Best Shots · AI Culling · Elite

Ten near-identical frames. One keeper.

You fire off a burst to get the shot — then ten almost-identical frames sit in your library forever. Best Shots groups each burst, scores every frame for sharpness, faces and open eyes, and stars the one to keep. You review, the rest go to the Trash. Nothing is ever deleted automatically. 100% on-device, no cloud, no account.

Suggests — never deletes on its own Trash, not permanent deletion — undoable
FolioSort Best Shots — a burst of similar photos grouped together, each scored for sharpness, face quality and open eyes, with the best frame starred as the keeper

Burst mode is a keeper's curse.

Every kid's birthday, every jumping-shot, every "hold still, one more" — you hold the shutter and get five, ten, fifteen frames. One of them is sharp with everyone's eyes open. The other fourteen are blinks, motion blur and half-smiles. Deleting them by hand means squinting at near-identical thumbnails, so nobody ever does it. The duplicates just pile up and eat your disk.

Let the sharpest frame win.

Best Shots does the squinting for you. It groups each burst, scores every frame for sharpness, face quality and whether eyes are open, and stars the single best keeper. You glance at the group, agree or pick your own, and clear the rest in one click — to the Trash, never permanent deletion, always undoable. The chore that never happened is now ten seconds.

How it works

From a pile of near-duplicates to one keeper

STEP 01

Group the bursts

FolioSort finds shots taken within about 3 seconds of each other that also look alike — real bursts, not just photos that share a timestamp.

STEP 02

Score every frame

Each shot gets a score from sharpness, face quality and open eyes. The highest-scoring frame is starred as the suggested keeper.

STEP 03

Tune what "best" means

Three live sliders re-weight sharpness, faces and eyes. Suggestions re-rank instantly — no re-scan — and your manual keeps stay put.

STEP 04

Review and clear

Keep only the best, keep all, or hand-pick. Non-keepers move to the Trash or a folder — undoable.

What makes the best shot

Three signals, weighted your way

SharpnessA per-frame focus score picks the crisp shot over the motion-blurred and out-of-focus ones — the same tiled analysis behind Find Blurry Photos.
Face qualityWhen people are in the frame, FolioSort favours the shot with the clearest, best-exposed faces — so the keeper is the one you'd actually print.
Eyes openThe classic burst-killer. An eyes-open check demotes the blink so the frame where everyone's actually looking wins.
You hold the dialCare more about sharpness than smiles? Slide the weights and every keeper re-ranks live — no waiting, no re-scan.
Your picks are respectedStar a frame the score didn't and it stays your keeper — re-weighting never overrides a choice you made by hand.
Enlarge and compareNot sure? Open any burst full-size and step through the frames side by side, with the score, sharpness and file size on each.

Culling you can trust

It suggests. You decide. Always.

The scary version of auto-culling deletes your only good frame while you're not looking. Best Shots is the opposite: it never removes anything on its own. Every burst is shown with its suggested keeper, and only the frames you confirm are cleared. A running "space to free" counter shows exactly what your current selection will reclaim before you commit.

Trash, not oblivion — and undoable.

Non-keepers go to the Trash or a folder you choose, never straight to permanent deletion, and the last batch can be restored with one click. It's the same checksum-verified, fully undoable engine behind every FolioSort tool — running entirely on your PC, with nothing uploaded anywhere.

Why it's safe

Guardrails on every keep

Never auto-deletesBest Shots only suggests — nothing is removed until you review the burst and confirm.
Trash, not oblivionNon-keepers go to the Trash or a folder you choose — nothing is permanently deleted.
One-click undoChanged your mind? Restore the last batch instantly.
Tight groupingOnly shots that are close in time and look alike are grouped — unrelated photos aren't lumped together.
100% on-deviceGrouping and scoring run entirely on your PC — no cloud, no account, no upload.
Non-destructive scoringScoring reads your photos — it never rewrites, re-encodes or touches the originals.
1 keeper
starred per burst — the sharpest frame with the best faces and open eyes
3 signals
sharpness, face quality and open eyes — weighted however you like
0 uploads
every frame scored on your device — no cloud, no account
100%
undoable — files go to the Trash and the last batch restores in one click
My camera roll was 60% burst frames I was too lazy to sort. FolioSort grouped them, starred the sharp one with everyone's eyes open, and I just clicked through agreeing. Got back a shocking amount of space in a coffee break — and nothing was gone for good, it was all sitting in the Trash.
PARENT / ENDLESS BURST SHOTS
Clean up the clutter, three ways.

Best Shots thins your bursts down to the keepers. Find Duplicates removes the exact copies. Find Blurry Photos clears the frames that were never sharp to begin with.

FAQ

Best Shots questions, answered

What counts as a burst?

A burst is a group of shots taken within about three seconds of each other that also look alike — the frames you fire off trying to get the one good one. FolioSort groups them using EXIF capture times plus a visual-similarity check, so unrelated photos taken at the same moment don't get lumped together.

How does it pick the best shot?

Every frame is scored for sharpness, face quality and whether eyes are open, and the highest-scoring frame is starred as the keeper. You control the mix: three live sliders re-weight sharpness, faces and open eyes, and the suggestions re-rank instantly with no re-scan. Any frame you keep by hand is always preserved.

Will it delete photos automatically?

Never. Best Shots only ever suggests — you review every burst and choose what to remove. Non-keepers move to the Trash or a folder you pick, nothing is deleted permanently, and the last batch can be undone with one click.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. All grouping and scoring runs entirely on your PC — no cloud, no account, no upload. Your photos never leave your computer.

Which photos can it analyze?

Any photo with an EXIF capture time can be grouped into bursts; photos without one are simply skipped and reported. Face-quality and eyes-open scores apply when faces are present — landscapes and other shots are still scored on sharpness.

Is it included in Free or Pro?

Best Shots is part of Elite, FolioSort's top tier with the full on-device AI suite. Elite is a one-time purchase (launch price €29.99, normally €49.99) — no subscription. Free and Pro don't include it. See pricing →

Stop keeping fourteen versions of the same photo.

Let Best Shots find the keeper in every burst — scored for sharpness, faces and open eyes, reviewed before anything is removed, and undoable after. Entirely on your own PC.

Review before anything is removed Fully undoable 100% on-device
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