macOS · Local AI · Free
Shoot more.Sort less.
Grain automatically culls, organises, and archives your photos. Plug in your SD card, press start — done in minutes.
The problem
You shoot 400 photos.
Then what?
Hours of importing, culling, star-rating, renaming, folder sorting.
You shoot on the weekend and spend the next two evenings staring at Lightroom.
That's not photography. That's filing.
Grain handles all of it automatically, so you can pick up the camera again instead.
Workflow
Three steps.
That's it.
Plug in your SD card
Grain watches for SD cards and camera connections automatically. No manual import, no setup.
Press Start
One click. Grain analyses every photo with local AI — sharpness, exposure, composition, duplicates.
Done
Your best shots are rated and archived. Rejects are quarantined. You open Lightroom with 40 photos, not 400.
Features
Built for photographers
who actually shoot.
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AI auto-culling
Every photo is scored for sharpness, exposure, and composition. The best frames rise to the top — automatically.
Local AI -
Smart organisation
Date-based folders, consistent naming, and XMP sidecars with labels and keywords — ready for Lightroom or Capture One.
Lightroom-ready -
Privacy first
Zero cloud. Zero accounts. Zero telemetry. The AI model runs on your Mac — your photos never leave it.
100% Private -
Every RAW format
RW2, CR2/3, NEF, ARW — plus JPEG and PNG. Grain reads your camera's files directly. No conversion, no plugins.
RAW + JPEG -
Presets & grading
Default, cinematic, bright & airy, muted earth — colour grading via LUT, plus vignette and film grain. Or roll your own.
LUT grading -
Watcher mode
Grain watches for SD cards and mounts, then runs the whole pipeline hands-free. Plug in, walk away.
Automatic
"We believe the best photo tool
is the one you forget about." — The Grain manifesto
Photography is about light, moment, and feeling.
The pipeline is just plumbing. Grain keeps it invisible.
The app
Clean by design.
Precise by default.
Pricing
Simple as it gets.
- AI auto-culling (on-device)
- Smart archiving + XMP sidecars
- Every RAW format (RW2 · CR2/3 · NEF · ARW)
- Presets & colour grading
- Watcher mode
- 100% local, zero cloud
Your camera is waiting.
Stop sorting.
Free for macOS. Local AI. No account. No cloud. No compromise.