Editing 2000 photos made me build a macOS bulk photo editor
Native Mac batch editor that keeps 2000 wedding photos off the cloud.
Definitely not vibe coded trust me
Local LLM vision model cleans up your photo library without uploading data.
Mac users with large photo libraries needing automated curation
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Native Mac batch editor that keeps 2000 wedding photos off the cloud.
Folder-native manifests plus a global SQLite index let you keep originals untouched while getting album features and very fast queries — smart trade-offs for large local libraries. Live Photo pairing/playback, a map view, and GPU-accelerated browsing show real engineering focus; it's not reinventing the genre (digiKam/Lightroom exist), but this is a tidy Photos-to-Windows port with thoughtful implementation details.
Smooth browsing for 100k+ photos directly on folders, no import step.
HDR/EDR video grading on macOS, but explicitly not daily-driver ready yet.
Static photo gallery generator when Immich and PhotoPrism already handle this server-side.
AI photo merging for memorial photos when Photoshop's content-aware fill falls short.