Nimble Albums · for Mac
Nimble Albums gets your albums out of Photos and iCloud and into plain old folders on your Mac, drive or NAS. Pick the albums, pick a folder, hit Export, and go get a coffee.
Free · macOS 15 Sequoia or later
Albums, smart albums and shared albums in one list. Tick a whole folder in one click.
Before you start, you'll see how many items there are, roughly how much space they need, and how much you have.
One folder per album, your Photos folders mirrored on disk. Then go get that coffee.
Not shrunken previews: the full-quality original, exactly as it came off your camera. Edited a photo? The edited version is saved right next to it.
Using "Optimize Mac Storage"? No problem. Anything that lives only in iCloud is downloaded at full resolution automatically.
Files are named by date, like
2024-06-15_IMG_1234.heic, and Finder
dates match when the shot was taken.
Pause, resume or cancel whenever you like. Hiccups are retried, your Mac stays awake until the job is done, and you never get half-written files.
Exporting to the same folder twice? Skip, replace or keep both, chosen once for everything.
No account, no tracking, no cloud of our own. Nimble Albums only reads your library and never changes it.
Nimble Albums does one thing and does it well. No editing, no syncing, no subscriptions. It just gets your photos out.
Plain folders, full quality, and no strings attached.
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