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About Peakto
Peakto is a macOS media manager from CYME that indexes photos and videos kept in different photo applications and on different drives, so they can be searched from one place. The company describes it as a lightweight, local-first alternative to digital asset management systems, using AI to speed up finding media, and aimed at creators and teams.
CYME also sells related tools, including Avalanche for converting catalogs between photo apps and search plugins for Lightroom and Capture One.
Strengths
- Searches media across several photo apps and drives at once
- Local-first approach rather than a cloud DAM
- AI-assisted search
Limitations
- macOS only
- Paid software
Details
- Pricing
- PaidSold in paid plans listed on the CYME website.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- CYME
- Platforms
- macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Mac photographers and creative teams with media spread across several apps and drives
- Categories
- Photo libraries, Photo tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Peakto
Compare allSoftware that can replace Peakto for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe's photo organizer and RAW editor with a library synced across desktop, web and mobile.
Adobe Lightroom combines cataloging with RAW editing and syncs the library across desktop, web and mobile, but it is subscription only and depends on Adobe's cloud.
Photo Supreme
Digital asset management software for cataloging and searching large photo archives on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Photo Supreme runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and keeps your existing folders and metadata, with a server edition for shared catalogs, and is paid after a trial.
Mylio Photos
A photo library app that organizes and syncs photos across your own devices without requiring cloud storage.
Mylio Photos gathers photos from drives, cards and devices into one timeline across desktop and mobile apps without cloud storage, with full features on a paid plan.
Excire Foto
An AI photo organizer for Windows and macOS that tags, searches and culls local photo libraries.
Excire Foto offers AI tagging, search and culling for local photos on Windows and macOS, with a separate Lightroom Classic plugin, and is paid after the trial.
Eagle
A desktop asset manager for collecting, tagging and searching images, design files and visual references.
Eagle is a paid Windows and macOS asset manager with AI-assisted search, aimed more at design files and visual references than at photo and video archives.
PhotoStructure
A self-hosted photo and video library that organizes and deduplicates collections spread across drives and backups.
PhotoStructure moves the library to your own server and merges scattered collections while finding duplicates, though it is not open source and pricing details are unclear.
IMatch
A Windows digital asset management app for cataloging, tagging and searching large photo and media collections.
IMatch catalogs RAW, video, audio and documents with standard-compliant metadata and an AI AutoTagger, but it is paid and runs only on Windows instead of macOS.
Daminion
Digital asset management software for cataloging and sharing photos and files on your own server or cloud.
Daminion is a self-hosted digital asset management system for teams with user permissions and version history, but pricing requires contacting the company and it is closed source.
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FastStone Image Viewer
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