FocusSort handles 10M+ photos without breaking a sweat — on a NAS, a local drive, or both. All AI runs on your Mac. No cloud. No surprises. Starting at $6.99/mo.
FocusSort was engineered from the ground up for one thing: speed at scale. Intelligent caching keeps your most-used metadata and thumbnails instantly accessible — no cloud queues, no sync delays, no waiting on servers. Whether your library lives on an internal SSD, a NAS, or a Thunderbolt RAID — just your hardware, running flat out.
Seven capabilities that cover what matters most.
Browse millions of photos without a single stutter. 10M+ photos. A NAS three rooms away. FocusSort's Metal-accelerated engine never chokes — not on discovery, not on thumbnails, not on AI. No upload queues. No cloud latency. Just your library, instantly responsive.
Four detection methods including SigLIP 2 vector similarity — catching near-duplicates that exact hash matching misses entirely. Reclaim terabytes.
ArcFace AI with 99.5% accuracy. 4-tier quality scoring. Groups every photo by person — automatically, privately, locally. Your family stays on your Mac.
The only photo manager that actually verifies your backups exist. Rule-based monitoring, hash verification, multi-location tracking. Stop hoping your backups worked — know.
Works with any storage your Mac can see — NAS, SMB, NFS, Thunderbolt, external drives, SD cards, CF Express readers, and USB storage. Volume-aware performance profiling and automatic session resumption after disconnects.
Exposure, shadows, highlights, curves, HSL, color grading, sharpening, and noise reduction — all non-destructive, all built in. Apply edits across your entire selection at once — batch adjustments that scale with your library. AI auto-enhance with one click.
Professional photographers work with diverse subject matter — boudoir, fine art, editorial, fashion. FocusSort's on-device classifier automatically identifies and organizes sensitive material, keeping your library structured and client-ready. You control the filters. All on your Mac.
Every AI feature — face recognition, duplicate detection, content classification, auto-enhance — runs entirely on your hardware using Apple's Neural Engine. No API calls. No cloud inference. No data leaving your desk.
A straightforward look at what's different — no spin, just features.
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| Feature | FocusSort | Lightroom Classic | Apple Photos | Mylio Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10M+ Photo Libraries | ✓ 60fps | Struggles | Limited | Partial |
| AI Runs 100% Locally | ✓ Always | — | Partial | — |
| AI Duplicate Detection | ✓ SigLIP 2 | Basic | — | Basic |
| Facial Recognition | ✓ ArcFace | Cloud | Cloud | Basic |
| Backup Verification | ✓ Built-In | — | — | — |
| NAS / Network Volumes | ✓ Volume-Aware | Limited | — | Partial |
| Non-Destructive RAW Editing | ✓ Built-In | ✓ Full | Basic | — |
| One-Time Purchase Available | ✓ Yes | — | ✓ Free | — |
| Works Fully Offline | ✓ Always | Partial | ✓ | Partial |
| NSFW Content Classification | ✓ Studio | — | — | — |
Three steps. No migration. No lock-in. Your photos stay exactly where they are.
Point FocusSort at your photo library — a local drive, NAS, external RAID, or all of the above. It scans incrementally, so you start working immediately. No waiting. No copying.
AI automatically finds duplicates, recognizes faces, verifies backups, and classifies content. All on your Mac. Smart filters let you surface exactly the photos you need, instantly.
Professional non-destructive RAW editing, AI auto-enhance, batch processing across thousands of photos. Export with full control — the way you want, when you want.
Every plan includes a free tier with no time limit. Buy when you're ready.
Beta testers get exclusive early-adopter pricing. Join the waitlist →
No asterisks. No footnotes. Just what each plan actually includes.
| Free100 photos | Basic$6.99/mo | PopularPro$12.99/mo | Studio$32.99/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library & Organization | ||||
| Photo limit | 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Smart folders & filters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RAW file support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import & export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| EXIF metadata editing | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch rename & move | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI & Machine Learning | ||||
| Basic duplicate detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Semantic duplicate detection ⓘ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo quality scoring ⓘ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Semantic search | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Facial recognition & grouping | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content classification ⓘ | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Privacy & Data | ||||
| All AI runs on your Mac | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photos never leave your control | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Opt-in anonymous analytics only | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licensing | ||||
| Monthly subscription | — | $6.99/mo | $12.99/mo | $32.99/mo |
| Perpetual license (one-time) | — | $149.99 | $249.99 | $699.99 |
| Updates included | — | While subscribed | While subscribed | While subscribed |
| Macs supported | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
All plans include a no-time-limit Free tier. Upgrade when you're ready. Perpetual licenses grant permanent access to the purchased version and include 12 months of updates; continued updates may be available at renewal pricing. If FocusSort is discontinued, perpetual license holders retain access to their installed version.
Join the beta and help shape FocusSort before launch. You'll get early access, pre-launch pricing, and a direct line to the team.
We're finalizing the beta workflow. Check back here — or follow @focussort for the announcement.