Earthscapes Labs · Desktop app for Mac and Windows

SwiftSelect

Cull a whole shoot in a fraction of the time.

SwiftSelect is a desktop app for photographers who come back from a shoot with thousands of frames and a deadline. It scrolls through huge folders without lag, groups near-identical shots, scores sharpness, and lets you pick, rate and reject at the speed of your keyboard.

Request Early Access How it works

SwiftSelect full-screen viewer showing a coastal photo with its sharpness score, zoom level, shortlist tick, five stars and tags

RAW + JPEGThousands of images without lag

2–4Photos compared side by side

50Steps of undo and redo

100%Runs on your computer; AI is optional

What SwiftSelect does

Fast photo culling and AI-assisted shortlisting for architecture and interiors photographers.

Handles huge shoots

Browse thousands of RAW and JPEG files without lag.

Smooth grid with cached thumbnails
Reads camera and exposure data
Sync a folder without re-importing

Finds the best frame for you

Measures every image so you do not have to zoom to 100%.

Sharpness score on every photo
Smart Stacks group near-identical shots
Optional AI shortlisting with Gemini

Cull at keyboard speed

Every action has a remappable shortcut.

Pick, reject, rate and tag
Compare 2–4 photos side by side
50 steps of undo and redo

Export that fits your workflow

Your picks travel with the files.

Ratings written into the files, XMP sidecars for RAW
Works with Lightroom and Capture One
Copy the shortlist to a delivery folder

How it works

Three steps from start to finish.

Open a folder

Point it at a shoot. Thumbnails and previews are built once and cached.

Stack and score

Near-identical frames are grouped and every photo gets a sharpness score.

Pick and export

Rate, reject and shortlist from the keyboard, then write ratings to the files.

See it in action

SwiftSelect photo grid with green selected ticks, red rejected crosses and star ratings under each photo — Culling: green ticks for the picks, red crosses for rejects, star ratings, and a progress meter showing how much of the shoot is sorted.

SwiftSelect Smart Stacks view grouping six photos into four stacks, with a similarity slider set to 71.8 percent — Smart Stacks: near-identical frames are grouped automatically. Here six photos became four stacks, and the similarity slider controls how strict grouping is.

Who it's for

Architecture and interior photographers
Landscape and real-estate photographers
Event and commercial photographers with big shoots
Studios that need a consistent, fast first-pass cull

Local-first and private

Photos, thumbnails and the project database stay on your computer
Moving a project to another drive? Relink the folder without losing ratings, stacks or order
AI shortlisting is the only feature that goes online, and you choose when to use it

Get early access to SwiftSelect

Tell us about the kind of photography you do and we will contact you when SwiftSelect is ready for testers.

Get in touch Email contact@earthscapes.digital

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