For Apple Photos on the Mac

Every family photo, safe and in order.

Lymvio Photo keeps an encrypted copy of your Apple Photos library in storage you choose, and helps you clear out what you don't need. Only your family holds the key.

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For Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later

Encrypted on your MacStorage you chooseKnows the Shared LibraryA restore drill every monthDuplicates and empty shotsSaves every hour

Made for families

Your lives overlap. Your keys don't have to.

Lymvio Photo knows the iCloud Shared Library. One Mac saves it for everyone, and every family Mac saves its own person's library. It all goes into one backup.

  • The family keyOpens the Shared Library, for everyone in the family.
  • Your own keyOpens only your personal library. Not even the family key opens it.
Shared Library You your own key Your partner their own key Your kid their own key

What it does

A safe copy, kept by you.

Locked before it leaves

Every photo is encrypted on your Mac. The key is 24 words that stay with your family, on paper, in your Keychain or in a password manager. Nobody else can open your photos, not us and not your storage provider.

Storage you choose

You pay your provider directly, often a few euros a month for a whole family library.

BackblazeAmazon S3Cloudflare R2WasabiHetznerand more

Get it all back

One photo you deleted, a whole year or everything, back into Photos or into a folder. A monthly restore drill opens a few photos to check that your backup really works.

Tidy up

Find the same picture saved twice, shots of nothing and the best photo of each moment. You decide what goes, and what you remove stays in the backup for as long as you choose.

Years and places

Browse everything you have saved by year and on a map, including what has already left Photos, and search by place, title, caption or keyword.

Quietly in the background

New photos are saved every hour while your Mac is awake, paused on low battery. A mark in the menu bar shows that everything is safe, and the app keeps itself up to date.

No account. No tracking.

Your photos go from your Mac straight to your storage, encrypted. Lymvio never sees them, and the app sends us nothing about you or your library.

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For Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later