Roadmap

Being built and tested.

• Public beta

  The first builds go out to testers on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Leave your email on the home page and you will hear when it opens.

  Release

• Video clips

  Import clips with your photos and play them in the loupe. Trim them, pick the poster frame, preview your edits and export at full size, 1080p or 720p.

  Editing Library

• iCloud sync

  No server of your own? iCloud carries your presets, settings and edits between your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and can keep your photos in iCloud Drive. What on-device search found travels too, so your phone finds the faces and words your Mac found.

  Sync Apple devices

• Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and Handoff

  Find, rate, flag and export photos from Shortcuts and Siri. Find them in Spotlight by caption, keyword, person or place, and pick up the photo you were on from another device.

  Apple devices

• Edit from the Photos app, with Live Photos

  Open a photo in Apple's Photos app and edit it with the LightBites sliders and presets, without importing it. Live Photos keep their motion when you edit and save them.

  Apple devices Editing

• More than one library, on a drive or a NAS

  Keep several libraries and switch between them without restarting: one on the device, one that syncs with your server, or one on an external drive or a shared folder on your network.

  Library

Up next, roughly in this order.

• On the App Store

  LightBites on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free to download, with a 7-day trial of LightBites Pro and one purchase for all three. No subscription.

  Release

• Colour that matches your camera

  Measured colour profiles for the most popular cameras, so a raw file opens looking the way it did on the camera's screen, before you touch a slider.

  Raw & colour

• Olympus and OM System raw files

  Compressed ORF files open as full raw files you can develop, not only as their previews.

  Raw & colour

• Focus points

  See where the camera focused, drawn over the photo, and zoom straight to that spot to check sharpness while you cull.

  Library

• Mask presets

  Save a mask's adjustments, like a brighter face or a deeper sky, and use them again in one tap. Export them to share with a friend.

  Editing

• Slideshow export and Print

  Give a slideshow titles and overlays and export it as a video or a PDF, and print photos straight from your iPad or Mac.

  Library Apple devices

On the list, further out.

• Subject, Sky and People masks

  Select the subject, the sky or a person in one tap, worked out on your device by a model you download once.

  Editing

• Nikon High Efficiency raw files

  Full raw decoding for NEF files saved in Nikon's High Efficiency modes, which open as previews for now.

  Raw & colour

• Corrections for more lenses

  Distortion, vignetting and colour fringing corrected automatically for more lenses, from profiles we measure ourselves.

  Raw & colour

• Comments and likes on shared albums

  People you share an album with can like photos and leave a comment, and you see it in the app.

  Sync

• More languages

  Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese and Indonesian, with right-to-left layouts for Arabic.