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Cyme Releases Peakto 1.0.5
11 August 2022
Cyme has released Peakto 1.0.5, its AI-powered universal photo organizer for macOS. The new version can read bigger photo catalogs more quickly while offering better performances for Peakto's two innovative features. Panorama, which uses image recognition to curate the best shots per category adds better navigation and Instants, which retraces the story of photo editing, is also more efficient, the company said.
"With the public release of Peakto we have been exposed to a variety of user scenarios and user configurations we had never seen before. And some photographers have ingested catalogs of more than 400,000 photos," said Matthieu Kopp, CTO of Cyme.
"We have been able to identify areas where Peakto needed improved performance. So the whole team has been focused on enhancing photo synchronization and Peakto-specific features: Instants & Panorama. From the beginning, our goal has been to develop Peakto in close collaboration with our user community. We are pleased with v1.0.5, as we see performance improvements across the board, with some operations being up to 10x faster."
IMPROVEMENTS
Among the improvements the company listed are:
- Ingestion of image folders is up to 10x faster and uses CPU resources more efficiently
- Performance improvements across the board when ingesting new data (benchmarks available)
- Performance improvements when using Panorama and navigating in the app
- Huge performance and efficiency improvements when computing Instants
- Performance lag in ingested folders fixed
- New option to re-ingest sources: Full or Smart
- Fixed issue of random missing images when ingesting compressed 14-bit images (Nikon Raw in particular) into C1 catalog
- Fixed a rotation bug that occurred intermittently when displaying portrait images
- Improved onboarding with better clarity to our privacy policy
- Improved end user license agreement and legal sections of documentation
CAPTURE ONE PREVIEWS
The company earlier explained an issue with Capture One previews that Derrick Story reported:
Capture One uses an "obscure" format to store the High Resolution thumbnails. As a result we cannot decode it and we are limited to the small resolution images (we understand how it is built but without C1 engineers involvement we cannot exploit it). Changing the Preview settings in C1 will have no effect. We are trying to convince C1 to help us decode those formats (via a plugin so they can keep their recipe secret) and we now have good contacts with them. Until now, all our demands were rejected. But I am hopeful that we can find a solution.
PRICE, AVAILABILITY
Optimized for M1 (and soon for macOS Ventura and M2 chip), Peakto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later and runs well on Apple M1 chips.
Peakto is available now by subscription or pay-per-use directly from Cyme.
The company also allows testing Peakto for seven days with a $9.99 monthly subscription, 15 days with a $99 yearly subscription or 30 days with a $189 one-time purchase.
For more information see the news release below.
Peakto 1.0.5. Bigger. Better. Stronger. Faster.
MONTPELLIER, France -- Cyme has announced the release of Peakto 1.0.5, an improved version of the first AI-powered universal photo organizer for the Mac that provides photographers with a complete view of all their photos, as well as a centralized and automated search using AI. This stronger version of Peakto is able to integrate, at the same time, bigger photo catalogs in a faster way and offers better performances for the two innovative features of Peakto. Panorama, which curates the best shots per category thanks to image recognition, is even more relevant and comes with better navigation. Instants, which retrace the story of photo editing, are also more efficient.
"With the public release of Peakto we have been exposed to a variety of user scenarios and user configurations we had never seen before. And some photographers have ingested catalogs of more than 400,000 photos!" says Matthieu Kopp, CTO of Cyme. "We have been able to identify areas where Peakto needed improved performance. So the whole team has been focused on enhancing photo synchronization and Peakto-specific features: Instants & Panorama. From the beginning, our goal has been to develop Peakto in close collaboration with our user community. We are pleased with v1.0.5, as we see performance improvements across the board, with some operations being up to 10x faster."
What has been improved in Peakto 1.0.5?
- Ingestion of image folders is now up to 10x faster and uses CPU resources more efficiently.
- Performance improvements across the board when ingesting new data (benchmarks available).
- Performance improvements when using Panorama and navigating in the app.
- Huge performance and efficiency improvements when computing Instants.
- Performance lag in ingested folders fixed.
- New option to re-ingest sources: Full or Smart.
- Fixed issue of random missing images when ingesting compressed 14-bit images (Nikon Raw in particular) into C1 catalog.
- Fixed a rotation bug that occurred intermittently when displaying portrait images.
- Improved onboarding with better clarity to our privacy policy.
- Improved end user license agreement and legal sections of documentation.
Peakto in a nutshell
Peakto is able to synchronize with all major photo cataloging and editing software, with files stored in the cloud as well as on hard drives, to offer a centralized view and research on all photos. Its artificial intelligence is able to curate all the pictures, thanks to image recognition, no matter what hard drive they are stored on or editing software they are integrated in. Photographers no longer need to annotate or classify their photos. Peakto does it for them and expeditiously reveals the treasures hidden in their digital files.
Peakto syncs with files and folders, as well as Apple Photos, Lightroom Classic, Luminar AI/Neo and Capture One editing applications. Peakto is also compatible with formerly popular but now unsupported software like Aperture and iView Media, making it possible for the newest macOS versions to access older photo catalogs. Peakto can also automatically gather all the variations of a photo and its original file, whatever the editing software used. Peakto allows photographers to find their originals and to trace the history of their modifications.
Configuration
Optimized for M1 (and soon for macOS Ventura and M2 chip), Peakto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later and runs well on Apple M1 chips.
Price and availability
Peakto is a software for macOS available now by subscription or pay-per-use on Cyme.io.
It is possible to test Peakto for 7 days with a monthly subscription ($9.99/month), 15 days with a yearly subscription ($99/year) or 30 days with a one-time purchase ($189).