Cull thousands.Keep the best.
The desktop photo manager for photographers who shoot fast and deliver faster.
Free to cull · No credit card · Works offline - your photos never leave your device.
Pick
Maybe
Reject
ClearWatch a thousand-frame shoot become a hundred keepers.
Keyboard-driven culling, scene grouping, and side-by-side compare - the same workflow photographers use to clear a wedding in well under an hour.
Everything between your camera and your editor.
Import, cull, tag, and export thousands of images without slowing down. Built for photographers who need speed, not complexity.
Fast import + culling
Drag a folder, see instant previews. Pick, maybe, or reject with 100% loupe zoom to check focus.
Keyboard-first
P/M/X/U to rate, HJKL to navigate. Auto-advance after each decision so you never lift your hands.
AI tagging + search
Auto-detect objects, scenes, and faces. Find any image by what's in it, not just its filename.
Cloud AI: 25 free / month, unlimited on Pro
Shoots + scenes
Group images into shoots with sub-scenes, cover images, and one-click filtering.
Social export presets
One-click crop presets for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with AI-powered face-aware framing.
Lightroom handoff
Send your selects to Lightroom with XMP sidecar files, star ratings, and color labels.
Handles 500K+ images
Virtualized grid, instant RAW previews, and parallel processing. No slowdown at scale.
Your files stay yours
Local SQLite database, works fully offline. No cloud upload required.
Four keys.
Zero friction.
Rate every image without touching your mouse. Auto-advance moves you to the next shot the instant you decide.
- HJKL and arrow keys to navigate. Vim-style speed for photographers.
- AI tags surface your best shots. Find faces, scenes, and objects instantly.
- Export picks straight to Lightroom with XMP ratings and metadata intact.
Built on real RAW power.
Native LibRaw decoding for 400+ cameras, true sensor data previews, and a local database that handles half a million images without breaking a sweat.
- 400+
- camera models supported
- 10K-500K+
- images per library
- 100%
- local - works offline
- Free
- to cull · no credit card
Free to cull, with AI built in.
Import, cull, organize, and export with zero limits - plus on-device AI scoring and grouping that runs locally and offline. Every free account also gets 25 cloud AI analyses a month and 1 GB of cloud storage for sync and client proofing; Pro removes the AI cap and raises storage to 10 GB. Cloud sync and proofing galleries are on every plan.
Free
Everything you need to cull, organize, and export - with AI built in
- Unlimited photo imports
- Pick / maybe / reject workflow
- Keyboard-first navigation
- Fast RAW previews
- On-device AI culling - scoring + burst/duplicate grouping
- 25 cloud AI analyses/month (tagging, faces, smart crop)
- 1 GB cloud storage - sync + client proofing galleries
- XMP & ratings export
- Social export presets
Pro
7-day trialUnlimited cloud AI and more storage for everyday shooting
50% off applied at checkout with code SELEKT50S. Limited to the first 50 photographers.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited cloud AI tagging*
- AI scene detection
- AI face recognition
- AI-powered search
- Smart crop suggestions
- 10 GB cloud storage - sync + client proofing galleries
- Priority support
* Pro cloud AI is unlimited for everyday shooting. A high monthly limit guards against abuse; if you ever reach it, just get in touch and we'll raise it.
Common questions
Everything photographers ask before switching their culling workflow. See all FAQs