Lathe: Photo & Video Manager

Description

Lathe is a fast, privacy-first media manager for macOS. Browse, organize, and batch-process your photos, videos, and PDFs, entirely on your Mac. No cloud uploads. No accounts. No subscription. Just point Lathe at a folder and go. Browsing, searching, rating, comparing, and the full develop editor are free, with no account and no time limit. BROWSE, SEARCH & ORGANIZE - Instantly browse folders of photos, videos, audio, and PDFs with fast, responsive thumbnails - Expandable folder tree in the sidebar, and a custom icon for any folder you like - Search filenames, metadata, IPTC and XMP keywords, and text found inside your images and PDFs - Sortable list view with rating and tag columns, or a grid you can pinch to resize - Compare images side by side, tag and rate your favorites - Ratings and flags are written to XMP sidecars any other app can read - Spot over- and under-exposed shots at a glance with the built-in histogram and clipping indicators - Build shareable storyboards and moodboards from your media EDIT WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP - Full develop controls: exposure, curves, color, and more, with fine adjustment and typed values - Crop, straighten, annotate, and pinch to zoom on the canvas - Step through video frame by frame to find the exact moment - Reframe and trim clips, and pull stills from video RECIPES: DO IT ONCE, THEN NEVER AGAIN - Save a sequence of edits as a Recipe, then apply it to any number of files in one pass - Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, watermark, enlarge, remove or blur backgrounds, apply a develop preset - Video recipes too: compress, trim and reframe, change speed or frame rate, mute, fade, watermark - Choose the output format, quality, and where files land, then run the whole thing on a folder - Point a Recipe at a watched folder and new files are handled the moment they arrive, with stills and clips routed to different Recipes - Files are decoded once and written once, so a four-step Recipe never re-compresses a JPEG between steps EVERYTHING ELSE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO PURCHASE Recipes and watched folders, plus: - Optimize, convert, and enlarge images in bulk with on-device upscaling - Remove or blur backgrounds across multiple photos at once - Add watermarks, strip metadata, and batch rename files - Compress videos, rotate and flip video, merge clips into a single reel - Group near-identical burst shots and pick the sharpest one to keep - Find exact duplicates and visually similar images across a folder in seconds - Make scanned PDFs searchable with on-device OCR, rotate pages, compress large documents, merge PDFs, or turn a folder of images into one BUILT FOR PRIVACY Lathe never uploads your files anywhere. All processing, including OCR, background removal, and image enhancement, happens directly on your Mac using on-device frameworks. Your media stays yours. PRICING One purchase, once, and it is yours forever. No subscription, no account, no upsells. Every Pro feature gives you a free use first, so you can try each one on your own files before you decide.

New in 1.3 • See everything below a folder. Turn on "Include subfolders" and one view shows every photo, video, PDF and audio file beneath it. • Find a file by name. Press ⌘F, type, and ⌘G jumps to the next match. It works in the subfolder view too. • Share recipes. Save a recipe as a file, send it to another Mac, and open it with a double-click. You see exactly what it does before you add it. • A toolbar that fits your window. Every control now stays reachable at any width, with thumbnail size and caption options back in the menu. • Better colour palettes. The Info panel now picks clearer, more distinct colours, with the share of each, and a click copies a swatch. • Crop with locked ratios. Drag any handle and the ratio you picked stays put. • Smoother Develop panel. Reset and collapse buttons now work in every section. • Fixes for tabs, keyboard shortcuts and sidebar details. Everything still runs on your Mac. No account, no upload.

Information

Seller

Shwetank Dixit

Category

Photo & Video

Version

1.3.0

Requires

iOS 15.0+

Size

7.3 MB

Age Rating

4+