Palomino.

Fast, focused RAW photo culling for macOS.

Palomino helps you get through a large shoot quickly. Rate the keepers, skip the rejects, and hand a tight selection to your editing software. It doesn't edit, organize, or sync anything. It makes culling fast, and that's the whole job.

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Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple silicon & Intel

Free to download. Exports up to 50 photos per session. Palomino Pro removes the limit for a one-time $29.99 purchase.

iMessage from a photographer: This app has seriously cut my HB image culling time by 95%
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Palomino preview view with info panel, histogram, and filmstrip
Preview view. The next photo is already in memory before you press the arrow key, because Palomino prefetches ahead of you in the background. The info panel shows full exposure data and a live RGB histogram, and the filmstrip flags your picks.
Palomino grid view with filter bar and quality badges
Grid view. Filters control what the arrow keys see. Narrow the shoot to picks, rejects, star ratings, color labels, or capture days, and navigation skips everything else. Background analysis also finds burst groups and out-of-focus shots, each one a single click to review.
Palomino export sheet
Export. Copy your selects to a folder by flag or minimum star rating. You can split high-ISO photos into a separate folder for denoising, and optionally move unrated files to the Trash, with the exact count shown before anything happens.

Why it's fast

⚡︎Embedded previews

Palomino reads the JPEG preview your camera already wrote into each RAW file. That's 10 to 100 times faster than decoding the sensor data, and it looks identical at normal viewing size.

⌨Keyboard-first

Press 1 through 5 to rate, P to pick, X to reject. Each action advances to the next photo, so you can work through a shoot without touching the mouse. Press ? for the full shortcut list.

◎Quality hints

Background analysis flags overexposed, underexposed, and soft photos, and groups burst sequences so you can keep the best frame and reject the rest with one shortcut.

⇆Standard sidecars

Ratings and labels are written to standard XMP sidecar files, so they carry over to any editor that reads XMP. Sessions reopen exactly where you left off.

← → navigate   1–5 rate   P pick   X reject   G grid   C compare   E export

Pricing

Palomino is free to download. The free version exports up to 50 photos per session, which covers most hobbyist shoots without any payment. Palomino Pro removes the export limit for a one-time $29.99 purchase. No subscription, no recurring charges. Upgrade from inside the app under Settings → Pro.