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Install & sign in

Download, sign in, and where your files live on disk.

The SnapFlow Sync desktop app is for studio work — pulling RAWs down to edit in Lightroom or Capture One, culling a big set fast, and pushing finished selects back up. It runs alongside your editor and keeps a local copy of your albums on disk.

Install Desktop app

  1. Open the web app and go to your Profile page.
  2. Download the SnapFlow Sync disk image (a .dmg).
  3. Open the .dmg and drag SnapFlow Sync into your Applications folder.

The app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a security warning.

The Profile page with the desktop-app download

Sign in

Launch the app and you'll see the Connect your photographer account screen:

  • Server — leave this as https://snap-flow.org unless you're on a custom domain.
  • Email and Password — the same credentials you use on the web.

Click Connect (or press Enter).

The Connect login screen

Your password is never stored

Signing in exchanges your password for a 7-day access token, kept in the macOS Keychain. The app refreshes it automatically while you use it, so you rarely need to sign in again. Your password itself is never written to disk.

Where your files live

  • Sync folder — by default ~/SnapFlow Sync/, with one sub-folder per album. This is where pulled originals and finals live. You can move it under Settings → Sync folder → Change.
  • Settings (⌘,) shows your account, the current sync folder, mounted volumes, and your storage usage against your plan.
  • Theme — Light, Dark, or System, under Settings.

Tip

Everything in the app is keyboard-driven. Press ⌘K any time to open the command palette, or jump straight to a section with ⌘1–⌘7 (Albums, People, Projects, Clients, Delivery, Search, Org).