PhotoRex
PhotoRex is a Mac photo and video utility for batch editing capture dates, renaming files, converting formats, and exporting cleaned copies.
What is PhotoRex?
PhotoRex is a photo and video utility for Mac that helps users correct dates, rename batches of files, convert image formats, and prepare media for sharing or organizing. It is designed for people who need to fix inaccurate or missing capture dates in photos and videos, especially when sorting family archives, scanned images, receipts, camera imports, or mixed media collections. The app supports bulk date changes, deriving dates from filenames, and reading visible dates from images with OCR. It also includes tools for renaming files, organizing exports into dated folders, converting between common image formats, and adjusting output with resize, crop, rotate, watermark, and metadata options. PhotoRex creates edited copies during export so the original files can remain unchanged. Published by Aidaluu, it fits workflows where users need practical batch cleanup and reorganization of visual media on macOS.
Key features
- Batch edit photo and video dates across many files at once
- Extract dates from filenames with flexible patterns and auto-detection
- Read visible dates from images using on-device OCR
- Rename files in bulk with dates, counters, prefixes, suffixes, and templates
- Organize exported files into dated folders by year, month, and day
- Convert images between PNG, JPG, and HEIC
- Resize, crop, rotate, and watermark exported media
- Remove GPS or other metadata before sharing copies
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
PhotoRex works with your photos and videos, so it may need access to folders you choose and to media libraries you want to edit or export from. That level of access is normal for a batch photo-management app. The main practical consideration is that editing, exporting, and metadata changes affect the copies you create, so review export settings carefully before processing a large library. If you use location or camera metadata for privacy, check whether you want to keep or remove that information during export.
Recommendation: Keep PhotoRex if you use it to fix dates, rename media, or prepare organized exports from photo and video collections. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app like other Mac software, but you may want to keep any exported media or saved project outputs you still need.
Common paths
/Applications/PhotoRex.app
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