Aperty

Aperty is a Mac and Windows AI portrait editor that runs offline with unlimited retouching and no per-image credits. It offers natural skin smoothing, eye and face reshaping tools, custom presets and batch sync, and works standalone or as a Photoshop, Lightroom and macOS Photos plug-in.

Aperty is a desktop portrait retouching application for Mac and Windows, built around the recurring problem of volume work: weddings, family sessions and studio days that produce hundreds of frames needing the same careful skin, eye and face treatment. The editor runs locally on the photographer's machine, so images are never uploaded, and there are no per-image credits or caps on how many files can be processed. That combination of offline processing and unlimited throughput is the core of the pitch, aimed squarely at people who currently spend evenings inside Photoshop instead of shooting or resting. The tool works both standalone and as a plug-in for Photoshop, Lightroom and macOS Photos, which matters for anyone who has already built a catalogue and culling routine around those programs. Import can happen by dragging files into the app or by launching the plug-in from an existing editor, so the round trip through exports and re-imports is avoided. Retouching is driven by presets authored by working photographers, then fine-tuned with sliders for amount and style. Batch Sync applies a set of edits once and pushes them across an entire shoot, which is the feature that keeps skin tones and looks consistent when a gallery is delivered as a whole. The toolkit is specific to people. Natural skin retouch handles smoothing, blemishes, dark circles and wrinkles without the plastic finish that gives AI retouching away. Separate controls cover eyes (iris colour enhancement, flare, whitening, enlargement, redness removal), reshaping of faces and bodies, makeup application and complexion adjustment. Users can also save and import their own presets, so a personal look is reusable across jobs. One caveat deserves prominence: the vendor has announced that Aperty closes on November 4, 2026, with portrait editing continuing in Luminar. Anyone evaluating it now should treat it as a tool with a fixed lifespan and weigh that against subscription commitments. In the meantime it competes with mainstream retouching suites on speed and consistency of batch output.