Cullstack
Cullstack is a desktop photo and video culling app for reviewing, rating, and organizing media across local, network, and cloud storage.
What is Cullstack?
Cullstack is a photo and video culling app for people who sort large image libraries and active shoots quickly. It helps photographers review, rate, reject, tag, move, and compare files without first consolidating everything onto one local drive. The app works across local folders, NAS storage, SFTP and WebDAV servers, cloud services, and connected phones, so users can work where their files already live. Cullstack focuses on fast browsing with instant previews, full-screen viewing, and responsive handling of large folders. It also supports metadata workflows such as color labels, XMP sidecars, and IPTC editing, which can fit into established photography pipelines. Cullstack is published by Aviastone LLC and is available for macOS as well as Windows and Linux.
Key features
- Browse photos and videos across local drives, NAS, servers, cloud storage, and connected phones
- Rate, reject, tag, and color-label files during fast culling sessions
- Compare images side by side and review media in full-screen view or slideshow mode
- Move, copy, rename, and delete files without leaving the app
- Read XMP sidecars and work with IPTC metadata for photo workflows
- Use duplicate finding and large-folder browsing tools to manage big libraries
- Open embedded previews quickly for responsive review of RAW, JPEG, HEIC, and video files
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Cullstack is a legitimate desktop app for managing photo and video libraries. Access to folders, removable media, network locations, or cloud accounts is normal for its purpose, and those connections are used so you can browse and organize files where they already exist. Because the app can move, rename, tag, and delete media, changes you make may affect original files and connected storage locations. Use the app normally, but take extra care before running large batch actions on important photo libraries.
Recommendation: Keep Cullstack if you use it for photography or media review workflows, especially when your files are spread across drives, servers, or cloud services. Remove it if you no longer use it, but expect to lose its local settings, caches, and saved workflow data. If your library contains important client or archival media, keep independent backups before making bulk file changes.
Common paths
/Applications/Cullstack.app~/.cullstack
Cache paths
~/.cullstack
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