Original Summary

Every photo app I tried wanted me to import my stuff into a library first. Now there's a second copy of every shot plus a catalog to look after. My photos live in folders, and I wanted the tools without the library. So I built Lathe, a Mac app that works directly on your folders. Nothing gets imported or moved. Ratings and edits go into small XMP files next to each photo, which Lightroom can read too. It started as a way to cull photo shoots and kept growing: Keyboard culling, plus a burst view that suggests the sharpest frame Search photos by what's in them, text inside them, or filter by color. Search is particularly useful for a folder full of PDFs and Images (with text in it). Editing, background removal, watermarks Trim video and crop it to 9:16 for Reels/Shorts Merge, split and OCR PDFs Recipes: save a set of edits and run them on a whole folder. (for e.g, Resize, then Compress, then Watermark). In this way you can take combersome workflows and automate them. Watched folders: Attach a recipe to a folder, then drag any files to the folder and the transformations for it are already applied. Everything runs on your Mac. No account, no analytics. 100% on-device, which is something I think should be the norm for an app which deals with photos, videos etc. Free to download, and browsing, culling and search stay free. The heavier tools are a one-time $49.99 Pro unlock (no subscription), and each Pro tool gets one free run so you can actually try it on your own files first. The pro version is especially useful for people who regularly deal with lots of images, videos, and/or PDFs. This can really save a lot of time and effort for them. Favourite feedback so far: someone uses the color search to choose which photos to print for each room in their house, matched to its palette. Never would have thought of that. Would love to hear how the app matches your workflows, and what's unclear on the site. Site: https://latheapp.com App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780042704   submitted by   /u/shwetank [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/9 01:56:42