WobblePic v1.4.5 ships a batch of improvements that have been accumulating since v1.3.7. The headline is Quick Access, a new Favorites group at the top of the directory tree with one-click shortcuts to your standard user folders. Alongside it, the wobble itself feels noticeably more tactile — drag distance is now zoom-independent, the Elasticity slider has been reshaped into a more intuitive curve, and pins now bounce out with a satisfying release when you press ESC. macOS users also get a long-overdue rewrite of the delete flow: native Cocoa APIs replace the old osascript path, with clearer errors and a smoother post-delete rename experience.

New Features

Quick Access / Favorites

The directory tree on the left now has a Quick Access group at the top — fixed shortcuts to your four standard user folders: Desktop, Downloads, Documents, and Pictures. Click any entry to jump there instantly, no need to expand the tree from your home folder every session.

This addresses the most common file-browsing friction reported during the v1.3 cycle: reaching ~/Pictures/ or grabbing a freshly screenshotted file from ~/Desktop/ required several tree expansions every session. The four folders chosen here cover the overwhelming majority of where photo files actually live on a typical Windows or macOS setup — downloaded images, desktop screenshots, and curated libraries in Pictures or Documents.

About WobblePic Dialog

A new About dialog (Help → About WobblePic on Windows, WobblePic → About on macOS) shows the current version, license, and a complete bundled-library credits list. The bundled-library set has been audited and refreshed in this release, so you can verify exactly what third-party code ships inside the binary — useful for redistributing in environments with license-tracking requirements, or just for curiosity about which open-source projects power the app.

Improvements

Zoom-Independent Wobble & Reshaped Elasticity

In earlier releases, the displacement applied during a wobble drag scaled with the current zoom level — zooming in meant the same finger movement produced a more aggressive deformation, which made the wobble feel inconsistent across zoom states. v1.4.4 normalizes drag distance to image space, so a 100-pixel cursor movement at 200% zoom produces the same wobble amplitude as 100 pixels at 100%.

In parallel, the Elasticity slider in Settings has been reshaped. The old curve was logarithmically biased toward the lower half of the slider, which made the upper half feel “dead” — moving from 70% to 100% barely changed anything. The new curve distributes the perceptual response across the full range, so each tick of the slider corresponds to a roughly equal change in how springy the deformation feels.

Together these changes make the wobble feel much more predictable: the same gesture produces the same result regardless of zoom or where you happen to land on the slider. (See How Wobble Physics Works for the underlying mass-spring model.)

Pin Bounce on ESC + Split Release Behavior

ESC has long been WobblePic’s “clear everything” key for pins and segmentation. In v1.4.5 this gets two changes:

  • Pins now bounce on release. When you press ESC with active pins, they don’t disappear instantly — they animate with a small bounce-out so the release reads as a physical event rather than a flicker. This matches the rest of the soft-body physics aesthetic.
  • Pin and segmentation release are split internally. ESC still clears both at once, but the pin release and the segmentation clear are now separable operations. This lays the groundwork for future shortcuts (planned for the v1.5 series) where you can clear pins without losing your segmentation, or vice versa.

Native Cocoa Delete on macOS

The macOS delete flow has been rewritten across three patch releases:

  • v1.4.1 replaced the old osascript-based delete (which spawned a separate AppleScript process for every operation) with a direct NSWorkspace call. This is faster, has lower latency on large files, and avoids the brief “AppleScript not responding” hangs that occasionally surfaced.
  • v1.4.2 added clear error surfaces. When a delete fails — usually due to permissions, network volumes, or files held open by another process — the message now identifies the cause instead of failing silently.
  • v1.4.3 fixed a small UX regression in the rename flow: after deleting a file, the rename input on the next-selected file now correctly initializes with that file’s actual name instead of inheriting the deleted name.

The Trash / Recycle Bin path is preserved on both platforms — deletes are still recoverable from the OS-level trash.

Adaptive Wobble UI

When no image is loaded, the REC button and animation playback controls now hide automatically. Previously they sat in the corner in a disabled state, which cluttered the otherwise empty workspace. Now the workspace stays minimal until an image is open and either control becomes relevant.

This is a small visual change but a noticeable one if you spend time browsing folders before deciding what to wobble.

System Requirements

No platform changes since v1.1.3.

Windows

  • OS: Windows 10 / 11
  • GPU: OpenGL 3.3+ (AMD / NVIDIA / Intel with DirectML for SAM2)
  • RAM: 4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
  • Disk: ~600 MB (SAM2.1 model included)

macOS

  • OS: macOS Sequoia or later
  • Chip: Intel or Apple Silicon (Apple Silicon recommended for best AI performance)
  • RAM: 4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
  • Disk: ~600 MB

Download

Get the latest installer or DMG from the Download page. Existing users will see an update notification the next time WobblePic’s “Check for Updates” runs — picking Install Update will open the download page automatically.

If you’ve installed earlier 1.4.x prerelease builds, you can install v1.4.5 directly over the existing version. No reinstall or settings reset is required.