Imagin Raw

A lightweight, native macOS application for browsing, culling, and organizing RAW photos - built as a more efficient alternative to Adobe Bridge.

An iOS version as an alternative to the cluttered Photos app is in development. This one wants to be also a scouting app.

Features:

• Multi-root folder browsing - add any number of folders from local disks, external drives, or SD cards; no import step, no managed library
• Real-time file system monitoring - new photos, deletions, and folder structure changes are detected and reflected immediately
• RAW format support - via LibRaw, covering a broad range of camera manufacturers and formats
• Rating and color labeling - written to XMP sidecars (RAW) or embedded directly without re-encoding (JPEG/HEIC), compatible with Adobe Bridge and Lightroom
• Rejection workflow - a session-scoped label (not persisted across folder changes) for marking photos to delete; batch-delete via right-click
• JPG/RAW pair deduplication - when a RAW+JPEG pair exists, only the RAW is shown in the browser
• Two grid layouts - compact grid (more room for preview) and large grid (more room for thumbnails)
• Spotlight-backed search - search across files and folder names using the macOS indexing engine
• SD card ingest - copy photos into date-based folder structures, with optional simultaneous backup to a second destination
• Duplicate/similar photo detection - Review mode for quickly resolving near-duplicate burst shots
• Instagram frame export - fits 2:3 RAW images into a 3:4 canvas, exported as TIFF to avoid re-encoding loss (useful for Camera Raw edits because it doesn't support framing)
• Export video - select photos from the same sequence and export a cool video
• Offline client proofing - export PDF -> client ticks some annotation checkboxes to mark his favourites -> import the PDF back to filter for the selected photos