Changelog

First Windows release. Most of what the Mac build converts, rebuilt on Windows APIs, plus the fit & finish a native Windows app needs. Two things the Mac build already has aren't here yet; see Known in this beta.

The engine

• Images: HEIC, JPG, PNG, WEBP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF and BMP, plus PDF and ICO export, read and written by Pillow and pillow-heif, the Windows stand-in for the sips/ImageIO engine the Mac build uses for stills.
• Audio & video: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, M4V and AVI video; MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG, OPUS and AIFF audio, handled by the identical bundled FFmpeg engine the Mac build uses, so results match.
• Combine images into one PDF, reimplemented on Pillow in place of the PDFKit/AppKit engine the Mac build uses for the same job.
• Fit size: a two-pass encode that aims a video (or a photo) just under a KB/MB target, adjusting quality automatically.
• Strip EXIF & GPS and Keep original dates options, sticky per-extension target memory, live batch progress, and media dimensions/duration shown on each card.
• Fixed: still→GIF resize, and friendlier errors on empty or corrupt source files.

Windows fit & finish

• Per-user install into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Morphr: no UAC prompt, no admin rights. The installer's version now derives from the repo's single VERSION file instead of being set by hand.
• Self-update in place, the job Sparkle does on the Mac: Morphr downloads the new installer, verifies its Authenticode signature and that its version matches what was advertised, installs over itself and reopens. A silent weekly check badges the update button without freezing the app behind a modal.
• Fixed: Morphr was offering Windows users a macOS update it could never install. The update feed is now platform-specific instead of shared with the Mac build.
• Business license support, with a "Name this computer" device name at activation and Help/Review links in the footer.
• Appearance setting: Auto/Light/Dark, persisted across launches, with a dark title bar to match.
• Correct taskbar and title-bar icon: the window is born with the real Morphr icon and its App User Model ID set before the window is created, rather than patched in after.
• Adopted the shared twoplus11 design system and its canonical footer (License · Updates · Help · Review · Tip · Shortcuts), plus a once-only tip-support prompt.
• Stop button and a clickable empty-state drop zone; open completed files straight from their card; a savings count-up and staggered card entrance in the queue.

Language & accessibility

• 13 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean, with Windows-native wording and the Segoe UI Variable font stack throughout, not an inherited Apple one.
• WCAG 2.1 AA: contrast, Windows High Contrast mode, reflow with no horizontal scrolling, and icon semantics for assistive tech, plus keyboard Delete and double-click-to-open.
• Fixed: the wordmark's "plus" now uses a theme-aware, contrast-checked color instead of a hardcoded one that failed WCAG AA.

Known in this beta

• Document-to-Markdown conversion (Word, RTF, ODT, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel) and the .m4r ringtone maker are on the Mac build but haven't been ported to Windows yet.
• Camera RAW files (CR2, NEF, ARW and similar) aren't supported yet: Pillow can't decode most RAW formats the way macOS's own image engine can.
• SmartScreen may still warn on first download despite the signature; reputation builds per file. See the install notes.
• No screen-reader pass with Narrator or NVDA has been done by a human yet. The accessibility work is tested structurally and audited with axe-core, but assistive technology has not driven the app end to end. If you use one, that feedback is the most valuable thing you could send.