Take Stock 2026.1

Recently I released an update for Take Stock that added a number of features I've wanted to have since the first release. There are also a bunch of smaller improvements, and even some bug fixes.

The biggest change was moving the film rolls from the top tab bar to the sidebar. The tabs were fully custom, and while I spent a lot of time trying to get them just right, they were always a little finicky. As a result I decided to move them to the sidebar, which comes with a lot of benefits. You've always been able to drop both images and folders into Take Stock, now the two are more clearly defined as Folders and Collections. These are now in separate sections in the sidebar, making it more clear which is which.

With the new position in the sidebar comes a big quality of life improvement. Previously when writing metadata Take Stock would simply show a spinner¹ with no indication it was making forward progress. With this update the progress is tracked in a lovely determinate progress bar, showing exactly what's going on.

Equipment management has also been improved with new keyboard shortcuts for navigating between sidebar tabs and adding cameras, lenses, and film stocks. Additionally when deleting one there is now a confirmation step².

In the bug-fixes department the text fields for entering exposure information behave correctly, allowing values like 5.6 to be entered correctly. In some cases metadata would fail to be updated when writing for a second time, so this has been fixed.

This update was a long time coming, and I think really improves Take Stock. Give it a download and let me know what you think.