Start with Peakto, the best Photo Cataloger

1.2 How to start with Peakto?

1. How to start with Peakto? 

Peakto is the digital hub for all your images. It was designed to become the place where you access all your photo catalogs, image collections. It supports the following cataloging apps (Apple Photos, Lightroom Classic, Luminar 4, Luminar AI, Aperture, Capture One, iViewMedia, Instagram and some more).

Peakto will let you :
  1. Explore your photos in one interface
  2. Search through all your photos
  3. Categorize your photos automatically thanks to AI
  4. Annotate and manage your photos
  5. Edit your photos and regroups the different versions
  6. Create multi-source albums and export them

To start using Peakto, link your photos to it by following the recommendations on how to add photo sources in the next sections.

1.1. Launching Peakto for the first time

When you launch Peakto for the first time, you will be greeted by some Welcome screen that highlights the key functionalities of the sofware. You can always go back to that screen using the Help ➜ Welcome… menu from the Help Menu.

Peakto will also detect what are the apps that you have installed on your Mac and will propose to activate some specific integrations. You can bypass this step and configure these integrations later from the Settings dialog. If you are ready to configure these integrations, simply follow the on screen instructions. This is discussed in more details in the next section 1.3 Adding images to Peakto.

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