A photo library for your fanzine — captions, credits and metadata kept.
Drop in your photos, organise them, and caption them in batches. Aldo reads the EXIF automatically — camera, lens, date — and never touches your originals.
Your photo metadata shouldn’t vanish
Import photos into most layout tools and the story behind them — the camera, the date, your caption — disappears. Aldo Reborn keeps it. Every photo carries its metadata, editable in bulk, and it can flow straight into your zine’s index.
How it works
Under the hood
A real photo library inside your project — organised, captioned, and non-destructive.
- Metadata fields
- Caption, author / credit, date, camera, lens
- Source
- Auto-read from photo EXIF
- Editing
- Single photo or batch (multi-select)
- Your originals
- Never modified
- Index
- Captions can fill an automatic index page
- Formats
- JPEG, PNG, HEIC, RAW, TIFF, WebP, AVIF…
A folder vs a layout tool vs Aldo Reborn
Folder of files
- EXIF metadata
- Lost on import
- Batch captions
- No
- Originals
- Safe
- Auto index
- No
- Setup
- —
Generic layout tool
- EXIF metadata
- Manual
- Batch captions
- Sometimes
- Originals
- Risky
- Auto index
- Manual
- Setup
- Some
Aldo Reborn
Built-in
- EXIF metadata
- Auto-filled
- Batch captions
- Yes
- Originals
- Untouched
- Auto index
- Yes
- Setup
- Zero
Frequently asked questions
Does Aldo Reborn read EXIF data? +
Yes. On import, it reads the camera, lens and date from each photo and pre-fills the metadata, so you don’t have to type the basics.
Will editing captions change my original photos? +
No. All edits are stored inside your project file and are never written back to your source images.
Can I caption many photos at once? +
Yes. Select multiple photos and set a caption or credit once — it applies to all of them.
What photo formats are supported? +
JPEG, PNG, HEIC, RAW (from most cameras), TIFF, WebP and AVIF, among others.
Can captions appear in the zine? +
Yes. Photo captions can flow into an automatic index page at the back of your zine.
Keep the story with the photo
Aldo Reborn is in private beta on macOS — your library, captions and credits in one place.