Photos & Videos · since 0.1.12

Your shoot, sorted by how you shot it.

Flies reads what your camera wrote into every file. A folder of IMG_ numbers starts to make sense.

Every detail, in the folder

The Details view can add columns for Date Taken, Dimensions, Duration, Camera, Lens, Focal Length, Aperture, Exposure and ISO. They only appear in folders with enough media to be worth it, so your code folders stay clean.

Grouping works the same way. Group a folder by lens and a bar chart shows how the shots spread out, which is a quick way to see the lens you actually reach for.

A viewer built for photographers

The image viewer shows an RGB histogram beside an info panel with exposure mode, metering, focal length and color space. Camera raws open at their full sensor resolution. HEIF and TIFF open too.

It can also remove a background using the VisionKit model already on your Mac, or optimize an image to make it smaller.

Cull from the keyboard

Going through a shoot, T tags the photo or video in front of you and D deletes it. Changed your mind? U brings it back.

Tags show as a color or emoji dot in every view and can sync with Finder.

Video, frame by frame

Video previews count frames, and you can save the current frame as a snapshot. If you like, images and video can open in Flies by default instead of Preview or QuickTime.

Rename a whole shoot

Batch rename can build names from the camera model and the other details Flies reads.

Point it at your messiest folder.

Download for Mac

Flies is a Mac app. Open this page on your Mac to download it.

Apple Silicon · free beta licence, requested in the app

One step before you open Flies

While Flies is in beta, paste this in Terminal, then open Flies.

xattr -cr /Applications/Flies.app