AI Photo Culling for Windows

What is AI Photo Culling?

AI Photo Culling helps reduce a folder of photos to a selection before editing. It analyzes images locally, gives frames a 0–100 rating and shows reasons such as soft focus, motion blur or a backlit subject. Similar shots can be grouped into stacks so you can compare a burst rather than judge each frame in isolation. The photographer still decides which moment to keep.

Grid, Loupe and side-by-side Survey views support review. Keyboard controls mark Keep, Reject or Maybe and assign stars. The program reads RAW files alongside HEIC and JPEG images, then can copy keepers to a _Selected subfolder or write ratings and labels to XMP sidecars for an editing workflow. Marking Reject is not itself a deletion; moving rejected files or sending them to the Recycle Bin is a separate action.

The free version analyzes the folder but limits output to 15 photos per session, shared across copying keepers, writing XMP, moving rejects and Recycle Bin actions. Registration removes that cap. This is a culling tool, not a photo editor, and its flags need human review: the publisher explicitly notes that closed-eye detection can be wrong. Lightroom reads these XMP sidecars for RAW files, not JPEGs, so copying selected JPEGs is the relevant alternative.

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