For macOS & Windows · 100% on-device — nothing is ever uploaded
FolioSort reads the EXIF metadata inside every file and sorts years of photos and videos into clean, correctly-dated folders in minutes — and even fixes Google Photos Takeout's broken dates.
⭐ Millions of photos & videos already organized — by creators on every continent.
Before
~/Downloads/Photos — 8 of 28,419 files
After
~/Pictures/Library — verified ✓ undoable
The problem
Every SD card dump, phone backup and Google Takeout export piles up into the same digital junk drawer —
IMG_4567.jpg next to last year's wedding RAWs, with dates scrambled and nothing findable.
Sorting it by hand takes a weekend per year of photos. FolioSort does it in minutes: it reads the real capture date, camera and GPS location stored inside each file, and files everything exactly where it belongs.
How it works
No manual sorting, no spreadsheets, no "I'll do it someday".
Drag in external drives, SD cards, phone backups or messy folders. FolioSort scans thousands of files in seconds and reads the metadata inside each one.
Choose a preset or build your own folder path with tokens — date, camera, city, anything in the EXIF.
{YYYY}/{MM} {Month}/{City}/{Camera}
See the exact result before a single file moves. Click Process and watch it happen — checksum-verified, and undoable with one click if you change your mind.
The app
Organizer sorts, Rename fixes names, Google Photos repairs Takeout, Events splits a shoot by timeline, Duplicates finds repeating files, Blurry detects unsharp photos, Merge safely combines folders, and AI Search finds a person or sweeps out screenshots — all on your Mac.
New: Google Photos Takeout Organizer — restore dates, GPS and metadata in one click.
Leaving Google Photos?
Takeout exports strip the capture date and GPS out of your photos and bury them in .json
sidecar files — so everything looks like it was taken the day you downloaded it. FolioSort merges that
metadata back into your files, then organizes the whole library.
Who it's for
Photographers
Multi-camera weddings sorted by ceremony timeline, RAW + JPEG kept together, every file renamed to your studio convention. Preset profiles for every kind of shoot.
Families
Old hard drives, phone dumps and DVD rips become one clean timeline: year, month, place. Find the 2009 beach holiday in three clicks instead of three hours.
Google Photos refugees
Export with Takeout, repair the metadata with FolioSort, and move to your Mac, PC, NAS, Immich or Nextcloud — with original dates intact and zero vendor lock-in.
I never thought I could organize all my family photos so fast. Truly amazing!
I can now organize all the events I photograph in under a minute — a real time-saver!
Finally, a solution that works — it let me migrate all my Google Photos to my computer.
Features
Everything is built to eliminate manual data entry — and to never lose a single byte.
Merge Takeout's .json sidecars back into your media to recover original dates, GPS and live photos — then organize everything.
How it works →Build any structure with tokens like {YYYY}, {MM}, {Camera},
{City}. Four built-in presets or create your own.
Find & replace with capture groups, live preview with match highlighting, 7 naming patterns including date prefix and camera model.
Explore Rename → NEWDefine your shoot timeline — Getting Ready, Ceremony, Reception — and every photo from every camera lands in the right folder by EXIF timestamp.
Explore Events →Photos automatically filed by city and country — GPS coordinates from EXIF resolved to real place names, entirely on-device.
Add a few photos of someone and find every shot of them in a folder — on-device face search, no cloud, no account, no face ever uploaded.
Explore Find a Person → NEWSpot the receipts, memes and app captures hiding among your real photos and clear them out in bulk — to the Trash or a folder, undoable.
Explore Screenshots → NEWEffortlessly find and safely remove duplicate photos to free up storage space. Smart byte-by-byte comparison ensures absolute accuracy.
Explore Duplicates → NEWAutomatically detect and filter out out-of-focus or blurry photos from your collection using advanced image analysis.
Explore Blurry → NEWQuickly and safely combine contents from multiple folders into one unified directory, without losing structure or files.
Explore Merge →XXHash64 or SHA-256 checksum on every transfer. Zero corrupted files, guaranteed — even across networks.
Revert any operation with one click. Up to 50 batches, persistent across sessions, with auto-cleanup of empty folders.
SMB/AFP shares (Synology, QNAP), iCloud Drive with auto-download, resilient transfers with retry and disconnect handling.
Canon CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Fujifilm RAF — plus cinema RAW from Blackmagic, RED and ARRI. All in Pro.
Supported formats
Canon · Nikon · Sony · Fujifilm · Panasonic · Olympus · Pentax · Samsung · Sigma · Leica · Hasselblad · Phase One · Kodak · Blackmagic · RED · ARRI
RAW & Cinema formats require Pro
Pricing
The Free tier is fully functional, forever. Pro is a one-time €14.99 — a lifetime license, not a subscription.
Free forever · no account, no trial clock
One-time payment · yours forever · 14-day money-back guarantee
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| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Files per operation | 100 | Unlimited |
| Folder presets | 3 | Unlimited + custom |
| Rename presets | 3 | Unlimited + custom |
| Custom folder templates | — | ✓ |
| Regex rename | — | ✓ |
| RAW photo formats | — | ✓ |
| Cinema RAW (BRAW, R3D, ARRI) | — | ✓ |
| GPS reverse geocoding | — | ✓ |
| Cloud & NAS import (SMB/AFP/iCloud) | — | ✓ |
| Checksum verification | XXHash64 | XXHash64 + SHA-256 |
| Duplicate handling | Skip | Advanced |
| Undo history | Single session | 50 ops, persistent |
| Activity log export | — | ✓ |
I can now organize all the events I photograph in under a minute — a real time-saver!
FAQ
Absolutely. FolioSort verifies every transfer with checksums (XXHash64 or SHA-256), offers full undo for up to 50 operations, and processes everything locally on your computer. Your files never leave your Mac or PC.
No. Your photos, videos and their contents are processed 100% locally and are never uploaded anywhere. FolioSort only sends anonymous, aggregated usage statistics (via the privacy-friendly Aptabase service) — never file names, paths or GPS data. Reverse geocoding uses Apple's CLGeocoder on macOS and OpenStreetMap's Nominatim on Windows (coordinates only).
Yes. The Free tier is fully functional — organize up to 100 files per operation, use 3 folder presets and 3 rename presets, with checksum verification and undo. Upgrade to Pro when you need more.
No. FolioSort Pro is a one-time purchase with a lifetime license. Pay once, use forever. No recurring fees.
Yes — with the Pro license. FolioSort supports RAW formats from Canon (CR2, CR3), Nikon (NEF), Sony (ARW), Fujifilm (RAF), Panasonic (RW2), Olympus (ORF), Pentax (PEF), and more, plus cinema RAW from Blackmagic, RED, and ARRI.
MOV, MP4, AVI, MKV, M4V, 3GP, WMV, FLV, WebM, MTS, M2TS, TS, MPG, MPEG, and VOB. Pro adds cinema RAW formats: BRAW (Blackmagic), R3D (RED), ARI/ARR (ARRI), and CRM (Canon Cinema).
Yes, with Pro. FolioSort works with SMB and AFP network shares (Synology, QNAP, etc.) and iCloud Drive. It includes auto-download for cloud-only files, resilient retry logic, and disconnect handling.
Every operation can be undone with one click. FolioSort keeps a persistent history of up to 50 batch operations across sessions, and automatically cleans up empty directories when reverting.
Yes. FolioSort runs on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later — on both Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs — and on 64-bit Windows 10 (1809) or Windows 11.
You can request a full refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as the license key has not been activated. Refunds are processed within 5–10 business days.
Download free, point it at your messiest folder, and watch years of chaos become a clean, dated archive — in minutes, not weekends.