Photo Software News: Mylio Updated with New Features (And A Note on Recent Pricing Changes)
Mylio has just received a pretty big new update. The latest version adds some significant new features and is available now. Also, the company recently changed its pricing levels.
I’ve been using Mylio for a long time now as my overall library and archive tool. Whenever I’m finished with a set of images, I export them out as full resolution Jpegs, and I then use Mylio to catalogue and manage those. It’s great because it syncs across all your devices and you have access to your catalogue pretty much anywhere. It does have some editing features too, but I generally don’t use those.
Anyway, they just announced a few new key features which are pretty handy:
Categories: Fromm the press release: “Add one or more categories as you organise to find photos even faster. This can help you filter between "work" and "personal" with ease.” This is great. Think of it as an additional layer of organisation. You could do this with unique keywords, but this kind of structure is really useful and something I’ve wanted for ages in all of my cataloguing apps (not just photo ones). I wanted this in iTunes too, as a way to organise collections.
Here's how I'd probably use this: I've used categories to define my work for a while now - you can see them on my portfolio site. For example: Street, Nature, Travel etc. I had previously used keywords for this, but this is messy, because sometimes a keyword can have cross connotations - but this is more specific, and it is handy to have this separate from keywords. For example, I might have a photo that is keyworded "street" and "Travel" but I only want it in the street category. I know this is pretty nerdy, but I'm excited!
Mylio can now import directly from Apple Photos. Mylio stays connected to Photos, so any new photos you take are automatically added to your library.
They also changed the pricing while ago too. Mylio is a subscription service, and it used to be quite steep with multiple tiers and image count limits. Now they’ve reduced it to just two tiers, with a free and premium tier. The free tier is limited and supports up to 25,000 photos and three devices. It has limited editing. The premium tier is $99 a year or $9.99 a month and supports unlimited images and unlimited devices. Obviously, this isn’t for everyone, but if you need this kind of tool (it’s quite specific in fairness), there’s nothing else out there that works just like this in as effective a way.
By the way, I’m not affiliated with them in any way, nor is this in any way sponsored, but it’s a tool that I use all the time and has become indispensable for me personally, so I just wanted to share on this news.
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