App Detail » Photos Takeout

Published by: App Initio Limited

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 4.62
Released: July 03, 2020

What's New

Fixed a bug that gave a redundant alert on launching the app.

App Description

Export photos and videos from Apple Photos in folders by years, albums or dates. One-click export of all or selected folders. Save on Mac, in external HD, Google Drive, Dropbox or anywhere else. Preserves image resolution, file format and metadata. Compatible with macOS Sonoma and all the way back to Sierra.

Super-easy to use: Select the source Photos library, destination and the years, albums or moments to be extracted. It's all exported in a familiar folder structure. You can't do this with Photos' Export function: you'll get one humongous, unusable folder.

Photos Takeout's free version exports only one photo per folder, so you can see how the app works. Unlock exports with a one-time in-app purchase:

- POWER version: For Photos libraries of up to 50 GB.
- PRO POWER: Handles even multi-Terabyte libraries.

POWER users can upgrade to PRO POWER anytime with POWER UP in-app purchase, by only paying the price difference.

Examples of when to use Photos Takeout:

- To make yearbooks of your 2017, 2018 and 2019 photos
- To download Shared Albums: Even those added by others
- To export selected albums for printing as photo books
- To move photos from iCloud to external drive. Save $$
- To migrate to other photo management programs or PC
- To share albums or tons of photos with non-Mac users
- To extract photos for reverting to old versions of Photos

MORE ABOUT PHOTOS TAKEOUT

* For Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra and Sierra
* Works on Intel as well as M1 Silicon Macs
* Migrates photos into a familiar folder format
* Handles all standard photo and video formats
* Preserves albums, file names and EXIF/IPTC metadata
* Exports YYYY folders or YYYY>MM sub-folder hierarchy
* Exports referenced and iCloud based photos
* Exports latest edited versions or unmodified originals
* Preserves custom arrangement of photos in albums
* Exports shared albums (Yours as well as sent by others)
* Can export Live Photos as JPG/HEIC + MOV file pairs
* Extremely easy to use – Can’t go wrong!
* For professional photo organizers as well as lay users

Photos is a great program for organizing and editing pictures, but it stores them in its opaque database structure over which you have no control. You can't click open a folder in Finder and find all photos in it. Can't migrate image assets to another photo management program without losing organization and edits. Can't export an accessible backup to an external drive while retaining your album/folder organization.

Use Photos Takeout to make a human readable backup of your photos. Even if you do auto-back ups on Time Machine, this added layer of protection is good because Time Machine overwrites older backups, so you could still lose data. Remember, iCloud is a syncing service, NOT a backup. Your photos are precious, irreplaceable. Keep them safely backed up in an accessible format with Photos Takeout.

Photos Takeout makes it a breeze to get photos and videos out of Apple Photos, organized exactly as you like.

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HOW IT WORKS

- Select Photos Library (your Photos system library)
- Select destination: e.g. Mac, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.
- Select one or more Years, Albums or Dates
- Use the default export options or customize
- Click Export. That's it.

App includes a User Guide. For help, email us via the app for prompt human-powered support. We don't do automated or canned replies!

Note: Live Photos and burst photos only work in Photos app. Photos Takeout can export these as JPGs (or HEIC) + MOV files. App is compatible with Photos for Mac. Not iPhoto, Aperture or other photo management programs.

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System requirements:

Intel or M1 Silicon Mac with macOS 10.12 and higher, 64 bit (Sierra to Sonoma)

IMPORTANT:

* Source library for Photos Takeout MUST be the same as your Photos system library.

* Photos library must be compatible with the Mac on which Photos Takeout is installed.