The first version of Legend Photos is ready 🎉. ✨ Loads files from local folders or Apple Photos ✨ Very fast and small (24mb) ✨ Extensible plugin system ✨ Hotkeys for everything ✨ Open source React Native macOS app Fun new feature today: toggle this filmstrip view with F - ThreadSky

jayz.us • 62 days ago

The first version of Legend Photos is ready 🎉.

✨ Loads files from local folders or Apple Photos
✨ Very fast and small (24mb)
✨ Extensible plugin system
✨ Hotkeys for everything
✨ Open source React Native macOS app

Fun new feature today: toggle this filmstrip view with F

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jayz.us•62 days ago

It doesn’t do a ton yet beyond a basic photo browser/viewer, but with all the basics done and a solid foundation we can move fast from here 🎉. It's Mac only for now but can easily expand to Windows later.

Download: https://github.com/LegendApp/legend-photos/releases

GitHub repo: https://github.com/LegendApp/legend-photos

frankcalise.dev•62 days ago

Would love to understand the roadmap for Windows implementation and get a feel for implementing something like this.

jayz.us•62 days ago

Btw if you want to experiment with a Windows implementation I would be very happy to work with you on PRing that in! Could be a good small scale experiment to see how a larger project would work...

jayz.us•62 days ago

The main hurdle is likely the native modules because I tried to use as many native features as possible. So just need Windows versions of them. Claude mostly made the mac ones so I assume it'll be fairly easy 😅

Then of course some UI changes for platform differences...

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Depending on timing should be around also to give a hand, at the very least provide some Q&A as I'm a complete bug magnet.

jayz.us•62 days ago

Great! It probably won't be a high priority for me myself, short term. I'll focus on fixing any bugs that come up and building out the core feature set. But if a lot of people want a Windows version I'll prioritize it. And if you want to help do the Windows work I'll prioritize assisting you :)

frankcalise.dev•62 days ago

Definitely let's chat, it's something I'm interested in exploring to progress desktop RN. Can't say I'll be great at it at first but having a destination will be a great start

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Amusingly I noted elsewhere I actually started a Photos project roughly the same time as Jay but ended up using SDL2 w WSL2 as the experience getting started with RN 4 Windows was so poor (4 hours, still didn't get it even compiling, admittedly, I'm a complete Windows dev newbie)

asciithoughts.bsky.social•36 days ago

I hope we get a folder tree along the way :) Looks promising, and fast !

jayz.us•36 days ago

The sidebar is already a folder tree 😀. It's just not collapsible yet. What do you want in a folder tree?

asciithoughts.bsky.social•28 days ago

Ha 🤦‍♂️. Sorry.. Somehow I had missed that. It works! 🙌

I think it would be cool to have an option like Picasa, where when you are looking at a parent folder, you can still see all the pictures in all the subtrees, broken down in groups (ie one group = one subfolder). But that's just extra ;)

hassankhan.me•62 days ago

Awesome work, looking forward to trying it out 😀

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Oh filmstrip view is a nice idea. Might copy! If I'm ever on OS X again I'll add WebDAV to yours rather than port 😂

jayz.us•62 days ago

Yes that would be awesome! It has a plugin system for sources. Currently it's local files and apple photos. But you could add WebDAV as a source 😃

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

How are you doing thumbnailing etc?

I'm getting pretty good compression / quality via re-compression AVIF. 37GB of mixed photo/video -> 1GB 192x192, 384x384 JPG thumbs (JPG as v fast decode) + AVIF fullscreen (slow decode, high quality).

jayz.us•62 days ago

Currently not doing it 😅. That's on the roadmap. It seems reasonably fast enough even without it... But I'll definitely need to do some kind of conversion to support raw formats.

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Ah my machine is too piddly to have my full photo set on it (200+ GB).

One of the reasons I'm doing this now is because we recently found out that Photos on my wife's iPhone is making iOS upgrade impossible as Photos app space is proportional to image collection.

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Will first figure out a good way to do this in vertical space though, in full screen mode there are two massive black bars on the sides of my screen at least (and even bigger for portrait photos, which we have many of as phone).

jayz.us•62 days ago

Oh that's a good idea I hadn't thought of! We could put the filmstrip vertically on the left or right?

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

Yeah I'm thinking of something even weirder though. My niche is me haha and it's for searching for shit so...

Center: full screen
Left: single row of images, in same order as cursor will move
Right: grid of tiny images, with cursor zooming along first right then down

Automatic fade when unused.

theweeklyedition.xyz•62 days ago

(choices that i might early that make this even feasible, 1) i don't do complex grid, it's square fixed with photo crop, i don't smooth scroll, movement is whole thumb at a time, amusingly this makes BURSTs look like slow FPS movies which is fun)

earth.dev•61 days ago

It’s like if Lightroom still worked!

jayz.us•61 days ago

😂 I'm curious, what doesn't work? I haven't used Lightroom in a long time...

earth.dev•61 days ago

It’s so bloated and so slow. Even on a new MacBook pro. Legacy bloat or something

jayz.us•61 days ago

Oh ha yeah that's my experience too. And so expensive! I'm hoping I can make the core triaging and viewing experiences much better and faster :)

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