Iris Photos - A native macOS photo viewer

[turbineseaplane]

This just released and it's wonderful.

Iris Photos — The photo library that lives on your Mac

Find the people, places, and moments in a lifetime of photos. On your Mac, never uploaded. $24 once, free 14-day trial.

irisphotos.app

This is the sort of software, made with small team love, care and craft, that is why I'm a Mac user for all these decades.

$14 for a limited time.

Instant purchase IMO.

 

[hg.wells]

Are you part of the development team?

 

[turbineseaplane]

Are you part of the development team?

Nope. Zero affiliation at all.

Saw it shared by Casey Liss today on socials.

 

[jz0309]

This just released and it's wonderful.

Iris Photos — The photo library that lives on your Mac

Find the people, places, and moments in a lifetime of photos. On your Mac, never uploaded. $24 once, free 14-day trial.

irisphotos.app

This is the sort of software, made with small team love, care and craft, that is why I'm a Mac user for all these decades.

$14 for a limited time.

Instant purchase IMO.

Thanks for sharing.
I checked out their website, couldn't find any info about what file type (eg JPG, RAW, DNG etc) are supported.
Most of my photos are in RAW (.cr2) and they have all been edited (exposure, color adjustments etc), as RAW photos usually do, and I've been using Lightroom Classic for the past 6 or 7 years. And the photos are stored in a folder structure, so I am assuming that Iris will not be able to read my edits as those are part of the LRC catalog.

While I've been considering moving to something other than LRC (Apple Photos is not an option) I'm not sure Iris could replace LRC at this point.

Still thinking about downloading it and playing with it.

 

[gilby101]

Thanks for sharing.
I checked out their website, couldn't find any info about what file type (eg JPG, RAW, DNG etc) are supported.
Most of my photos are in RAW (.cr2) and they have all been edited (exposure, color adjustments etc), as RAW photos usually do, and I've been using Lightroom Classic for the past 6 or 7 years. And the photos are stored in a folder structure, so I am assuming that Iris will not be able to read my edits as those are part of the LRC catalog.

While I've been considering moving to something other than LRC (Apple Photos is not an option) I'm not sure Iris could replace LRC at this point.

Still thinking about downloading it and playing with it.

From a quick look/play:
1. It is a viewer. Not an organiser. Not an editor. (That is its intent).
2. It views unedited versions of files.
3. For Apple Photos libraries, it views the original image files.
4. It doesn't read metadata from Apple Photos or LRC. Not even the original image names in Apple Photos.
5. Reads and uses some EXIF metadata.
6. It does show my .CR2 files - presumably using the Apple RAW viewer.
7. It does bring multiple sources together.

I need to leave it running before I come to conclusions about faces and visual content.

This just released and it's wonderful.

I am not yet convinced that does much that can't be done in Finder, or Apple Photos or LRC. It certainly isn't a replacement.

 

[gilby101]

A bit more testing.
Faces: Detects photos with faces, you have to assign manually (I think).
Visual Content: A bit too enthusiastic in guessing objects in photos. Certainly not as accurate as Apple Photos or Finder.