NASPhotos — Your Synology photos, native on Mac

Features

Built for the way you look at photos.

Everything you expect from Photos on your Mac, reading straight from your NAS.

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Timeline by month & day

Every photo, in order, instantly.

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Fast cached thumbnails

Scroll thousands of shots without waiting.

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People, Places & Smart Categories

Your Synology Photos metadata, natively.

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Full-resolution viewer

Pixel-perfect originals, straight from the NAS.

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Slideshow

Full-screen playback on any display.

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Dark mode

Follows your macOS appearance.

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Keyboard & trackpad

Arrow keys, pinch to zoom, swipe to browse.

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Multi-select

Select, open and export in batches.

Familiar by design

Feels like Apple Photos.

A Mac app that behaves exactly the way you expect it to.

A timeline that feels familiar

Pinned month headers, fluid scrolling and a layout that behaves exactly the way Photos does on your Mac.

Immersive full-screen viewer

Edge-to-edge originals with instant zoom, arrow-key navigation and a chrome-free presentation.

Everything in the sidebar

Albums, Places, People and Smart Categories, organized right where you expect to find them.

Videos, right in the timeline

Play clips straight from your NAS with scrubbing and full-screen playback.

Under the hood

Engineered like a system app.

Fast, private and quietly clever.

Native macOS, end to end

Built in Swift with AppKit and SwiftUI. A first-class Mac app, not a wrapped website.

Metal-accelerated rendering

GPU-backed decoding and zoom keep scrolling and full-screen viewing buttery smooth.

Local thumbnail cache

Thumbnails are cached on your Mac, so the timeline loads instantly on every launch.

Universal binary

Fully native on Apple silicon and Intel. No Rosetta, no overhead.

Runtime

Native macOS · Swift, AppKit & SwiftUI

Graphics

Metal GPU acceleration

Cache

On-device thumbnail cache

Auth

macOS Keychain, never in plaintext

Network

Direct to Synology Photos API

Architecture

Apple silicon & Intel (Universal)

Requirements

macOS 14 Sonoma or later

Footprint

~20 MB install, no dependencies

Privacy

Private by design.

Your photos stay on your NAS. Always.

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Direct connection

Local network or QuickConnect, straight to your NAS.

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No cloud account

Nothing to sign up for. Nothing leaves your network.

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Keychain credentials

Your login is stored in the macOS Keychain.

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No tracking

Zero analytics, zero telemetry, ever.

Setup

Set up in under a minute.

Three steps and your whole library is on your Mac.

Enter your NAS address

QuickConnect ID or a local IP address.

Sign in

Your DSM account, stored safely in Keychain.

Browse instantly

Your full library, right there on your Mac.

Synology DSM 7.0+

With the Synology Photos package installed.

HTTPS

Let's Encrypt or self-signed certificates.

Connections

QuickConnect or a direct IP address.

Questions

Good to know.

Does it upload my photos?

No. NASPhotos never uploads your photos. It connects directly to your Synology NAS and simply displays your library. Nothing leaves your network, and there is no cloud account involved.

Which NAS models are supported?

Any Synology NAS running DSM 7.0 or later with the Synology Photos package installed, reached over QuickConnect or a direct IP address.

Do I need Synology Photos?

Yes. NASPhotos reads your library through the Synology Photos package, so it should be installed and set up on your NAS.

Is my data private?

Yes. Your photos stay on your NAS, your login is stored in the macOS Keychain, and there is zero tracking or telemetry.

Your NAS photos, finally at home on your Mac.