See the whole folder
Open real folders and browse a fast, image-first wall. Lumen works with the files you already have instead of asking you to import them into a new library.
Lumen for Mac
Make the folder useful.
A private light table for the image-heavy folders already on your Mac.
The first signed release is coming soon. No cloud account required.
In preparation for release
The signed Mac download and App Store link will appear here when they are ready.
Get release updatesA calmer way to work with images
Lumen does the remembering in the background so you can stay with the visual work in front of you.
Find what you meant
Search words, OCR, appearance, colors, prompts, dates, tags, notes, and curation. Lumen keeps the reason a result matched close at hand.
Keep the work moving
Compare variants, review duplicates, build collections, rename deliberately, resize for a target, export, and make contact sheets without leaving the table.
Keep originals safe
Browsing, memory, search, organization, and finishing do not change your originals. Trash, move, and rename stay explicit, confirmed, and recoverable when macOS allows it.
Private memory
Search by what you remember.
Follow a folder once. Lumen builds a durable local memory from thumbnails, OCR, fingerprints, colors, provenance, and optional visual understanding.
Later, “the red screenshot with the pricing table” can be enough to get you back to the right image.
Read how memory worksThe work stays in one place
Lumen is a set of calm lenses over the same folder truth, not another library you have to maintain.
Choose a real folder. Images appear progressively, while the source files remain where they are.
Lumen quietly maps the images and keeps successful work keyed to their content, not brittle paths.
Cull, compare, organize, resize, export, and make a contact sheet without breaking your flow.
Made for visual work that keeps multiplying
Screenshots, generations, references, photos, exports, and the files you meant to come back to.
AI image work
Keep generations, prompts, variants, and final picks in the same visual space. Retrieve a forgotten image by the idea it contained, not just its filename.
Screenshots and product evidence
Turn a Downloads folder full of captures into a searchable record of interfaces, bugs, references, and decisions.
Design and reference collecting
Collect visual material without building a taxonomy first. Tags, colors, notes, and saved searches emerge as useful handles later.
Photo selection and delivery
Cull, compare, review duplicates, prepare contact sheets, and export ready-to-use derivatives while the originals remain in place.
Local by design
Your images are not the product.
No accounts. No cloud upload. No analytics of your filenames, paths, tags, OCR, prompts, thumbnails, or image contents.
Read the privacy principlesBring your folders. Keep your way of working.
Lumen is being prepared for its first signed Mac release.