Features

Everything Photography Workbench can do — grouped by module and tier. All of it runs locally on your machine.

What's included in each tier

ModuleBasicProUltra
Sorter✓✓✓
CullMaster✓✓✓
SemanticVault—✓✓
Watcher—✓✓
Dashboard——✓
Multi-Library——✓
Invoices, contracts, client galleries——✓

Sorter Included in Basic

Bring order to chaos — automatic folder structure from EXIF data.

  • Drag-and-drop import from any folder or SD card
  • Automatic EXIF date extraction (DateTimeOriginal)
  • Camera detection from Make and Model
  • Lens detection from EXIF metadata
  • Year → month/event → camera folder structure
  • Smart folders via event clustering (2-hour gaps)
  • RAW + JPEG pair detection
  • Date inheritance from the JPEG partner for RAWs
  • Duplicate detection (perceptual hash)
  • Dry-run preview before any file is moved
  • Undo the last sort in one click
  • File type recognition (RAW, JPEG, PNG, other)
  • "Unsorted" folder for photos without a date
  • Custom sorting rules (condition → action)
  • Import presets (Wedding, Sport, Portrait, Travel)
  • Batch rename with {date}, {camera}, {event}, {counter}
  • Merge multiple folders into one
  • Move duplicates into a _duplicates folder
  • Import and export rules as JSON or text
  • Conflict strategy (rename, skip, overwrite)
  • Cancel a running sort
  • Import banner with thumbnail preview (first 20)
  • Live progress with estimated time remaining
  • Duplicate badge on affected files

CullMaster Included in Basic

Find the best shots in minutes, not hours.

  • Two-stage analysis (thumbnail faces + full image)
  • Face detection (OpenCV Haar cascade)
  • Blink / eyes-open detection (OCEC)
  • Emotion recognition (FER+, 8 classes)
  • Object detection (YOLOv8n, 80 COCO classes)
  • Sharpness scoring (Sobel Tenengrad + Laplacian)
  • Motion-blur detection (FFT)
  • Exposure analysis (histogram and clipping)
  • Micro-contrast measurement
  • Noise estimation
  • Symmetry analysis
  • Composition scoring (rule of thirds)
  • Color-harmony detection
  • Focus-stacking detection
  • Style detection (10 photographic styles)
  • Adaptive per-style weighting
  • Feedback learning (adjusts weights over time)
  • Analysis cache for instant re-runs
  • Series grouping (2-hour tolerance)
  • Auto-select the best in a series (median + 0.5σ)
  • 1–5 star rating stored as XMP sidecars
  • Color flags (Ctrl+1/2/3)
  • Image notes (500 characters, searchable)
  • Lightroom-compatible export (XMP)
  • Batch export to JPEG
  • ZIP export for clients
  • HTML gallery creation
  • Histogram comparison between two images
  • Before/after view (B)
  • Fullscreen preview with zoom and pan
  • Focus peaking overlay (F)
  • Rule-of-thirds overlay (T)
  • Slideshow mode (D)
  • Automatic cull rules (eyes closed, blurry, …)
  • Quick export (E) to the last destination

SemanticVault Included in Pro

Find any image by describing it — even offline.

  • Natural-language search (CLIP)
  • 512-dimension semantic embeddings
  • Boolean search (AND / OR / NOT)
  • Filter chips (rating, type, year, camera, focal, aperture, ISO)
  • Face-only filter
  • Composition filter
  • Image-to-image search
  • Sketch search (draw to find)
  • Color search with minimum color share
  • Object counting (YOLO)
  • Smart collections
  • Saved searches
  • Similar-image clusters
  • Scene clustering (k-means)
  • Sunrise / sunset search
  • Weather and mood chips
  • RAW overview grouped by camera
  • GPS map of your photos
  • Favorites
  • Automatic tagging
  • Search history (last 50)
  • Filter within results
  • Search diagnostics (index and model status)
  • Resumable re-indexing
  • Ensemble embedding for better matches
  • Gibberish guard for meaningless queries
  • Queries in 16 languages
  • Text-search fallback (level 2)
  • Model status badge
  • Scope toggle (imported or entire library)
  • Collapsible advanced search

Watcher Included in Pro

Your photos sort themselves — automatically.

  • Multiple watch folders at once
  • Automatic sorting of new photos
  • Conflict strategies (rename, skip, overwrite)
  • 2-second debounce for partially-copied files
  • Custom sort rules
  • Live statistics (seen, sorted, errors)
  • Removable-drive detection
  • Desktop notifications
  • Start and stop with one click
  • Remove folders at any time
  • Supported-file-type filter
  • Activity log
  • Persistent conflict and rule settings
  • Only files directly in the watch root are sorted

Dashboard Included in Ultra

Understand your photography — with real data.

  • KPI tiles (images, storage, average size, cameras, month comparison)
  • Monthly shots chart
  • Camera distribution chart
  • Rating distribution chart
  • 24-month trend line
  • Work-session history
  • Camera usage report (active days, images per day)
  • Camera and lens statistics
  • GPS heatmap of shoot locations
  • Upcoming appointments
  • CSV export
  • JSON export
  • Six-page PDF review
  • Month-over-month comparison
  • Invoice creation with § 14 UStG fields
  • Session recording
  • One-click refresh
  • Responsive two-column chart grid
  • Muted chart palette (blue, pink, green, orange pairs)
  • Local-only analytics

Multi-Library Included in Ultra

Separate archives for every client.

  • Multiple libraries with separate databases
  • Create a library
  • Switch between libraries
  • Delete a library (active and default are protected)
  • Export a library (.flib)
  • Import a library
  • Library templates
  • Per-library statistics
  • Merge two libraries
  • Image count per library
  • Protected default library
  • Automatic name sanitization