Frames
RAW editing for Mac
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Pay once. Own Frames. No subscription. Frames is a native RAW editor and catalogue for Mac. The full release includes a 30-day trial and a one-time purchase that unlocks it permanently. Review shoots, compare up to six photographs, and edit with curves, masks and repairs. Work with Apple Photos and folders in place. Editing and image analysis run on your Mac. Try the beta now via TestFlight. The Mac App Store release has been submitted to Apple for review.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: photo editing and management software · 189 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▲ +10% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Photography
- Graphics & Design
- Photo editing
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Could you build this?
No Building a full non-destructive RAW photo editor requires deep expertise in digital image processing pipelines, demosaicing algorithms, high-bitdepth color management (ICC/ColorSync), and GPU-accelerated compute shaders (Metal/Core Image) to handle multi-megapixel RAW files performantly.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift combined with extensive Metal compute shaders or LibRaw/Core Image low-level pipelines. The primary hurdles are real-time non-destructive 16-bit/32-bit floating point image processing (curves, white balance, tone curve mapping), custom brush and gradient masking engines, high-speed thumbnail caching for thousands of 40MB+ RAW files, and color pipeline accuracy matching industrial standards like Adobe DNG or Apple ProRAW.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 471 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #84 of 472 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 255 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sablefilm · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- FrameSight Pro · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MoreFrame · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- VeyFrame · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TidyFrame · ph · 2026-10-24 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Henshu EDIT · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Framebank · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- NextFrame · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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