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There aren't many Mac photo management apps that aren't geared towards a specific purpose, but among the few we think Lyn is the best for it's speed, wide format compatibility, and good integration with popular online services.

Lyn

Platform: Mac OS X
Price: $20
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IPhoto (Mac OS X) Advertisement Bundled with the iLife suite of applications that comes with every new Mac, many Mac users find all the photo organization tools they'll ever need in iPhoto.

Features

• Progressive display on single or multiple monitor configurations
• Load images of virtually any size
• Multi-threading to take advantage of multicore CPUs
• Compatible with High Dynamic-Range (HDR) images like TIFF float as well as Radiance and OpenEXR
• Common metadata parser: EXIF, Camera's maker note, GPS, GeoTIFF, IPTC
• Image navigation with Apple Remote Control or Magic Trackpad
• Fullscreen and slideshow
• Full IPTC editing with user-defined presets
• Batch convert and rename
• User-defined places
• Non-destructive editing for image transformations
• Easily browse your iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom libraries (Mac OS X 10.5 or later required)
• Facebook, Flickr, 500px, and Picasa Web Albums sharing (Mac OS X 10.5 or later required)

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Where It Excels

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Lyn is a very versatile photo manager that works the way you want to work. If you're coming from iPhoto, it can read your iPhoto library as-is. If you just want an app for viewing a folder structure currently on your drive, Lyn can handle that as well. However you want to manage your photos, it can adapt. Additionally, it can handle pretty much any type of image you through at it. The app, overall, is very versatile. When you want to put your images elsewhere, it also integrates very well with online services like Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa so you can easily share your images. On top of all of that, Lyn is very fast at loading image previews. That is exceptionally helpful for people with large collections.

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Where It Falls Short

There isn't much to complain about with Lyn. It manages your photos, works quickly, and integrates with likely every online service you'd want to use. What you don't get, however, is some of the special features you'll find in applications like iPhoto. Lyn doesn't provide facial recognition or organize using Apple's 'event' structure. You also can't order books, cards, and other products directly from the app. If you really care about those things, you're probably already happy with iPhoto. If not, you should be using Lyn.

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The Competition

iPhoto ($15), our former reigning champ, is a really great, simple, feature-rich app that mostly just suffers from being a bit bloated and slow. It's also not fantastic at organizing an enormous collection of photos. Nonetheless, it's cheap and manages to do a lot. If your photo library isn't enormous and you have plenty of disk space, iPhoto is a good choice.

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Picasa is an obvious choice if you use Picasa on the web. If that's your photo sharing service of choice, you'll probably want to use the desktop app as well.

Flickery is essentially a desktop interface for Flickr. It'll cost you $10 (although you can try it for free for 15 days), but that price may be worthwhile if you're primarily a Flickr user and want an iPhoto-like interface that's dedicated to the service.

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If you're really serious about your photos, you may prefer managing them with the pricey, more professional Aperture or Lightroom. Aperture is like iPhoto for pros, and Lightroom is a similar take on the same concept.

Then there's what I do: I put photos in folders in Dropbox. I can quicklook everything in the Finder, the thumbnails can be made large in icon view, everything automatically syncs online, it's easy to share the files, it syncs with my iPhone the same as iPhoto, and I can access every photo from my phone with the Dropbox app. I chose to do this because all the photo management software I used was too slow and bloated. I wanted something quick. It's not a solution for everyone, but if you just want to organize your images without hassle it works very well.

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