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This week WinCatalog turns 25.

It’s a round number, and we’ve been wondering for a while what to write about it. Twenty-five years is a long time for a program. When WinCatalog started, people cataloged stacks of burned CDs, 700 MB each. Today they catalog external drives with several terabytes on each, NAS boxes and network folders, and some of them let a local AI model write descriptions for their photos. WinCatalog has changed a lot along the way. What hasn’t changed is the main idea: you should be able to find any file, even when the drive it’s on is sitting in a drawer.

The next version of WinCatalog, 2027.1, is almost ready, and it brings a feature many of you have asked for: a dark theme.

Codename: Lamplighter

Every WinCatalog version gets a codename while we’re working on it. Until now we kept them to ourselves. This time the name suits the main feature so well that we decided to share it. WinCatalog 2027 is codenamed Lamplighter.

The lamplighter is a character from The Little Prince. He lights his lamp at dusk and puts it out at dawn, because those are his orders. WinCatalog 2027 follows the same rule: it turns dark when Windows switches to dark mode and turns light again when Windows does.

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a lightweight vision-language model, and it is worth your attention if you use AI Bridge to generate descriptions and keywords for the images in your catalog.

It is a 3-billion-parameter vision model that outperforms models more than twice its size, and it runs remarkably fast. We tested it in the usual AI Bridge + LM Studio setup, and at 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) it beat Gemma 4, the model we currently recommend as the default, on both description quality and speed.

WinCatalog 2026.3.1 is a maintenance release. AI Bridge now works with Bionic, the new app from LM Studio, and we went back over the translations that came with 2026.3.

AI Bridge works with Bionic

LM Studio has a new app called Bionic. AI Bridge now finds it and uses it the same way it uses LM Studio (Classic), including on machines where Bionic is the only one installed.

Nothing changes in the settings. Bionic runs on the same engine as LM Studio, with the same downloaded models and the same local server on port 1234, so there was no reason to make it a separate provider. The entry in AI Bridge settings is now called LM Studio / Bionic and covers both.

Hello, we’re glad to announce WinCatalog 2026.3. The main new feature this time is GPS search: WinCatalog reads the coordinates stored in your photos and lets you find pictures by where they were taken, with no internet connection required. This update also adds a path filter to the search options, one-click selection commands for duplicate cleanup, and a long list of scanning and deletion fixes.

Here’s what changed.