Observed arrival · 2026-09-18
Cull: the first pass for a thousand-frame shoot
Cull is a photo-culling app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that scores images, groups bursts, flags soft frames, and helps photographers keep or reject quickly.
- For
- Photographers sorting large shoots before editing
- Worth noticing
- A single-key workflow writes ratings and colour labels to XMP sidecars for Lightroom, without a plugin.
Field notes
Cull processes folders, cards, drives, or Photos libraries while scoring continues in the background. Its workflow combines burst stacks, face-focused inspection, side-by-side comparison, and keyboard shortcuts, then exports ratings and colour labels as XMP sidecars for Lightroom. The homepage presents a 1,022-photo example and says scoring uses Apple’s Vision framework on the device, with the photographer retaining the final keep-or-reject decision.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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