Pricing
No subscription. No account. No cloud. Pick the tier that matches how deep your photo chaos goes — and if it's not for you, every cent comes back within 14 days.
Free
€0
The full workflow, in miniature. Try every tool on your real library before paying a cent.
macOS & Windows · No account needed
Pro
€29.99one-time
The organizer with the limits removed. One clean, dated archive on one computer.
One payment · VAT may apply depending on country
Best value · Full AI
Elite
€39.99one-time
Everything in Pro, plus the AI that finds anything and the automation that keeps it organized while you sleep.
VAT may apply depending on country
The same AI others rent for $120+/year
Excire Foto
$199–249
one-time · AI photo search only
Aftershoot · Narrative
$120+/year
subscription · AI culling only, forever billing
FolioSort Elite
€39.99 once
search + person + OCR + automation + AI culling
Local AI is the expensive part — we priced it like a utility, not a luxury. Same class of on-device models, no rental, no cloud, no “per-photo credits”.
Side by side
Free is a real tool, not a demo. Pro removes the limits. Elite adds every feature that runs a neural network — and everything that works unattended.
| Feature | Free€0 | Pro€29.99 once | Elite€39.99 once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organize | |||
| Google Takeout import | ✓ always free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Organize by real capture date (EXIF) | 100 files/batch | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Rename, Merge Sources, per-step Undo | 100 files/batch | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| RAW, geocoding, custom events, profiles | limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clean | |||
| Duplicates — exact + visually similar | 20 actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blurry-photo detection | 20 actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screenshot cleanup | 20 actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find — with on-device AI | |||
| AI search — “sunset at the lake”, offline | 500-photo taster | 500-photo taster | Full library |
| Auto Find People — faces grouped by person, no example needed | 100-photo sample | 100-photo sample | Full library |
| Find a Person — face search from one example | 20-photo taster | 20-photo taster | Full library |
| Text-in-photo search (OCR) | 500-photo taster | 500-photo taster | Full library |
| Automatic event detection | — | — | ✓ |
| AI Culling — best shot of every burst | — | — | ✓ included |
| Smart Folders — saved live searches | — | — | ✓ included |
| Automate | |||
| Workflows — multi-step runs, one click | — | — | ✓ |
| Watch Folders — hands-free organizing | — | — | ✓ |
| Own it | |||
| Devices on one license | — | 1 computer | 3 · Mac + Windows |
| Free updates — no expiry, no subscription | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support | — | standard | priority |
| Download | Get Pro | Get Elite | |
At a glance
| Price | Free €0 · Pro €29.99 · Elite €39.99 — one time, not a subscription |
|---|---|
| Devices per licence | Pro: 1 computer. Elite: 3 devices, Mac and Windows on one key |
| What the free tier does | Google Takeout import always free, organize up to 100 files per batch, duplicate and blurry review plus your first 20 cleanups, AI taster (500-photo search index, 20 Find-a-Person actions) |
| Supported formats | 91 — 46 everyday photo and video formats free, 45 RAW and cinema formats with Pro (full list) |
| Requirements | macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Windows 10 or later. Identical feature set on both |
| Current version | 4.9.9 |
| Where your photos go | Nowhere. All processing is on-device and there is no account. Only anonymous, aggregated usage statistics are sent — never file names, paths or GPS |
| Refund | 14 days, whether or not the licence key has been activated (policy) |
Before you decide
Really. You pay once and the app is yours — it keeps working forever, offline, with no account and no expiry. Every update in the 4.x series is free for all paid tiers. A paid FolioSort 5 is not planned; if one ever shipped, it would be an optional one-time discounted upgrade for existing owners — never a subscription — and it would never disable or downgrade the version you already paid for.
Pro is the unlimited organizer for one computer: organize by real date, rename, merge, undo, plus duplicate, blurry and screenshot cleanup. Elite adds everything that runs a neural network — AI search, Find a Person, text-in-photo search, automatic events — plus Workflows and Watch Folders automation, 3 devices across Mac and Windows, and priority support.
With Elite, yes: one key activates on up to 3 devices, mixing Mac and Windows freely. Pro covers 1 computer. You can deactivate a device yourself at any time to move the license.
Yes — Elite is available on this page whenever you're ready. If you bought Pro recently, contact us first and we'll make the switch fair.
No. The AI models run entirely on your own machine — the same class of vision models cloud services run on their servers, running privately on yours. No account, no upload, and it all works with Wi-Fi off.
Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record. Your license key arrives by email within seconds — paste it into FolioSort's settings and every feature of your tier unlocks instantly. VAT invoices are available from the same email.
There's a 14-day money-back guarantee, no hoops. Email us within 14 days of purchase and you get a full refund.
One payment today; a library that stays sorted for the next twenty years. And if it's not for you — 14 days, full refund, no questions.