Arda · State-of-the-art photo & video studio

Built for photographers and videographers.

A state-of-the-art platform to store high-resolution photography and video, live-edit from a Mac virtual drive, search transcripts and visual content, review versions with clients, publish at full quality, and invoice from one calm production workspace.

Start your studio — free See the viewer →5 GB free · no card required

Edgewater, First Light — deep-zoom demonstration

You're looking at the full 3,600 × 2,402px master — hover to inspect real pixels. Instagram would have crushed this to 1080px.

All-in-one studio

The whole photo and video production loop, in one place.

Arda is the workspace around the files themselves: ingest photography and video masters, edit from the cloud, find media by what is inside it, review with clients, publish beautifully, and get paid.

Store masters

Photography, scans, SVG, video up to 8K, originals, renditions, versions, and private drafts.

Edit live

Mount Arda Drive on Mac and work from Finder, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut.

Index with AI

Transcribe video, scan frames and photos, then search for spoken phrases, scenes, objects, and moments.

Review versions

Client projects, timecoded comments, selections, approvals, and private/team/client visibility.

Publish & deliver

Full-resolution galleries, unlisted links, custom domains, original downloads, and embeds.

Invoice

Create project invoices, send payment links, track views, and collect through Stripe.

Production engine

State-of-the-art infrastructure for photo and video work.

Most tools only solve one step. Arda keeps the photography or video master as the source of truth and builds the drive, viewer, search index, review room, and delivery workflow around it.

Pixel-true photography

Hover to inspect on desktop, pinch-and-pan on mobile. Pixels map 1:1 to the device for scans, captures, and digital work — never an upscaled blur.

Arda Drive for Mac

Mount your cloud archive as a local drive. Read originals on demand, save working versions privately, and publish only when the photo or video is ready.

Editor integrations

Optional panels for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Lightroom Classic surface mount status, project media, prewarming, and publish controls next to the edit.

AI transcription & visual indexing

Transcribe speech in video, sample frames, scan photos, and search for phrases, scenes, objects, and OCR text once indexing is complete.

Every high-res format

EXIF for captures, vector-native SVG viewing, adaptive playback for video up to 8K, and pixel-true detail for digital work and scans.

Publishing that still feels yours

Public galleries, unlisted links, custom domains, white-label client shares, embeds, and original downloads are controlled per project.

One workspace

What Arda replaces in the production stack.

Cloud drives, review links, portfolio sites, invoice tools, and AI utilities all create handoff seams. Arda keeps those steps tied to the same media object and version history.

	Cloud drives	Review links	Portfolio sites	Arda
Max resolution served	Original file, slow preview	Compressed stream	Template-sized previews	Full master, native pixels
Live-editing drive	partial	—	—
Versioned review lifecycle	—	partial	—
AI transcript & visual search	—	—	—
Invoicing with payouts	—	partial	—
Production context	Folders only	Review only	Presentation only	Files, clients, versions, search, and billing

Client work, handled

From private draft to final invoice.

The gallery is the front of house. Behind it, Arda runs the client side of a working studio — review, revisions, updates, and getting paid — without a second tool.

Clients, not just contacts

A roster of the people you work with — each client is a team, every person gets their own magic-link access. No passwords to manage.

Private projects

Bundle works-in-progress into client-only projects. Unlisted links for quick shares, email-gated access for the real thing.

Versions with history

Replace a file and the old version stays — clients can flip between cuts, and feedback stays pinned to the version it was about.

Timecoded feedback

Comments on video land at exact moments and ranges, with markers on the timeline. No more “around the two-minute mark.”

Everyone stays current

New versions, new files, and comments notify the right people — clients in their portal, you in your studio.

Invoices, paid in a click

Attach an invoice to a client or project, send it, and get paid through Stripe — straight to your bank account.

Publish beautifully

A gallery when the work is ready to leave the studio.

Arda still gives you a public-facing room for finished work. The difference is that publishing sits at the end of the production workflow, not in a separate social feed.

See a live gallery →View featured work →

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Pricing

Pay for storage. The studio comes with it.

Plans include storage plus generous monthly viewing bandwidth for deep-zoom photography, video playback, Drive workflows, client review, and original downloads. Transcription and visual indexing are metered so production AI stays available without bloating base storage plans.

Free

For trying the studio.

$0/ mo

free forever

5 GB storage100 GB / mo bandwidth

Browser uploads
1 public gallery collection
1 client review project
Deep-zoom viewer
Gallery at arda.gallery/@you
Invoicing — 3% platform fee

Pro

For active creative work.

$10/ mo$12

Save 17% billed $120/yr

100 GB storage2 TB / mo bandwidth

Unlimited collections
100 GB storage
Arda Drive for Mac
Premiere, Resolve & Lightroom plugins
$0.60/mo included AI credits
AI video transcription — $0.02/min, $0.25 minimum
Original-file downloads
Unlimited client projects
Custom logo on client share links
2% invoice fee (vs 3% on Free)

Studio

For client studios.

$20/ mo$24

Save 17% billed $240/yr

400 GB storage10 TB / mo bandwidth

Everything in Pro
Custom domain (yourname.com)
400 GB storage
10 TB / mo bandwidth
$1.20/mo included AI credits
AI video transcription — $0.02/min, $0.25 minimum
White-label client share links
1% invoice fee

AI video transcription

Search spoken words across video, generate standard transcript outputs, and make client review easier to navigate.

$0.02/min$0.25 minimum per video

AI visual indexing

Sample video frames and scan photos for searchable objects, scenes, visual labels, captions, and OCR text.

Video $0.18/min$0.50 minimumPhotos $0.02/image

Monthly invoice volume$4,000/moPro $12/mo − $40 fees saved = pays for itselfStudio $24/mo − $80 fees saved = pays for itselfArchive $64/mo − $100 fees saved = pays for itself

On Pro you save $40/mo in fees vs Free — the $12 plan pays for itself at $1,200/mo invoiced. Invoice payments carry standard Stripe processing plus a plan-tiered Arda fee: 3% on Free, 2% on Pro, 1% on Studio, 0.5% on Archive.