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Nimble Albums · for Mac

Your photos. Your files. Full quality.

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.

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Free · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Tick the albums

Albums, smart albums and shared albums in one list. Tick a whole folder in one click.

Choose a folder

Before you start, you'll see how many items there are, roughly how much space they need, and how much you have.

Export

One folder per album, your Photos folders mirrored on disk. Then go get that coffee.

Why you'll like it

The real originals

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.

Pulls from iCloud for you

Using "Optimize Mac Storage"? No problem. Anything that lives only in iCloud is downloaded at full resolution automatically.

Names that sort themselves

Files are named by date, like 2024-06-15_IMG_1234.heic, and Finder dates match when the shot was taken.

Built for big exports

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.

Run it again, safely

Exporting to the same folder twice? Skip, replace or keep both, chosen once for everything.

Hands off your library

No account, no tracking, no cloud of our own. Nimble Albums only reads your library and never changes it.

Perfect for

Simple, on purpose

Nimble Albums does one thing and does it well. No editing, no syncing, no subscriptions. It just gets your photos out.

Set your photos free.

Plain folders, full quality, and no strings attached.

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