macOS Photos Updates
Direct download links for the PrestoPhoto macOS app that support Apple Photos Extensions for Photo Books
Below is an archive of available releases for our macOS app. We strongly recommend you download directly from the macOS App Store. Downloads here are for reference and beta testing. If you are not sure why you are on this page, you want to visit the PrestoPhoto macOS App main page.
Beta Release
Version 6.4.1
ACTIVE TESTING
December 3, 2024
Updates:
- Design dust Jacket flaps on Square Books
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Beta Email SignupOct 8, 2024 Version 6.4.0 Build 202410081
- Feature: NEW: Google Photos support!
- Calendar Updates
Oct 17, 2022 Version 6.3.0 Build 202210171
- Calendar Updates
Nov 17, 2021 Version 6.2.0 Build 202111171
- Feature: NEW: Image-swap! Drag & Drop to exchange image location on pages.
Nov 2, 2021 Version 6.0.0 Build 202111021
- Feature: Greeting Cards
Oct 7, 2021 Version 5.4.3 Build 202110072
- Feature: Multi-year Calendars, start on any Month; Improved Upload Preview
Aug 9, 2021 Version 5.3.2 Build 202108091
- Fix: Concurrency fixes
July 16, 2021 Version 5.3.1 Build 202107161
- Fix: Concurrency fixes, updates to support latest MacOS
July 15, 2021 Version 5.3.0 Build 202107151
- Fix: Concurrency fixes, updates to support latest MacOS
June 10, 2021 Version 5.2.0 Build 202106104
- Feature: NEW: Panoramic Photo Prints in all new sizes, Per page Undo, Redo UI, Duplicate Photos fixed
June 5, 2021 Version 5.1.0 Build 202106051
- Feature: Lightroom Support for Cloud Folders + Autoflow, Imporvoed Photo Management
May 10, 2021 Version 5.0.0 Build 202105101
- Feature: Adobe Lightroom Drag-n-Drop Support! Lots of new templates
January 8, 2021 Version 4.1.5 Build 202101081
- Fix: Ruler fix
December 31, 2020 Version 4.1.4 Build 202012311
- Fix: Ruler fix
December 1, 2020 Version 4.1.3 Build 202012011
- Fix: Calendar grid fix
November 25, 2020 Version 4.1.2 Build 202011251
- Fix: Improved iCloud support
November 19, 2020 Version 4.1.1 Build 202011191
- Feature: Apple Silicon Support!
- Feature: Add Holidays and Contact Birthdays
- Feature: Drag Photos onto Dates
November 2, 2020 Version 4.0.5 Build 202011023
- Feature: Advanced template styles: Borders, shadows, colors.
- Feature: New Color Palette Interface
- Feature: Improved Template Browser
- Feature: Improved Element alignment guides
- Feature: 2021 Calendars Now Available
- Feature: Remote Refresh of Templates
- Fix: Background task optimizations
- Fix: Raster Placeholder Image Bug
- Fix: Rename Project Bug
- Fix: Deleted Element Page Warning Bug
June 22, 2020 at 10:15 AM Version 3.1.0 Build 202006191
- Feature: Improved image tray with sort by original file name, date created, and date added.
- Fix: Dark Mode Tweaks.
- Fix: Imported Photos project Tweaks.
May 21, 2020 at 10:30 AM Version 3.0.7 Build 202005181
- Fix: Rename projects from sidebar
- Fix: Crop issues with unit conversion
May 20, 2020 at 10:30 AM Version 3.0.6 Build 202005022
- Fix: Link Launching, Icon Cleanup, Cross Platform Refactor
April 30, 2020 at 10:30 AM Version 3.0.5 Build 202004291
- Fix: Apple Photos maximum photo bug for projects with a large number of images
April 23, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 3.0.4 Build 202004221
- Fix: Text Edit Tool Causing Crash
- Fix: Raster Image Crash
April 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 3.0.3 BUILD 202004161
- Feature: Copy Support Info Button for troubleshooting purposes.
- Fix: Copy Support Info Button for troubleshooting purposes.
- Fix: Warning for Empty Pages.
- Fix: Images disappearing on certain projects.
- Fix: PDF Creator is set to "PrestoPhoto Extension" on PDF Export for troubleshooting purposes.
March 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 3.0.2 BUILD 202003201
- Fix: Feature: Prompt to Review App.
Feb 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 3.0.1 BUILD 202002281
- Fix: Crash when some customers (by which we mean internal testers) maniacally pressed the cover spread button. This might have fixed background rasterizations too
Feb 22, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 3.0.0 BUILD 202002212
- Feature: Custom Dust Jacket Flaps
- Feature: 2-Page Spreads for pages and full spread covers allow images to span entire book design from left to right.
January 2, 2020 at 12:00 PM Version 2.4.2 BUILD 201912312
- Feature: Add multiple new pages to your current book at the same time with the new Append feature under Change Theme
- Fix: Improved iCloud Photo Asset handling and detection
- Fix: Text boxes now grow to fit text if the text is overflowing
- Fix: Caching Crash from LR Cache has been resolved
- Fix: Editing Photos on 10.15 could result in a crash, now resolved
- Fix: Photo Asset Tray now keeps its position while resizing its work area
- Fix: Text color and text background color options have been visually updated
- Fix: Moved Page Background color to bottom edit area
- Fix: Fixed bug where users could crash on 10.15 while Autoflowing a book
- Fix: Fixed erratic image box resizing behavior
- Fix: Help Links within App fixed
- Fix: The Photo Tray now shows all images chronologically, it would display large portions in the wrong order
- Fix: Font Sizes now scale with your chosen book size
- Fix: Page Thumbnail Preview Tray performance greatly improved (adding multiple pages in a row, moving between pages)
November 19, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.4.1 BUILD 201911181
- Feature: Face detection with auto-selected templates
- Fix: Stability improvements:
- Adding and Removing Pages
- Reflowing Books with New Themes
November 13, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.4.0 BUILD 201911132
- Feature: 2020 Calendars have been added to the App
- Use any of our templates to create a calendar
- Two different calendar grid layouts to select from: Classic and Sheer
- Choose between Sunday and Monday week starts
- Feature: Page content warnings added, we now detect for:
- Face Detection to prevent Cropping
- Typos in Text
- Empty Image Spots
- Empty Text Boxes
- Text Boxes with placeholder text
- Fix: Speed Improvements with Page Changing & Core ML Processing
- Fix: Improper rastered text wrapping
- Fix: Improved template selection
October 26, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.3.0 BUILD 201910253
- Feature: New streamlined upload process:
- We now only upload one page at a time
- If you make a change to a page or if your transfer was interrupted, we'll only upload new or changed content
- Feature: New print resolution preview displays during project upload process
- Fix: Improved adding photos to existing projects and editing photos in projects
October 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.2.0 BUILD 201910171
- Fix: Improved Catalina Compatibility
- Fix: Delete images in content mode
- Fix: Adding images to project
October 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1.6 BUILD 2019101001
- Fix: Catalina Compatibility Update
- Fix: Adding Prints Crash
- Fix: Race Condition in Summary Preview
- Fix: Better Handling of Dateless Images without EXIF Data
October 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1.4 BUILD 201910062
- Fix: Text Edit crashes
- Fix: Drag and Drop crashes
September 28, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1.3 BUILD 201909273
- Feature: Nifty new previews for your photo books can be seen in the Project View in Apple Photos
- Feature: New Site Notice and Update Notifications to keep you up to date
- Feature: Text Boxes now moveable in content mode
- Feature: Export TIFF support added
- Fix: Revamped Page Thumbnail View
September 21, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1.2 BUILD 201909161
- Fix: Text editing crashes
- Fix: Saving text when changing pages
- Fix: Coffee Mug Preview Refresh
- Fix: PDF Export covers were in reverse order
- Fix: Threading performance in app
September 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1.1 BUILD 201909161
- Fix: Print sets Add and Remove pages added
September 15, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.1 BUILD 201909141
- Feature: Added 2 new templates: Gallery and Contemporary
- Feature: Find the perfect template layout for your current page by turning on the new Auto-Select tool
- Feature: Updated in app Customer Service chat service
- Feature: Smart Placement added to select the best photos from your selected photos while AutoFlowing your photo book
- Feature: Spell check added throughout all projects
- Fix: Major runtime speed increases
- Fix: Reduced and more efficient RAM usage
- Fix: Optimized asset tray image handling
- Fix: AutoFlow process more efficient with system assets
- Fix: Text boxes always remain inside crop guides
- Fix: Default crop now set to maximum image area for the print
August 24, 2019 at 12:00 PM Version 2.0.3 BUILD 20190824
- Feature: Added Layout Flip options to flip your page layout vertically or horizontally
- Fix: Template Bug Fixes
- Fix: Background Opacity Bug resolved
- Fix: Other Bug fixes
August 22, 2019 at 9:00 AM Version 2.0.2 BUILD 20190822
- Fix: Fixed PDF export bug
- Fix: Other Bug fixes
August 21, 2019 at 2:48 PM Version 2.0.1 BUILD 20190821
- Feature: First release to the App Store
- Fix: Bug fixes
August 12, 2019 at 3:28 PM BUILD 20190812
- Feature: Dark mode support added for macOS 10.14+
- Feature: Better template viewing and selecting controls
- Feature: Change your template and re-flow your book at any time
- Feature: New Picture Book Template options
- Fix: New AI for photo placement and template selection when you create and flow and auto-flow a new book:
- Determines the best photos for the photo book page
- Chooses the most appropriate template based off of the shape and size of the photos for the page
- Fix: UI updates from previous alpha and beta builds
- Fix: Other bug fixes
July 24, 2019 at 1:06 PM BUILD 190724 #70c6d35d1
- Feature: Product purchasing functionality added in app across all products
- Feature: Duplicate your page designs with our new page duplication button
- Feature: Added dozens of new template page options across Modern Lines and the Photo Essay templates
- Feature: Template page filter to easily find the design that fits your needs
- Fix: Work around macOS rdar://46115233 bug causing font color changing on save
- Fix: Other bug and UI fixes
July 10, 2019 at 1:39 PM BUILD 190710 #8ce02788
- Feature: Added new photo book project creation options:
- Entering book page length instead of adding pages manually once book is created
- Choice to Autofill book with photos or place photos yourself
- Choose your template to start or fill the book with 1 page photo spreads
- Fix: Fixed issue with TouchBar enabled MacBook Pro users crashing when adding text
- Feature: Added new photo tray Time Filter feature, so you can sort through batches of photos with ease based off when the photo was taken.
- Fix: Other bug and UI fixes
Sep 21, 2018 at 9:14 AM Version 1.1
- Feature: Added new template options for Apple Pages
- Fix: Other bug and UI fixes