PhotoCore

Your whole photo life is scattered: a full iPhone, external drives, a NAS in a drawer, a cloud bill that keeps growing. PhotoCore brings all of it into one private home on your Mac, so you can find any photo, relive it, and share it. It runs entirely on your Mac. No cloud, no subscription.

BRING EVERYTHING HOME Plug in your iPhone or an Android phone and PhotoCore copies your photos and videos to a folder or drive you own, outside iCloud. Every file is checked byte for byte after copying, so you can free up phone storage without fear. It never deletes anything on your phone. Index external drives and a NAS once, and keep finding every image even when the disk is unplugged.

FIND ANY PHOTO BY DESCRIBING IT Type what you picture, like "warm backlit portrait at golden hour" or "our trip to the dunes", and the right shots show up in under 50ms. Find the exact pose out of a thousand frames. Name a person once and pull up every photo of them, or search "@Anna at the beach". Filter by how many people are in the frame. See your geotagged shots on a map. Sort by quality to bring your best frames to the top and hide screenshots.

RELIVE AND REMEMBER Constellation groups a gallery into moments on its own: trips, weddings, shoots. Semantic Bridge takes any two photos and shows you the visual story between them. It is a genuinely fun way to rediscover your own archive.

TURN PHOTOS INTO STORIES (NEW IN 1.5) Pick a trip, a person, or a search result. PhotoCore selects the best shots, orders them, and lays them out like a printed magazine. You get a single web page that opens in any browser, offline, forever, with no link that expires and no tracking. Share it by AirDrop, message or email. Or export a print-ready PDF photo book for any print shop. The shared file carries no location data, and nothing is ever uploaded.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your Mac. Indexing, search, embeddings, faces, quality scoring and Stories all run locally on CoreML and the Apple Neural Engine. Your photos, your database and your face data never leave the device, and you can delete face data per person, by date, or entirely in one click. Apple's privacy label says the same thing: no data collected.

ONE PAYMENT, YOURS TO KEEP Light (free): index up to 200 images and try every tool, including web Stories up to 10 photos. Full (one-time purchase): unlimited indexing, unlimited archiving, search across disconnected drives, unlimited Stories, and the PDF photo book. No subscription, ever.

REQUIREMENTS Built for Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 or newer.

Bring your whole photo life home, privately, on your Mac.