Aperty
Aperty is a Mac portrait photo editor from Skylum for retouching skin, facial features, and batches of portraits on your desktop.
What is Aperty?
Aperty is a native photo editing app for portrait photographers who want faster retouching on Mac. It is designed for editing faces, skin, eyes, and other portrait details while keeping work on the local computer. Users can process single images or larger portrait sets, then fine-tune results for a consistent look across a session. Aperty also supports plug-in workflows for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and macOS Photos, which makes it easier to fit into an established photography workflow. Common uses include wedding, family, school, studio, and event portrait editing. Published by Skylum, Aperty focuses on desktop portrait enhancement rather than general-purpose graphic design.
Key features
- Retouch skin with smoothing, blemish cleanup, dark circle correction, and wrinkle adjustments
- Enhance eyes and facial details with tools for whitening, redness cleanup, and iris adjustments
- Apply edits across batches of portraits to keep a photo set consistent
- Work offline on your computer without uploading images for routine editing
- Use the app as a standalone editor or as a plug-in for Photoshop, Lightroom, and macOS Photos
- Fine-tune portrait reshaping and other subject-focused adjustments for individual images
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Aperty is a legitimate photo editing app for portrait retouching. Access to your pictures and photo folders is normal for its purpose, and plug-in integrations may place components inside supported editing apps if you choose that workflow. The Mac App Store listing says the developer may collect device identifiers, usage data, and diagnostics that are not linked to your identity. As with any editor that handles original photos, keep backups of important work before large batch edits or cleanup.
Recommendation: Keep Aperty if you use it for portrait editing or rely on its plug-in workflow with Photoshop, Lightroom, or Photos. If you no longer use it, removing the app is reasonable, but you may also want to remove its support files later if you want to reclaim extra disk space.
Common paths
/Applications/Aperty.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.skylum.apertymas
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