SnapCuller

THE PHOTO CULLER THAT ADAPTS TO YOUR WORKFLOW AND YOUR AI Are you wasting hours after every shoot waiting for catalogs to import, previews to render, and heavy applications to load? SnapCuller is a lightning-fast, keyboard-first desktop photo culling application built for professional photographers. By operating directly on your local filesystem, SnapCuller extracts embedded JPEG previews instantly that allowing you to fly through 10,000+ RAW photos with zero lag the second you plug in your memory card. No catalogs. No databases. No waiting. Just raw performance. BRING YOUR OWN AI: COMPLETE CONTROL, ABSOLUTE PRIVACY Most modern AI culling platforms lock you into expensive monthly subscriptions and force you to upload your entire shoot to their cloud servers. SnapCuller changes the game by giving you complete control over your AI integration: - Photographer-Provided API Keys: Simply input your own Google Gemini or OpenAI API key. - Backend Orchestration by SnapCuller: You provide the AI brains; we do the heavy lifting. SnapCuller handles the entire backend process locally on your machine, pre-processing your files, optimizing image size for minimal API token costs, extracting focal areas, building context-rich prompts, and executing the API pipeline. - Pay-As-You-Go Efficiency: Because you use your own key, you pay the AI provider directly. This translates to fractions of a cent per image (typically under $0.50 to cull an entire wedding), with zero markups from us. - Absolute Privacy: Your high-resolution RAW images never leave your local machine or get stored on external culling databases. SIGNATURE WORKFLOW FEATURES - AI Smart Culling and Justifications: Let AI do the first pass. SnapCuller automatically flags, rates, and categorizes your photos based on composition, lighting, and expressions. - Written AI Insights: Don't guess why the AI made a decision. SnapCuller displays clear, written justifications and analysis details (e.g., "Subject has eyes closed," or "Perfect focus on primary face") for rapid auditing. - Tactical Buckets (Physical Sorters): Map any key (like 1 for Picks, 2 for Rejects) to instantly copy or move RAW files to physical folders on your drive in real-time. - Compare View with Zoom Sync: Compare up to 4 photos side-by-side. Zooming or panning on one image automatically pans the others, making it easy to spot the sharpest frame in a sequence. - Focus Peaking and Triple-State Exposure: Verify technical sharpness with a real-time focus peaking overlay. Toggle exposure warnings to check for blown highlights and crushed shadows. - AI Face Detection: Instantly locate and zoom into faces in group portraits or wedding party shots to verify focus and expressions in milliseconds. - Industry-Standard XMP Sync: All flags, color labels, and star ratings are instantly written to non-destructive .xmp sidecars. Open Lightroom or Capture One and your selections are already there. - Power-User Automation: Features like Burst Stacking (automatic grouping of rapid sequences), RAW+JPG Pairing, Batch Renaming, and Code Replacements (text macros for fast metadata entry) keep you moving at muscle-memory speed. BUILT FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Whether you shoot weddings, sports, portraits, or live events, SnapCuller fits perfectly into your existing ecosystem. We believe you should own your software, control your data, and choose your AI. - Platform: Windows and macOS (Optimized native builds for Apple Silicon and Intel). - Price: Buy once, use forever. No hidden monthly subscriptions.