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Astrophotography workstationmacOS

AstroForge

From raw night-sky frames to a finished image.

Stack, stitch, and finish astrophotography with One-Click Magic, Guided Wizard, Pro Manual controls, local AI review, and high-bit-depth export.

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AstroForge One-Click Magic workflow in the macOS app — Inside AstroForgeAstroForge’s One-Click Magic workflow, running on macOS.

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3Ways to work

LocalImages stay on your Mac

16-bitTIFF and PNG delivery

An astrophotography darkroom built for the whole night

Spend less time fighting the pipeline. Spend more time finishing the image.

AstroForge brings calibration, registration, stacking, panorama stitching, star work, local guidance, and high-bit-depth delivery into one Mac-native workspace. Start automatic, work step by step, or take the controls yourself.

Choose your path

Run One-Click Magic, follow Guided Wizard, or open the complete Pro Manual bench.

Build signal

Calibrate, register, reject noise, stack, and inspect the result with astronomy-focused tools.

Finish the night

Stretch, separate stars, reduce noise, stitch astro panoramas, and export reusable layers.

Real product. Current interface.

See AstroForge at work.

AstroForge One-Click Magic marketing screen with the Pro Manual workspace — One-Click Magic

AstroForge Guided Wizard walking through an astrophotography workflow — Guided Wizard

AstroForge Pro Manual controls for detailed image processing — Pro Manual

AstroForge Astro Panorama workspace — Astro Panorama

Built around the real workflow

Tools that earn their place.

Stack, stitch, and finish astrophotography with One-Click Magic, Guided Wizard, Pro Manual controls, local AI review, and high-bit-depth export.

Three ways to work

Run a complete target-aware recipe, move stage by stage in Guided Wizard, or take deeper control in Pro Manual.

Serious source support

Import FITS, XISF, camera RAW, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and HEIC images, then classify lights, darks, flats, and bias frames.

Astro Panorama

Stitch multi-row nightscapes with common-star alignment, editable control points, exposure matching, multiband seams, and projection controls.

Local-first intelligence

Use built-in heuristic guidance offline or connect a local, user-configured provider such as Ollama or MLX.

Apple distribution

Join the AstroForge TestFlight beta

AstroForge is open to public beta testers through TestFlight.

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Made for nights under open skies

Your images. Your Mac. Your terms.

01PrivacyHow AstroForge handles your work and data 02SupportHelp for the next clear night 03TermsStraightforward terms for focused creative work

Privacy PolicyEffective July 8, 2026

Overview

AstroForge is a Mac app for processing astrophotography images. The app is designed around local files, local processing, and user control.

Data We Collect

AstroForge does not collect personal data for the developer.

AstroForge does not track you across apps or websites. AstroForge does not sell data. AstroForge does not use third-party advertising SDKs or analytics SDKs.

Photos And Project Files

AstroForge opens only the files and folders you choose. Those files may include astronomy images, camera RAW files, FITS or XISF files, calibration frames, exported images, and optional JSON sidecars.

Your project files and image outputs stay on your Mac unless you choose to save, export, copy, upload, or share them outside AstroForge.

Local AI Providers

AstroForge can connect to local or user-configured AI providers, such as Ollama or MLX. When you use those features, prompts and image-derived context may be sent to the provider endpoint you configured. By default, Ollama is expected to run on your own Mac at http://localhost:11434.

AstroForge also includes built-in heuristic guidance that works without an AI server.

Model Downloads

AstroForge may show recommended local model installation commands. If you choose to run a model download or installation, that download is handled by the relevant tool or service, such as Ollama, Python, MLX, or a model host. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices.

App Store Privacy Summary

For App Store privacy labels, AstroForge is intended to be listed as:

Data Not Collected by the developer
No tracking
No third-party advertising

This summary assumes the app is used as designed: local image processing with optional user-configured local AI providers.

Contact

For support or privacy questions, contact the AstroForge developer through the support URL listed on the App Store product page.

SupportHelp for the next clear night

Status

AstroForge is currently preparing for TestFlight beta testing.

Quick Help

Open AstroForge.
Choose Help > AstroForge Help for the complete in-app guide.
Use File > Open Folder for a full astrophotography set, or File > Open Images for preview testing.
Use Auto Review, Guided Wizard, or Pro Manual depending on how much control you want.

Contact

For beta support, contact the developer through the App Store Connect/TestFlight feedback channel.

End User License AgreementStraightforward terms for focused creative work

AstroForge does not use a separate custom license. It is offered under Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement.

Read Apple’s Standard EULA