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Lightbrary for macOS · version 0.1.6

lightbrary-0.1.6.dmg · 3.3 MB · macOS 14 or later

Signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens like any other app — no warnings, no right-click tricks. Open the disk image and drag Lightbrary to your Applications folder.

After the first launch

The app asks for access to your photo library. That is enough to browse, rate and compare.

To use the system measures — blur, exposure, closed eyes, screenshots and some thirty others — also grant Full Disk Access in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Those numbers live in databases inside the photo library package, and permission to read photos does not cover reading files. The app only reads them; it never writes there.

If it crashes on launch

A few people have hit this and I have not pinned it down yet. If it happens to you, this gets me the most useful thing fastest — paste it into Terminal:

f=$(ls -t ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/*[Ll]ightbrary*.ips 2>/dev/null | head -1); if [ -n "$f" ]; then cat "$f" | pbcopy; echo "Copied: $f"; else echo "No crash report found"; fi

That copies the crash report straight to your clipboard — paste it into an email to the address below. If it says no report was found, try launching the app again and, right after it fails, run this instead:

log show --last 5m --predicate 'process == "lightbrary-mac" OR eventMessage CONTAINS "lightbrary"' --style compact | pbcopy

Same thing — paste what comes back.

This is a beta

It is a working tool, not a finished product. Things move between versions. If something looks wrong, write to [email protected] — that is the whole point of this build.