Lenshelf
Private Photo & Video Catalog
Only for Mac
$24.99
Mac
Your media. Your folders. Your Mac.
Lenshelf is a local-first photo and video catalog for photographers and anyone who wants a clear, private view of a growing media archive. It indexes the folders you choose without moving originals into a proprietary library, then gives you fast tools to find, review, organize, and prepare your work.
BUILD A CATALOG THAT STAYS YOURS
• Add folders from internal, external, or removable drives
• Keep originals in their existing locations
• Search filenames, paths, tags, and keywords
• Browse everything together or move through a chronological timeline
• Track missing files and offline sources without losing catalog records
REVIEW AND ORGANIZE FASTER
• Rate images from zero to five stars
• Mark favorites, rejects, color labels, workflow status, and best picks
• Create collections and rule-based Smart Collections
• Compare up to four photos side by side
• Cull with a focused, keyboard-friendly review view
• Keep RAW+JPEG pairs together or display them separately
WORK WITH PROFESSIONAL METADATA
• Add titles, captions, creators, copyright, locations, events, and keywords
• Read and write IPTC/XMP sidecar metadata
• Inspect embedded EXIF data without changing it
• Build reusable metadata and structured-keyword presets
• Correct capture dates and use code-replacement lists for repetitive assignments
INGEST, RENAME, AND PROTECT
• Copy cards and folders to a primary destination with an optional backup
• Preserve folder structures and RAW+JPEG naming
• Verify copies with streaming SHA-256 checksums
• Preview batch renames, detect conflicts, and rename matching XMP sidecars
• Import selected originals from Apple Photos into a normal folder you control
KNOW THE HEALTH OF YOUR ARCHIVE
The Overview reports source availability, missing media, thumbnail health, cache size, database integrity, and backups at a glance. Catalog data is stored in a portable Lenshelf package with a SQLite index and rebuildable thumbnail cache.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Lenshelf is sandboxed, tracker-free, and built without third-party runtime dependencies. Your catalog and media processing stay on your Mac. Access is limited to the folders and Photos items you explicitly choose.
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People arrives in Lenshelf. Detect and group faces entirely on your Mac, name people, preview complete originals, confirm uncertain matches, move or split individual faces, merge with undo, regroup unnamed faces, and safely rescan with a catalog-local People backup. This update also adds reliable Up/Down navigation in the People list, Command-F search, and a rewritten keyboard-shortcut guide.
The developer, Mathias Oysmueller, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mathias Oysmueller
- Size
- 121.8 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ostrong Studios
