🔘
• Right-click menu for quick actions 🖱️
• New empty state screens 🌟
• And many more small improvements to the overall user experience

Improve Grid View Performance

We improved the performance of the Grid View. It now loads faster and is more responsive when scrolling through large galleries.

🪲 Fixes

• Removed error dialog that appeared too often lately

New Share Theme: Hero

There is a new Share Theme called "Hero". It's a minimalistic theme that focuses on the images. It features a nice zoom intro animation of the title image.

Improved Share Theme Preset

We reworked Share Theme Settings to make it easier to customize your Share Theme. It now features a bigger preview of the Share Theme while editing the settings, there is also a new button to save a copy of the current Share Theme and we added the possibility to to overwrite the default Share Theme in the Share Settings.

🪲 Fixes

• Share Status Chooser no longer jumps to "No Status" when selecting a status while another status is loading.

🪲 Fixes

• Tiffs exported from Capture One now get displayed correctly
• Long Share Titles now get displayed correctly with the correct line breaks

🛠 Improvements

• Scroll position on Shares now gets restored when navigating back
• Shares that include child galleries now show the correct thumbnail
• Better contrast ratio for the Share Title overlay on Grid Tiles

🪲 Fixes

• Fixed portrait RAW images not being rotated correctly
• Fixed PDF files with transparent images inside not being displayed correctly in the preview

Support for RAW Images

You can now upload and view RAW images in Framebird. We support all major RAW formats, including .cr2, .nef, .arw, .dng, and many more.

🛠 Improvements

• AVIF Images are now supported
• Non Image file formats are now marked with a file type icon to make them easier to distinguish

Added Live Chat Support

Do you have any questions or need assistance? We are here to help you. Just click on the ? icon in the bottom left corner and start a conversation with us.

🪲 Fixes

• Collection Gallery Count is now displayed correctly
• Used storage space is now displayed correctly

Admin Panel got a fresh look

We redesigned the admin panel to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. The new design is more consistent with the rest of the app and provides a better user experience.

Better Placeholder Background

We improved the placeholder background of images. The gradient now looks more natural and is less distracting. Also it's not pixelated for Safari users anymore.

🪲 Fixes

• Removed flickering of Images while loading

Can you feel the speed? 🚀

We improved the image viewer performance by 12x. ¹ You can now load images faster than ever before. Just go to a Gallery, open the image viewer and navigate through the images. You will notice the difference.

Animated GIFs

We also added support for animated GIFs. You can now upload and view animated GIFs in Framebird.

🛠 Improvements

• Improved animation performance of image viewer and admin panel sidebar

🪲 Fixes

• Removed Image flickering when navigating through images in image viewer
• Thumbnails of multi-page PDF Files are no longer distorted

¹ - Based on our internal tests with a gallery of 3000 Images.

Not sure if you already shared a Gallery 👀

You can now see all your existing Shares before creating a new one. This way you won't create duplicates by accident.

Added Changelog Page

You can now follow the latest Changes we made to Framebird on our Changelog Page. It's also available in the Admin Panel when you click on your Avatar -> What's New.

Don't like rounded corners? 🤔

You can now customize the roundness of your images. Both the Share Themes and the Admin Panel have a new setting called Rounded Corner Radius. You can completely disable the roundness or increase it if you enjoy the roundness.

(Thanks to Paul)

🪲 Fixes

• Mobile Grid did not scroll while navigating through the image-viewer

🛠 Improvements

• Improve the performance of scrolling (We optimized the rendering architecture)
• Improve the performance of the slider to zoom in/out

More Theme Customization 🎨

You can now choose from light or dark mode for your shares. Switch the Grid Style between regular Grid or Flow Style. Tweak the Grid Gap Tile Size to your likings.

🪲 Fixes

• CMD+K did not trigger while in shares

Run Commands and Search for Content with CMD+K ⌨️

You can now run commands and search for files with CMD+K.

Just press CMD+K (or CTRL+K on Windows) and start typing. You can also use the arrow keys to navigate through the results and press enter to open the selected element.

We will add more commands in the future to make Framebird even more powerful. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Preview your PDFs 📄

Want to share your Portfolios, Callsheets or Storyboards? You can now upload PDFs to Framebird and preview them in the browser. You can also share them with your clients and colleagues.

Support for your iPhone Images (and other HEIC) 📱

Framebird now supports HEIC images. HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container. The format is an updated variant of the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF), traditionally used by Apple across its mobile devices.

Get Notified about Updates in your Shares 📬

You will now get notified via email if someone comments on your images or rates them. You can disable this feature in the Admin Panel if you don't want to receive emails.

Shooting for the Stars ✨

Are you using Star Ratings with Lightroom, Capture One or another App? You can now filter your images by rating. Just click on the star rating you want to filter by and you will only see images with that rating.

(Thanks to Felix)

Better Sorting

You can now sort your images by name, date, rating or size.

Flow Layout

You can now choose between two different grid layouts. The new layout is called Flow and it's a more compact layout because it does not show any borders for non landscape images. It's perfect for showcasing a lot of images in a small space.

Public Launch

🎉 We're thrilled to announce the launch of Framebird!

You can now sign up for free to showcase your media files through visually striking galleries, gather feedback, and allow others to download the original files.

Roadmap and Feedback 🚀

We now have a Roadmap and a Bug Report Page. Please use them to let us know what you want to see next and what you think about the App.

No more Beta 🍾

Thank you for all the Feedback we got during the Beta Phase. We are now removing the Beta Badge from the App. We are still working on new features and improvements, but we are confident that the App is now ready for production use.

📈 Counting Share Views

We are now counting the views of your shares! No more guessing how many people have seen your share. You can find the view count in the share overview. Every Click counts, even if you click on the same share multiple times.

Only clicks on the shared URL are counted. If you click on the share in the Framebird App, it will not count as a view.

🪲 Fixes

• Image Downloads on Mobile did not work in some cases

🛠 Improvements

• Mobile Image Downloads will now open in a dialog to save them to iOS/Android Photos App by long pressing the image
• Improved API Performance