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Raza Photos
Your photos when you need them. No clouds, no subscriptions.
Browse your Mac photo library on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in your home. No cloud, no subscriptions, no setup. Just your photos, wherever you are. Supports Live Photos, bursts, HDR, and video. Connect multiple Macs and browse them as one unified library, with no duplicate filters. Lock any source read-only so nothing gets accidentally deleted.
I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches.
So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no telemetry, no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts.
You import the photo folders you want into the Mac app. It safely indexes the metadata, leaves the photos exactly where they are, and uses Bonjour to advertise itself on your local network. You can start or stop the server if you want to use the app by yourself or publish the library to the whole family. When you open Raza Photos on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the house, it instantly discovers the server. If you have multiple Macs hosting libraries, it finds them all and shows a complete library, with deduplicated filters.
You can browse, filter by date, location, people, albums and events, and you can even edit metadata from iOS while on the couch. The changes can go back to the original files as XMP/EXIF, without touching the image pixels. You can add countries and cities to photos that have GPS data and you can browse them all on a map. Face detection is done locally on the device.
The app is free for now, but it will be a one time purchase of around 20 USD. Photo transfer from iOS to the Mac server is coming soon.
Love that the duplicate handling works across multiple Macs without forcing a cloud sync, feels like the kind of thoughtful default that's rare in photo apps.
Finally a way to skip uploading everything just to check a photo from my Mac, and the duplicate merging across machines actually worked on my mess of a library.
About Raza Photos on Product Hunt
“Your photos when you need them. No clouds, no subscriptions.”
Raza Photos was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #131 on the daily leaderboard. Browse your Mac photo library on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in your home. No cloud, no subscriptions, no setup. Just your photos, wherever you are. Supports Live Photos, bursts, HDR, and video. Connect multiple Macs and browse them as one unified library, with no duplicate filters. Lock any source read-only so nothing gets accidentally deleted.
Raza Photos was featured in Privacy (11.2k followers), Photography (143k followers) and Apple (15.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 25.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Raza Photos?
Raza Photos was hunted by Radu Zaharia. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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