Thephotoapp
your Mac deserves.

A beautiful home for every photo, screenshot and video on your Mac. Relive your Highlights, convert any image or video and create PDFs right inside the app. No converter websites, no uploads.

Search your photos, places, people…

Photos

48,212 items · All photos and videos
Highlights8 stories
For you
1 year ago
6 months ago
3 months ago
1 week ago
Pets
Food
Venice
Highlights · 1 year ago
Santorini getaway
Oct 2025
Play

Everything you love about photos. None of the websites.

Photsy brings your memories to life and handles the chores you used to search the web for, like converting files and making PDFs, all inside one beautiful Mac app.

Highlights

Your best moments, surfaced for you.

Photsy builds Highlights from your library (For you, one year ago, trips, people, pets and food) and plays them full-window like stories.

1 year ago
Places
Tokyo
Food
Your memories
1 year ago
Play
Better UI

A photo app that's a joy to open.

Clean, calm and fast. A native Mac design with a gorgeous grid, rich inspector and smooth animations, even with tens of thousands of photos.

Convert, in-app

Convert any file. No website.

HEIC to JPG, PNG to WebP, MOV to MP4 or GIF. Drop a file on the format you want and it's done, without uploading private photos to a random converter site.

free-online-converter.com: uploading your photo…
IMG_4821.HEIC
IMG_4821.jpg
JPEG
PNG
HEIC
AVIF
WebP
TIFF
MP4
HEVC
MOV
GIF
M4A
Converted on your Mac. Originals never change.
Create PDFs

Photos to PDF, in one click.

Turn receipts, notes and whiteboards into a searchable PDF, merge PDFs or scan with your iPhone. No online PDF tools, no sign-ups, no watermarks.

TRADER JOE'S
Bananas1.14
Oat milk3.49
Sourdough4.99
TOTAL9.62
Banana bread
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups flour · 1 tsp soda
Bake 350°F for 60 min ♡
Q4 roadmap
→ Ship v1
→ Beta → Launch
Scans.pdf
3 pages · A4
Searchable text
Photos → PDFMerge PDFsScan with iPhoneCrop, rotate & clean upNo watermarks

Your images live in six places. Photsy sees them all.

Screenshots pile up on the Desktop, downloads in Downloads, iPhone photos in the Photos library. Photsy indexes every one of them in place. Nothing is copied, imported or moved.

Screenshots
~/Desktop
Photos Library
iCloud Photos
Downloads
AirDrop, Slack, WhatsApp
Screen Recordings
⌘⇧5 captures
iPhone over USB
Imports by month
Any folder
Projects, Dropbox, drives
→ one private, searchable timeline

Search that understands the picture, not just the filename.

Recipes, tickets, trips, pets, whiteboards: every image is read and understood on your Mac the moment it lands. Then it's one keystroke away.

Reads every word in every image

Handwritten recipes, concert tickets, whiteboards, menus and screenshots. Photsy reads the text in all of them, so you can search it.

Banana bread
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups flour · 1 tsp soda
Bake 350°F for 60 min ♡
Handwritten noteReading…
Search the text in your images…
TEXT FOUND
Hover a phrase to find it in the image.

Smart Search

Describe a photo and Photsy finds it. Works on every Mac, no Apple Intelligence needed.

No text in these photos. Matched by what's in them. Tap one to try.

Places & People

Every geotagged photo on a map that splits apart as you zoom. Faces and pets grouped privately, on your Mac.

Lake Tahoe86 photos
Maya & co412
Biscuit1,204
Milo386
grouped on-device

Photos, or Photsy?

Photos is great for the pictures you've imported. Here's what it leaves to you.

Photsy
Photos
Seeing what you have
Screenshots, Downloads, recordings, iPhone imports and your Photos library in one timeline
Only what you've imported into its library
Where your files live
Indexed right where they are, nothing copied or moved
Import copies every file into its library
Text inside images
Search every word in screenshots, notes and receipts, from any source
Live Text, for photos in the library
Searching by what's pictured
Describe it, like “dog on the beach”, on every Mac
Works for photos in the library
Highlights
Stories from a year, six months, three months and a week ago, plus trips, pets and food
Memories, built from the library only
Converting files
HEIC, PNG, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, MP4, GIF and more, right in the app
Export a copy in a handful of formats
Making PDFs
Turn photos of notes into one clean, searchable PDF
Print to PDF from the print dialog
Duplicate shots
Exact and look-alike photos across every source
A Duplicates album, for the library only
Privacy
On your Mac, no account, nothing uploaded
On your Mac, with iCloud Photos optional

Compared with the Photos app in current macOS. Photsy reads your Photos library without changing it, so you can keep using both. Photos is a trademark of Apple Inc.; Photsy is not made by or affiliated with Apple.

A whole photo toolkit, right where your files are.

Photsy isn't only a search box. It's a fast, native home for everything visual on your Mac.

Rediscover what you forgot you had

Memory roulette, On This Day, monthly highlights and stories that play full-window, built from your library, on your Mac.

For you
1 year ago
Tokyo
Pets
Memory roulette
On this day
Another

Nothing leaves
your Mac.

Every photo is understood right on your Mac. Nothing is ever uploaded.

On-deviceNo accountSandboxed
Your Mac
0 bytes uploaded
<0 ms
from keystroke to results
across 100,000 items
<0 s
for a new screenshot
to be renamed and searchable
<0 ms
to open Quick Search
from any app
0
images uploaded
ever. Not one.

Performance budgets enforced in Photsy's test suite on Apple silicon. Indexing runs in the background and pauses on low battery or when your Mac gets warm.

Pay once. Own it forever.

A one-time payment, no subscription. Every plan includes all of Photsy. Just pick how many Macs. Launch prices are for the first 50 users.

1 Mac
For your one Mac.
$9$29
one-time · lifetime license
Launch price for the first 50 users, then $29
  • Activate on 1 Mac
  • Every Photsy feature, nothing locked
  • Smart Search, text search, Places & People
  • Private and on-device, no account
  • Pay once, no subscription
Buy for 1 Mac
3 Macs
Best value
Your MacBook, your desk Mac and one more.
$19$59
one-time · lifetime license
Launch price for the first 50 users, then $59
  • Activate on up to 3 Macs
  • Every Photsy feature, nothing locked
  • Smart Search, text search, Places & People
  • Private and on-device, no account
  • Pay once, no subscription
Buy for 3 Macs

One-time payment, yours for life · Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Universal app for Apple silicon and Intel

Questions, answered.

Yes. You pay once and the license is yours for life. No subscription, no renewals. Pick 1 or 3 Macs. The launch prices ($9 and $19) are for the first 50 users; after that they go to $29 and $59.

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Find anything you've ever seen on your Mac.

Install Photsy, choose your sources, and start searching in minutes. Then press ⌘ F and find anything.