Aperture Assistant is an automation helper for Apple's Aperture application. It allows you to easily set up complex tasks and workflows via visual flowcharts.

Aperture Assistant supports Aperture 1.5.6, and Aperture 2.0 and above, on OS X 10.4 and OS X 10.5.


NEW 12/05/08 - Aperture Assistant 1.0.60 is now available with more than forty new features, bugfixes, speed increases and tweaks. Head to the downloads page to download it.
NEW 09/05/08 - the glossary of terms has been expanded and updated.


Some of the main features:

• Automatically find all Libraries on your computer and easily swap between them.
• Export images using different presets depending on metadata/ratings etc.
• Export to different folders depending on metadata.
• Export echoing Aperture's internal organisational structure.
• Open exported files in another application, without setting up a hot folder.
• Export any combination of metadata to comma- or tab-delimited text files, one per output folder or one per Version.
• Set metadata and Version Names from other metadata, for instance setting up more complex date naming.
• Find and replace in metadata.
• Find all the Albums that a Version appears in and then reveal those Albums (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Add Versions to Albums automatically (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Make Burn Folders directly from the Masters, whether they are managed or referenced.
• Create Keynote presentations with body and title text based on metadata.
• Find and tag duplicate Masters.