#Mylio photo library software#

#Mylio photo library software#

There’s a lot of other functionality to the software too, as well as a few limitations, and this is by no means an attempt at a review of the software. It also has it’s own cloud service, and recently they added the ability to add Amazon cloud drive as a back up device too. That way if you loose your computer’s hard drive for example, you can rebuild the library by taking the originals from other devices. It will make sure that your originals are on at least two devices (including the cloud) and then warn you if there are items that aren’t protected. Mylio also has a clever way of protecting your images. You can decide this on a per album, per folder, or even per image basis. The software also gives you granular control over the syncing process, and you can decide whether a device has thumbnails, previews or originals. You can import images on different devices and they will all sync and become part of the one library. If you create an album on one device, it will be added to the others, and so on. What’s clever about the system is that, although it comes with a cloud component, images are synced directly between devices.

Mylio allows you to create a library and then sync that across multiple computers and devices. Where it differs is the way it works across networks and devices. At its core it’s a photo workflow application, somewhat like Lightroom and Apple’s Photos.

If you’ve never heard of Mylio, then let me explain just what it is and how I use it. Over that time, it’s quietly absorbed itself into my way of working, and now I consider it an essential tool. The reason is that for the longest time, I considered it as something that I was “trying out” and I was trying to work out how it would fit into my workflow. I’ve been using Mylio for quite a while now, but I’ve never really talked about it.