FlowGallery

🏠 forYour Memories.

Native Experience for Synology Photos.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

Free to download. Built in Swift, for the Mac.
FlowGallery showing a photo timeline grouped by month, with a sidebar for favorites, albums, people, subjects, places and folders.

Offline?

Your Photos, Wherever you go.

Keep Photos offline. Pin Albums. Manage Storage.

The Albums view in FlowGallery, with a green badge on the offline album Around the World, and Trip to Italy, Sunset at Home and Streetart pinned in the sidebar.

Save Space. You decide what stays offline.

Every photo's date, size and location is kept on your Mac. You decide what else stays.

  • Originals, in full quality

    Photos from the period you choose are stored as their original files.

  • Favorites stay with you

    Every favorite is kept in full quality, whatever its age.

  • Thumbnails for the rest

    Turn on small previews to browse the whole library offline.

  • Syncing that keeps its place

    Pause or quit part way. Nothing is removed while your server is out of reach.

FlowGallery settings for library sync and offline photos, with options to keep favorites and thumbnails offline.

Photos in Fullscreen.
Your Map. Your People.
Your Subjects.
Powerful Search.

Map, People and Subjects are part of FlowGallery Pro.

A photo of a pink flower open in FlowGallery, with a filmstrip of the library along the bottom.
The FlowGallery map of the Baltic region, with photo thumbnails pinned where they were taken in Latvia.
Your Map.

Your Server.
Your Friend's Server.
Your Family's Server.

Use many Synology Photos libraries at the same time, all in one app.

FlowGallery Pro

Your whole library, wherever you are

  • People and subjects

    Browse your photos by who and what is in them, online or off.

  • Places

    See your photos on the map, anywhere.

  • Your whole library offline

    Keep months, years or every photo on this Mac.

  • Albums offline

    Keep any album on this Mac.

FlowGallery will be free to download, with Pro at $14.99 as an in-app purchase.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

Compatibility

What you need to use FlowGallery.

  • macOS 26 or later

    FlowGallery is a Mac app and needs macOS 26 Tahoe or newer.

  • Synology Photos on DSM 7 or later

    Your NAS needs the Synology Photos package. Photo Station and Moments aren't supported.

  • Connects by QuickConnect or address

    Sign in with your Synology QuickConnect, server's IP address or domain name and port. Outside your local network, the connection must use HTTPS.

  • Two-factor and self-signed certificates

    Both work, so you can keep your server's security settings as they are.

Need a hand?

Questions, bugs or ideas. Just send an email.

mail [at] nativv [dot] ch