Designed by a photographer, for photographers
Whether you have a thousand photographs or several million, they only matter if you can find the one you're looking for. PhotoLibrarian organizes, finds, copies, de-dupes, and backs up every photograph you own — and Negative Converter brings your film back to life. Native Mac software. One-time purchase. No subscription, ever.
PhotoLibrarian · Coming to the Mac App Store
Your photographs are scattered — across drives, old computers, a NAS, an Apple Photos library, maybe a Lightroom catalogue. PhotoLibrarian gathers the whole picture without moving a single file, then puts every photo at your fingertips.
Point it at whole drives and NAS folders — 33,588 photos scanned in about ten seconds. Import an Apple Photos library — 44,838 assets catalogued without downloading a single iCloud original. Bring a Lightroom catalogue — 150,075 photos with every rating, flag, color label, keyword, and collection, reconciled to zero discrepancy. Your files stay exactly where they live.
On-device face recognition — name a person once, find them everywhere. Keywords the software writes for you: scene and subject tags you never typed, kept separate from your own so any search can include or exclude them. Bursts collapse into stacks. Duplicates across drives fold away. And it never touches your ratings — it suggests, you decide.
Consolidate everything into one clean, date-organized destination — de-duplicated, or with every duplicate kept, your call. Full resolution or resized on the way out. To a drive, a NAS, or a single zip, tested at terabyte scale. In our timing runs it outpaces rsync — and it is built to never overwrite a file. Then back up your entire catalogue with one click.
Negative Converter · Coming to the Mac App Store
Most film-conversion tools are plugins — they need an Adobe subscription just to open. Negative Converter is a standalone, Apple-Silicon-native darkroom: a conversion engine modeled on how film prints actually render density, with the tone, color, and three-way grading controls you'd expect from Lightroom already built in. Convert whole rolls. Heal decades of dust with on-device machine learning. Export 16-bit masters. One purchase. Zero dependencies.
Why we build this
Somewhere along the way, photography became an expense — a monthly bill for the privilege of seeing your own pictures. We think it should be a joy. Buy the software once. Own it. Keep your photographs in your own folders, on your own drives. Your photographs should outlast the software around them — and now they will.
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