I am still on the search for a Apple Aperture.app replacement. The biggest problem I have with Aperture, and why I started looking, is the lack of HEIF/HEIC (Apple
Live Photo) support, because seeing a black thumbnail/preview images in the app is extremely annoying.
So far, it looks like Photo Mechanic Plus might be the best alternative/replacement to Aperture, as it:
- has advanced search/filter with AND, OR, NOT (Photo Supreme has some good support, but it's cryptic to use)
- is fast (GraphicConverter 10 is just too slow)
- has rating (I still have a hard time understanding why Apple took that away from Photos.app, rather than adding it to the iOS photos app)
- Smart Albums (I assume this will be implemented in a future Beta version of PM+)
- etc.
But there are still some major missing functionalities:
1. HEIC/HEIF file support (problems with:
Lightroom,
Phase One,
ON1) (supported, even with rating, in:
ApolloOne)
2. Keyboard shortcut customization
- A lot of Photo Mechanic functionality is not discoverable through the menu, and can therefore not be searched for with the awesome
macOS Menu: Help: Search functionality, and is only documented in the online
wiki (which is nice, but not integrated into the app itself and therefore not very convenient)!
-
Full Mode (toggled) doesn't include toggling of the Toolbar which doesn't have a shortcut for toggling itself
- it would be nice being able to define/overwrite Photo Mechanic keyboard shortcuts (see:
Capture One, Apple
Aperture and its
Command Editor,
FastRawViewer,
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA)
