From 2000 raws to the ones you’ll send.

A free culling and develop suite for macOS. Apple’s latest raw decoder, Neural Engine denoise, curves, crop and Vision aesthetic scoring, all of it on your own machine, over your own folders. No catalogue, no import, no account.

Download for macOS

brew install --cask raphaelmitas/tap/photopipe

Free and open source · macOS 15 or later · Apple Silicon · nothing is uploaded, ever

The Photopipe browse grid, a shoot sorted by Instinct score

Develop

A real edit, not a preview.

Every adjustment runs through Apple's raw pipeline at full precision and is written back as XMP. Warm re-renders land in 32 ms on a 33 MP ARW, so a slider moves the photo, not a progress bar.

Exposure
Written as Lightroom's own crs:Exposure2012.
Highlights · Shadows
Recovery either end of the range.
Temp · Tint
True Kelvin on raw, incremental elsewhere.
Denoise
RAW 9 demosaics and denoises in one model, on the Neural Engine.
Vibrance · Saturation
Two separate controls, as they should be.
Curves
RGB plus a red, green and blue channel each.
Crop, straighten, rotate
Live angle, non-destructive, zoom to 1:1 to check focus.
⌘C / ⌘V
Copy a look from one photo, paste it onto the whole selection.

The Photopipe loupe with the edit panel open on a raw file

Instinct

The first pass is already done.

A background pass scores every frame with Apple's Vision aesthetics model, on your Mac, straight from the raw. Nothing is uploaded and no account exists to upload it to. The result is one number from 0 to 100 that means the same thing in every project: sort by Instinct and the shoot arrives roughly in the order you would have put it in.

0–100

One scale, stable across shoots

On device

Vision reads the raw, nothing leaves the Mac

32 ms

Warm loupe re-render, 33 MP ARW

0 files

Written until you ask

The rest of it

Everything else the job needs.

Your folders are the truth

No catalogue, no import step. Photopipe watches the folder with FSEvents, so a file you move in Finder moves in the app. The index is a rebuildable cache, never a source of truth.

Ratings that travel

Stars, tone, colour, curves and crop go out as XMP: a sidecar beside a raw, embedded in a DNG. Lightroom and Capture One read the same decisions.

Histogram as filter

Six bars, a count each. Click one to narrow, refine with ≥ = ≤ ∅. One control answers "how far am I" and "show me the keepers".

Export that renders

Originals byte-for-byte, or full-resolution JPEG with every edit baked in at quality 90 or 100. Folder or zip, flat or mirrored, never a silent overwrite.

Jobs, not toasts

Exports run in the drawer's activity list: running, done with a reveal button, or failed with the error still on screen four minutes later.

Native and self-contained

A Swift core doing every pixel, in one bundle with the raw pipeline inside. Nothing else to install, and it offers its own updates without ever asking who you are.

From 2000 raws to the ones you’ll send.

A real edit, not a preview.

The first pass is already done.

Everything else the job needs.

Your next shoot is waiting.