Aircrop 0.16.0 (beta)
October 20, 2026 · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon · Download
If you have 0.14.0, choose Aircrop › Check for Updates… to get this version.
New in this version
- About Aircrop. Shows the version and links to this website.
- Acknowledgements. Aircrop › Acknowledgements… lists the software Aircrop bundles and its licenses.
- Help menu. Opens this website, the release notes for your version, the privacy section and the tip jar.
- A heads-up before Photos permissions. A short explanation appears just before macOS first asks for access to your photo library, or to control Photos. Choose Continue to go on to macOS’s prompt, or Cancel to stop. Once macOS has your answer, the explanation doesn’t appear again.
Known limits
The same as in 0.14.0.
Aircrop 0.14.0 (beta)
October 20, 2026 · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon · Download
The first public beta. If you shoot bursts at airshows, Aircrop turns each burst into a steady sequence: every frame re-centered on the aircraft, ready to export as crops, a GIF and an MP4, or to save back to Photos.
New in this version
- Updates. Aircrop › Check for Updates… looks for a newer version on this site. If there is one, Sparkle offers it and installs it when you agree. The second time you open Aircrop it asks whether to check automatically; it checks only if you say yes.
- Subject boxes leave smoke out. Apple’s Vision framework now refines every subject box. On a 59-frame Blue Angels burst trailing smoke, 20 frames used to box the smoke along with the jet (or the smoke alone); now all 59 box the jet. On clear-sky bursts the boxes get a little tighter: stubs of contrail and wing vapor are left out, never the airframe.
Known limits
- RAW files aren’t read. Shoot RAW + HEIF or JPEG, or export from your RAW editor first.
- An aircraft flying in front of land or thick cloud can be missed. Click it in the frames where it was missed, or draw a tracking box around it.
- If the aircraft is gone for more than two frames (behind a tree, out of the frame), the frames after the gap may pick something else. Check them, and click the aircraft once to fix the rest.
- A white aircraft trailing white smoke hasn’t been tried yet and may be boxed together with its smoke. If Vision can’t run on a frame, that frame keeps the older, smoke-prone box.
- Lock Background needs land, water or a structure in the frame to hold still. On a clear-sky burst it follows the plane.
Before the beta
Twelve private versions came before this one. What they added, briefly:
- 0.12: Aircrop carries everything it needs inside the app, with nothing else to install. It got smaller and now opens in about a second the first time (it took 6–15 s). Smart fill runs on Core ML. Clearer messages for limited Photos access and a full disk, with a free-space check before long jobs.
- 0.11: The options panel stays put while a render runs.
- 0.10: Stepping through rendered frames is instant (12–25 ms, from 282 ms). Save to Photos names any photo that has left your library and saves the rest.
- 0.9: Clicking the right object in a frame fixes the frames that object appears in; every other frame keeps its own pick. Type a Straighten angle, or Level with one click.
- 0.8: Projects (
.aircrop files), one window per project, and a tracking box you draw for formations. Animations play at the burst’s real speed. Frames with no aircraft in them are kept, positioned along its path.
- 0.7: A cleaner options panel with aspect ratio presets (Square, 16:9, 4:3, 3:2). Straighten turns the photo under the crop box, like Photos. Max Fit.
- 0.6: A crop box you drag, resize and turn like the one in Photos, with Original and Freeform aspect ratios.
- 0.5: Bursts over land and water: the aircraft is told apart from a shoreline, a bridge tower or a gull. Lock Background. Share › Aircrop from Photos. Saved badges on frames already exported.
- 0.4: Import from the Photos app, and Save to Photos as edits you can revert.
- 0.3: The Mac app.
- 0.1–0.2: The engine: vignetting and dust removal, finding the aircraft, sky fill and Smart fill.
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