100% Private & Local
Your personal analytics should be yours alone. Aura runs entirely offline, parsing your library databases locally inside macOS secure sandbox structures. Zero servers, zero uploads.
Your Music & Photos.
Beautifully Visualized.
Aura is a gorgeous local dashboard that turns your macOS Music and Apple Photos libraries into private, interactive insights. Spot discovery trends, map your travels, and rediscover old favorites.
Download for macOS (.dmg)
Version 1.0.59 • macOS 13+
🎵 Deep Music Insights
Explore your listening history and rediscover tracks hidden in your Apple Music library. Aura reads your library XML directly with secure offline parsing.
- Overview Stats: Instantly check your total tracks and estimate your cumulative lifetime listening hours.
- Listening Habits: Review your all-time top 20 most played tracks, era composition distribution, and skip rate patterns.
- Time Machine: See a month-by-month timeline of when songs were added, highlighting your most active discovery periods.
- Forgotten Gems: Re-discover tracks you rated 4 or 5 stars but haven't played in over two years.
📸 A Photographic Journey
Explore your photography patterns, visited destinations, and camera statistics securely. Integrates natively with macOS PhotoKit in milliseconds.
- Media & Gear: Donut breakdown of photos, videos, and Live Photos, paired with detailed camera body distribution.
- Visited Destinations: Track total cities and countries visited, along with an interactive most-photographed places leaderboard.
- Elevation Profile: Categorize your photos by altitude categories, identifying photos captured at sea level up to mountain ranges.
- Photography Persona: Glowing character profile cards (e.g. "The Visual Explorer") matching your photographic habits.
Native macOS Swift
Written in pure SwiftUI without third-party frameworks. Queries thousands of photos asynchronously in under 50ms using Apple PhotoKit and parses Music XML standard plists in milliseconds.
Completely Free & Open
No hidden subscriptions, no ads, and no paywalls. The Swift source code is fully open on GitHub, enabling complete security audatibility and community transparency.