Replacement for ThumbsPlus?

[bryan_eggers]

<p>Can anyone suggest a replacement for ThumbsPlus? I hung in there with them for years but now their website is dead and it's time to move on.<br>

I'm looking for a Windows app that works very much like ThumbsPlus. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!<br>

Bryan</p>

[will_daniel1]

<p>Bryan,</p>

<p>See this thread: http://www.photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00bSp1</p>

<p>I wouldn't worry just yet about the website. I chatted with the president of the company the other day, and she was upbeat about the company's future. Having said that, the company had a disastrous upgrade from version 7 to 8, followed by a very quick upgrade to 9. That hurt the company. I stayed with v7 Pro throughout their problems and am still happy with it.</p>

<p>To answer you question, I've been researching various programs for a book, and I honestly don't think there is anything out there that does <strong>everything</strong> ThumbsPlus does. For example, one feature I use a lot that so few other programs do as well, if at all, is sort by similarity. If you have two or more identical files with different names, ThumbsPlus will find them and sort them together out of hundreds of photos. I would have trouble doing without that very handy feature.</p>

<p>If you are a Canon user, DPP has a capable browser, as does ViewNX2 for Nikon users. Some people like ACDSee and there are several nice freeware programs. Of course, all of the Adobe and Corel programs include browsers, but, repeating: I know of nothing that does everything ThumbsPlus does.</p>

[will_daniel1]

<p><strong>Update:</strong> Cerius Software website back on line. I'm curious, Bryan, what version are you using and why do you want to look elsewhere?</p>

[bryan_eggers]

I'm using Thumbsplus 10 and there is a total lack of news on their website. As far as I can tell, Thumbsplus is dead. We were promised HEIC and webp support as well as some bug fixes in Version 11 but the last thing they said was Covid-19 forced them to work at home. It doesn't take three years to move a business. Any legitimate developer would be giving us status reports but not these guys. 

They are still selling Version 10 but there is no longer any word about Version 11. They should be posting in their user forum. If this program isn't dead I'd sure like to know why they don't talk about it anymore.

If you're thinking about buying Thumbsplus you should be aware that there will probably never be any future updates, enhancements or bug fixes.

Bryan