rawr

Built for Speed

rawr opens in under a quarter of a second, and keeps up however fast you go. Hold down an arrow key and it shows every frame as the key repeats, straight from 45-megapixel raws, with nothing to wait for. Even a shoot of thirteen thousand photos shows its first screen of thumbnails in under half a second, the first time you open it.

• 0.22 sfrom launch to a screen of thumbnails
• 0.35 sto show a 13,165‑photo shoot the first time
• 18 msto open it again
• 2 msto decode a 45‑megapixel raw's preview
• 37 msto decode it at full size
• 93 msto quit

Measured on a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra, opening Canon EOS R5 Mark II raws from an external RAID with the Mac's disk cache emptied first.

Grid View

Every burst collapses into a single card, so a long day of shooting stays easy to scan. Press B when you want to see every photo instead. You can tell where each burst stands without opening it: rejects are crossed out, and each card shows its picks, hearts, stars, and colors. The side rail sums up the whole folder, and the timeline shows how the day went.

Image View

The image view shows one photo at a time, with everything you need to judge it. Press G to switch between it and the grid. The viewfinder along the bottom reads just like your camera's, and the side rail shows the histogram, the sharpness score, and where the frame sits in its burst. Press Z to zoom in on the focus point.

Play Bursts on Hover

Hover over a card and its burst plays back in real time. You can find the moment you want before you ever open the burst.

Burst Alignment

A handheld burst jumps around from frame to frame. Press A and rawr stabilizes it, so the subject stays put and you can see exactly how the focus and pose change.

Culling Assistance

You rarely need every frame of a burst. Press D and choose how many to keep, like one per pose or 20% of each burst. rawr finds where the subject's pose changes and keeps the sharpest frame of each.

Timeline

The timeline along the bottom of the grid shows how much you shot and when, with your picks and rejects marked underneath. Click a moment to jump to it, or drag across a stretch to select every burst in it.

Filters

Find exactly the shots you want. Filter by flag, stars, color, or heart, or by camera, lens, and exposure. Press \ to turn the filter off and back on without losing it, or | to invert the filter.

Actions

Everyone finishes a shoot a little differently. Save your own steps as actions, like copying your picks into a dated folder or trashing the rejects, and run them with a single click or keyboard shortcut. Each one shows exactly what it will do first, and you can undo it afterward.

Survey

Can't decide between a few frames? Select them and press N to see them side by side. Take away the weaker ones one at a time until only the best is left, or rate them right there.

Video

Videos sit right alongside your photos. Press Space to play one, then rate it, label it, and run actions on it just like a photo.

Plays Well with Others

rawr fits in with the apps you already use. When you open a folder, it picks up the ratings you gave in Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, Capture One, Bridge, darktable, or digiKam from their XMP sidecars, along with any stars you gave on the camera. Your flags, stars, and labels can be written back to XMP, so they're waiting when you import. Color labels can show up as tags in the Finder too, and tags you add in the Finder show up in rawr.

Highly Configurable

Make rawr work the way you do. Press ⌘, to open Settings, where you can choose how each view looks and how much space the caches use. You can change every keyboard shortcut, too.

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