Built by a filmmaker with thirty years on set, Amaptik reads every file back off the drive and only says “safe to format” when every check has passed.
PHILADELPHIA, November 11, 2026 — Amona Software Labs today released Amaptik, a native Mac app for filmmakers, photographers, DITs and sound recordists that takes the guesswork out of the most fragile minute in digital production: getting footage off a camera card and onto drives before the card is erased.
Most copy tools report that a copy finished. Amaptik proves it. It reads the card once and writes to up to three drives at the same time, then reads every file back off each drive and matches it byte-for-byte against the card. It checks that nothing is missing, renamed or unexpected, writes a plain-text receipt on every drive, and an MHL manifest if you switch it on, and only then shows SAFE TO FORMAT.
“Amaptik started with the waiting. Wait for the copy, wait for the verify, wait for the rename, then check it all again. After a long day of filming, I don’t want to sit up all night waiting on cards. That’s the invisible tax every shooter pays, and none of it is why we became filmmakers,” said Marc Smiler, founder of Amona Software Labs and of Cinex Films. “I’m an artist and a producer at heart. I want to create. So I built the app I wanted on every shoot for thirty years: put in the card, press the button, and know it’s done right. Shoot all day. Sleep all night.”
Key features
- Read-back verification on every file, by default, to up to three drives at once from a single read of the card (xxHash64; MD5 or SHA-256 available as delivery hashes).
- Never writes to the card. Not a temp file, not a thumbnail.
- Proof that travels with the footage: a plain-text receipt on every drive, an MHL manifest if you switch it on, plus a PDF report with a Digital Proof Sheet.
- Amona Cortex™: Amaptik recognizes a card it has seen before, even after it’s been erased and reused, and knows which files are new.
- Dynamic Matrix Renamer: names clips the way an editor needs them, as they copy, using the camera’s own clock.
- Reports in PDF, HTML and plain text, and a text to your phone when the job is done.
- Private by design: no account, and your footage never leaves the Mac. Written in Swift for Apple silicon.
Price and availability
Amaptik is available today from amonalabs.com for macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon. It costs $99 a year. Founders special at launch: $69 a year, kept for as long as the subscription renews. Students and teachers pay $39 a year. A free trial includes six completed cards or 30 days, whichever comes first, with everything switched on. Amona also offers six free browser tools for shooters (Calcino, Headroom, Inventario, Releaso, Bottom Line and Rento) at amonalabs.com/tools.
About Amona Software Labs
Amona Software Labs builds software that feels engineered, not decorated: professional creative equipment that happens to live on a Mac. The company is based in the Philadelphia area and was founded by Marc Smiler, an international award-winning filmmaker with more than 1,000 productions behind him.
Press contact
Josh Smiler · Amona Software Labs · [email protected] · amonalabs.com/press
Review licenses, interviews and the press kit (screenshots, demo video, logos, app icon, headshot, sample report) are available on request.
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