For macOS · Apple Silicon
Organize your personal collection of images, videos and audio on Mac. Find favorites with tags and ratings, keep track of files across drives, and protect selected media with local encryption.
Browse your personal collection with tags and ratings
About 10 MB · Activate with a license · $29.99
Images, videos and audio, organized with your own tags and ratings.
Alternate copies and related files, grouped as one item.
Local encryption for the parts of your collection you choose to protect.
Made for
Build a personal media collection around what you love. Keep images, videos and audio easy to browse, easy to find, and organized on your own terms.
The images you save, the videos you keep, the recordings you return to. Browse them in one library and use tags and ratings to organize them around your interests, while your files stay in their folders.
Images · Videos · Audio · Tags · Ratings
Add folders from your Mac and external drives. Unplug one and its media stays in your library, marked offline, along with the drive it lives on. Connect it again to open the files.
External drives · Offline catalog · Search
Keep alternate copies and related resources together as one item. For a film, group the original, a smaller copy, cover art and subtitles. Still looking for a work? Add it by name and attach the file later.
Alternate copies · Related files · Manual entries
Look through saved images, watch a collected video or listen to a recording. Browse and play from the same library, then tag and rate the things you want to find again.
Image viewing · Video and audio playback
Keep selected media out of everyday browsing, or encrypt files in local vaults with separate passwords. Hiding controls visibility; encryption protects file contents. Your media is not uploaded to LumenPod servers.
Hidden media · Local encryption · Separate vaults
External drives are supported in the direct-download edition.
01 / All of a piece
A collected work can come with several files: alternate copies, cover art and related resources. Keep them together as one item. For a film, that might mean the original, a lighter copy, a poster and subtitles.
Keep each format and resolution side by side, and choose which one plays. Add cover art for the card, and subtitles the player picks up.
Resources 6
Cover 1
Subtitles 2
Others 1
Resources 0
Added by name and type. The file comes later.
Cover
Subtitles
Others
02 / A space of your own
A quieter library and a protected collection serve different needs. Choose what stays out of sight, and what needs a key.
Hide selected media from your usual view, and see it again while a vault is unlocked. Hiding changes visibility; it is not a substitute for encryption.
Encrypt selected files locally. Each password opens its own vault, and vault keys stay off LumenPod servers. Keep a second copy on another drive: it stays encrypted, is checked once it's written, and its file name says nothing about what's inside.
Your media stays on your disk. Keep backups of your files and vault recovery keys.
03 / A little order
Your folders are only the beginning. Give your collection a little context with tags and ratings, and come back to the things you love.
Themes, genres, favorite artists. Organize your images, videos and audio your way, without rearranging your folders.
Tags
04 / Time to enjoy
Return to what you collected. View images, watch videos and listen to audio from the same library. Try the image and video viewer below.
In this view3 / 6
Details
Along the Coast.mp4
Tags
How it works
01
After activating LumenPod, add folders from your Mac or an external drive. Browse existing media without moving it into a separate library.
02
Add tags and ratings to your collection. Keep alternate copies together, view images, and play videos and audio in the same library.
03
Create a password-protected vault and encrypt the media you choose. Save both recovery files and keep the key file separately from the data file.
Pricing
One license unlocks all of LumenPod — no tiers, no add-ons, no upsells. Every purchase has a 14-day refund window.
What's included
Frequently asked
Learn about activation, privacy, and keeping access to your files. For anything else, write to support@lumenpod.app.
Download the Mac app, then paste in the activation code from your purchase. Downloading alone does not unlock it.
Media encryption and decryption happen locally. License activation and checks use an internet connection. Your media is not uploaded to LumenPod servers. Optional crash diagnostics and usage analytics are off by default; you can enable them in Settings → Privacy.
No. Your files stay on your disk and your vaults stay decryptable with your access password. A lapsed license gates three things — creating new vaults, protecting media, and batch protection — and never the ability to open, view, preview, export, or recover what you already have.
The intent is simple: paying gets you new work, not the right to open files you already protected. If you want to stop paying and keep the paid features too, that's what the one-time license is for.
14 days, no questions asked, and you don't have to ask us — open your orders and request the refund yourself. It goes back through the original checkout provider. If anything gets stuck, email support@lumenpod.app from the account you bought with. The full policy lives in the Terms of Service.
macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4). The download is an Apple Silicon build — Intel Macs are not supported. The two most recent macOS releases get the most testing — older supported releases may receive fixes on a best-effort basis.
LumenPod is for personal collections of images, videos and audio. The direct-download edition catalogs your existing folders without moving your originals into a separate library. Files on disconnected drives stay listed in the offline catalog, so you can find which drive holds an item. An item can hold more than one file — alternate copies, cover art, subtitles — so a title stays one entry instead of a handful of loose files. Organize media with tags and ratings, and protect selected files with local encryption. Your media is not uploaded to LumenPod servers.
Uninstalling the app does not automatically delete your unencrypted originals. Encrypted files still need a compatible copy of LumenPod and the appropriate keys to open — keep backups of both your media and your recovery files.
Yes. LumenPod supports multiple local encrypted vaults, each opened with its own password. The password dialog does not list your vaults; a password that does not match an existing vault can open a new, empty one. Check the intended password if a collection looks unexpectedly empty.
This multi-vault behavior is designed with plausible deniability in mind, but it is not a guarantee that encrypted files or other vaults cannot be detected through disk inspection, metadata, backups or recovery files. Keep copies of your media and the required recovery files.
The current Apple Silicon Mac download is about 10 MB. LumenPod organizes local images, videos and audio without uploading them to LumenPod servers. Catalogs and supporting data use additional disk space; import time and playback performance depend on your collection, storage and file formats.
The current direct-download edition supports local network (LAN) access. Start Browser & WebDAV sharing to browse public media from a browser or compatible WebDAV client on another device. This share is read-only and has no password: anyone who can reach it on your network can access unencrypted, unhidden public media while it runs. Encrypted and hidden media are excluded.
Multi-device access is different from library sync. Automatic synchronization between Macs is not enabled in the standard build. A license covering up to 3 Macs does not itself synchronize their libraries. See local media sharing over LAN and WebDAV.
Encryption and decryption happen locally; LumenPod servers do not hold your vault keys. The direct-download app allows access to existing vaults without an active license. Keep a compatible copy of the app, your vault backups, and the keys needed to unlock them.
Recovery requires both the exported data file and its matching key file. Store them separately, and update your recovery backup when the app indicates it no longer covers your vaults. Recovery files do not replace backups of your media.
What ships today is the direct download on this page, and everything above describes it. A Mac App Store edition is built and waiting on Apple's review — we can't give a date for it, and nothing on this page is a promise that it will arrive. No Setapp.
The two editions are not interchangeable. The App Store one is a paid app bought once from Apple: no account with us, no activation code, refunds through Apple. It also runs sandboxed, so its library lives inside the app's own container — importing copies your files rather than cataloguing them where they sit, and external volumes, network volumes and handing a file to an external player are direct-download only. A licence bought here does not carry over to an App Store install, or the other way round.
The licence agreement, privacy policy and support page describe both editions and label every clause that applies to only one. This site stays the source of truth for pricing and the latest direct build.
Collection guides
01 / Across drives
Find which drive holds an image, video or audio file—even when that drive is disconnected.
Read the guide ↗02 / In your folders
Build a personal media library on Mac while keeping your originals in the folders you already use.
Read the guide ↗03 / One work, many files
Keep a collected video's alternate copies and supporting files together as one library item.
Read the guide ↗04 / Around your network
Browse your public media collection from another device on the same network, using a browser or a WebDAV client.
Read the guide ↗From the guide
Hidden albums, FileVault and encrypted vaults: choose the protection that fits your collection, then check the copies outside it.
Download LumenPod for Mac and activate it with a license. Bring your images, videos and audio together. Organize your collection and return to the things you love.