I built Raza Photos: a local, distributed photo library for your Apple devices if you are tired of clouds and subscriptions. (opens in new tab)

There is a lot to cover, but the title sums it up. I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches. So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no...