Frames - RAW Editor

Choose, edit and organise

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Frames 1.3 adds apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV to the Mac app: a universal family with one purchase for all four. Try every feature free for 30 days. Choose your best. Make the final edits. Frames is a RAW editor and catalogue for Mac, iPhone and iPad, with Browse and Present on Apple TV. Review a shoot, compare photographs and edit your favourites, with Apple Photos and folders in one catalogue. Editing and image analysis run on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN Mac: browse, choose, develop and export from the keyboard. iPhone and iPad: the same work with touch controls. Folding iPhone: layouts for the closed display, the open display and a propped posture with the photograph above the controls. Stand it upright on a table to start a slideshow. Apple TV: browse a chosen Photos album and present it on the television. FIND YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS Add your Photos library, a folder or an external drive. Import from a memory card with duplicate checks and RAW+JPEG pairing. Search by detected content, visible text, keywords or captions, and save searches. Organise related photographs into sets and gather photographs from any source into Frames collections. JOURNEY Choose a day on the timeline to see where you photographed. A map shows the day's stops, joined by dotted lines in the order the photographs were taken. Locations come from each photograph's GPS data, and Frames never asks for your current location. On Mac, iPhone and iPad. CHOOSE THE KEEPERS Review a shoot in four phases: Sweep, Rate, Inspect and Cleanup. Keep or reject photographs and add star ratings with a key or a tap. Compare up to six photographs with linked zoom and panning, and use focus peaking to check detail. Deletion happens only in Cleanup, after confirmation. SHAPE TONE AND COLOUR Adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks and white balance. Use tone curves, an eight-band colour mixer, colour grading, clarity, texture and dehaze. Crop, straighten, correct perspective, level a horizon automatically and apply lens corrections. Switch to Monochrome for colour filters, eight conversion bands and toning. Add grain, vignette and halation. Apply an included look, save your own or import supported Lightroom preset settings. Keep up to five treatments alongside ORIGINAL and compare two with a movable divider. MAKE LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS Draw radial, linear, brush and range masks, or create masks from detected subjects, sky, background, people and objects. Heal or clone spots and strokes, and apply saved sensor-dust maps to a selection. EXPORT, SHARE AND PRESENT Export JPEG, HEIF, TIFF or PNG with your choice of size, colour space, metadata, file naming and watermark, and save the settings as a preset. Soft proof before saving. Share contact sheets. Present photographs full screen on any of your devices. For Photos photographs, Frames can publish edited renderings back to Photos after asking. WORK WITH YOUR SYSTEM Use Frames actions in Shortcuts. Find albums, collections and judged photographs in Spotlight, and continue with the same photograph on another device through Handoff. KEEP YOUR ORIGINALS Editing leaves original files unchanged. Ratings, verdicts and edit recipes are saved in Frames' own catalogue on each device. No Frames account or subscription is required. Optional sync carries your decisions and edits between devices through your private iCloud account and uploads no photographs. TRY EVERY FEATURE The download includes a 30-day trial with every feature. After the trial, a single in-app purchase unlocks Frames permanently on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Your catalogue and edits remain saved when the trial ends.

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Welcome to Frames 1.3. Find your photographs, choose the keepers and make the final edits, with your originals safely unchanged. YOUR LIBRARY Bring together Apple Photos, folders and external drives. Import memory cards with duplicate checks and RAW+JPEG pairing. Organise albums, folders and collections across sources. Add keywords, titles, captions, credit and capture-time corrections. FIND AND EXPLORE Search detected subjects, visible text, keywords and captions; filter by camera, lens, date and location, and save searches. Explore similar photographs, group related frames into sets, and browse named trips and days. Journey maps the stops you photographed; World lights up a globe and lets you explore your library by year, season or this day in every year. Add locations from GPX, FIT or KML tracks. CHOOSE YOUR KEEPERS Sweep, Rate, Inspect and Cleanup guide a shoot from first pass to final selection. Keep, reject and rate with a key or tap. Compare up to six photographs with linked zoom, face close-ups, focus peaking and sharpest-frame guidance. File deletion happens only in Cleanup, after confirmation. DEVELOP YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS Develop RAW and regular photographs with exposure, Auto Tone, white balance, RGB curves, an eight-band colour mixer and colour-grading wheels. Shape monochrome conversions and toning; adjust clarity, texture and dehaze. Add grain, halation and vignette. Crop, straighten, correct perspective and apply lens corrections. Supported RAW controls include sharpening, noise reduction and highlight recovery. MASKS, REPAIRS AND VERSIONS Use brushes, linear and radial gradients, colour, luminance and depth ranges, and detected subject, background, people, face-part and object masks. Sky and interactive Select masks require macOS 27. Heal or clone spots and strokes, and reuse sensor-dust maps across a selection. Keep multiple versions beside ORIGINAL, compare them with a movable divider, and copy or batch-apply edits. Try 32 included looks, adjust their strength and import supported Lightroom preset settings. EXPORT AND PRESENT Soft proof and export JPEG, HEIF, TIFF or PNG with presets for size, colour space, metadata, file names and watermark. Add photographic frames and captions, or share contact sheets as images or PDFs. With permission, publish reversible edits back to Photos. Present full-screen slideshows with captions, motion, transitions and paired portraits. ON YOUR MAC Composition Review helps you explore framing from your own intention. Use XMP and Frames treatment sidecars, catalogue backup and transfer, keyboard controls and rawctl automation. Follow jobs in the Dock; put collections and work queues on your desktop. WORK ACROSS DEVICES Private iCloud sync carries ratings, verdicts, metadata, edits, versions, collections, saved searches, looks and export presets. Photographs and previews are not uploaded by decision sync. Processing and image analysis run on your device. Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight, Handoff, interactive widgets and the built-in Field Guide help you keep working. TRY EVERYTHING A 30-day trial includes every feature. One in-app purchase unlocks Frames on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, with no subscription or Frames account. Your catalogue and edits remain saved after the trial.

The developer, Christian Stangier, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    • Supported Features

      • VoiceOver

      • Dark Interface

      • Differentiate Without Color Alone

      • Sufficient Contrast

      • Reduced Motion

    Seller
    Christian Stangier
    Size
    23.6 MB
    Category
    Photo & Video
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.2 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.2 or later.
    Languages
    English and 2 more
    • English, German, Spanish
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Christian Stangier