Select, compare, pick. Just like your Mac.
Compare puts two to four shots side by side with synced zoom and a quality score, and the gallery behaves like Finder: range selection, space bar for Quick Look, arrow keys to move.
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PhotoCore keeps getting better on your Mac
Every release brings more of your photo life home, while keeping the same promise: no cloud, no subscription, nothing leaves your Mac.
Bring Apple Photos home. RAW archives join the search.
Archive Apple Photos copies your library, originals and current edits, into folders you own, verified file by file, with incremental updates. And CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF and DNG now appear in the grid, search and Stories.
More ways to remember and share.
Vertical 9:16 Short, interactive Constellation exportable as a single HTML file, color-sorted Poster, Best Shot, and filters applied before ranking.
From search to Story and photo book.
Single-file web Story that opens offline, and a print-ready 300 DPI PDF photo book. All built on your Mac, no uploads.
Your phone becomes a verified archive.
Phone Archive: import from iPhone, Android and PTP cameras with byte-for-byte hash verification, scan-first diff and duplicate skipping.
Find the moment inside a short video.
Indexing of short MOV and MP4 videos up to 30 seconds, exact-second playback, and faces in video.
Find the people who matter.
On-device face recognition, @mentions in search, people-count filters and deletion controls.
See where and choose the best.
Places map, date filters, quality scoring, screenshot and document exclusion.
Describe it and find it on your Mac.
Semantic search in over 100 languages, disconnected drives, Constellation, Semantic Bridge, similarity search and Smart Rename.