Stats and Insights
What your photos say about how you shoot: gear over time, favourite lenses, film simulations, shutter wear.
Click Stats at the top. The figures cover the photos in the current folders and filters: choose All Photos for your whole library, or a folder for one trip. The summary at the top (photo count, total size, cameras, lenses) stays in view on both tabs.
Insights
The Insights tab reads your photos and tells you what stands out, in sentences. Everything is worked out on your Mac; nothing is sent anywhere.
The gear timeline across the top shows one lane per camera and lens over time, thicker where you used it more. You can see when a new camera took over, and which lens has been with you for years.
Cards below it pick out patterns, strongest first. Depending on your photos you might see:
- which camera and lens take most of your shots, and how much is phone versus camera
- when you moved from one camera to another, and gear you’ve stopped using
- which lens you use on which body, and how much a new lens got used after you bought it
- shutter wear, with an estimate of when a body reaches a round number
- your RAW / JPEG mix
- film simulations and picture styles you favour
- trips where photos lost their location partway through, sessions shot on two cameras, your busiest session
- zoom lenses used mostly at their widest or longest
Cards only appear when there’s enough to say, so a small folder may show few or none.
On each card:
- Show photos lists the photos behind it; Select in Library selects them and takes you there.
- Compare cards against (above the cards) adds a baseline: your whole library, or the same length of time just before. A marker on each bar shows the baseline figure.
- The ✕ hides that kind of card for good. Show all again at the bottom brings them back.
Charts
The Charts tab shows the spread of camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, resolution and file size as bar charts.
Shutter counts and film simulations are read when photos are imported. If cards about them seem to be missing photos you added a while ago, choose Rescan Library once to fill them in.