Your whole archive, ready for the next job
One library for every shoot, on every drive. Turn years of photographs into selects for your next delivery, portfolio, or pitch.
Catalog once. Use it for years.
Bring it together
Add your Mac, external drives, NAS, and Dropbox. Grain catalogs every shoot where it lives. Nothing is copied or moved.
Work the shoot
Review RAW files large, then rate, label, and tag as you go.
Put it to work
Gather selects from any shoot into a collection, then export the originals for a client, portfolio, or pitch.
Every drive you’ve filled, working together.
Grain catalogs your photographs where they already live, so every shoot you’ve made is one library you can use.
- Your folders stay exactly as they are. No import, no migration.
- Unplug a drive and its shoots stay in your library. Reconnect it to open the originals.
- Ratings, labels, tags, captions, and your own fields, in one catalog across every drive.
- Find any frame by describing it, or drop in a reference image.
- Your MacInternal and expansion drives
- External drivesHard drives, SSDs, and cards
- Network storageNAS and shared drives
- DropboxOther clouds coming soon
One libraryOne library, on your Mac
Built for a photographer’s week.
- Culling
Get through two thousand frames from Saturday’s wedding.
Big, fast RAW previews and one-key ratings carry you through the shoot, with bursts and RAW+JPEG pairs kept together. - Delivery
Send the client their finals.
Your picks from any drive, gathered and handed off as originals in one go. - Portfolio
Refresh your portfolio from ten years of work.
Pull your strongest frames from every shoot and drive into one collection. - Licensing
A client wants to license a photo from 2019.
Find the original from their copy, plus every other version, wherever it lives. - Metadata
Caption and keyword a set before it goes out.
Titles, captions, credits and tags in one place, or let your agent write them for the whole set. - People
Gather every photo of a client across years of shoots.
Name a face once and review the matches on your Mac. People is in beta.
Your agent, with your whole archive in view.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Grain and it works from your actual photographs. It compares the previews you allow and reads the dates, cameras, ratings, and captions your files record.
It drafts the shortlist and writes the captions. You make the picks. Selections land in a Grain collection, ready to review and export.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or your own agentExample
Your brief“Pull twelve frames from my hotel shoots for a hospitality pitch. Warm light, real interiors. Save them to a collection called Pitch.”
- GrainReturns matching photographs with previews, dates, and camera data.
- AgentCompares the previews against your brief and saves twelve to the collection.
- YouReview the collection, swap a few frames, and export the originals.
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Put your whole body of work to use.
Save for my Mac
Send the setup link to your Mac.