Tonality App Reviews

Oh this is just sweet. A first it was okay to good…now with the new presets this is just getting better and better. I cannot recomment this enough. Now I am eager to try out the other Macphun apps…like Aurora HDR…that looks sweet. The good has become pretty darn GREAT1

If you’re into B&W photography, and especially if you’re a serious photographer, this is simply a must-have. My only minor gripe is lack of a resize function when exporting.

I am an avid amateur and wanted to explore B&W imaging. Tonality is the best and easiest to use imaging software in my arsenal (PS, Lightroom, iPhoto, etc.). There is so much more range and depth to B&W that I expected: from fun to stunning. The presets are great, and easily adjusted and saved. I am transforming a portfolio of my best color shots and making a “best of” in B&W. It does not do everything, but what it does is amazing. I wish I had found it sooner.

the app is ok.

This is the best photography app I’ve ever used on my mac. It makes photos look so stunning, and I’m glad I bought it!

This is easily the best software out there for working on images… job well done!

Great product. Lots of control, yet easy to use. Start with the presets and then take off on your own. Amazing results.

I almost bought Nik Software but I’m happy I saw this application. I export right from Lightroom and work on my image as a tiff highrez file. I then import it back into lightroom for finishing touches and final export. It’s a few more steps because it does not save your edits to the lightroom raw. Thats fine with me, I figured a way to do it. Very happy with this purchase.

Real simple. If you love black & white photography, you MUST own this app! Period. So simple to use and VERY powerful. MANY of the presets are exceptional; and there are a number of them that you could seriously use as your very final output with a single click of the mouse! Yes, they’re honestly that good. The other GREAT use I’ve found for this app is for educating myself about the (intricate details) of b&w photography. Here’s what I mean: I edit a b&w photo in Photoshop until I get it right where I (think) I want it. I will then edit the same photo from scratch using Tonality. Then, I compare the two side by side when finished. My Photoshop edits are never (quite) as good as the Tonality versions. They are sometimes very close, but Tonality always makes them noticeably better with its remarkable treatment of mid tones, shadows, and highlights. Its advanced algorithms are just simply better than what I’m able to achieve on my own. At any rate, I am 100% satisfied with this app. Astonishing. THANK YOU MACPHUN!!! :)

I own several of MacPhun’s software options starting with their original phone app FX. While I use Lightroom and Photoshop for my post processing I have found that Tonality and MacPhun’s other mac apps are by far the most awesome and easy to use. Once my images are finished in Lightroom I run the extra special ones through Tonality for B/W or Intensity, Focus 2. Each has their own attributes and frankly I find them much better and easier to tweak to my liking than all the expensive software out there. I tried Nik and found it just okay but nothing really better than Lightroom. I do own OnOne and find it useful but oddly these little apps most times hit it right on the spot for what I might need. Totally impressed. Easy as heck to use and just really well done!! I’d give 10 stars if it were an option. Oh and I am a full time professional photographer.

Just so you know before you buy… If you have any kind of major issue, the Macphun support team will try to help, but once they can’t figure it out they will tell you it’s something you’re doing, then drop the case. Then, you apparently get on some “list” whereby any subsequent questions or issues you contact them with are totally ignored! This app is quite useful for basic straightforward B&W conversions, but try to do anything more complicated which results in the software not functioning correctly? You’re out of luck!!

Straight-forward, easy-to-use, effective editing tools plus a few nice effects to boot. I love B&W photography (or why would I spend money for such a specific app, yes?) and this app gives me all the tools I need to get exactly what I’m looking for, whether it’s a little extra tweaking of the image, or a wholesale re-interpratation of it. I’ve never used Photoshop, so I can’t compare the two. I just know this app gives you powerful tools yet doesn’t require hours of reading just to learn how to use it. The tools are all logically designed and intuitively laid out. If you have even a basic concept of exposure and tone, this app will give you B&W images you will be proud to enlarge and frame. I’ve used it on numerous images without any problems. Some I import from iPhoto, others from my Canon image processing program. It works just fine with pretty much any source, and then you can export it as Jpeg, TIFF or other formats for uploading to the internet or printing. Do note that Tonality does not have its own image gallery. To save a processed photo, you must export it (Jpeg, TIFF, etc) to a separate folder or photo gallery.

UPDATE: The tools work fine now that the developer released an update. BTW, the developer has been nothing but responsive to my several queries concerning this and some other (now corrected) issues. My earlier review: Running Tonality and Tonality Pro on Mac OS X Yosemite. Neither the crop tools nor the gradient tools work. Uninstalled and reinstalled twice per their tech support suggestion. Still the tools don’t work. No mouse recognition whatsoever when using these tools. Also the undo command is intermittently unresposive. The presets seem to work satisfactorily, but mouse controlled tools seem problemtic.

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For the money, this has got to be the best color to black and white photo conversion tools out there. You get a lot of tools at your disposal for not much money. The interface is pretty simple and the website does offer support via some handy lessons. What is not to love? In a word, workflow. If you have a small photo library it should be easy enough to work your way through the app, if still annoying. But if you have a large library , trying to fish for your specific image becomes a challenge. It is neither fun nor simple as the drag and drop menue is of no help at all. In using the iPhoro optio I was confronted with my entire library, all 148 Gb of it, unsorted. And the app really did not want to play with Apertue, but nothing seems to want to play with Aperture now that Yosemite came out. I was able to figure out a work-around but it cost the app half a star. Half a star off for the drag and drop menue beung useless plus the other half a star off for having to fight the app in Aperture equals one whole star off.

This is a very beautiful app and simple to use. The presets are actually very nice if you are in a hurry and i could go on and on about how nice this is but i want to get back to editing! Just spend the $20 because you will not regret. Best black and white editing software i have used!

The amount of features to create some truly impressive images, without going through a huge learning curve, is mind-boggling. I am a photography and Photoshop enthusiast, not a pro by any means, and I feel as if I can accomplish most of my creative editing needs with this $20 gem. If you don’t want to spend a ton of time editing from scratch to get to where you want to go with an image, this is the app for you. Play with the presets, then tweak from there if necessary - that’s my workflow in a nutshell. You will not regret this decision.

This is a nice app. I have a lot of photo editing apps, but this is my go to for B/W as you can really define the image. For what it’s worth, great apps for the price! Keep up the great work Macphun!

In this case both well done and well said… a fantastic app! Flawless performance and delivers as promised. I was pleasantly surprised by ease of use. Very intuitive and user friendly. A very time and cost effectuve means of re-evaluating images… now an essential part of my workflow. Great for the novice or pro. Have not found anything better… a steal for under $20.

After just a bit of exploring this is a dynamite app. I use it almost daily to turn well-composed color images into very eye-catching B&W prints. (They sell like hotcakes!)