Frames · RAW editor and catalogue

From the whole shoot.To your best photographs.

Bring Apple Photos and folders into one catalogue. Choose the keepers, edit your RAW files and prepare the finished photographs for sharing. Processing and analysis run on your device.

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  • Mac iPad iPhone Duo available now
  • Apple TV coming soon
Library
Photos Folders Cards one catalogue
Choose
Rate Compare Review your decisions
Editing
RAW Looks Masks originals preserved
Export
JPEG HEIF TIFF PNG presets and templates
Devices
Mac iPhone iPad one purchase
Trial
30 daysevery feature

From selection to delivery

Your photograph.Your decisions.

Bring the shoot together. Choose the keepers. Make the edit. Share the finished photograph.

Gather & find

A home for the whole shoot.

Bring cards, folders and Apple Photos into one catalogue. Find a photograph by its words, its place or the trip it belongs to.

  • Cards, folders and Apple Photos
  • Search, albums and places
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Choose & compare

Find the frames worth keeping.

Make a quick first pass, compare the contenders and check the details. Ratings and verdicts keep the decisions with your photographs.

  • Ratings and verdicts
  • Side-by-side comparison
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Edit & explore

Make the photograph your own.

Shape light and colour, start from a look or work on a small detail. Keep different versions while the original stays unchanged.

  • RAW editing, looks and local adjustments
  • Versions with the original preserved
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Finish & share

Ready for its next destination.

Prepare the right size, format and filename. Save export presets for the work you repeat, or make framed prints and contact sheets.

  • Export presets and filename templates
  • Framed prints and contact sheets
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Tone curve B
35 mm · 1/250 s · ISO 200
Develop

Every RAW, by hand.

From the sensor’s white balance to a per-channel tone curve. Pin one frame as the reference and match the shoot to it.

Develop on iPhone Duo, opened flat
iPhone Duo

Open it. Prop it. Tent it.

The layout follows the fold: the whole workspace, the map above the day, a show on the table.

A mask in Develop on the Mac
Masks

Light, exactly there.

Subject, sky and people part by part, or a brush. Sky needs macOS, iOS or iPadOS 27.

NewMac only
Composition review
NewMac only

See the structure.

Marks on the photograph. A reading with Apple Intelligence on macOS 27.

Versions

Every idea, kept.

Treatments side by side. ORIGINAL never changes.

Under the hood

One recipe, sensor to screen.

Rendered on your device in a fixed order. The original file is never touched.

The export sheet on the Mac
Export and delivery

Exactly the file you need.

Presets, filename templates, framed prints and PDF contact sheets. One export writes the same photographs with several presets.

JPEG · HEIF · TIFF · PNG

Choose on iPhone, stars on the frames
Choose

Keep. Reject. Rate.

Choose your keepers with keys on Mac or taps on iPhone, then review metadata for the selection.

Privacy

On your device.

Processing and analysis run on your device. No photograph is uploaded for either, and there is no account.

Sync

Your decisions, on every device.

Ratings, verdicts, edits and versions, keywords and collections, through your private iCloud. On from the first launch, off in Settings.

Automation
  1. Find rated photographs
  2. Export files
  3. Save to your destination

Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight.

Find, edit and export from your own shortcuts.

New in Frames 1.4

More ways to find and finish.

Now on Mac, iPhone and iPad.

  • Library

    A renewed home for finding your photographs.

  • Trips

    Revisit the places and days of a journey.

  • Looks

    Preview film stocks and keep favourites close.

  • Bloom

    Give bright light a soft glow.

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Have a look around.

See the app, follow the whole workflow and get your questions answered. Then try Frames free with your own photographs.

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Launch price

$99.99 once

Try every feature free for 30 days. No subscription and no account.

One purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Apple TV when it arrives.

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