Your pictures really take center stage in this app - I was able to see a lot more images at a glance, compared to iPhoto. Much like the iOS 8 app, photos in the desktop Photos app are organized based on when and where you took them, and grouped under the bigger umbrellas of Collections and Years. For me, there was barely a learning curve in jumping from iPhoto to Photos. With Photos for OS X, Apple has managed to build an app that feels both refreshingly new and comfortably familiar. But if you’re a developer, you can get a beta version of the new Photos desktop app starting today.īefore today’s beta release, Apple gave me the opportunity to have some brief hands-on time with the app - not nearly enough time to do a thorough review, but enough to gather these early impressions. Today, the company provided an update on the status of the app, saying that it will release Photos for OS X this spring (the company declined to provide a more specific timeline), as part of a larger update to OS X Yosemite. The mobile version of Photos launched with iOS 8 in September, and the desktop app was promised for early 2015.ĭepending on your definition of “early 2015,” Apple is either on track or late to deliver on its promise. That’s why I perked up when Apple announced that it would retire iPhoto and its professional photo-editing software, Aperture, and replace them with a new and improved app called Photos. I’ve just been too lazy (and cheap) to look for alternatives. But in recent years, it has started to look and feel tired and outdated, with a cluttered interface, slow performance and limited features. I use it because it’s there and does mostly what I need it to do.
For the past 13 years, iPhoto has been the standard photo management app on Apple’s Mac computers.
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