From folder dump to final selects.
Drop in a travel folder. selects finds the sharpest frames, flags duplicates, tracks who's in each shot, and lets you search in plain English.
100% open source · Win / Mac / Linux
Keep the magic.
Kill the mess.
selects turns a 1,002-photo trip folder into a clean keeper set: local AI scores, face groups, search, quick polish. Nothing leaves your machine.
frame 477
keeper · 8.8
AI saw
sharp faces · rare light
KEEP
The product idea
A darkroom for the boring half of photography.
selects ranks, groups, and explains your frames, then gets out of the way.
8.8
Numeric reasons, not vibes.
Every keeper gets a score and a reason: sharpness, exposure, duplicates, composition, faces.
0%
Cloud dependency.
Runs offline by design. Cull on a flight, a train, or hotel Wi-Fi. Your photos stay yours.
AI ranking
Sort by keeper confidence. Stop opening every photo one by one.
Face groups
Best shots of each person, grouped automatically.
Ana · 281
Dev · 226
Unnamed · tap to name
Memory search
Find “blue boat at sunset” or “mom on the bridge” without manual tags.
turquoise river valley
Quick polish
Make the obvious fixes before export: exposure, contrast, shadows, vibrance.
100% local. Scoring, faces, search and polish run on your machine. No account, no upload, works offline.
Download selects.
Free builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unzip, point it at a folder, start sorting.
Windows
GPU accelerated. Unzip and run selects.exe.
macOS
For M-series Macs. First open may require right-click → Open.
Download macOSLinux
Folder bundle. Unzip and run the selects binary.
then run selects serve