Insights is a dashboard of statistics and patterns drawn from your entire library. Insights is analytical: numbers, percentages, distributions, top‑N lists.
Click the Insights node near the bottom of the sidebar to open it.
What’s on the dashboard
The dashboard scrolls vertically and is organized into sections.
| Section | What you’ll see |
|---|---|
| Library Overview | Total items, photos, videos, screenshots, favorites, named people, named locations, date span |
| Atmospheric Patterns | What share of your photos are golden hour, blue hour, daytime, nighttime |
| Activity Patterns | Which hours of the day, days of the week, and months of the year you take the most photos |
| Photography Style | Distribution of aperture, ISO, and focal length values across your library |
| Camera Usage | Most frequently used cameras, lenses, and devices |
| Top People | People who appear in the most photos |
| Top Locations | Named locations with the most photos |
| Face Statistics | Distribution of how many faces are in each photo |
| This Day in History | Photos and videos taken on today’s calendar date in past years |
Each section is interactive where it makes sense — clicking a top person, top location, or “this day” item navigates to that thing in the sidebar.
When Insights gets recalculated
Insights are recomputed when the app launches and again whenever your library changes in a meaningful way (new items, new people, new locations). For very large libraries, recomputation can take a few seconds; you’ll see numbers update in place.
If a number looks stale or missing, opening a different sidebar node and coming back will trigger a refresh.
Why Insights is useful
Insights answers questions about your library that you might never think to ask:
- “Am I more of a golden‑hour person or a midday person?”
- “Who’s my most‑photographed person, by a lot?”
- “Have I been taking more or fewer photos lately?”
- “What lens do I actually use?”
- “Have I taken enough pictures of the kids with their grandparents?”
It also makes a great starting point for a session of nostalgia — the This Day in History section in particular is a quiet reminder of where you were one year ago, five years ago, fifteen years ago.