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macCuller

Fast, keyboard-first photo culling for the Mac

One key per photo: K to keep, G for maybe, D to reject.
The grid shows the whole folder at once. Every mark has a symbol as well as a color.
When you're done, Move sorts the files into _keep, _maybe and _reject folders.
Every key can be changed in Settings.

Features

  • Sort each photo into Keep, Maybe or Reject with a single key
  • Switch between a full-size viewer and a thumbnail grid with T
  • Needs Review shows only the photos you haven't decided on yet
  • Move puts your picks into _keep, _maybe and _reject folders, and Unsort puts them back
  • Never deletes a photo and never overwrites a file
  • Sees only the folders you open, and never connects to the internet
  • Quit halfway through and your marks are still there when you reopen the folder
  • Opens RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus and Panasonic, plus DNG, HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
  • Info and Stats panels show camera settings and how much of the folder is left
  • Every key can be changed in Settings

macCuller is for the first pass through a folder of photos. You open the folder, look at each photo once and press a key: K to keep it, G for maybe, D to reject it. It moves straight on to the next photo. When a whole burst is obviously wrong, switch to the grid and mark many at once. At the end, Move sorts the files into _keep, _maybe and _reject folders next to the originals. macCuller never deletes anything. Rejected photos wait in _reject until you decide to delete them yourself.

Your marks are saved inside the folder as you go, so you can quit at any point and pick up where you left off. Every mark shows a symbol (✓, ?, ✕) as well as a color, so you can tell them apart without relying on red and green. macCuller is currently in TestFlight beta.