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While I loved the app (I was an early adopter, back in the days when it was several hundred dollars), as we all know it’s gotten long in the tooth.

I was having issues with it (most of which were caused by the Apple TIFF debacle) and knew it was living on borrowed time.Īt the same time, I had moved to using standalone apps for RAW development (DxOptics Pro) and image manipulation (Affinity Photo). DxO produced far better RAW development than Aperture ever did, and I got to the point that I could do more, faster, and with better results in Affinity Photo. As I got more comfortable with those packages, I found I was only using the DAM functions in Aperture. So, I went looking for a suitable replacement.Īs I looked, I decided that I never wanted to go through this again. I wanted an “open source” solution, one which wasn’t tied to any particular app. In Aperture, for instance, all the non-destructive work I’d put into developing my images was lost going to any other application.

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The only way to do it was to output to TIFFs, but then again if I wanted to make a small change I had to start over with the RAW file.īasing a DAM on the OS X file system and image metadata, plus a common image format, seemed to be the way to go. I tried a number of products and initially settled on Photo Supreme. It seemed to do exactly what I wanted, but after putting my whole image catalog into it (and adding more every week) I discovered that PhSu really slowed down as the image count increased. Where Aperture (and most of the other replacements I auditioned) would scroll through the whole catalog quickly and easily, Photo Supreme just bogged. Scrolling through images was painfully slow as I waited for it to display thumbnails. What’s more, I never really warmed up to the their interface.

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It’s not intuitive, and even after nearly a year’s use I still have to stop and think how to do common tasks. Some things were tedious, and sometimes it failed to import everything it was supposed to. Updating the library was a hit-and-miss affair.

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Its image editing features were useless to me and they no doubt contributed to the code bloat which slowed the app down.Įventually I got frustrated and went looking at anything else I hadn’t yet tried. I found a few apps, but none of them were particularly good. Some of them were ridiculously expensive.

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Then I ran across an article on ZDNet titled 'Beyond Lightroom: How one Mac power user found the Holy Grail of media asset management”. The author was having some of the same issues I was (though coming from a completely different place) and he detailed his search for a good DAM. The article introduced me to a product called NeoFinder, which I promptly downloaded. NeoFinder is a file cataloging application it doesn’t care what the file is, it’ll catalog and organize it using common metadata and the OS X file system.

It’s been around, continually updated, since 1995. I’ve been running it hard for a couple of weeks now, and it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.

It’s intuitive, fast, and handles everything - it even recognizes the native Affinity Photo and Designer files.

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It’s not perfect (no software ever is) it doesn’t do versions/stacks like PS/Aperture did, for instance, and it doesn’t instantaneously update folders the way other apps do (you have to manually invoke an update routine, which takes a few minutes to run.) But those are minor quibbles, because everything else I need in a DAM is there and works very well. And, should they go out of business in a year, I've lost no functionality because all of the data is stored in the image files themselves. It’s definitely worth far more than the measly $40 the author asks. This has been posted for a day already and no replies? I guess that you need to add the terms 'Lightroom' or 'Aperture' to the title to grab the attention of people. I'm also going to read Beyond Lightroom: How one Mac power user found the Holy Grail of media asset management to see how the author used NeoFinder to solve his need for a powerful DAM solution. I'm still using Aperture but I know that they day is coming when I will need to move to another solution. I'm really glad that I went with referenced masters when I initially configured my Aperture library. Maybe if I had said 'An Aperture replacement that isn't Lightroom' it would have gotten more attention! It should make moving to something like NeoFinder easier to do. I've been using NeoFinder all day today, and it's a comfortable environment to work in.

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