$ open -a Poliframe

Poliframe

A small, native macOS app that combines your photos into clean diptychs and photo strips.

Poliframe started with my daughter's photos. I was finally going through them — her first days at the maternity hospital, her christening, all the small milestones since — and I wanted to pair them into diptychs.

I used to do this in Photoshop, with a little script I'd written for it. But I don't keep Photoshop around anymore, and doing it by hand was tedious. And, well, I'm a developer: faced with a small, repetitive task, the only reasonable response is to build a whole app to avoid it. So that's what I did — a native one that does exactly this, nothing more.

The name is a blend of Polina — my daughter — and Frame.

$ poliframe --features
  • ·Combine 2–4 photos into clean diptychs and photo strips
  • ·Captions with title, copyright and EXIF lines — 7 typographic presets
  • ·Watermark from your own logo — 3×3 placement, opacity and size
  • ·Per-photo editor — crop, rotate, flip with aspect-ratio presets
  • ·Print preview with paper sizes, DPI check, fit or fill
  • ·Per-side frame margins and a curated mat palette
  • ·Save your settings as reusable presets
  • ·Zoom and pan with adaptive resolution
  • ·Export to JPEG, PNG or TIFF — 8/16-bit, sRGB, Display P3 or Adobe RGB
  • ·Keep EXIF, date and other metadata on export
  • ·Fully native and offline — nothing leaves your Mac