Promising . . . but . . .

Fast and efficient photo browsing. UI is clean and uncluttered. However, it seems to keep its own proprietary database with regard to flags, ratings, and tags. Tags are not Yosemite tags and will not appear in the Finder. Nor can you sort via Yosemite tags. I’m very hesitant to use this program to input a lot of tags since there is no clear way to “export” the tags. If you ever decide to use another program, all of your hard work with tagging photos will be lost.

Your program could potentially become very popular as a lot of prosumer photographers (like myself) are looking for an Aperture replacement, and we’re hesitant to switch to Adobe Lightroom (expensive, slow, bad past experiences with Adobe). Your program is off to a great start since it can read/display IPTC and Exif metadata. The Mac sorely needs a better photo/video browser. Finder with Preview on the Mac is too clunky and you have a real opportunity and market niche.

Suggestions for improvement:
1. Make tags compatible with Yosemite tags. It would provide for a lot of user confidence with tagging as we know won’t lose all of our work if we decide to change to another product.
2. Display IPTC tags on more than one line. If you have a lot of IPTC tags, you currently only see the first few tags and the last tag.
3. Recognize movies and allow them to be played in the window or full screen.
4. Make the rotations write back to the file in a lossless manner.

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