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.
Launch sale through June 21, 2026 — regular price $29.
14-day free trial · One-time purchase
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.
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.
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.
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.
On every screen
Your library, in the living room.
Pair the Mac app with Iris for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV† and your whole library shows up on every screen in the house — right over your home Wi-Fi. Curl up with the couch, hand the iPad to a grandparent, or put a slideshow on the big TV. Your Mac stays the source of truth. No cloud account, no re-uploading, no extra subscription.
†Pending Apple App Store review
Insights
Your photography, by the numbers.
Iris turns your library into a window on your life with rich stats about your photos — how many you take, when you take them, the cameras you use, and the people and places that show up most. The story of your photography, at a glance.
List view
Your library as a spreadsheet.
Sometimes a grid of thumbnails isn't enough. Iris's list view lays your library out as a fast, sortable table with configurable columns — date, camera, lens, file size, dimensions, location, and dozens more — so you can see precisely the details you care about.
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.
And one more thing…or fifteen.
Little details, big delight.
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Windows & tabs
Open as many windows and tabs as you like. Iris works the way Mac apps are meant to.
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An MCP server, built in
Iris ships with an MCP server so Claude and other LLMs can search your library on your terms — locally, with your permission.
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Ages, on the day
See how old everyone was the day a photo was taken — no math required. Watch the years pass, face by face.
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Surprise Me!
Put your whole library on shuffle and rediscover the photos you'd forgotten you took. A small joy, every time.
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Slideshows over FaceTime
Share a slideshow with family on a FaceTime call. Gather everyone around the photos — even when they're far away.
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Birthdays, every year
On every birthday, Iris surfaces photos of the people you love from years past. The same day, across a lifetime.
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Copy text from photos
Iris reads the words in your photos — menus, signs, receipts, handwriting — so you can select and copy them like any other text.
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Find duplicates
Spot the twelve nearly-identical shots from one burst and keep the best one. Reclaim disk space without losing memories.
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Photos taken nearby
From any photo, jump straight to others taken in the same place — even years apart. Rediscover your favorite spots.
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Same day, different years
Pivot from any photo to everything else you shot that day — or that day across every year you've owned a camera.
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Photos taken by someone
Assign a camera to a person and see every photo they've ever taken. Finally, the photographer gets credit.
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Browse by camera
See every photo from your old film SLR, your first iPhone, or your kid's GoPro. Each camera tells its own story.
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Quick switcher — ⌘K
Hit ⌘K to jump anywhere in Iris — albums, people, places — without ever reaching for the mouse.
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Videos, transcribed
Iris transcribes the speech in your videos so a half-remembered phrase from a birthday toast is just a search away.
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URL friendly
Every photo, album, person, and place has its own link. Paste an Iris URL into another app — one click takes you right back to it.
Made with care, on a Mac, in Virginia.
Try Iris free for 14 days.
No accounts, no servers, no sign-ups, no nonsense.
Launch sale through June 21, 2026 — regular price $29.
Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later.