AnthoraBrowse your photos.
Make a book.

Browse and search your whole photo library for free. Turn an album into a book, or give your folders a thoughtful cleanup. Your originals stay in their own folders.

Free. Books, PDF export, and cleanup included.

Download free for Mac Free and open source

Apple silicon · macOS 14 or later

Find a photo. Take a closer look.

Choose folders on your Mac, external drive, or mounted network share. Anthora turns them into a searchable workspace with cleanup tools, without moving your source files.

Separate libraries, one quick switcher

Create portable .anthora library packages for different collections and switch from the sidebar.

Find files, visible text, people, dates, and subjects

Search uses the local index and included on-device analysis.

Compare likely duplicates before acting

Review exact copies, resized images, and videos with sampled shared footage.

Review clutter and recover decisions

Check screenshots, low-quality captures, accidental videos, and other queues. Removed items remain recoverable in Anthora for 30 days.

Start with a book.
Make it yours.

A wedding, a weekend away, a first year, or everyday photos worth keeping. Choose a complete design and let Anthora arrange your photos, then change any page you like.

Anthora Books showing premade wedding, travel, family, and everyday photo-book designs — **Premade covers and pages, ready for your photos**Choose from twelve complete designs and six book sizes. Switch the sample photos off whenever you want a blank preview.

Choose your photos

Start from an album, a search, or a selection. Auto-fill arranges up to 200 photos, or place them page by page.

Make it personal

Choose from six sizes and fourteen layouts. Change the paper color, crop photos, add words, and reorder pages.

Save a PDF

Keep a digital copy or take it to a printer. Export at 150 or 300 dpi, with optional bleed. Printing is purchased separately.

Books supports up to 200 pages. PDFs are RGB and include a front cover; check your printer’s size, binding, back-cover, and spine requirements before ordering. Printer-specific covers and physical proofing are not included.

All your tools. Free.

Browse an unlimited library, make photo books, export PDFs, and review cleanup suggestions. No subscription, purchase, or activation key.

View source on GitHub

A look around Anthora.

Anthora All Media gallery — **Browse ordinary folders as one visual library**Use masonry or grid views, sort the collection, and open any original without importing it into a cloud service.

Anthora Library Care dashboard with cleanup review queues — **See what may be worth cleaning up**Move between review queues, compare possible duplicates, and decide what stays. Anthora never removes a file without your choice.

Anthora Books showing premade book designs and shape filters — **Begin with a complete book design**Filter by occasion or shape, preview the covers with sample photos, and replace them with your own.

Anthora full-size image viewer — **Inspect the original at full size**Move through images and video, favorite items, view file information, or send an item to the 30-day recovery area.

From folder to library.

Read the external-drive setup guide

Drop in your folders

Drag one or more ordinary folders from Finder into Sources, or choose Add Folder. Anthora does not open the Photos.app library directly.

Browse while it scans

New media appears as it is found. You can stop a scan and keep browsing what has already been indexed.

Review before cleanup

Matches and quality signals are suggestions. You decide what stays and what enters Recently Deleted.

Before downloading

SystemRequires an Apple silicon Mac, M1 or newer, running macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Free editionNo licensing limit on library size. Books, PDF export, and cleanup are included. Disk space and indexing time still apply.
Media sourcesWorks with readable folders, external drives, and mounted network shares. Cloud-only placeholders must be downloaded first.
FormatsImages: JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF, WebP, GIF, TIFF, and TIF. Videos: MOV, MP4, and M4V.
Photos.appAnthora does not read a Photos.app library directly.
First launchThis direct download is not notarized by Apple. The install guide explains the one-time macOS Open confirmation. Gatekeeper does not need to be disabled.
Analysis limitsAutomatic matches and quality signals require review. Semantic language search, best-shot grouping, and crop-aware matching are not included in this release.

Try Anthora on your own library.

Browse, organize, make books, and review cleanup suggestions. All free.

Download free for Mac

AnthoraBrowse your photos.Make a book.