digiKam for Mac
Professional photo management.
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digiKam overview
digiKam is an advanced open-source digital photo management application that runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. The application provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and sharing photos and raw files.
The following is a concise overview of features and tools available in digiKam. The application covers the photographic workflow consisting of these major stages:
- Setup your collections
- Import photos, raw files, and videos
- Organize your collections
- Search in your collections
- Browse, compare, and view items in your collections
- Post-processing, editing, assembling, and transforming your photos
- Share and publish photos
Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.
What’s new in version 8.4.0
- The DNG toolkit from Adobe has been also updated to last 1.7.1 including the JPEG-XL compression support to reduce the size of the digital negative container.
- digiKam now supports the new LensFun 0.4 toolkit API of this library planned this year. Important simplifications and improvements have been introduced in LensFun, and digiKam have been fixed to still be compatible with the camera lens database provided by this important open-source library.
- For the Qt5 version of digiKam, the internal QtAVPlayer has been updated to the latest rolling-release snapshot 2024-06-16. For the Qt6, the media player is now able to advance video frame by frame.
- For the metadata management, the famous ExifTool open source component has been updated in all bundles to the last 12.88 release. Also the other very important metadata shared library Exiv2 has been updated to last 0.28.2.
- The Linux AppImage and the Windows versions which are proposed in two versions based on Qt6 and Qt5 are now published with the last stable 6.7.2 and 5.15.14. KDE framework has been updated respectively to 6.2.0 and 5.116.
Full list of changes available here
digiKam for Mac
Free
In English
Version 8.4.0
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Mar 19 2024
Version: 8.0.0
digiKam 8.3.0 is out: https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-03-17-8.3.0_release_announcement/
