PicFrom — Bring your photos home

One button

No accounts. No Apple ID. No password.

Point PicFrom at any local or external drive, press Sync, and leave. It reads your library through Apple's own PhotoKit, using the iCloud session already on your Mac. Files land in a clean Year / Year-Month / Year-Month-Day tree of real files you can open anywhere.

Archive/
└─ 2024/
   └─ 2024-08/
      └─ 2024-08-11/
         ├─ 20240811_142233_IMG_4821.HEIC
         ├─ 20240811_142233_IMG_4821.MOV
         └─ 20240811_153901_IMG_4823.HEIC

Plain files in dated folders. The .MOV is the Live Photo's video.

While it runs

You can see exactly what happened.

Live progress, time remaining, and a running log of every file written. When iCloud refuses to hand one over, PicFrom marks it, keeps going, and tries it again on the next run instead of stopping the whole job.

PicFrom syncing from iCloud with a list of recent files and one failure — A 412 GB, 38,492-photo library streaming one file at a time.

When it finishes

Done once. After that, only the new ones.

PicFrom keeps a small ledger next to your archive, so a run over hundreds of gigabytes that gets interrupted by sleep, an unplugged drive, or a dropped connection simply continues. Take a few more photos, run it again, and only those download.

PicFrom sync complete: 38,492 downloaded, 412 GB on disk, 0 missed — Next time, only new photos sync.

What comes across

Your originals, not a re-export.

PicFrom writes the original bytes as they are. No recompression, no re-rendering, nothing left behind.

True originals

The exact bytes from your library, written with their real filename and capture date. Never a thumbnail.

RAW + JPEG

Shoot RAW and keep both? PicFrom saves both files, side by side, exactly as they came in.

Live Photos & video

A Live Photo keeps its still and its paired video together. Regular videos come across the same way.

Hidden assets

The promise is all your photos. Hidden items are archived too, and flagged so you can tell them apart later.

Albums & favorites

Album names, favorites, and GPS live only in the Photos database. PicFrom records them alongside each file.

Handles 400 GB+

It streams one photo at a time, so an enormous library never has to fit on your system disk or in memory.

Private by design

Nothing leaves your Mac except to the disk you chose.

PicFrom never logs into iCloud, never asks for a password, and never sends a single byte to a server of ours, or anyone else's. There is no account and no analytics. Your photos go straight from this Mac to your drive, and the archive stays on hardware you control.

No Apple ID or password No third-party cloud No tracking, no account

Bring your
photos home.