Focus at 100%.
Space jumps to full resolution right where you look. Check the eyes, then back to the grid.
Photo culling for teams · for Mac
Split the shoot.
Cull it tonight.
Share thousands of photos with the people you work with. Everyone takes a section on their Mac, and every pick lands in your files the moment it’s made.
Downloads open soon · Assistants join free · Apple silicon · macOS 15 or later
Freefor assistants, on their Mac
Liveratings sync as they’re made
0uploads — it stays on your Wi‑Fi
27RAW formats, opened instantly
Cull together
Three people. One evening.
One set of picks.
Culling thousands of photos alone takes a whole day. Hand sections to your team, and finish before dinner.
01 · Share
A code, and they’re in.
Open the shoot and press Share. Your team types the six-digit code on their Macs. You approve every device, and the code alone isn’t enough.
02 · Split
Hand off half the shoot in two clicks.
Give someone a percentage of the shoot, or select exact photos and give those. They get the free app and a code, then see only their share, on their own Mac and your Wi‑Fi, with nothing to copy. Every pick lands in your shoot as they make it.
03 · Finish
Everyone says when they’re done.
Assistants press I’m Done, and you see it right away. Review All Picks then gathers everyone’s picks in one place, for your final word. If your Mac goes to sleep, they keep culling from copies saved on their Mac, and it all syncs when you’re back.
Your section, fast
Five keys.
Every decision.
Press 1–5 to rate and 6–9 to label. Photorer moves to the next frame before you lift your finger — no clicking, no waiting for previews.
★★★★
- Previews
- Embedded JPEG, instant
- Focus check
- 100% with Space
- Bursts
- Grouped, best marked
- Undo
- ⌘Z for every action
- Commands
- ⌘K palette
- Goal
- Live pace and forecast
Sets that arrive in pieces
50 folders. 6,000 photos.
One button.
The case
You download a set, and it comes as 50 subfolders: one per card, per camera or per hour.
The problem
You can’t cull what you can’t see in one row. Moving 6,000 files by hand means clashing names, split RAW+JPEG pairs and XMP files left behind.
The solution
Press Merge All Subfolders Here. Every photo moves up into one folder, with its pair, ratings and XMP. Empty folders go away, other files stay, and ⌘Z puts everything back.
Built for the first pass
From memory card
to Lightroom.
Hit your number.
Set a goal like 600 of 5,000. Photorer shows your pace and where you’ll land.
⌘K for everything.
Folders, filters, export, sorting — type a few letters. Filter to picks, to unrated, or to the best of each burst.
Your photos stay home.
No cloud, no upload, no account. Analysis runs on Apple silicon, offline.
Bursts, sorted.
Similar frames group together, with the sharpest one marked.
RAW→XMP→Lr
Lightroom, untouched.
Stars and labels go to XMP sidecars. Import, and your picks are already there. Originals are never rewritten.
RAWJPGXMP
Files stay together.
A RAW, its JPEG and its XMP move, copy and export as one. If a drive fills up or disappears, nothing ends up half done, and Photorer tells you when a rating can’t be saved. A sidecar it can’t read is left untouched.
Try it on a demo.
A sample shoot plays out the whole flow with a made-up assistant, before you share anything.
Pricing
Pay once.
Your team joins free.
Assistant
Free
For assistants and second shooters
- Join any shoot a Pro photographer shares
- Rate your section on your Mac
- No account, no card
Photorer Pro
$79 one-time
7-day free trial · Taxes calculated at checkout
- Cull your own shoots, with no limits
- Share a shoot and split it between assistants
- A license for one Mac
- All 1.x updates included
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Photorer is in private beta, and downloads open soon. The price above applies from launch.
Payments are handled by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record. See Terms and Refunds.
Questions.
Do my assistants need to buy Photorer?
No. Anyone you invite joins for free from the Mac app. Only the photographer who shares the shoot needs Photorer Pro.
Do we have to be in the same place?
For now, everyone needs to be on the same network: the studio, the venue, or a phone hotspot. Culling together over the internet is on the roadmap.
What if the connection drops?
Nothing is lost. Assistants keep culling from copies of their photos saved on their Mac, ratings wait on each device and sync as soon as it reconnects, and every rating ends up in the XMP files on your Mac.
Does Photorer change my RAW files?
No. Ratings and labels are written to XMP sidecars next to your RAW files — the way Photo Mechanic and Bridge do it. Export works on copies.
Do my photos leave my Mac?
No. Previews and analysis happen on your Mac. When you cull together, previews travel only over your local network, encrypted, straight to the people you approve.
Which cameras are supported?
27 RAW formats plus JPEG, HEIC and TIFF. We test 165 camera models from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Leica, Hasselblad, Panasonic, Olympus, Ricoh and Apple.
Will it work with my Lightroom catalog?
Yes. Import the folder (or the exported picks) into Lightroom Classic and the stars and color labels come along from XMP.
Is there an Intel or Windows version?
Not at the moment. Photorer is built for Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later.
Can I move my license to another Mac?
Yes. A license works on one Mac at a time: deactivate it in Settings › License, then enter the key on the new Mac. If the old Mac is lost or broken, write to us and we’ll free it.
Does Photorer need the internet?
Only to start the trial or activate a key, and for a short check now and then. A purchased license keeps working offline for up to 60 days between checks. Your photos are never sent anywhere, and if a check is overdue only Pro features pause: your ratings and XMP files stay as they are.
Your next shoot,
culled tonight.
Bring your team.
Download for MacPrivate beta · Downloads open soon · Apple silicon · macOS 15+