Grain — Shoot more. Sort less.
A local AI photo pipeline for macOS. Plug in your SD card, press start — Grain culls, organizes, and archives your photos automatically. No cloud. No subscription. No compromise.
The real problem
You come home excited after a great session. The light was perfect. You got the shot. Then you open Lightroom — and spend the next three hours clicking through blurry duplicates, overexposed rejects, and almost-greats.
By the end, you're too tired to actually edit. The joy is gone. The best shots are buried. And your SD card is still full.
How it works
Grain detects your card automatically. Or point it to any folder on your Mac.
Auto-detectionThat's it. Grain culls, analyzes, and archives while your Mac stays awake — no babysitting needed.
One clickBest shots marked ⭐ TOP. Rejects flagged. AI feedback written. Open Lightroom and start creating.
Ready to editWhat Grain does
Six things that used to take hours. Now zero effort.
All analysis runs on your Mac via Ollama. Your photos never leave your machine. No account. No cloud. No data collection. Ever.
Every photo scored on sharpness, exposure, histogram quality, and composition. Top 20% marked as stars. Rejects flagged automatically.
Before you start, Grain shows exactly how many new photos it found and how long it'll take. No surprises.
Grain keeps your Mac from sleeping during the pipeline — no more waking up to a half-finished job. Automatically disabled when done.
Already processed photos are recognized instantly. Run Grain again and it only processes what's new — never duplicates work.
Bracket series are detected, merged into HDR, and labeled — all automatically. Get publication-ready HDRs without touching software.
"The best photo tool is the one
you forget about."
We built Grain because we were tired of spending more time managing photos than making them. Photography is about light, moments, and craft — not file management. Grain handles the machine work so you can focus on the human part.
Your photos are personal. They run through local AI only, on your hardware, with zero network calls.
One button. One click. No presets to configure, no workflows to build. Grain just works.
Grain is for photographers who care about the process — from shutter click to final edit.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
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Free. Local. No account needed. Just download and run.
Grain-1.5.0.dmg · macOS · Apple Silicon & Intel
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