Pro vs. Regular vs. App Store
What Are Differences Between Pro, Regular, and App Store Versions of Retrobatch?
Most nodes are available in the Regular version of Retrobatch. However, for advanced users, we've added a handful of very specific nodes as well as some interesting features which we put into the "Pro" version of Retrobatch. They are listed in the tables below, including the nodes that are not available when Retrobatch is purchased via the App Store.
JavaScript expressions are only available in Retrobatch Pro. Various nodes which allow you to set the size or length of a value (such as the Crop, Border, Gradient, Adjust Margin nodes) have an option of running a little snippet of JavaScript code to figure out the value. This is a super powerful feature, which you can read about in our JavaScript Expressions documentation.
JavaScript Plug-Ins are only available in Retrobatch Pro. You can write and distribute custom nodes in JavaScript using a Plug-In API. This feature is currently in beta, and we're hoping to finalize it in a future release. But it's already incredibly useful today. If you have questions or ideas, head on over to the forums to ask about them.
Below is a list of the available nodes for each version.
| 1Bit | Acorn Image Maker | Add Border | Adjust Margins |
| Animated Image | Auto Enhance | Box Blur | Clipboard |
| Color Controls | Color Invert | Color Posterize | Crop |
| Delete Metadata | Dither | Document Enhancer | Download URL |
| Drop Shadow | Duplicate | Exposure Adjust | False Color |
| Finder Icon Writer | Fix EXIF Rotation | Flip | Gamma Adjust |
| Gaussian Blur | Get Selected Finder Images | GPS Location | Grayscale |
| Image Grid | Image Watermark | Indexed PNG | Instant Alpha |
| Linear Gradient | Make Square | Matte | Noise Reduction |
| Opacity | Oval Matte | Overlay | Photo Chrome |
| Photo Fade | Photo Instant | Photo Mono | Photo Noir |
| Photo Process | Photo Tonal | Photo Transfer | Photos Export |
| Photos Library | Pixelate | Prompt for Files | QR Code |
| Quit Retrobatch | Radial Gradient | RAW Process | Read Folder |
| Read Individual Files | Remove GPS | Replace Color | Rotate |
| Round Corners | Scale | Screenshots & Windows | Sepia Tone |
| Set DPI | Set General Metadata | Sharpen Luminance | Single Transparent Pixel |
| Super Resolution | Text Watermark | Trim To Edges | Truncate JPEG Data |
| Unsharp Mask | Vibrance | Vignette | Workflow Notes |
| Write Back Photos | Write Images | X-Ray |
Retrobatch Pro only nodes
| Alpha Multiply | AppleScript | Auto Level (Straighten) | Change Bits Per Channel |
| Change Color Profile | Classify Images | Clipboard Watcher | Contrast Stretch |
| Crop to Face | Custom Convolution | Delay | Extract Depth Image |
| Extract Disparity Image | Extract Metadata | Extract Portrait Matte | Extract Text |
| Film Grain | Image Diff | Image Equalization | JavaScript |
| Layer & Page Splitter | Limit | Mask To Alpha | Multi Scale |
| Open In App | PDF Image Extractor | PDF Maker | PDF Quartz Filter |
| Periodic Run | Photos Import | Premultiply | PSD Maker |
| Remove Specific Metadata | Rules | Set Finder Tags | Set Specific Metadata |
| Shell Script | Style Transfer | Unpremultiply | Write Symlink |
The following features and nodes are unavailable on the App Store version of Retrobatch Pro:
The App Store version of Retrobatch Pro does not support Droplets. Instead, you can use the Shortcuts app to reference a workflow and use the Finder integration with Shortcuts to make something equivalent to a droplet.
The following nodes use certain features of the Mac which Apple does not allow developers to use when distributing their app via the App Store.
| AppleScript | Get Selected Finder Images | Shell Script |