📷 Photo Triager

Fast RAW photo culling on iPhone & iPad. Triage in the field, edit on the desktop.

What It Does

Photo Triager helps photographers quickly sort through RAW photos on their iPhone or iPad. Open a folder from any storage accessible through iOS Files, mark your picks, rejects, star ratings, and color labels, and move on. The app writes standard XMP sidecar files so your decisions carry over seamlessly to darktable or Lightroom on your desktop.

How It Works

  1. Open a folder using the iOS Files picker — your SD card reader, external SSD, iCloud Drive, or any connected storage.
  2. Browse the gallery — the app scans the folder and shows thumbnails of all supported RAW files.
  3. Triage — tap a photo to enter full-screen view. Swipe through photos and tag them: reject, pick, star ratings (1–5), or color labels (red, yellow, green, blue, purple).
  4. Continue on desktop — XMP sidecar files are written next to your RAW files, ready for darktable or Lightroom.

Features

🗂️ Any Folder, Any Storage

Open folders from SD card readers, external SSDs, iCloud Drive, or any storage accessible via iOS Files.

⚡ Fast Triage

Swipe through full-size previews. Tag photos with reject, pick, star ratings, and color labels — all with quick one-tap actions.

📝 XMP Sidecar Output

Writes standard XMP sidecar files compatible with both darktable and Lightroom. Your triage decisions transfer directly to your desktop RAW editor.

🔒 Offline & Private

No internet connection required. No accounts. No telemetry. No data leaves your device. Your photos stay yours.

📱 iPhone & iPad

Adaptive layout works across iPhone, iPad, and iPad multitasking split views.

🔍 Pinch to Zoom

Check sharpness at up to 10× zoom with progressive high-resolution decoding — no waiting for full-res loads.

Supported RAW Formats

Works with RAW files from major camera brands. Format support is based on Apple's iOS platform capabilities.

Sony .ARW Canon .CR3 Canon .CR2 Nikon .NEF Fujifilm .RAF Panasonic .RW2