Blurry

Find and clear out every blurry, out-of-focus shot — keep every sharp one

For anyone sitting on thousands of photos where a third are soft, shaken or missed-focus throwaways — FolioSort surfaces the blurriest first, lets you set the cut-off with a single slider, and clears them out without touching the keepers.

You set the line, not an algorithm On-device, ML-free, transparent
FolioSort Blurry feature

Nobody deletes their bad shots — so they pile up forever.

Burst mode fires twelve frames; you keep all twelve. The toddler moved, the dog blurred, the hand shook — but the soft frames stay in the library because culling them one by one is mind-numbing. Over years, a third of a library can be out-of-focus dead weight, padding your backups and burying the keepers.

Existing tools don't help. Your photo app sorts by date, not sharpness. There's no "show me the blurry ones" button anywhere. So the soft shots stay — invisible, un-cullable, multiplying.

Blurriest-first, with a score on every shot and the line set by you.

Blurry scores every photo for sharpness and sorts them blurriest-first, so the worst offenders are right at the top where you can clear them in seconds.

Because "too blurry" depends on the photo — intentional bokeh and macro are meant to be soft outside the subject — FolioSort doesn't impose a fixed verdict. A live sensitivity slider lets you set the cut-off and watch the selection update instantly, with each photo's score shown so you can calibrate by eye.

It runs entirely on-device with no machine-learning black box: a fast, transparent sharpness measure that's consistent across resolutions, so a 50-megapixel RAW and a phone snap are judged on the same scale.

How it works

Four steps to a sharper library

STEP 01

Pick a folder

Choose a folder to scan.

STEP 02

Scan

FolioSort measures the sharpness of every photo and sorts them blurriest-first.

STEP 03

Set the threshold

Drag the sensitivity slider; the flagged set re-filters live — no re-scan. Each photo shows its score, filename, folder and resolution.

STEP 04

Clear them out

Send the blurry shots you've confirmed to the Recycle Bin or Trash — with undo.

Why it's safe

You set the line, not an algorithm

The slider is conservative by defaultFolioSort under-flags rather than over-flags, because deleting is destructive.
Every photo shows its scoreYou're never trusting a hidden verdict — calibrate by eye.
Recycle Bin / Trash + undoNothing leaves your machine, nothing is unrecoverable.
ML-free and transparentA plain sharpness measure, not a black box — no cloud, no ML upload.
Resolution-independentRAW and phone snaps are judged on one consistent scale.
100% localEverything runs on your computer. No account, no cloud.
Every photo
gets a sharpness score, blurriest-first
Live
slider re-filters instantly, no re-scan
ML-free
transparent, on-device, no black box
Undo
removals go to Recycle Bin / Trash
Burst mode means I have thousands of near-identical soft frames I'll never look at. FolioSort lined up the blurriest ones first, I slid the threshold until it matched my eye, and cleared a couple of thousand junk frames in ten minutes. The bokeh portraits I was worried about? It left them alone because I could see the scores.
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Sort. Merge. Clean.

FolioSort doesn't just sort your photos — it cleans them up. Merge brings every scattered copy together; Duplicates removes the copies merging exposes; Blurry clears the shots you'd never keep.

FAQ

Blurry questions, answered

Will it delete photos that are meant to be soft, like bokeh portraits?

Not unless you tell it to. Because "too blurry" depends on the photo, FolioSort doesn't impose a fixed verdict — a live sensitivity slider lets you set the cut-off and watch the selection update instantly. Every photo shows its sharpness score, so you can see why something is flagged and leave intentional bokeh and macro alone.

Does it use AI to detect blur?

No. Blurry is ML-free by design. It uses a fast, transparent sharpness measure that runs entirely on-device — no cloud, no machine-learning black box — and shows you the score for every photo so you're never trusting a hidden verdict.

Are RAW files and phone snaps judged fairly?

Yes. The sharpness score is resolution-independent, so a 50-megapixel RAW and a phone snapshot are judged on the same scale.

What happens to the photos I clear?

They go to your system Recycle Bin or Trash, and the operation is undoable. Nothing leaves your machine and nothing is unrecoverable. The slider is deliberately conservative by default — FolioSort under-flags rather than over-flags, because deleting is destructive.

Is it free?

Free to try — the free tier processes up to 100 files per batch. Pro removes the limit for a one-time €14.99, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. No subscription, no account.

Clear out every blurry shot — keep every sharp one.

Point FolioSort at your folder, slide the threshold until it matches your eye, and clear years of soft, shaky throwaways in minutes — with undo, and your keepers untouched.

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