What has changed

pctrs is built in the open, a little at a time. Currently running version 1.2.0.

1.2.0 Picture first Sep 17, 2026

Picture first: a cabinet opens on its folios and its pictures. The photographer rides in the bar beside the logo, the disc and the handle; the name opens About, Camera bag and the tags, and for the owner Upload and the archive. FOLIOS shows one row of as many covers as fit, the chevron the rest, pinned folios first. About carries the cabinet’s picture, the first pin or the newest.
A body or a lens gets its picture on its own: when one is added, pctrs looks it up online and keeps the picture with its credit, shown under the tile. The maker’s page link and your own upload are kept as offers alongside it, and the piece wears the one you choose, so nothing is swapped under you and a vendor’s later change can’t reach the locker.
The naming page draws the four themes as their glyphs, the building, the paw, the sprout and the mountains, in place of the old emoji. on the website
The locker, tended in fewer moves. Found in your photographs lists what EXIF names that the locker doesn’t hold: tick what to keep, with a standing each, and the rest is passed over, as is anything you remove, so a fill never brings back what you cleared out; it waits under Passed over before, for whenever you change your mind. Prune puts a tick on every row, then one bar removes the ticked or moves them to a standing.
The picture on About is the owner’s choice: Use on my About page, in a photograph’s own menu. Without a choice it is the first pinned photograph, else the newest. On a folio’s page the pin is an icon beside the title, hollow until pinned.
The theme flyout on a phone opens toward the middle of the screen, so it never runs off the edge. on the website
A year of support is $10 as a Supporter, $25 as a Backer and $50 as a Founder; the room each gives is unchanged.
Room is bought in the app for iPhone and iPad; the website is the same cabinet from any computer, tablet or phone, and takes a tip as thanks. The Join page’s old scale of contributions is gone. on the website
About and Join say plainly that the charity share is not built yet: once the site reaches 500 supporting members, development turns to it, starting with a service that vets charities; until then that share is held. on the website
The Supporter, Backer or Founder chip shows wherever a member is looked at: after the name on the About page, the locker and the camera bag, and in the name menu in the bar, as well as on comments. In the app it sits under the name on About and under the locker’s title.
About says how the site is kept: one set of servers for now, backed up by its host, with resilience growing as members come. A free cabinet is 5 photographs; the invite comes with support.
The Support screen names the date a year runs to and nothing else. in the app
Comments in the app: appreciating a photograph from its own page opens the comment box at once, and while you type the photograph steps aside so the box and the keyboard share the screen. in the app
A comment appreciates the photograph for you, so the box is there for anyone signed in; anyone not is pointed to Join. Your own comment has Edit, and a reworded one says so. Commenting asks for a confirmed email.
Following, the photographs of the people you follow, sits in your menu one tap from anywhere.
For the administrator, a ledger of sign-ins: who got in, from where, by which door, and who tried; kept ninety days. The privacy page says so. on the website
On a folio’s own page its owner can move the photographs the same way: the earlier and later arrows on a frame, or a drag. The order is the folio’s order everywhere, the app included.
Folios go in the order their owner puts them: on the cabinet, drag a cover or use the earlier and later arrows on it; pinned folios stay ahead. The app shows the same order.
A storage report for the administrator: what is kept where, what this server’s disk holds, and what the bucket has been asked for this month against its free tier, counted at the one door every call goes through. A picture written to the bucket is kept on the disk at once, so its first view costs no read. on the website
A pinned folio wears the pin on its cover, as in the app, not a triangle. on the website
On a photograph, the photographer’s name opens their cabinet, as on the website; the chevron alone goes back. in the app
What the hardening had cost, given back: the app shows a member their own private and cautioned pictures again; a tag on private pictures still opens for the member who put it there; a refused name or bio on Settings comes back on the form, not as a bare line; a name is held from sign-in by its failures alone, never by its successes; the comment box on the website no longer follows the heart; the admin page has its Invitations card; the app’s Join screen asks for ten characters like the site.
A folio’s foot credits kit, not noise: a phone’s camera modules stay with the phone under Cameras used rather than listing as lenses. And the place under a picture never repeats its title: “Genbaku Dome” over “Genbaku Dome, Hiroshima, Japan” reads “Hiroshima, Japan”. Both on the website and in the app, which takes them from the same source.
On a phone, the whole FOLIOS line opens the rest of the folios, with the chevron at its end, so a finger finds it.
The members list keeps every link the old cards had: @name to the cabinet, the email, their pictures, their sign-ins; and the totals of photographs and MB across whoever is listed. on the website
The administrator’s log records the address each act came from and narrows by member, by kind of act and by administrator. on the website
The administrators are mailed when it matters: an administrator in from a new address, a run of failed sign-ins from one address or against one name, a cabinet deleted. Each is told once a day and listed on an alerts page. on the website
The members page for the administrator now finds one among thousands: words across name and email, standing, level, how they pay, chip and email filters, seven sorts, fifty a page; each member has a page of their own with the ledger, caps, recent sign-ins and the invitations they sent; invitations have their own page. on the website
Pictures kept in the bucket are read from it once and served from this server’s own disk after that, so a popular photograph costs one read for its whole life. on the website
Locks tightened: a new password signs every other device and browser out; sign-in attempts are limited per name as well as per address; passwords are ten characters or more; a manual downloads rather than opening on the site; the tags anyone may see come from open photographs only.
A word screen reads every comment, title, caption, tag, bio, folio and name before it is kept. Hate, threats and exploitation are turned away; coarse words are kept but held for a look, and their author sees them waiting. The administrator has the list to hand and a page of what it caught.
A review of the site’s locks: a private photograph’s files and details are now as private as its page; a manual’s or picture’s link can only reach the public internet; a photographer’s name is shown as written wherever it is printed. on the website
The administrator’s Find takes words from a title, caption, tag, place, camera or lens, all of them at once, and shows each picture with its thumbnail; a member turns up with their standing, their count and their last sign-in. on the website

1.1.1 A visual fix Sep 17, 2026

The bar’s three, the themes, the view and your menu, sit at one spacing in every view and on every page: each glyph in the same slot, the same size, so nothing shifts when the view changes. in the app
A brand-new copy of the site creates every table before it alters any, so a first boot on an empty database works. on the website

1.1.0 The locker, and the photographer Sep 17, 2026

Moderation that tells the member: a held photograph says so on its page to its owner; a caution or a removal carries a reason the member reads, by mail; a removed photograph waits thirty days in a bin and can be put back. A member’s standing can be fine, uploads paused or signed out, each with a word to them. A reported comment can be hidden or deleted from the queue. Every administrator’s action is written into a log, takedown notices with it; the menu’s dot counts every queue; and the Admin page can find a picture or a member.
For the administrator: one member’s pictures on a sheet, held, private and archived included, and a way to move a few to another member when a picture’s ownership is challenged. The files stay put; a moved picture leaves the old cabinet’s folios and pins and lands unlisted in the new one. Every move is written down. on the website
Where a photographer is, on their About page, is their choice in Settings: the town and state, the state and country, or nothing, named from the home’s map point. The typed address is never shown anywhere.
A page for the photographer, About, beside Camera bag on the cabinet: who they are in their own words, with room for paragraphs now, two links of their own, where they are as their settings allow and since when, the bag in a line, and the cabinet in numbers.
The pictures made with a piece of kit have a gallery page of their own, opened from the count on the piece’s page. Adding kit by hand is a button beside the locker’s view pill and a page with the way back.
A piece of kit can carry its picture: give the maker’s page or a link to an image and pctrs pulls the picture once and keeps it as one square tile, a product shot trimmed and centred on white, a photograph cropped, so the cards line up on the piece’s page and in the locker. A merged piece hands its manual and picture to the survivor.
A piece of kit has four standings: in the bag, on the shelf for when the job calls for it, in the collection for the Polaroid and the old A-mount glass, or formerly, which covers the drawer and the sale alike. What was retired is formerly now.
The locker as a roster: one table of the kit, name, kind, standing, photographs, years and the manual, with the ledger’s columns for the owner alone. List or Roster, a pill on the locker and the camera bag.
A cabinet’s Camera bag: the locker narrowed to what is in the bag now, one link on the photographer’s page. The whole locker, retired kit and all, is a line away.
A piece of kit can carry a link to its manual. When the link is a PDF, pctrs fetches it once and keeps it, so the website and the app read the same copy and the app reads it in place; otherwise the link opens online. The ledger’s dates come from a date picker.
Each piece of kit in the locker has a page of its own: what the photographs say about it, the pictures made with it, and for the owner one Change sheet that holds the name, kind, notes, standing, the star, the ledger, merge and remove. The locker itself is a plain list that opens them, with places for tripods, flashes and bags; a name merged into another is listed on that one’s page.
The locker keeps a ledger, the owner’s own: bought when, from whom, for how much; sold when, to whom, for how much, in a currency set once in Settings. Nobody else sees it. Merge folds two spellings of one lens or body into one; the other name stays as an alias and keeps counting the photographs that mention it.

1.0.8 Private pictures Sep 14, 2026

A photograph can be private: the lock on its page takes it off the wall, out of every feed and away from its address. You see it; so does anyone who came into its folio by the side door.
A folio has two doors. The front door, its plain address, shows the folio minus its private pictures to everyone. The side door is a link made from three words and shows the whole folio; it can ask for the words, it can last a week or for good, and it can allow downloads of the originals.
By link only closes a folio’s front door and takes its pictures private with it; listing it again brings them back, except the ones you locked by hand.
The dark room by day is a light grey that still shows a white border; the gallery wall by night is mahogany. A frame’s words are white on every look, and the sun and moon sit in the top bar on every page.
On the wall the heart keeps one corner, bottom right, in both looks; the photographer’s name takes the other.
A cabinet’s theme can follow the viewer’s system: light or dark as their device is set. Elsewhere the site follows your system until you press the sun or the moon; the half disc takes you back.
In the app a folio or a roll is drawn as its cabinet is: the same look, theme and border as on the website. in the app
The keyhole: a key at the foot of a folio whose plain address keeps pictures back. Whoever has the words opens the whole folio there, no side link needed. The owner reads the words on the light table and on the folio, to hand out.
Three wrong tries at the words from one address lock them there for fifteen minutes.
On the light table the table and its buttons stay put while the sheet scrolls beneath, and Sharing folds to one line that says how the doors stand.
The four themes reach into a cabinet: the ones it has pictures for sit as glyphs on discs beside its tags, a building, a paw, a sprout and mountains under a sun, drawn for pctrs, and each narrows the cabinet to that theme. The wall wears the same four discs in place of the words; on a phone they fold to one, the theme you are in or ALL, and a tap flies them out.
Settings is one list, the same on the website and in the app: profile, appearance, notifications, account, privacy, membership, invitations, then the house rules, the privacy policy and About.
A photograph’s top line is three things at the right: the pencil for its owner, three dots and the arrows. The dots hold sharing, the original file when allowed, and in the app the help for the page. The marks beneath are as they were.
A cabinet opens with who it is: name, handle and count, the bio, then one row of Upload photos or the footprints, the locker and # Tags. The big picture at its head is gone. The cabinet’s themes sit in the bar as the wall’s do, and All, Years, Months, Days and the view, filmstrip or montage with its size, ride just above the pictures and stay put as they scroll.
One bar, four things: the name, the themes, filmstrip or montage, and your menu. The help for a page and the look, System, Light or Dark, live in the menu now; Liked, Following, Favourites, Pinned and Comments are one Activity with five tabs; Support, invites and About sit in Settings. A Why pctrs page says what the place is for.
Scrolled into the photographs, the top bar shrinks to a sliver but keeps the sun or moon and your menu, so the locker and uploading are never out of reach. In the app your menu now sits on a cabinet and in a theme as well as on the wall, and a cabinet’s tags fold behind # Tags beside the theme discs, as on the website.
In the app the locker marks a favourite body and a favourite lens with a star, as the website does. in the app
Two ways in without a password: Forgot your password sends a link to choose a new one, and Email me a sign-in link sends one that signs you in once, on the website or in the app, good for fifteen minutes.
A photograph can be shared: the arrow on its page copies its link or sends it, with a note of your own if you like, shown once above the words when the link opens. A shared picture opens in the app.
In a theme, that theme’s disc turns to ALL, the way back to the whole wall or cabinet; the other three stay, so you can step from one theme to the next.
A cabinet’s montage comes in three sizes, Normal, two-thirds and a third, for many frames at once; remembered on the device.
Every folio of yours shows on your own cabinet, a by-link-only one with a small lock on its card, covered and counted by its private pictures.
The light table’s contact sheet has three sizes, Normal, Small and Dense, for choosing with less scrolling; remembered on the device.
A photograph’s arrows follow where you came from: your cabinet in its order, private pictures included for you, or a folio in its order; and they carry the editor along, edit to edit. The app’s viewer has the same arrows on the top line.
Uploads can land in a folio: one of yours, or a new one made on the spot, with its own words. By link only keeps the pictures off the wall and out of every feed until the folio is listed. The Glass import offers the same.
On a photograph the marks are in one order: who, camera, place, comments; then 1:1, fit, pin, and the lock at the far right. The pencil and the help sit on the top line. While you edit, the marks step aside.

1.0.7 Private folios Sep 13, 2026

A folio can be private. On the light table choose who can see it: everyone, anyone with the link, or anyone with a word. A private folio leaves the front of your cabinet and its address gains a tail nobody can guess; one with a word shows its cover and asks.
The map on a photograph is Apple’s, on the website as in the app: one picture, drawn when the place mark opens, and a tap opens Apple Maps at the spot. on the website
A photograph with coordinates is placed by name: the park, lake or island it was made in when one is known, then the town and country. Never a pair of numbers.

1.0.6 Folios Sep 12, 2026

Folios are made on the light table: lay frames from the contact sheet side by side, keep the ones that belong, put them in order, name the folio and write its statement. A folio’s covers lead the cabinet and its address is a link anyone can open.
On a folio or a roll, tap a frame and its caption, place, camera and lens open beneath its line, without leaving the page; tap again, or scroll on, and they close. The title is the way to the photograph itself. The light table’s strip does the same.
A photograph is never scrolled to be seen. On a folio, a roll and the filmstrip every frame fits the space it has, width or height, with one line beneath: the title, then the place. Turn a tablet and the frame fits the new space.
The four rooms are named in words.
On a desktop the top bar rests out of the way once the pointer has, and returns when it moves. on the website
Every help panel ends with the version and build you are on.

1.0.5 Support pctrs Sep 11, 2026

New words. Everything you have made is your cabinet, at the same address as before. A named set of photographs is a folio. A roll is a day of shooting.
Titles are set in Young Serif.
A photograph is one surface: the picture, and the words beneath or beside it, never over it. Four marks open the camera, the maker, the place and the comments, and remember which you left open. Tap the photograph to have it alone; tap again for the words. on the website
The locker can name a favourite camera and lens; they show beside the maker on every photograph. on the website
Rolls. A cabinet can be seen by the calendar as well as in its owner’s order: Years, Months and Days, cut by the day a photograph was taken. A roll is a day of shooting, or a run of days, and has a page of its own.
A home in Settings: an address and a radius. Photographs taken inside it show their place name only, or nothing, and never the map. The address itself is never shown.
The Gallery wall hangs matted prints with air between them. The Darkroom can add a white border around each photograph, from Settings.
Three yearly levels open more room: Supporter, Backer and Founder, the same on the website and in the app. A tip is welcome too.
Support pctrs in the app through the App Store. Support from the website shows in the app, and the other way round. in the app
When a year ends nothing is deleted: the cabinet keeps every photograph, uploads pause while it is over the free five, and the chip goes.
Settings says where you stand. About says what support opens.
Downloading your originals works again for photographs kept on iCloud, one at a time or all at once. on the website

1.0.4 Your account, your call Sep 10, 2026

Delete your cabinet from Settings, on the website or in the app. Photographs, comments, appreciations, favourites, the locker and sign-ins go at once.
A privacy page says what pctrs keeps and why. A support page says how to reach a person. on the website
About links to the house rules, privacy and support. in the app

1.0.3 Help at hand Sep 3, 2026

A (?) on each page explains what is in front of you in a few sentences. The website and the app read the same text.
Favourites live in your own menu. A cabinet page shows a photographer’s work and locker, not their favourites.
Your picture at the top right opens your menu: cabinet, uploads, Liked, Following, Favourites, Pinned, Comments, the locker, invites and settings. The cabinet page keeps to its photographs. on the website
Pinned has a page of its own on the website, in the order you drag. on the website
Every glyph on a photograph names itself when you rest on it, and fills when it is on. Appreciating opens the comment box without a reload. on the website
On Android and desktop Chrome, pctrs installs as an app from the About page. on the website

1.0.0 Open doors Sep 2, 2026

Following: subscribe to photographers and read their work in one stream. No public counts.
Favourites: mark other people's photographs into a collection of your own, shown at pctrs.app/yourname/favorites.
The photographer's locker: a page for current and retired gear, which can be filled from your own EXIF.
Themes: Architecture, Landscapes, Botanicals and Animals gather everyone's photographs by subject.
The home wall is composed fresh on every visit, giving every member a turn and favouring new work. It does not repeat.
Series: group photographs into a named set.
Comment notifications by email, if you want them. Passwords can be reset.
Every upload is screened before it appears. Anything unclear waits for a person.
A free cabinet with one invite to pass on. Free cabinets are stored on Apple's servers.
pctrs for iPhone and iPad, with sharing from Photos.

0.3.0 Membership Aug 26, 2026

Invitations: one-time claim links by email, with credits that return to you if they go unused.
Donation tiers and their chips — Supporter, Backer, Founder — beside your name on comments.
Cabinet allowances: photos or megabytes, whichever fills first.
Comments, gated behind appreciation and moderated by each photographer.
An admin panel, tucked behind the owner's own cabinet.

0.2.0 The photographers' release Aug 26, 2026

Filmstrip and montage: two ways to read every wall, with the mosaic laid out in justified rows of honest widths.
The lightboard — your untouched original at 1:1, dragged around like a print.
Appreciations: private hearts and your own liked stream, with no public counts anywhere.
A light theme, hover cards, orientation-true photo pages, and the immersive sliver bar.
The polaroid mark and the orange that goes with it.

0.1.0 First light Aug 25, 2026

Cabinets at pctrs.app/yourname, with bios and tags.
A fullscreen viewer built for photographs.
Camera, lens, and tag feeds, Glass-style.
Import your Glass library, titles and tags intact.