Obscura FlowContactObscura Flow · for artists and photographers
Four macOS apps, each for one precise need. Use them on their own or together, and your images stay on your Mac.
Where to start
Start from your situation, not from a feature list. Each need leads to the app that answers it.
Gather with Obscura Trace
Describe with Obscura Catalog
Preserve with Obscura Vault
Arrange with Memory AtlasThe apps
Each app has its own site, with an up-to-date guide, release notes, download, and terms.
Gather
Know where every photo lives.
Obscura Trace inventories your drives, finds exact duplicates and visually similar images, lets you choose which versions to keep, then consolidates everything into a clean library through verified copies.
external site : index.obscuraflow.app
Describe
The catalogue raisonné of your work.
Obscura Catalog organizes and describes your images, enriches their EXIF and XMP metadata, and helps you find them again. It keeps your catalogue raisonné: works, attributions, prints, exhibitions, publications, and provenance.
external site : catalog.obscuraflow.app
Preserve
Intact originals, and the proof that they are.
Obscura Vault brings your originals into sealed archives, replicates them on your own media and off-site, verifies that they are intact, and restores them the day you need them.
external site : vault.obscuraflow.app
Arrange
Archives described to the ISAD(G) standard.
Memory Atlas arranges and describes archives to the international ISAD(G) standard, from fonds down to item, so they stay understandable to those who receive them, and exports them as EAD or a printable finding aid.
external site : atlas.obscuraflow.app
The journey
Each app works on its own. Combined, they exchange open files: nothing ties you to an online service.
GatherObscura TraceA clean library, free of duplicates
DescribeObscura CatalogAn export package ready for preservation
PreserveObscura VaultAlongside, for the studio's documentsArrange · Memory AtlasOur principles
The same standards from one app to the next, because a body of work cannot be replaced.
Your images and descriptions stay on your Mac. Nothing goes online without an action on your part.
Verified copies, checked integrity, logged operations: you know what was done.
XMP, LIDO, CIDOC-CRM, ISAD(G): your descriptions remain readable outside our software.
Mac apps, fast and usable offline, not web pages in disguise.
Questions
The essentials to choose. Each app's details live on its own site.
No. Each one answers a precise need and works on its own. Start with the one that solves your current problem; add the others when you need them, by exchanging files.
If your images are scattered across several drives, Obscura Trace. If they are in order but poorly documented, Obscura Catalog. If you fear losing them, Obscura Vault. For paper archives or documents, Memory Atlas.
No, unless you decide so, for instance for an off-site copy with Obscura Vault.
They are native macOS apps. Each app's system requirements are listed on its site, next to the download.
Through files: Obscura Trace leaves you a clean library to catalogue, and Obscura Catalog's export package prepares the entry into Obscura Vault. No shared account, no shared database.
On each app's site: user guide, release notes, and download are kept up to date there.
Contact
Describe your work and your archive: we will point you to the right tool.