Welcome
Cull wisely.
Come back from an event with four thousand frames. Cullwise reads the whole shoot and marks the ones worth your time, so the pass you actually do is picking favourites — not deleting the obvious misses one by one.
macOS on Apple silicon · Buy once, no subscription · Not released yet
Development log latest first
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Metadata editor, filtering, and custom sort Full IPTC editing with bulk apply, a Lightroom-style filter bar across the library, and saved custom sorts.In testing
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Press-and-hold 1:1 magnifier in the grid Check critical sharpness without leaving the contact sheet.In testing
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Card ingest with filename templates Copy from the card and rename on the way in.In testing
Cullwise is in active development and is not yet available to buy. Ask to be told when it ships »
What it is
Cullwise is a culling and review application for photographers who shoot events, sports, and anything else that fills a card. It does two jobs.
First, it reads the shoot and rates every frame on how well it came out, so the obvious misses are already set aside before you start. It errs toward keeping — anything borderline stays in, because the expensive mistake is throwing away a frame you wanted.
Second, it gives you a proper contact-sheet grid and a full-screen loupe with the keyboard you already know, so making the final picks is fast.
What we refuse to do
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Never overwrite your work Every run saves what each frame was rated before it started, and one menu item puts a whole run back exactly as it was. Always on. If you have already culled a shoot by hand, running Cullwise over it cannot cost you that work.
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Never hide the rejects A rejected frame dims. It does not vanish. Deleting anything stays a separate, deliberate act you perform yourself.
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Never hold your ratings hostage Your picks live with your photographs in the standard sidecar files, not locked inside a catalogue we own. Stop using Cullwise tomorrow and every rating you made is still there.
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Never rent you your own tools One payment, and the version you bought keeps working forever on your own machine, with no check-in and no expiry.