Windows · 100% offline · Lightroom-ready

Sort thousands of photos off the grid. Hand Lightroom the finished work.

Pro Photo Sorter is a one-time-purchase desktop organizer that lives entirely on your machine. Nested tag folders, side-by-side compare, a built-in editor — and an Adobe-standard .xmp sidecar next to every photo you store.

Buy on Gumroad — $29 lifetime Download free trial

No subscription. No cloud. No telemetry. The trial has every feature — stored photos just get a small watermark until you enter your key.

Pro Photo Sorter in ×3 compare mode: three flower photos side by side with tags applied, star rating, source and destination file trees, and the filmstrip below
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Lightroom Cloud needs a connection. On a boat, a plane, or a ridge line, it's a paperweight.
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Photo Mechanic costs $150 and does one thing. Great thing — but one thing.
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Windows Explorer means typing every folder and filename by hand. Thousands of times.
What's inside

Built for people who shoot more than they type.

Every action is a click, a drag, or a single key. Tag once, store once, and the folder path and filename write themselves.

Unlimited nested categories

Category → Sub-Folder → Filename tag. Drop tags onto a photo and the destination path assembles itself.

Sports/Baseball/AL/Yankees_Judge_0412.jpg

Compare ×2 and ×3

Cull near-identical frames side by side with independent zoom in each pane. Rate, tag and store without leaving compare mode.

Built-in editor

Auto-enhance, crop, rotate, straighten, sharpen. Your tags and star rating follow the edited copy, so nothing gets re-typed.

Multi-source workflow

Open an SD card and your archive at the same time. Swap the active source with one tap; Store and Delete always know which shoot you're on.

Print-ready resize

4×6 · 5×7 · 8×10 · 10×12 · 16×20 at 300 DPI, with a draggable aspect-locked crop preview. Optional watermark baked in.

Your files never leave your PC

One activation ping to Gumroad, then it never phones home. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Works on satellite, works on nothing.

The loop

Four moves per photo. Then the next one is already loaded.

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Open

Point the left tree at any folder — SD card, external drive, NAS. Thumbnails cache locally so the second visit is instant.

02

Tag

Drag or click tags onto the photo. Rate with 1–5. Hit R to repeat the last set on a similar shot.

03

Store

Press S. The photo lands in the right folder with the right name and an .xmp sidecar beside it.

04

Repeat

Next frame is up. Space skips, Del trashes (with undo), B batches a whole selection at once.

Lightroom · Bridge · Photo Mechanic

Do the work offline. Sync it when you're back on WiFi.

Every stored photo gets an Adobe-standard XMP sidecar containing your star rating and every keyword. Import the folder into Lightroom and the whole cull shows up — already rated, already tagged. Zero re-typing.

  • Stars round-trip as xmp:Rating
  • Tags become keywords as dc:subject — hierarchical, too
  • Originals untouched. Sidecars sit beside the file; nothing is written into your JPEG.
<rdf:Description xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"
                 xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
                 xmp:Rating="5">
  <dc:subject>
    <rdf:Bag>
      <rdf:li>Wildlife</rdf:li>
      <rdf:li>Bears</rdf:li>
      <rdf:li>Grizzly</rdf:li>
      <rdf:li>Katmai_2026</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Bag>
  </dc:subject>
</rdf:Description>
"I built the sorter I needed on a boat in Alaska with satellite internet that isn't worth the name."

I'm Kurt. I've shot wildlife and sports for years, and I spend weeks at a time working off a ship where the connection drops every time the weather turns. Lightroom's cloud features were useless out there, and the offline tools either cost a fortune or made me type every folder name by hand.

Then I broke my back and both elbows. Typing went from tedious to genuinely painful. So I built a tool where sorting a photo is a click, a drag, and one key — and where the folder path and filename write themselves from the tags I already applied.

Pro Photo Sorter is that tool. It's the thing I open every morning on deck with a coffee and 3,000 frames from the day before. I hope it saves you the same hours it saves me.

K
Captain KurtWildlife & sports photographer · Alaska
Pricing

One price. Yours forever.

Lightroom is $9.99 a month for as long as you use it. Photo Mechanic is $150. This is $29, once.

Free trial
$0

Every feature unlocked. No time limit.

  • Full app, all features
  • Stored photos get a small "TRIAL" watermark
  • Filenames get a _TRIAL suffix
  • Enter your key any time — nothing to reinstall
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Pro Photo Sorter
$29 one-time

One license key, one PC at a time, all future v1.x updates.

  • Watermark and _TRIAL suffix removed
  • Your own custom watermark text, font and position
  • Lightroom-compatible XMP sidecars
  • Six starter tag packs + icon packs included
  • Built-in auto-updater — new releases in one click
Buy on Gumroad — $29

Photo Mechanic $150 · Lightroom $120/yr · ACDSee Pro $90 · Pro Photo Sorter $29 once

Questions

Things people ask before buying.

Still stuck? Email leaderteamk@gmail.com — replies may take a day if the boat's out of range.

Does it work with RAW files?

Version 1 sorts, tags and stores any file your camera writes — RAW included — but the viewer previews JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP. Native RAW previews are the headline feature for v2. Shoot RAW+JPEG and you get the best of both today.

Does it modify my original photos?

Never. Store copies (or moves, if you choose) your file to the destination and writes a separate .xmp sidecar. Edits are always saved as new files. Deleted photos go to a .pps-trash folder with one-click undo.

Is it really offline?

Yes. The only network call is a single license check against Gumroad when you enter your key. After that it never connects. There is no account, no sync, no analytics.

What about Mac or Linux?

Windows 10/11 only for now. Mac is on the roadmap once v1 is paying for the coffee.

Can I move my tag packs to another PC?

Yes — Tag Manager has Export, Import and a one-click "Backup All" zip. The app also keeps a daily safety backup in your Documents folder so a reinstall never loses your work.

Refunds?

If it doesn't fit your workflow, reply to your Gumroad receipt within 30 days and you'll get your money back. No forms.

Ready when you are.

Download the trial, open a folder of photos, and sort ten of them. You'll know in five minutes.

Buy — $29 lifetime Free trial