See what exists
A readable inventory for bodies of work, storage media, projects, and collections.
Features
A complete environment for caring for photographic work.
Each module serves a simple intention: find faster, document more clearly, preserve longer.
Keep context
Metadata, notes, and versions that remain useful outside one tool.
Prove integrity
Validation and manifests show what is complete, healthy, and restorable.
Overview
Each screen reduces a business uncertainty.
Obscura Flow does not multiply features for their own sake. It organizes the key decisions: what exists, what is documented, what is verified, and what can be restored.
Modules
Precise tools for a living archive.
Features are grouped around expected outcomes: understand, classify, verify, transmit.
Library
A local-first workspace that remains fully usable offline and brings projects, collections, imports, and archives together.
Projects
Each assignment follows a clear lifecycle, from draft to active work to archive, with images, notes, status, and deliverables.
Collections & tags
Manual, smart, and nested collections organize series and selections without moving originals.
Reliable import
Copy, move, or reference folders with SHA-256 deduplication and automatic resume after interruption.
Lightroom migration
Import a Lightroom Classic catalog (.lrcat) while preserving ratings, keywords, collections, virtual copies, and history.
Metadata
EXIF, IPTC, and XMP are read and enriched through a modern editor, with sidecar writes that never alter originals.
Indexing & thesaurus
Persistent inventory numbers, a structured documentation method, and controlled vocabulary make archives searchable over time.
Local AI analysis
Captions, objects, OCR, near-duplicates, and face grouping run entirely on your Mac, and remain optional.
Archive Center
Compressed packages, SHA-256 manifests, Ed25519 signatures, and optional AES-256 encryption.
Integrity & fixity
Signature checks, scheduled audits, format validation, and verified restore paths reduce preservation uncertainty.
3-2-1 backup
Guided off-site copies to Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, NAS, or local folders with resumable transfers.
Heritage
Authenticity certificates, portfolios, catalogue raisonné exports, provenance, and location history for works.
Paths
Where to start, depending on what you need.
Each cluster leads to the page covering that intent, from cataloging to restore.
Catalog
Find an image and its context inside tens of thousands of files.
Archive
Seal, verify, and restore a body of work with evidence rather than assumptions.
Back up
Apply the 3-2-1 rule to remote and local destinations, with resumable transfers.
Migrate
Bring an existing Lightroom catalog across without modifying it.
By audience
The same product, described from where you actually stand.
Get oriented
The method, the vocabulary, and the answers before going further.
Benefit
An archive that is easier to explain, transmit, and restore.
Projects, collections, metadata, validations, and restores are presented through one consistent interface. Decisions remain understandable for a team, a client, or an institution.
View archivingDecision
Build an archive that stays understandable.
Tell us about your context before the public opening of downloads and commercial offers.