Step by step
What you see, screen by screen
Open FolioSort. Tidy Up is the first card.
The Wizard asks what you'd like to do, and most people start here: put a folder of photos in order by date. You see it before anything changes.
Every other tool — rename, events, merge, the full Organize screen — is still one click away under Expert mode.
Pick the folder your photos are in.
Drag it in, or start from Pictures, Downloads (where e-mail and WhatsApp photos land) or the Desktop. An external drive or a NAS share works the same way.
Photos still inside the Photos app, or in Google Photos, iCloud, OneDrive or Amazon Photos? Tidy Up shows you how to get them into a folder first — with their dates and albums.
See exactly how it will look. Nothing has changed yet.
FolioSort reads each photo's capture date and draws the folders it will make — 2026, 2025, 2024, and the months inside each, with thumbnails and the number of photos per month.
The whole plan is one sentence you can change in place:
- copy them (originals stay put) or move them
- into Organized inside the folder, or anywhere you choose
- by year, then month — or year, month, then day
- videos with the photos, or in a folder of their own
While you decide, FolioSort checks the rest of the folder and counts the duplicates, screenshots and blurry shots — and how much space they take.
Organize. Checked byte for byte.
With Copy, every copy is checked against its original before FolioSort calls it done — and your original folder hasn't changed. With Move on the same disk, each file is just renamed into its new folder: its bytes are never rewritten.
The free version organizes the 100 newest photos right away, so you can see the result in your own folders before you decide anything. Pro or Elite sort the whole folder in one go.
Clean up — one step at a time, or all at once.
Once the photos are sorted, Clean-up lists what else was in the folder, in order, with one button to go to the next:
- Remove the duplicates — the best copy stays; the others go to the Trash.
- Move the screenshots to their own folder — out of the way, not deleted.
- Look at the blurry shots — nothing goes without your OK.
- Keep the best shot of each burst — with Elite; you pick before anything goes.
Every row has Look at them first, Skip this step if you'd rather not, and Undo the last step afterwards. Leave halfway and Tidy Up picks up where you were.
