Nimble Photo — Sort and tag your photos on Mac

Sort 10,000 photos before your coffee gets cold.

The fastest way to sort and tag a mountain of photos on your Mac. One key per photo, saved as a Finder tag. Zero files moved. Ever.

Free · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

You came back from the trip with 4,000 photos. Or the wedding. Or twelve years of phone backups.

Somewhere in there are the good ones. Finding them shouldn't take a whole weekend, or mean handing your files over to a giant photo library.

Sort and tag in three steps

Pick a folder

Any folder you already have. No import, no catalog, no "library". Your photos stay exactly where they are.

Tap a key to tag

One keystroke per photo tags it. No clicks, no dialogs, no "are you sure?". Just flow.

See what's left

Filter by category with live counts. Show only your Stars, review your shortlist, done.

0Delete

1Unclassified

2Keep

3Star

4Select

Your files are sacred

Nimble Photo never moves, renames, copies or deletes a single photo. Not one.

Your choices are saved as good old macOS Finder tags, the colored dots you already know. They show up in Finder and Spotlight, and they travel with the file to any other Mac. Uninstall Nimble Photo tomorrow and your tags are still there. That's the whole trick.

Everything a first pass needs

And nothing that slows it down.

Built for big piles

Glides through 5,000 to 50,000+ photos without breaking a sweat.

Keyboard first

Arrow keys to move, numbers to sort, Space to open. Your mouse can take the day off.

Full-size viewer

Zoom to 100% to check the focus, then sort without leaving the view.

Videos too

Clips play right alongside your photos. Same grid, same keys, one workflow.

Speaks every format

JPEG, HEIC, PNG, WebP, TIFF and RAW (CR2, DNG, RAF), plus MP4, MOV and M4V.

Your words, your categories

Rename "Star" to "Portfolio" or "Select" to "Client picks". The tags follow.

Always in order

Sorted by the date the shot was taken, so every shoot tells its story.

Photo info at a glance

Camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, location: all the EXIF goodies in one panel.

Copy all text

Photographed a whiteboard, a menu or a receipt? Right-click and copy every word in it.

Made for

Photographers doing the first pass after a shoot

Families finally tackling that "Photos 2014–2019" folder

Anyone who loves their folders just the way they are

No account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything happens on your Mac, inside Apple's App Store sandbox, and Nimble Photo only sees the folder you show it.