A Mac photo and video library.
Download the betaBeta 26.1 · free · macOS 26 or later · notarised by Apple · 104 MB · what’s new
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Free and private: your pictures stay on your Mac and nothing is uploaded. It’s a beta, so keep backups; each one lasts 90 days, and Check for Updates brings the next.
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Anarchive catalogues, organises and shows your photos and videos, and makes things from them. It reads your Photos library or folders of originals in place, and never writes to an original.
If you know Lightroom, the panels, names and shortcuts will feel familiar. The style is Anarchive’s own.
Point it at your Photos library or at folders of originals. Anarchive reads them in place, keeps its own previews and metadata, and leaves every original untouched.
Clips sit beside the stills, with trims, poster frames, loops and GIFs, and clips and time-lapses made from bursts. Transcripts are made on your Mac, so you can search a clip by what was said.
Descriptions, faces and visual search run on your Mac. Correct a suggested caption once and pictures like it use your word.
Combine pictures, long exposures, slit-scans, panoramas, Time Walls and print frames, and clip styles that print in two inks. Each made thing stays linked to what it came from.
Crop, straighten, colour, heal and remove, kept as edits over the original, with one Undo for each. The heavy lifting stays with the apps made for it.
Off to begin with. Turned on, an AI agent such as Claude can search a library and read what Anarchive knows about its items, with a log of what each agent did. What’s new has the details of each beta.