Iris: Photo & Video Library
Your private photo library
Only for Mac
$14.00
Mac
Your photos, fully yours.
Iris is the native Mac photo library that helps you find, explore, and rediscover the people, places, and moments you love — privately, on your own computer, with the smarts of a cloud service and none of the cost.
Photos used to live on your Mac. With Iris, they still do. Iris reads from the folders, external drives, or Photos library you already have, builds a fast, intelligent library on your Mac, and leaves your originals exactly where you put them. No cloud. No accounts. No subscription. Your memories are yours.
Iris is for people who love their photos — family historians, archivists, and anyone who believes their library is worth keeping in a private, future-proof form that will outlive their grandchildren.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Iris recognizes the people in your photos using on-device machine learning — no face ever leaves your Mac. Browse by age, search by name, and watch your kids grow up. See how old everyone was the day a photo was taken, and let birthdays surface the people you love from years past.
FIND YOUR PLACES
Plot every photo on a map and rediscover where you've been. Jump to nearby photos, bookmark your favorite locations, and use Photo Trails to retrace your hikes, road trips, and favorite spots.
FIND YOUR MOMENTS
Modern cameras give you exact dates. A scanned photo from the 1980s doesn't. Iris lets you assign an approximate month, year, or decade when you don't know exactly when — so your whole family album fits inside a single timeline.
MORE THAN A SEARCH BOX
Search, sort, and filter by any criteria. Iris extracts the text from your photos — signs, menus, receipts, handwriting — and transcribes the speech in your videos, then makes it all instantly searchable with a fast, powerful UI that uncovers the needle in your haystack.
YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY, BY THE NUMBERS
Iris turns your library into a window on your life with rich stats — how many photos you take, when you take them, the cameras you use, and the people and places that show up most.
BUILT LIKE A REAL MAC APP
• Open as many windows and tabs as you like
• List view: a fast, sortable table with configurable columns for date, camera, lens, location, file size, and dozens more
• Quick switcher — hit Command-K to jump anywhere in your library
• Select and copy the text straight out of your photos
• Surprise Me! puts your whole library on shuffle to rediscover forgotten favorites
• Share slideshows over FaceTime to gather everyone around the photos
• A built-in MCP server lets Claude and other AI tools search your library — locally, with your permission
100% PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Iris never edits, moves, or renames your originals. There are no accounts and no cloud servers, and no data ever leaves your Mac without your permission. The library lives on your Mac. Your memories, on your computer. Full stop.
No accounts, no servers, no sign-ups, no nonsense.
Made with care, on a Mac, in Richmond, Virginia, by Retina Studio.
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This update is focused on fixing crashes found in the first release. Thank you to everyone who has been reporting them.
- Crash could occur when a photo contained non-numeric characters in the EXIF date.
- Crash would occur when performing an advanced search and using "Starts with" or "Contains" on an item's "Filename".
- Crash could occur when scrolling the grid view and quickly switching sidebar nodes.
- Crash could occur when viewing the Metadata inspector
- Improved the performance of the People inspector when viewing a PNG image with many faces.
The developer, Retina Studio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Retina Studio LLC
- Size
- 97.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Retina Studio
