tylerhall14h ago

I’m opening 50 TestFlight spots for Iris, a new photo and video library app for Mac. It works with your existing libraries, whether they’re in Apple Photos or folders of images stored locally or on external drives.

https://retina.studio/iris/preview/

Feedback very much appreciated.

Show threadsashk 🇺🇦
@tylerhall looking promising, but... little snitch complains about sentry access. is it necessary, and if so can user be warned?
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Show threadtylerhall8h ago
@sashk Thanks for calling that out. Sentry captures crash logs and helps me fix them and will be optional when Iris ships. The app also checks my web server for available app updates. The final (human readable) privacy policy will list all services that Iris talks to.
Show threadsashk 🇺🇦8h ago

@tylerhall sounds good. I read your website about the app before joining Testflight and it listed why it needs network connections and that sounded very clearly spelled out. But when launched seeing these two extra connections were surprising. Understanable, but surprising.

On separate note — when importing from Photos library: do you copy photos to another location, or just going over each photo and collecting info? (Sorry if I missed explanation)

Show threadtylerhall6h ago

@sashk I should probably starting using "indexing" rather than "importing" in my documentation.

Iris never modifies, moves, or copies your (original) files. It indexes all the data it can about each one and generates a private cache of thumbnails.