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Heeler 2026.7

Heeler user guide

This guide follows Heeler's interface from left to right. Use it as a tour when you are new, or open the page for the part of the interface in front of you.

Main window

Start here

  1. Menus: commands that are always available from the top of the window.
  2. Workspaces and window layout: Develop, Graph, and Canvas.
  3. Library: folders, collections, catalog navigation, and sharing.
  4. Recovery bundles: catalog backups, edit bundles, offline verification, and restore.
  5. Thumbnails: selecting, filtering, rating, sorting, and the expanded table.
  6. Image viewport: zoom, pan, comparison, crop, selection, and viewing tools.
  7. Right panel: tabs, resizing, and split-panel behavior.
  8. Export: quick export, batch groups, presets, and the queue.
  9. Downloaded models: the machine-learning models behind the smart tools, installed on consent, updated from the release list, removed when you like.
  10. Node graph views: reading and editing the processing graph, including Node recipes.
  11. Python scripting: console, external and batch automation, examples, and the complete heeler package reference.
  12. The assistant: Help questions answered from this guide by a model running on your own computer, in the Console (off by default).

Merges, panoramas, and Bake to Image: freeze current edits into a new photograph while retaining the original.

Keyboard and screen reader checklist: a session with VoiceOver or Narrator, including dialogs, pop-outs and menus.

Ask an AI about Heeler: the help kit that lets Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini answer Heeler questions from this guide.

Right-panel tabs

Tab names appear when you point to their icons. Depending on the build and preferences, additional tabs such as Tether may appear.

How to read this guide

Controls are written as they appear in the UI. Click means the primary pointer button; right-click includes a two-finger click on a trackpad. Mac shortcuts use Cmd and Option, with Ctrl and Alt equivalents for Windows in parentheses. The menus print shortcuts in your platform's form (the ⌘ ⌥ ⇧ symbols on a Mac) and follow any custom bindings.

Screenshots illustrate the controls; a control's name also appears when you point to its icon.

In the app's own viewer the chapters start folded; click a chapter's arrow to open it, and use the Back and Close icons in the header to retrace a link or close the guide.

  • Legal: the license Heeler's code is under (the Mozilla Public License 2.0), what it does not cover, and the Privacy Policy.