Introducing Iris, version one.

Your photos, fully yours.

Iris is the native Mac photo library that helps you find, explore, and rediscover the people, places, and moments you love — privately, on your own computer, with the smarts of a cloud service and none of the cost.

For people who love their photos.

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Iris three-pane window — sidebar, center grid view of photos, inspector with map and metadata

Photos used to live on your Mac.
With Iris, they still do.

Somewhere along the way, “your library” turned into “an account someone else owns.” That's not the future we want. Iris reads from the folders or Apple Photos library you already have, builds a fast and intelligent library on your Mac, and leaves the originals exactly where you put them. No cloud. No accounts. Your memories are yours.

Faces

Find your people.

Iris recognizes the people in your photos using on-device machine learning — no faces ever leave your Mac. Browse by age, search by name, and watch your kids grow up.

Iris people view — face groups recognized on-device, browsable by name and age

Geography

Find your places.

Plot every photo on a map and rediscover where you've been. Jump to nearby photos, bookmark your favorite locations, and use Photo Trails to retrace your steps, favorite hikes, and road trips.

Iris map view — photos plotted as clustered pins across a region, with a selected photo and inspector showing date and location

Time

Find your moments.

Modern cameras give you exact dates. A scanned photo of your family from the 1980s doesn't. Iris lets you assign an approximate month, year, or decade when you don't know exactly when — so the whole family album fits inside one timeline.

Iris timeline view — photos grouped by month, year, and decade with fuzzy-date support for older scanned photos

Find

More than a search box.

Search, sort, and filter by any criteria. Iris extracts text from your photos, transcribes speech in your videos, and makes it all available with a fast, powerful UI that uncovers the needles in your haystack.

Iris search and filter view — text extracted from photos and transcripts from videos surfaced through fast search and filtering

Privacy

Stays on your Mac.

Iris reads from the folders, external drives, or Apple Photos library you already use. It never edits or moves your originals. There are no accounts and no cloud servers. The library lives on your Mac. Your memories, on your computer. 100% private by design.

Made with care, on a Mac, in Virginia.

Try Iris free for 14 days.

No accounts, no servers, no sign-ups, no nonsense.