Photo Naminator
Photo Naminator is a macOS photo utility that bulk-renames image and video files using EXIF metadata such as date, time, location, and camera details.
What is Photo Naminator?
Photo Naminator is a Mac photo-management utility for renaming image and video files from the metadata stored inside them. It is designed for people who want cleaner, more consistent filenames for large photo libraries, imported camera folders, or mixed media collections. The app can build filenames from EXIF and related metadata such as capture date, time, location, and camera details, which helps organize files chronologically or by shooting context. It can also create destination folders while renaming so users can sort media into structures such as year and month folders in one pass. For workflows that use sidecar metadata files, it can keep associated files aligned during renaming. Published by Bgoerke for macOS, Photo Naminator fits best into photo cleanup and library organization tasks rather than image editing.
Key features
- Rename photos and videos in bulk using EXIF and related metadata.
- Build custom filenames from details like capture date, time, location, and camera information.
- Create destination folders automatically while organizing renamed files.
- Scan selected folders or files and preview new names before applying changes.
- Keep associated sidecar files synchronized when matching media files are renamed.
- Adjust file creation and modification dates to match photo capture time.
- Use drag and drop to add media from Finder for processing.
- Optionally use reverse geolocation data for location-based naming patterns.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Photo Naminator is a legitimate sandboxed macOS App Store app for renaming photo and video files. Its file access and metadata use are consistent with that purpose. If you enable location-based naming, the app can send GPS-based lookup requests to MapQuest for reverse geolocation, so avoid that feature if you do not want photo location data used in online lookups. As with any bulk-renaming tool, review the preview carefully before applying changes to large folders.
Recommendation: Keep Photo Naminator if you regularly organize camera or phone media and want metadata-based renaming on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually optional. Before running large rename jobs, test your naming pattern on a small folder first so you can confirm the output matches your library workflow.
Common paths
/Applications/Photo Naminator.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/io.bgoerke.Photo-Naminator
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