New user with 2 questions.

Luna · 2025-06-09T08:27:43+00:00

I am a single user and I would like to install the app on 3 PC’s (MacOS, Windows, Linux Mint). As I am a single user only one instance of the app will be ope...

New user with 2 questions.

Luna

I am a single user and I would like to install the app on 3 PC’s (MacOS, Windows, Linux Mint).
As I am a single user only one instance of the app will be open at a time of course.
Can I do that with a single license or do I need to buy 3 licenses?
I don’t want to buy a family license as I do not want to create multiple users.
Are there any plans to develop a version for IOS and Apple TV?
Tonfotos seems like the ultimate application to watch your pictures and albums which is best done on a tablet or TV screen.

Andrey

Luna I’m afraid, using application on several PC’s requires several licenses. In case of three installations Family license will be the cheapest option. You will not have to create multiple users, your license will be linked to just one email address.

We have plans for mobile applicaiton, but not for TV version yet. What would you like to do with TV app, can you please share?

Luna

Andrey

Hi Andrey,

No worries, I’ll buy the family license then.

For the moment I have Lightroom CC on my PCs where I do my editing/developing and organising of raw and jpeg photos, and Lightroom on the PCs that syncs everything.
I also have Lightroom on an iPad and an Apple TV that I only use to watch photo albums with friends and family.

Now since I added a Linux PC to the mix about a year ago and since Adobe’s subscription model it not to my liking I want to move away from Adobe and use apps that have a version for Mac, Windows and Linux.
So I am using Darktable now instead of Lightroom CC but find it’s organizing part a bit lacking.
Tonfotos seems to be excellent for organizing my photos as well as for watching them.
But since we find a PC not the ideal way to watch photos on, an IOS version would be nice to show/watch photos while not at home and an Apple TV version to do the same at home on the big screen.

Isn’t Apple TV OS based on IOS?
So since you have plans to make mobile (IOS?) version, it might not be a huge undertaking to derive an Apple TV version as well.

So for me both the mobile and TV versions would only be for watching photos, nothing more.

Andrey

Luna Thank you for sharing!

Sure, Apple TV OS is based on iOS, and most other TV OSes are based on Android, This makes things simpler to some extend, but this this is still completely different application in terms of UI and features. Remote and touchscreen assume completely different user experience. That is why it could not be just a byproduct of mobile version development, but it will definitely benefit from some parts of mobile code when developed separately.