# Baryta — Photo browser for your NAS > Photo browser for your NAS (iPhone/iPad app by The Elegant Violin LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baryta/id6801658364 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [The Elegant Violin LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801658636) - Category: Photo & Video - Price: $24.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 4 MB - Released: 2026-09-10 - Data updated: 2026-10-02 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baryta/id6801658364/reviews.md ## What is Baryta? You finished them. You sent them to the NAS. And you haven't looked at them since. That is what a NAS is for. It is the safest place in the house, and the one nobody visits. The photographs you worked hardest on sit in folders named for years and trips, backed up twice and seen by no one. Baryta is the way back to them, in your hands. Open the drive you already have and your folders are there, exactly as you left them. A year. A trip. One afternoon. Open a photograph and it fills the screen, every pixel you finished, straight from the file. Nothing to install on the NAS, nothing to set up, no account to make. Just the pictures. THE PICTURE, AND NOTHING ELSE One tap brings the controls. One tap sends them away. Edge to edge, the photograph is alone. WHERE YOU WERE Ask, and the settings you shot it with appear in one line. Ask again for the camera and the lens. Once more, and a map shows where you were standing. The harbour at Ouchy, just past eight in the evening. The map remembers the place. You remember the rest. CLOSER Pinch, and you are in the pixels: the whole file at its full size, fetched from the NAS as you look, with a small card to show where you are. Double-tap to go straight to the spot you touched. Baryta never changes a file. It only looks. THE DAY'S TAKE A memory card in the port is a folder like any other. On the way home, the day's pictures are already there, at full size, before anything has been copied anywhere. Pull the card and it leaves. Put it back and it returns. AROUND, AND BACK Grid, photograph, slideshow. Each opens from the last, and every way back lands on the picture you left. A photograph flies out of its tile and back into it. Press play on any folder and the pictures go around. Come back tomorrow and Baryta opens where you were. IT KNOWS THE WAY TO YOUR NAS Baryta reads the drive you already have, switched on and shared the way it is. Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, unRAID, Asustor, or a folder in Files. YOURS, STILL No account. No tracking. Nothing in the app that phones home. The privacy label reads Data Not Collected. One payment covers the Mac, the iPad and the iPhone, with the Apple TV on the same purchase. WHAT IT LEAVES ALONE Baryta browses. It does not catalog, import, edit, or play video. RAW files stay with your editor and out of the grid, so a folder of finished work shows finished work. Search, faces and albums live in other apps. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-01 - Fixes a bug preventing smooth rotation on device reorientation - Fixes a bug that occasionally prevented smooth image-to-image navigation ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-29 BARYTA ON THE IPHONE Baryta now runs on the iPhone, with a layout of its own rather than the iPad's squeezed onto less glass. Pinch to 1:1, double-tap, the slideshow, the exposure filter, sharing and a hardware keyboard's keys are all as they are on the iPad. One purchase covers the phone as it covers the Mac, the iPad and the Apple TV. The same layout answers an iPad pane narrowed by Split View or Slide Over. THE THUMBNAIL STRIP Finding the next photograph used to mean leaving this one. Swipe up over the photograph, or press F on a hardware keyboard, and the folder's thumbnails run along the bottom, the open one at the center. The strip is the scrubber: drag or flick it and the photograph changes as the thumbnails pass through the center; tap one to open it; swipe between photographs and the strip keeps pace. Swipe down to lower it. MAGNIFICATION, THREE WAYS Above 1:1 Baryta enlarges the file's own pixels for judging focus. Settings → Viewer → Magnification now offers the choice: Nearest Neighbor, as before; Bilinear; or Bicubic, the smooth enlargement. SMALLER THINGS A swipe up over the photograph now raises the strip; the readout moves by the i button and the I key alone. And some HEIC files from cameras that write their EXIF at the very end of the file – the Hasselblad X2D II among them – occasionally showed their dimensions and size but no camera, lens or exposure. They read whole now. And at 1:1, where each of the file's pixels is a whole number of the screen's, the photograph now lands exactly on them after a pan or an off-center zoom rather than a hair between, so 1:1 reads as sharp as the file. Below 1:1 the photograph is now resampled to the screen with a Lanczos filter once it comes to rest, so a fit view reads as sharp as a proper downsample rather than the compositor's softer one. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-11 ZOOM IN PAST 1:1 1:1 used to be the end of the road. Three stops stand above it now (2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 for critical pixel-transition examination) opened from the Fit/Fill/1:1 presets in the viewer's bar with a press and hold, or with ⌘2, ⌘3 and ⌘4 on a hardware keyboard; once the band is open your fingers range through it. Inside it the file's own pixels are enlarged and nothing is invented between them. A pixel becomes a square you can see, which is the point of looking that close. NARROW A FOLDER BY EXPOSURE A folder of a thousand frames will now answer a question. Filter the grid by ISO, shutter, aperture or focal length, choosing only from the values the folder actually holds, and clear it again in one tap. SHARING MORE THAN ONE PHOTOGRAPH Tap Select, then the frames you mean: open them as a set the viewer walks end to end, or share them together. ⌘A takes the whole folder from a hardware keyboard. A LINE UNDER EACH TILE Tiles carry a line of their own when you want one: the file's name, then its exposure beneath it, cycled with the i button in the bar or the I key, and off again. SMALLER THINGS A pause now ends a slideshow rather than holding it. The controls remember being sent away and stay away until you ask. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-10 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-02.*