4K Photo
Photo & Video
Only for Apple TV
Free
See your Photos with GPS data on interactive GPS maps. 4K Photo is the first tvOS photo viewer with AI Computer Vision, EXIF and GPS maps support, including Zoom (1.5x - 4.0x) and core ML image detection.
4K Photo is a free companion App for your Apple TV to browse through your Photo Library with pleasure. It adds more value by optional zooming and display of GPS metadata when available, including core ML image detection and interactive maps.
QUICK INSTRUCTIONS
• Use your Photostream or Shared Albums to browse your photo library
• Click on an image to show full screen size
• Use the swipe gestures left and right of your trackpad to switch to the next or previous image
• Double tap on the trackpad will enable zoom mode and just clicking forwards to the next photo
• Use double click or long press the PLAY button to show EXIF and GPS overlay
• Long press trackpad on a photo to show up accessibility menu
WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
Please note that the current Apple TV 4th gen only supports HD output. With Apple TV 4K you can also use the full UHD resolution.
Stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details. Have fun and keep on taking good photos. It is free from my private project. Enjoy!
more Maintenance Update. Thank you for using 4K Photo.
1.35 01/08/2025
Enjoy your holiday season: Much better snow and small navigation issues fixed for you. Have fun.
1.34 11/22/2024
Maintenance Upgrade and holiday season winter snow effect
1.33 11/18/2024
Maintenance update for tvOS 18
1.32 10/24/2024
Maintenance Update: Refreshed for tvOS 14.5
1.31 04/28/2021
Maintenance update
1.30 03/24/2021
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
This is a maintenance update for tvOS 14.2
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.29 11/23/2020
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
• CHANGE: Maintenance update
• CHANGE: Updated welcome screen with spring background
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.28 02/25/2019
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
• CHANGE: Updated welcome screen with spring background
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.27 02/20/2019
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
• CHANGE: Spring background settings image
• CHANGE: Default sort ordering for photos now changed to newest first
• CHANGE: Updated copyright text
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.26 02/17/2019
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
• CHANGE: Default sort ordering for photos now changed to newest first
• CHANGE: Updated copyright text
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.25 02/14/2019
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
• CHANGE: Removed the winter snow effect. Enjoy your photos.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.24 02/12/2019
• NEW: Season greetings: Have a Happy New Year! Snow effect in the start and settings screen to embrace the holiday season and new year.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.23.1 12/31/2018
• NEW: Season greetings: Have a nice Christmas season and a Happy New Year! Snow effect in the start and settings screen to embrace the holiday season and new year.
1.23 12/02/2018
See your Photos on interactive GPS satellite maps.
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
Brand new with this release you can now see your photos directly on a full screen GPS satellite map and browse interactively.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
VERSION 1.22
• CHANGE: Sharper thumbnails for UHD TVs: Now with asynchronous loading of thumbnails of all preview images. Due to more network traffic this might take a while to download all the 4K previews. Enjoy the better image quality.
• FIX: Navigation in the album collections is now smooth and predictable again: Scrolling and moving the focus now works like expected in the tvOS collection views.
• CHANGE: Recompiled for tvOS 12.1
1.22 11/04/2018
See your Photos on interactive GPS satellite maps.
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
Brand new with this release you can now see your photos directly on a full screen GPS satellite map and browse interactively.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
VERSION 1.21
• FIX: In the GPS map view sometimes images appeared in the wrong orientation. This is now fixed for the lower collection of thumbnails in the map view.
• CHANGE: Display of the hidden smart album is now disabled to reflect the 'hidden' state.
1.21 10/17/2018
See your Photos on interactive GPS satellite maps.
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
Brand new with this release you can now see your photos directly on a full screen GPS satellite map and browse interactively.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
VERSION 1.20
• NEW: Higher map density: Much more photos will be displayed on the GPS satellite map before they get clustered.
• NEW: Added the standard tvOS and iOS Smart Album section. These are automatically filled albums like Portraits, Favorites, Screenshots, etc.
• NEW: Onboarding screen with update and news information on first time launch or updates.
1.20 10/10/2018
See your Photos on interactive GPS satellite maps!
Thank you for using 4K Photo and giving so much inspiration and feedback.
Brand new with this release you can now see your photos directly on a GPS satellite map full interactively.
Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
VERSION 1.19
• NEW: For the first time on tvOS you get a full GPS MAP browser for your photos. This is fully interactive. Please take note that analyzing all your photos may take a while. The map is still interactive and browsable.
• NEW: Album Title and Photo count in collection view visible
• CHANGE: Removed open for AI auto horizon for better UXP and uncluttered UI
1.19 10/08/2018
Thank you for using 4K Photo. This version enhances greatly the GPS EXIF detection on your photos.
• NEW: Displays the current zoom factor when double tapping on a photo to zoom in
• FIX: GPS EXIF detection greatly enhanced. 4K Photo now parses directly the EXIF information for the selected photo and can now display more reliable the corresponding map.
WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
Stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details. Have fun and keep on taking good photos. It is free from my private project. Enjoy!
1.18 08/15/2018
• NEW: Displays the current time with a small clock in the menu bar. Enjoy your browsing time.
• FIX: Flickering on background animation removed, when changing the settings or leaving the app for access to Photo Library
Thank you for using 4K Photo. This is a maintenance update. Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you.
Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.17 06/19/2018
Thank you for using 4K Photo. This is a maintenance update. Please stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
• CHANGE: For easier navigation the tab bar will fade out when all albums have been loaded on intial start
• CHANGE: Compiled for tvOS 11.4
1.16 06/01/2018
We have a brand new update for you: AI Horizon Autoadjust
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Computer Vision the new 4K Photo release is now able to detect the horizon of your taken photos. The new AI Horizon Autoadjust feature can set the photo rotation and zoom factor based on the image horizon.
• NEW: Experimental automatic horizon detection with AI Autoadjustment. This works on landscape photos starting with aspect ratios of 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and so on. Portrait photos can be also auto adjusted. When 4K Photo detects a possible correction angle between -6° and 6° the double tap zoom feature switches to autoadjust. This option can be also configured in the settings tab.
• NEW: Updated look of the navigation bar at the top to resemble the bolder and bigger fonts for better visual appearance and accessbility
• FIX: Smoother cloud placeholder images
Stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details. Have fun and keep on taking good photos. It is free from my private project. Enjoy!
1.15 01/24/2018
Thank you for using 4K Photo in 2018! We have a quick update for you.
• NEW: Ever wanted to display all photos in an album or have the option to group all the photos by day? The new settings option allows you to enable or disable the grouping by date based on your preferences. The Photo Stream tab still groups by day.
1.14 01/02/2018
VERSION 1.13
• Faster startup time and splash image for better UXP
• Indicator when loading album collections, helpful for large libraries
1.13 12/14/2017
VERSION 1.12
• Sharper text on thumbnails overview when running in UHD 4K resolution
VERSION 1.11.1
• Enables scrolling in the About and Acknowledgements section
VERSION 1.11
4K Photo now supports Machine Learning and Computer Vision. With this fun feature 4K Photo now detects the image contents based on objects using core ML.
WHAT´S NEW
• Big Data core ML image detection: Up to three categories can be detected from the core ML engine. Please note that mainly objects are supported. Some detections might not be accurate and should only give a fun fact about the image. This feature is enabled by default.
• Pixel dimension information in Metadata Display of the current photo
• Image prefetching for faster loading. Loads the next two upcoming images in background. This is indicated with a small cloud symbol after loading the current image. The second image is loaded in the background for better performance.
• Activity indicator to display loading of larger image sets on first startup
• HD (1920x1080) and UHD (3840x2160) calibration images to adjust your television setup for best viewing experience
CHANGES
• Removed option for lowres and highres image downloads. The only option is now highres.
• Default Zoom is now set to 3.0x. Zoom Factors vary now from 1.5 up to 4.0 to give better 4K response and support for larger TV sets
• Refined loading indicators
• First tab is now Shared Albums and then the Photostream tab. This comes closer to family picture viewing habits.
• General support for tvOS 11
FIXES
• Now correct loading Metadata on initial startup
Stay tuned for upcoming updates. We love to hear feedback from you. Please contact me at 4kphoto@alexnat.de or follow me at twitter @innovateme. See full release notes for more details.
1.12 10/03/2017
Maintenance Update. Thank you for using 4K Photo.
more Version 1.35 01/08/2025
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.