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Aspect

The part of photography nobody enjoys, made fast. Point Aspect at a memory card or a folder, fly through the shoot, flag your keepers, and export just those in one pass. Your originals never move.

Free, no ads Reads RAW files Windows · macOS · Linux

WHAT IT IS

A photo picker that gets out of your way.

After a shoot you might have a thousand frames and twenty keepers. Aspect is built for exactly that moment: open the card, scroll a clean grid of thumbnails, hit an image to see it full screen, and tap a key to flag the ones worth keeping. When you are done, export the flagged shots to a new folder in one go.

It copies, it never moves or deletes, so the originals on your card stay exactly as they were. No catalogs to build, no library to import, no subscription. Just you and your shoot.

  • PlatformsWindows · macOS · Linux
  • FormatsJPEG · PNG · TIFF · WebP · RAW
  • RAWEmbedded preview, fast
  • ExportNon-destructive copy
  • PriceFree
  • Latestv1.0.0

WHAT YOU GET

Everything you need to pick the keepers.

A focused set of tools for the one job that matters after a shoot, with nothing in the way.

Straight to the card

Browse your drives and memory cards from inside the app. Plug in a card and it shows up on the home screen, ready to open in one click. No system dialogs to dig through.

Fly through the shoot

A clean thumbnail grid with adjustable size, or full screen with the app chrome out of the way. Arrow keys move between frames, a filmstrip keeps your place, and the next shot is preloaded so there is no waiting.

Flag with one key

Press F to mark a keeper, from the grid or full screen. Flagged shots get a gold marker and persist between sessions, so you can step away and pick up right where you left off.

Export in one pass

Send every flagged shot to a folder you choose. Aspect copies the files, so your originals stay untouched on the card. One click and your selects are ready to edit or hand off.

Reads your RAW

CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG and more. Aspect pulls the full-size preview that your camera already embedded in each RAW file, so you cull straight off the card without waiting on a slow full decode.

Built for speed

Thumbnails are decoded once and cached on disk, so the second pass through a folder is instant. Filter by file type or to just your flags, and sort by name, date, size or type. Thousands of photos stay smooth.

DOWNLOAD

Get Aspect

Free for desktop — v1.0.0, straight from GitHub Releases.

Windows10 / 11 · 64-bit
Installer (.exe) .msi package
macOSApple Silicon / Intel
Apple Silicon (.dmg) Intel (.dmg)
LinuxAppImage · deb · rpm
AppImage .deb .rpm

All releases & changelog ↗

The apps aren't code-signed yet, so your OS warns once on first launch. The app isn't actually damaged or unsafe, this just clears Apple and Microsoft's flag for unsigned apps. Windows: click More info, then Run anyway. macOS: if it says Aspect is "damaged", drag it into Applications, then run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Aspect.app in Terminal and open it.