For add copyright batch, the goal is that ownership and captions ship with the pixels every time. MetaForge writes copyright, author, and IPTC keyword fields across thousands of files in one pass, with XMP sidecar sync keeping RAW companions consistent. Instead of editing fields one photo at a time the night before delivery, you define the values once and apply them to the batch, with a preview of exactly which files will change.
The part that makes batch work safe is Simulate Run. Before MetaForge writes anything, it generates a Simulation Report listing every planned move and rename, flagging any name collisions it would auto-suffix, and counting the RAW files in the set. You read the plan, confirm it, and only then commit — and you can choose to keep originals by copying instead of moving. That preview step is what separates a confident batch pass from a script you run and hope about.
Under the hood, MetaForge is a native Tauri and Rust application rather than a browser wrapper, so it can saturate your CPU cores and work through tens of thousands of files without sending any of them off the machine. A live progress overlay shows throughput as it runs, light and dark themes are built in, and the interface ships in 20 languages. It is a one-time purchase on the Microsoft Store for Windows 11 and Windows 10 — no subscription, no account, and no telemetry — so the tool behaves the same whether or not you are online.
