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FastPhotosCull

Lightroom-style culling for Apple Photos, with stars, flags and colour labels on Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Status
Beta
Availability
Public TestFlight beta
Requires
macOS 26, iOS 26

This was built lovingly by a photographer, videographer and social media content creator who uses it daily. It's influenced by the workflows of Lightroom Classic and Final Cut Pro, and their ability to iterate quickly over media without moving your hands.

"FPC" is a play on words: Fast Photos Cull, because Photos is the name of the Apple app, and it's almost FCP, which was where the big gap was first noticed (unlike Lightroom, there's no real catalog).

One of the major points of the app is to keep duplication of media down and resolution quality up. There's no loss from exports and re-imports, no losing track of where you saved something, and it's available across all your apps, so you can use the power of your keyboard for culling while keeping the simplicity of Photos albums and uploads for social media creation.

Screenshots

Mac

  • FastPhotosCull grid on Mac, 199 photos from WTM London 2026 with star ratings, colour labels and group badges, the filter bar, filmstrip and info panel.
  • FastPhotosCull loupe on Mac, a busy exhibitor stand at WTM London 2026, with the histogram and info panel on the right and the filmstrip below.
  • FastPhotosCull Compare view on Mac, the same trade show stand shot landscape and portrait, side by side to choose between.
  • FastPhotosCull trimming a video on Mac, a WTM London visitor sign clip with in and out points marking a four-second selection on the timeline and a Save Clip button.

iPad

  • FastPhotosCull grid on iPad in landscape, WTM London 2026 photos and clips mid-cull, with Sri Lanka dancers, booth walls and three frames of the Vamoos stand, star ratings and pick flags under the thumbnails.
  • FastPhotosCull full-screen photo on iPad in landscape, the Vamoos stand at WTM London rated four stars, flagged as a pick and labelled Client, beside the info panel with its RGB histogram, file details and labels.
  • FastPhotosCull trimming a video on iPad, an eight-second WTM London clip of visitors crossing the blue-carpeted España hall, with a yellow In to Out range of about four and a half seconds selected, Save Clip, and the info panel with its histogram.
  • FastPhotosCull Compare view on iPad in landscape, two near-identical frames of the Vamoos stand side by side, one rated four stars with a pick flag and purple label, the other three stars.

iPhone

  • FastPhotosCull grid on iPhone, WTM London 2026 photos and clips with one to five stars, pick flags, rejects and colour labels under the thumbnails.
  • FastPhotosCull loupe on iPhone, Sri Lanka dancers performing at a WTM London stand, rated two stars with no flag or label.
  • FastPhotosCull loupe on iPhone, a near-duplicate shot through an Uber Boat window, marked as a reject with no stars.
  • FastPhotosCull loupe on iPhone, the busy Vamoos stand at WTM London, rated four stars, flagged as a pick and labelled purple.
  • FastPhotosCull trimming a video on iPhone, a WTM London clip of the España hall with a yellow In to Out range of about four seconds selected and the Save Clip button.

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