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Lumidex Studio — 2026
Library Capture Develop Print
Navigator⌃
No Photo
FIT  100%100% ⌄  🔒
Catalogue⌃
Total Images88,423
Quick Collection1
Previous Import310
Folders⌃
▾ ▤ Macintosh HD
☆ Desktop 1
▾ ☆ Pictures 314
▾ ☆ 2024 1
2024-11-08 1
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☆ 2026-07-03 — Session A 312
▾ ☆ Archive 1
Auto Imported Photos 1
▾ ◍ studio (NAS)
▸ ☆ Client Galleries ? 3,727
▸ ☆ Headshots ? 134
▸ ☆ Weddings ? 3,688
▸ ☆ Events ? 10,217
▸ ★ Portraits ? 8,569
▸ ☆ Landscapes ? 12,408
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⌕Search filename…
RatingAny☆☆☆☆☆
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LabelAny
FromanyToany
▢ Copies ⌄ ⟳
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Library Capture Develop Print
312 photos ☆☆☆☆☆
Lumidex Studio Develop module with a live vectorscope on the canvas
Apple Silicon only Reads your existing catalogue Your files never leave your Mac
The idea

Photographers used to own their software.

Then it became a subscription — another login, another cloud, another AI feature nobody asked for.

Fast. Private. Yours — bought once, owned forever.

Lumidex Studio — 2026
Library Capture Develop Print
Navigator⌃
No Photo
FIT  100%100% ⌄  🔒
Catalogue⌃
Total Images88,423
Quick Collection1
Previous Import310
Folders⌃
▾ ▤ Macintosh HD
☆ Desktop 1
▾ ☆ Pictures 314
▾ ☆ 2024 1
2024-11-08 1
▸ ☆ 2025
☆ 2026-07-03 — Session A 312
▾ ☆ Archive 1
Auto Imported Photos 1
▾ ◍ studio (NAS)
▸ ☆ Client Galleries ? 3,727
▸ ☆ Headshots ? 134
▸ ☆ Weddings ? 3,688
▸ ☆ Events ? 10,217
▸ ★ Portraits ? 8,569
▸ ☆ Landscapes ? 12,408
Import…
Export…
⌕Search filename…
RatingAny☆☆☆☆☆
FlagAny⚑ ✕ ⚑
LabelAny
FromanyToany
▢ Copies ⌄ ⟳
312 photos
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Speed

Your whole library, instantly.

A native macOS engine with no catalogue limit. Scroll, cull and search a lifetime of RAW files — even on a network drive — without the beachball.

And it opens the RAW you actually shoot — 800+ camera models across every major maker, from a decade of Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Leica and more, plus DNG from any device. See the full list →

No limit
Catalogue size
Instant
Search & scroll
0
Cloud round-trips
Lumidex Studio Develop module showing a live vectorscope and a rotated sampler region on the canvas
Scopes

Lightroom has no vectorscope. Lumidex does.

A broadcast-grade vectorscope, RGB parade and histogram — with a movable sampler region and a pop-out you can drag to a second monitor. Judge white balance and skin tones like a colourist.

Lightroom ✕ histogram only Lumidex ✓ vectorscope · parade · sampler
Lumidex Studio — Library
Library Capture Develop Print
⌕ a calm place by the water ◍ on-device · private
Ranked by meaning · 1,204 photos searched in 0.4s · no keywords needed
98%
96%
94%
92%
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AI search · runs on your Mac

Find it by describing it.

Type “a calm place by the water” and the right photos rank to the top — no keywording. It all runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

Lightroom ✕ keywords only Lumidex ✓ plain-English, on-device
◐ Denoise
◎ Lens Blur
✦ AI Select
On-device AI

Modern edits, no cloud round-trip.

Denoise, synthetic lens blur and one-click AI subject selection — all computed on your Mac. No uploads, no account, no waiting on someone else’s server.

Lightroom ✕ cloud / Adobe account Lumidex ✓ 100% local
And the rest

Everything else you’d expect — done properly.

⧉
Duplicate finder
Content-hashing that finds true duplicates — never trusts a filename.
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Sweep
Load a rating, flag and colour, then drag across the grid to cull in one pass.
⛁
Burst stacking
Frames shot seconds apart collapse into one tidy grid cell.
⌗
Smart collections
Rules that keep themselves current — no list to maintain.
⇄
Reads Lightroom
Imports your existing catalogue and keeps your metadata intact.
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Open formats
Writes standard XMP sidecars. Nothing is trapped in a proprietary box.
◈
Opens (almost) any RAW
800+ camera models — every RAW format macOS supports, plus DNG from any device.
In development

On-device intelligence, in progress.

Not shipped yet, so don’t buy for these today — but they’re being built now, they’ll run on your Mac, and every release in your first 12 months is included.

◎ Coming
Face grouping
People grouped automatically by face — detection and naming already ship.
▤ Coming
Keyword suggestions
Proposed tags you accept in bulk — never applied behind your back.
◐ Coming
More AI develop tools
Detail recovery and enhancement, all on your Mac.
⊘ Coming
Distraction removal
Remove a sign, a bin, a stray tourist — content-aware, on-device.

Built for photographers.

Not shareholders.
Not subscriptions.
Not the cloud.

A modern app written from scratch — fast because it carries no legacy, and yours for one payment instead of forever.

⚡Blazing-fast, natively
🔒No cloud lock-in
∞Buy once, own forever
Lumidex Studio
£99 £49 once
½ price introductory offer — until 30 September 2026
Buy once. Own forever.
✓Every module — Library, Develop, Print, tethered Capture
✓Scopes, duplicate finder, Sweep, burst stacking, smart collections
✓Reads your existing Lightroom catalogue
✓Unlimited photos, unlimited catalogues
✓Free updates for a year, then keep the version you own
✓No account, no telemetry, no cloud required
Buy Lumidex Studio — £49 Or pay in 3 — £16.33/month
3 × £16.33 (£48.99). Same perpetual licence once all three are paid; the plan stops itself after the third payment.
14-day money-back. No account required.
The subscription you'd cancel
£240 / year, forever
Every year. For as long as you edit.
✕Payments that never stop
✕Features you never asked for
✕Cloud-first workflow by default
✕Your catalogue tied to a login
✕Speed that degrades as it bloats
✕Cancel and you lose access to your edits
Lumidex pays for itself in under 3 months.
Then it just keeps being yours.