Show your photographs with the settings that made them.

Fovea opens a folder of RAW files and reads what the camera recorded for each one. Add a caption, present them fullscreen, and send the whole set to someone as one file. It runs on a Mac, on Windows, or in a browser, and it never uploads anything.

Download or open it in your browser

A tiger lying in the undergrowth, seen through out-of-focus leaves. Its eyes are sharp. — Tiger, through the leaves NIKON Z 6II · 180–600mm at 600mm · f/6.3 · 1/640 s · ISO 3200

A green bee-eater perched among leaves — Green bee-eater NIKON Z 8 · 600mm · f/6.3 · 1/800 s · ISO 400

The camera data stays with the picture

Fovea reads NEF, CR2, CR3 and ARW files, as well as JPEG, TIFF and PNG. For every photograph it shows the body, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed and ISO. When the camera recorded a focus point, Fovea draws it on the frame.

Your original files are only read. Fovea never writes to them.

An Indian paradise flycatcher on a branch, framed by leaves — Indian paradise flycatcher NIKON Z 9 · 600mm · f/6.3 · 1/640 s · ISO 3600

Write the story, then present it

Each photograph gets a caption: where you were, how long you waited, what happened next. Present the set fullscreen with a small overlay you control. Arrow keys and swipes move between frames.

Anyone you share with can leave comments on individual photographs.

A tiger walking along the edge of a still lake, with trees reflected in the water — Tiger by a still lake NIKON Z 9 · 70–200mm at 70mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 s · ISO 64

One file to send

Export a project as a single .fovea file, with the photographs, captions and comments inside. It opens on a Mac, a Windows PC, or a phone's browser. There are no accounts and nothing is uploaded. Once it has loaded, it works offline.

Camera playground

This photograph was taken at f/4, 1/800 s and ISO 64. Change the aperture, shutter speed and ISO to see how it would have come out, and click anywhere on it to focus there.

Focused on the tiger, about 30 m away

− + 0.0

Aperture f/4 Lower numbers let in more light but keep less of the scene sharp. Higher numbers keep more in focus. Shutter speed 1/800 s Slower speeds let in more light, and the walking tiger starts to smear. ISO ISO 64 Higher ISO brightens the picture and adds grain.

Focus on

Your browser doesn't support WebGL 2, which this needs.

This is a playground, not a simulation. The blur, motion and grain are exaggerated approximations made from a single photograph, so a real camera won't produce exactly these results.

Download

Free and open source. All releases

macOS

macOS 11 or later

Apple silicon Intel

Opening it the first time

The app isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet. Drag Fovea to Applications, then run this once in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Fovea.app"

Windows

Windows 10 or 11

64-bit installer 32-bit

If SmartScreen stops it

The installer isn't code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Browser

iPhone, iPad, Android, or any recent desktop browser. Add it to your home screen to use it offline.

Open the web app

Made by Utkarsh

I write software for a living and spend my free time with a camera. Every photograph on this page is mine. I built Fovea because I wanted to show these pictures with their stories and settings next to them, without uploading them anywhere.

More of my photographs are on Instagram at @lensofutkarsh. The code is on GitHub, and I'd like to hear from you if Fovea is useful.