Upgrading from PowerPhotos 1 or 2, or iPhoto Library Manager to PowerPhotos 3.0

PowerPhotos 3.0 was released in 2024 and has a number of major new features and improvements over PowerPhotos 2.0. If you have an existing license for PowerPhotos 1.0 or 2.0, or any version of iPhoto Library Manager, you can receive a 50% discount when upgrading to PowerPhotos 3.0 by entering your old license key when placing your order at https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/store.

If you’re running PowerPhotos 3.0 on a Mac that already has a PowerPhotos 1 or 2 or iPLM license, the “Upgrade PowerPhotos” button will automatically send your existing license key for you when placing an in-app order.

If you need to retrieve your license info, visit our lost license page.

Here is a summary of the major additions to PowerPhotos 3.0.

• Upgraded photo browser: The photo browser in PowerPhotos has gotten a major upgrade, and can now do many of the same operations that you can do in Photos. This includes moving photos between albums, deleting photos, and moving, renaming, and deleting albums. The photo browser now also updates live when changes are made to the library, resulting in much faster loading and browsing.
• Keyboard centric metadata editing: A new inspector pane allows for quick editing of photo titles, keywords, and captions, all without taking your hands off the keyboard. After entering values, the tab key can be used to quickly navigate to the next photo without ever having to touch the mouse/trackpad.
• Batch metadata editing: Select a whole group of photos and edit their title, keywords, or captions all at once. You can modify existing metadata with a templating system that lets you include incrementing counters, dates, and other values in the newly entered metadata.
• Advanced multi library search: A new indexing engine allows you to set up complex searches using nested and/or predicates. You can either search one library or multiple libraries at once, and searches can be saved for easy access later on.
• New photo viewer: PowerPhotos now has its own in-window photo viewer instead of using the system Quick Look window. This provides faster loading and navigating, while also still being able to see detailed photo info in the inspector pane.
• Move or copy photos between libraries: In addition to being able to copy photos/albums between libraries, you can now move them instead. When moving photos, PowerPhotos will first copy the albums/photos to the new library, and then delete them from the original library once it’s done.
• Multi library selection support: You can now select multiple libraries in the library list at a time. This provides another way for initiating a merge, duplicate search, or lets you move or delete more than one library at a time.
• Improved undo support: PowerPhotos has added undo support in several additional areas, including its various new editing features, as well as when configuring search predicates and rearranging the library list.