Framekeep

Your folders are the library

Framekeep is a fast image viewer for the Mac that works directly on the folders you already have. Nothing to import, nothing to wait for.

Read the FAQ See what it does

Coming to the Mac App Store · macOS 14 or later · Free, with a one-time Pro unlock

The Framekeep browser showing a folder of photos as a grid of thumbnails, with a folder tree in the sidebar.

Open a folder. That's the whole setup.

Point Framekeep at any folder — on your Mac, an external drive or a network share — and your images are there, in place, untouched. There is no catalogue to build and no import step to sit through. Sort by date taken, camera, resolution, file size or folder, and switch between thumbnails and a detailed list whenever you need the numbers.

List view with sortable columns for type, size, dimensions, date taken and modified date, next to an info panel showing full EXIF data for the selected photo.

A viewer that gets out of the way

Full screen, edge to edge, with zoom, trackpad gestures and animated GIF support. Press a key for the full EXIF of the shot in front of you — lens, exposure, ISO, colour profile and location. Run a slideshow with crossfade, slide or Ken Burns transitions, and send it to your TV over AirPlay.

Full-screen viewer showing an aurora photograph with an information overlay listing camera, lens, exposure and location.

Turn a photo of a page into a documentPro

Photograph a page and Framekeep finds its four corners by itself, flattens the perspective and cleans up the uneven light from the room. Recognise the text on it, and save the result as a PDF you can actually search — including Turkish.

The editor in Straighten Paper mode, with four handles automatically placed on the corners of a photographed page.

Rename hundreds of files, and see it firstPro

Build a name out of the date taken, the camera, the folder, the dimensions and a counter. Every single new name is listed beside its old one before you commit, and the rename refuses to start if anything would collide. Find-and-replace understands regular expressions when you need it to.

The batch rename sheet showing a template of folder, date and counter fields, with every old filename paired against its new name.

Find the copies you forgot aboutPro

Three levels of matching: byte-identical files, near-identical images that survived a resize or a re-save, and visually similar frames from the same burst. Framekeep suggests the highest-resolution copy to keep and leaves genuinely different frames unticked. Nothing is deleted until you say so, and what goes, goes to the Trash.

The duplicate finder showing matched pairs of images with the copy to delete ticked and the original marked as suggested.

Resize, convert and watermark in bulkPro

Scale by percentage or longest edge, change format and quality, add a text watermark and strip location or camera metadata on the way out. New files are written every time — your originals are never modified, and nothing existing is overwritten.

The resize and convert sheet with size, format, quality, watermark text, opacity and metadata options.

See where a trip actually happened

Photos carrying GPS data appear as pins on a map, clustered by place. Click one and the image is selected back in the browser.

A map of northern Europe with clusters of photo thumbnails pinned over Iceland, Norway and Portugal.

Your images stay yours

Framekeep has no account, no sign-in and no analytics. We run no servers, so there is nowhere for your photos to go. Everything — editing, text recognition, background removal, duplicate detection — happens on your Mac using the frameworks built into macOS.

The app touches a network in exactly two places: the map view downloads its tiles from Apple, and an AirPlay slideshow is served to your TV over your own local network. Read the full privacy policy.

Free and Pro

Framekeep is free to download, and everything you need to browse and view your images is in the free version. Pro is a single purchase that unlocks the editing and batch tools — not a subscription.

Framekeep

Free

  • Folder browser with thumbnail and list views
  • Sorting by date taken, camera, resolution, size
  • Full-screen viewer with zoom and gestures
  • Slideshows and AirPlay to a TV
  • EXIF info panel, compare and photo map
  • Lossless rotation for JPEG, HEIC and TIFF

Framekeep Pro

One-time purchase · Family Sharing

  • Editor: crop, straighten, resize, colour, markup, background removal
  • Paper straightening for photographed documents
  • Text recognition and searchable multi-page PDFs
  • Batch rename with a full preview
  • Batch resize and convert, watermarks, metadata removal
  • Duplicate finder and sorting into folders
  • Ratings, colour labels and culling
  • Finder services and Shortcuts actions

Details

Requires
macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel
Opens
JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, WebP and camera RAW (CR2, NEF, ARW, DNG and more)
Languages
English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
Privacy
No data collected. No account, no analytics, no tracking.
Support
info@nordteknik.com