Your photos, in their best light.

Lysbild is a fast, native photo library for the Mac. Import, cull and develop, and keep every Mac you own showing the same library, down to the last star.

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Native on Apple silicon · your files stay files · no subscription to use it
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Straighten

Level, found for you.

Lysbild reads the horizon (or the verticals) in every photo and gathers the tilted ones in one place. Press L and it lies flat, with the crop kept inside the frame.

Tilted 4.2°Levelled
Merge

Brackets become one.

Three exposures of the same scene, lined up to the pixel and fused into one photo with the sky and the shadows both intact. No ghosting from a hand that moved.

3 exposures · aligned
Develop

Suggestions that look first.

Backlit, a flat sky, a colour cast: Lysbild notices, says so in plain words, and offers the fix. Hover to preview, click to keep. Drag the photo to compare.

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Dark against the lightThe subject is in shadow with a bright sky behind it. Lift the shadows and bring the sky down.
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Sync

Every Mac, the same library.

Rate a photo on your laptop and it's rated on the studio Mac a moment later. Edits travel as tiny changes, not whole files, so it's quick on hotel wifi too.

MacBook Air
Mac Studio
And the rest of the job

Made for people who shoot a lot.

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Import that checks

From a card, a folder or a drive. Add in place, or copy into dated folders and verify every byte.

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Cull at speed

Stars, picks, rejects and labels from the keyboard. Big previews are ready before you arrow to them.

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Duplicates, found

The same photo imported twice, or ten frames of one moment: grouped, so you keep the best.

Lr

Leave Lightroom gently

Bring your Lightroom library along: ratings, flags, keywords and albums come with it.

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Native and quick

A real Mac app, not a web page in a frame. It opens in a blink and stays quick with big libraries.

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Your files stay yours

Photos stay ordinary files in folders you choose, with XMP sidecars. Leave any time; nothing is locked in.

Pricing

Free on one Mac. Pay to sync.

The app is yours to keep. Sync and backup run on servers, so they cost a small monthly fee; backup is priced by how much you keep.

Lysbild

Free
forever, on one Mac
  • The whole app
  • Unlimited photos
  • Develop, level, merge
  • Lightroom import
Most picked

Sync

€3 / month
or €30 a year
  • Everything in Free
  • Every Mac you own, in sync
  • Previews of every photo, everywhere
  • New photos reach your other Macs (7 days, up to 50 GB)

Backup

€10 / month
500 GB · or 2 TB for €18
  • Everything in Sync
  • Every original kept safe
  • Restore any photo, on any Mac
  • Share albums by link

Beta pricing, not final. During the beta, everything is free for invited testers.

Want Lysbild somewhere else? Tap it and we'll count you in.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Why invite-only?

Lysbild is new, and sync is the part that has to be right. We're growing it slowly, a few people at a time, so every problem gets fixed before the next wave arrives.

Where do my photos live?

On your Mac, as ordinary files in folders you choose. Sync carries your library's changes (ratings, edits, albums) and a preview of every photo to your other Macs, and new photos travel along for a week so each Mac can have the original too. With Backup, every original is also kept safe in the cloud.

Do I need a password?

No. Your account uses a passkey: Touch ID on your Mac or Face ID on your iPhone. There's nothing to remember and nothing to phish.

Can I bring my Lightroom library?

Yes. Lysbild reads your Lightroom library and brings ratings, flags, keywords and albums across, and leaves Lightroom untouched.

What does it run on?

macOS on Apple silicon today. The iPhone, iPad and Windows versions depend on how many of you ask for them (tap them under Pricing).

Your library, in the best light.

Join the waitlist and we'll send an invite as soon as there's room.