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Blurry: a review list of soft shots, never a deletion

The Blurry screen scores how sharp every photo in a folder is and shows you the softest ones largest-first. It proposes; you decide. Nothing is ever removed without you marking it, and what you do send away goes to the Trash, where it stays recoverable.

What this does to your files

Scanning writes nothing. It reads each photo, scores its sharpness and builds a list. Every result starts marked KEEP; nothing is selected for removal on your behalf.

The one action is Move to Trash — the system Trash, not a delete. The batch can be put back from the screen, and until you empty the Trash the files are recoverable by hand too.

SOURCE

Folder to scanFree

The folder to score. Until one is chosen the button explains itself — Choose a folder first.

Include subfoldersFree

Off by default. Turn it on for a whole shoot or a whole year; leave it off when you want to judge one folder at a time, which is the easier way to build trust in the scoring.

Find Blurry PhotosFree

Scores every photo's sharpness and fills the results. Read-only, and interruptible with Cancel — a long scan is never something you are committed to finishing.

SENSITIVITY

Stricter ↔ More aggressiveFree

Where the line falls between soft and acceptable. Stricter returns only the clearly unusable. More aggressive catches more, and will begin to include shallow depth of field and deliberate motion — which is a judgement about your photography, not a mistake in the scoring.

It re-filters what has already been scanned, so moving it costs nothing and does not re-read the folder. If the result is No blurry photos at this sensitivity, that is a real answer, not a failure.

RESULTS

KEEP / TRASHFree

Every photo carries one of two marks and starts on KEEP. The tooltips state both directions — Kept — click to mark for Trash and Marked for Trash — click to keep — so the mark can always be read off the photo without remembering what a colour means.

View largerFree

Opens the photo big enough to judge. Blur is not a decision anyone can make from a thumbnail, which is why the large view is one click and not buried.

Select AllFree

Marks everything currently listed. Best used after you have narrowed the sensitivity to a setting whose results you have actually looked through.

SPACE TO FREEFree

How much disk the currently marked photos would give back. It is the honest reason most people are on this screen, so it is shown before the action rather than after it.

Show this folder in FinderFree

Opens the photo's real location on disk — useful for confirming that the file you are about to trash is the copy you think it is.

TRASH

Move to TrashFree

Sends the marked photos to the system Trash. If nothing is marked the button says why — Select blurry photos to remove first — rather than doing nothing silently.

Restore the last batch from TrashFree

Puts the last batch back where it came from. When there is nothing to restore the button reads Nothing to undo.

Free allowanceFree

Scanning, reviewing and comparing at any sensitivity are free and uncapped — the judgement is the part that matters, and it is not gated. The Free tier limits how many photos you can move to Trash.

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