Elix: The Fast, Essential Photo Editor for Mac
Elix is built for photography purists
Elix: The Fast, Essential Photo Editor for Mac
Elix is built for photography purists. Stop fighting your software and start editing your photos. If you are sick of endless features slowing down your editing experience and unethical data collection, Elix is the solution.
Designed strictly for simplicity and speed, Elix is a high-performance processor and cataloging tool built exclusively for macOS. By stripping away AI gimmicks and modern bloat, Elix gets out of your way and delivers an essential toolset for quick edits and rapid organization.
Built for the Apple Silicon Era by utilizing macOS native frameworks like Metal and Core Image, Elix removes the overhead that makes modern editing sluggish. This ensures fast rendering and library scrolling.
• Zero Bloat: No background processes, no web wrappers, and no login screens.
• Fast performance on M series Apple chips.
• A truly native macOS interface for the best experience possible within the Apple ecosystem.
The essential toolkit provides exactly what you need for a high-end RAW workflow without the clutter:
• Cataloging: Manage, rate, and filter your photo libraries with incredible speed to find your "keepers" in seconds.
• Essential Transforms: Rotate, Crop, Mirror, Distortion Comp, Tilt, Keystone, Copy/Paste, A/B testing, and Auto Edit.
• Color & Enhancements: Robust support for Exposure, Contrast, Custom Curves, H&S, B&W, White Balance, Hue, Clarity, Dehaze, Sharpness, Vignette, and more.
• LUT Import and Export for professional color grading.
• Comprehensive EXIF Metadata.
Elix is perfectly designed to be the front end of your creative process. Do your heavy lifting, culling, and base edits natively. When you require more advanced pixel-perfect retouching, a simple right-click sends your photo straight to Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop, or your preferred third-party software.
Ethics by Design.
We believe software should be a tool, not a tracker.
• No Subscriptions: One fixed fee. No renting software as a service, no ads, and absolutely no in-app purchases.
• Privacy First: Your photos never touch a server. Elix will never sell your data because it never collects it in the first place.
File & RAW Compatibility
• Native support for most image file formats including JPG, PNG, HEIF, TIFF, Webp, TGA, DNG, and more.
• Elix supports over 200 RAW camera formats, specifically anything natively supported in your version of macOS.
Please check macOS compatibility guidelines to see if your camera model and its RAW formats are system compatible. The full compatibility list can be found at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120534