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A native macOS app for fast, keyboard-driven photo culling. Review, approve, and reject images in seconds — then move sorted results in batches.
Photo Cooler is a lightweight, native macOS app built for photographers who need to cull large sets of images quickly. Open any folder of photos, review each one fullscreen, and mark them as approved or rejected with a single keystroke. When you're done, move all approved or rejected files into separate folders in one batch. Built in SwiftUI with a dark interface designed for focused work.
macOS may block the app — see installation guide below.
Because Photo Cooler is not signed with an Apple developer certificate, macOS will block it by default. You can still install and run it by following these steps:
Download and double-click the .dmg file to mount it.
In the window that appears, drag Photo Cooler.app into your Applications folder.
Open the Terminal app (you can find it via Spotlight or in
/Applications/Utilities/).
In Terminal, run the following commands to remove macOS's security quarantine flag and add adhoc code signature:
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Photo Cooler.app"
sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/Photo Cooler.app"