Kyno

Signiant Inc.·Signiant.Kyno

The All-In-One Media Management App. Preview, back up, ingest, log metadata, convert, trim, rename and organize material from all cameras (DSLRs, drones, GoPro, RED, Blackmagic Design, Panasonic P2, MXF).

Kyno is the centerpiece of professional video workflows for narrative, documentary, corporate and social media projects. Its easy to learn and simple to use interface works cross-platform on macOS & Windows and integrates with the tools you already use. - On-location: Backup, preview, annotate material, create shotlists and dailies - Post-Production: Play, organize and select material; transcode proxies and send to NLEs - Managing Shared Storage: Tag and find material in a team on NAS, SAN or external drives Use Kyno's powerful drilldown function to flatten and filter the content of a whole hard drive and define media aware filters such as framerate, resolution to find the files you're looking for. Tag, rate, describe your media and use that information to find your content. Use Kyno's powerful media aware renaming engine to organize your files. Offload camera media to secondary storage securely using a simple process and industry-standard cryptographic checksum verification with Media Hash List support for later verification. Incremental backup copies only what's changed since the last backup.

winget install --id Signiant.Kyno --exact --source winget

Latest 1.9.0.2·September 9, 2025

Release Notes

Today, we’re happy to unveil the newest version of Kyno — delivering a sleek new interface, full native Apple Silicon support on macOS, and expanded camera and format compatibility to keep your workflows running faster and smoother than ever. If you're looking to get in touch with us directly be sure to drop us a line at @lesspainsoft on Twitter or on Facebook at facebook.com/lesspainsoft. If you have questions or need support just pop on over to support.lesspain.software and we'll point you in the right direction. What's New

  • Native Apple Silicon support on macOS
  • ⓘ️ For Apple Silicon Mac users: Kyno's auto-update will keep you on the Intel version. To switch to the Apple Silicon version, please download it directly from: https://lesspain.software/kyno/download/.
  • New look & feel:
    • More modern, darker appearance
    • Improved contrast of selection color
    • Improved readability with a larger font
    • Drilldown button moved to general toolbar
    • Activity view is now linked from the status bar, where progress is displayed
    • System font on macOS
    • Improved scrolling performance on macOS
  • Updated the BRAW SDK and RED RAW SDK to support latest cameras and firmware versions
  • Removed integrations with Frame.io and Archiware P5
  • New volume settings that allow you to store technical metadata and thumbnails in a shared file system and allow you to optimize indexing on shared storage environments (see here for details)
  • The behavior of the refresh button in the lower right corner of the application has been improved, hold SHIFT while clicking it for a hard refresh should you run into inconsistencies
  • There’s a new context action for files "Show in Enclosing Folder", which shows the enclosing folder of an item - very useful in drilldown mode!
  • Preanalyze now runs in the background and no longer blocks the user interface
  • Smart proxy presets to allow creating batches of proxies with automatic scaling Fixes
  • Security updates and some minor bugfixes
  • Fixed copy/paste keyboard shortcuts and enabled pasting while in browse panel
  • macOS: Send To Premiere Pro now works with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025
  • macOS: Fixed an issue that caused folders being displayed as removed/offline in the Workspace after a macOS update
  • macOS: Fixed an issue that caused keyboard shortcuts not working on MacOS
  • Windows: Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the update-installer to fail

Installer type: burn

x64—E6CD7905B148B1BD64CEFF806751FEEB9C2318CAE80C65D56B94F92A4DD39C15

Details

Homepage
https://lesspain.software/kyno/
License
Proprietary
Publisher
Signiant Inc.
Support
https://support.lesspain.software/
Copyright
Copyright (c) Signiant Inc. All rights reserved.