Photo management for Mac that keeps up.
Lumidex Studio catalogues a photo library of any size — folders, keywords, collections and smart collections — and finds any shot fast, whether you remember its keyword or just what it looked like. All native, all on your Mac, paid for once.
Organise the way you already think
Your folders on disk become a live folder tree. On top of that, add a full keyword hierarchy, gather images into collections, and let smart collections keep themselves current from rules you set once. Ratings, pick and reject flags, and colour labels are all there, so culling and rating a shoot is fast and familiar.
Folders & keywords
A live folder tree plus a nested keyword hierarchy you control.
Smart collections
Rule-based sets that update themselves — no list to maintain by hand.
Sweep & burst stacking
Cull a whole shoot in one drag; near-identical frames collapse into one cell.
RAW + JPEG pairs
Shot both? They're paired into one picture with a source switch.
Find any photo — by keyword or by meaning
Search matches filenames, paths and your keywords instantly. But you don't always remember the word you used, so Lumidex Studio also does natural-language search: type "a calm place by the water" and the photos that look like that rise to the top. It runs entirely on-device — nothing is uploaded — and it works alongside an on-device auto-tagging pass that makes your library searchable even where you never added keywords.
A content-hashing duplicate finder spots true duplicates regardless of filename, and a separate near-duplicate finder catches the same shot re-exported or re-imported at a different size.
Built for big libraries — and yours to keep
There's no catalogue size limit, and because everything runs natively on your Mac, search and scrolling stay quick as your library grows into the tens of thousands. Photos can live on your internal drive or a network drive, and Lumidex Studio reads and writes standard XMP sidecars so your metadata is portable and never trapped. No cloud account, no telemetry, no subscription — it's a genuine Lightroom alternative for Mac you own outright.
Common questions
What is the best photo management software for Mac?
Lumidex Studio is a native option built for large libraries — folders, keywords, collections, duplicate finding and natural-language search, all local and with no subscription.
How many photos can it handle?
There's no catalogue size limit; it's designed for tens of thousands of images and up, staying fast because it runs natively.
Can it find duplicate photos?
Yes — a content-hashing duplicate finder for exact copies, plus a near-duplicate finder for re-exports and resizes.
Does it store my photos in the cloud?
No. Everything stays on your Mac or your own storage, including network drives, with standard XMP sidecars and no telemetry.
Take control of your library.
£99 £49 once — half price introductory offer. No subscription.