Guides

Guides.

One job per guide: what Archyv does for it, how to run it in one pass, and where the tools already on your Mac stop short. Each one links into the full reference, and every one starts with the free trial.

  1. A Mac app that renames photos by the date they were takenArchyv renames a whole shoot from the capture date inside each photo — not the date the file landed on your disk — with a preview before and an undo after.
  2. A Mac app that sorts photos into folders by the date they were takenArchyv turns one enormous folder into a dated structure built from each photo's capture date — previewed first, with the undated ones set aside rather than misfiled.
  3. A batch HEIC to JPG converter for Mac that keeps what mattersArchyv turns a whole folder of iPhone HEICs into JPEGs in one run, from a saved recipe — with the metadata kept, stripped, or location-only removed, as you choose.
  4. A Mac app that writes copyright and photographer credit into every photo at onceArchyv writes creator and copyright into the EXIF, IPTC and XMP fields across a whole shoot in one run — images, RAW and video alike — working on the folder, not a catalogue.
  5. A photo file naming convention that still works in ten years — and the app that applies itWhat to put in a photo filename, in what order, and why — and how Archyv turns the convention into a template applied across an archive in one pass.
  6. An ExifTool GUI for Mac: the same engine, with a preview, an undo and a reportArchyv puts a native Mac interface over the bundled ExifTool — the current values on screen before you write, a change history you can undo, and a per-file report of what happened.
  7. A Mac app that renames RAW + JPEG pairs as a set and knows which XMP sidecar is whoseArchyv renames both halves of a RAW + JPEG pair from properties of the frame they share, works out which photo an XMP sidecar belongs to instead of guessing, and never mistakes a pair for a duplicate.
  8. A Mac app that batch-renames photos from their own camera metadataArchyv builds every filename from the date, photographer and camera already inside each photo, so a whole shoot lands in one consistent convention in one pass.
  9. A batch RAW to JPEG converter for Mac, built for web deliveryArchyv turns a folder of RAW files — mixed brands included — into correctly sized sRGB JPEGs in one pass, from a saved recipe, with your originals left untouched.
  10. An AVIF and JPEG XL converter for Mac that does a whole folder at onceArchyv converts a whole folder to AVIF or JPEG XL on macOS 15 or later, from a saved template — and this guide says which of the two you can actually publish today.
  11. A duplicate photo finder for Mac that lets you review before anything is removedClear out the exact and near-duplicate copies that pile up when folders merge — every match reviewed side by side in Archyv, nothing removed until you say so.
  12. A Mac app that imports and archives photos the same way every timeArchyv saves an import or archive routine as a transfer template — copy or move, folder structure, naming, conflict handling, verification — and runs it identically on every card.
  13. A Mac app that organises a wildlife photo library by speciesArchyv writes the species — keywords and the full Darwin Core hierarchy — into every frame of a shoot in one pass, entirely offline, so any photo can be found by name, family or sighting.
  14. A Mac app that batch-renames photos from a template — or from a pattern you typeArchyv renames a whole folder of photos in one pass — from a template filled with each file's own metadata, or from a pattern you type — with every new name shown in the log before it runs.
  15. A photo metadata editor for Mac — dozens of fields, one photo or a whole batchArchyv edits dozens of metadata fields across ten categories — captions, creator contact, location, rights and more — one photo at a time or the same fields across a whole batch, each value validated before it is written.
  16. A Mac app that strips GPS location from photos before you share themArchyv removes the GPS coordinates from a whole batch of photos on a Mac in one pass — keeping the copyright and captions — so what you share does not say where you were.
  17. A Mac app that adds keywords to hundreds of photos at onceArchyv writes keywords into the photo files themselves — a list typed or pasted once and applied across a whole batch, or tuned photo by photo — so any app that reads standard metadata can find them.

Looking for the options on a specific process instead? The Help reference documents every process and settings tab — or see how Archyv compares to the other tools that do these jobs, including the ones that do them better.