Cull AI Studio

Spec sheet

What it does

Cull AI Studio is desktop software that pre-sorts photographers’ shoots into keep, reject, and review groups.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Purpose

Cull AI Studio is AI-assisted photo culling software for photographers, including wedding, portrait, sports, and newborn photographers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Trial

The 7-day full-feature trial requires no payment card; access pauses when it ends unless the customer adds a card and subscribes.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Security

The privacy policy says traffic uses HTTPS/TLS, passwords and device tokens are stored hashed, and users can revoke device tokens from the dashboard.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Support

The maker lists [email protected] for support and privacy questions.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Account data

The service handles account and subscription information, device sign-ins, optional synced model files, and optional anonymous usage counts; Stripe processes payments and the maker says it does not store card numbers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Account sharing

Terms restrict an account to one photographer or studio and prohibit sharing or resale.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Account storage

The service stores account, subscription, device-sign-in, settings, and optionally synchronized model information rather than photographs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Anonymous telemetry

Optional usage reporting contains counts such as photos processed, duration, corrections, app version, and operating system, and can be disabled.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Audit trail

The workflow records decisions and corrections and creates backups before files are moved.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Burst grouping

Burst groups use capture-time chaining and perceptual-hash similarity to surface a leading frame.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Confidence threshold

The maker says decisions below a default 0.65 confidence bar go to REVIEW, and the threshold is not user-adjustable.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Correction weighting

Reversals receive double training weight, while routine confirmations of near-identical burst frames can receive reduced weight.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Decision buckets

Confident calls go to KEEP or REJECT, while lower-confidence calls are placed in REVIEW.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Demo result

The maker shows a staged 5,483-frame example with 1,542 kept, 3,651 rejected, 290 for review, and 94% agreement across 517 reviewed calls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Duplicate handling

Near-duplicate images are grouped locally so the strongest candidate can be reviewed first.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

External drives

Users can point the application at folders on external or portable drives and process them locally.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

File support

It supports RAW from major camera brands including Nikon, Canon CR3, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, and DNG, plus JPEG, TIFF, and PNG; RAW+JPEG pairs stay together.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Governing law

The terms state that the agreement is governed by Ohio law in the United States.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Lightroom

It writes XMP sidecars with keepers rated 5 stars and green labels, rejects rated 1 star and red, and review images flagged yellow.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Lightroom integration

The app writes XMP sidecars that mark keepers with five stars and green labels, rejects with one star and red, and review files with yellow labels.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Limit: human judgment

The maker says the system cannot understand story context or client priorities, so photographers must review borderline selections.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Limit: no editing suite

The product does not edit, retouch, or build galleries; those downstream workflow stages remain separate.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Limit: no threshold control

There is no interface slider for making culling more aggressive or conservative before a run.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Limit: simultaneous teams

Multiple associates cannot cull simultaneously on one account because only one device may be signed in at a time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Local analysis

The app analyzes sharpness, exposure, faces, eyes, bursts, and duplicates on the user's computer.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Local processing

Scanning, scoring, face and blink detection, grouping, and model training run on the user’s computer.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Maker identity

The legal pages identify the service provider only as Cull AI Studio and give [email protected] as the contact address.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Model promotion

A newly trained model must outperform the current model on the photographer’s prior decisions before activation, and rollback is available.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Offline operation

Culling works without an internet connection, but the subscription must be verified weekly.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Offline use

Culling works offline, but the app needs to verify the subscription once a week.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Original files

The maker says originals are never edited or deleted by the culling process.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Other file formats

JPEG, TIFF, and PNG are supported, and RAW plus JPEG pairs remain together.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Partner program

Partners receive 35% of a referred customer’s first invoice after discount, while referred customers receive 15% off their first payment.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Personal model

Corrections with reasons train a personal culling model locally after roughly 1,000 reviewed decisions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Photo privacy

The privacy policy says photos, previews, thumbnails, filenames, paths, EXIF data, and client or project names are not collected.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Plan limits

A subscription seat allows one signed-in computer at a time, and accounts are for one photographer or studio and may not be shared or resold.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Praise: workflow control

A testimonial on the maker’s site praises preservation of meaningful emotional images while removing obvious duplicates and unusable frames.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

RAW support

The site lists RAW support for Nikon, Canon including CR3, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, and DNG files.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Refund limitation

Paid subscriptions are generally non-refundable once a billing period has started, except where law requires otherwise.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Review workflow

It sorts confident calls into KEEP or REJECT and sends lower-confidence images to REVIEW for the photographer to decide.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Seat limit

One subscription seat permits one signed-in computer at a time, with a new sign-in moving the seat.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Security controls

Traffic uses HTTPS/TLS, passwords and device tokens are hashed, and signed-in device tokens can be revoked from the dashboard.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Service processors

The privacy policy names Stripe for payments, Render for hosting, and GitHub for software-release delivery.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Target photographers

The maker presents it for wedding, portrait, sports, newborn, and other photography workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Technical analysis

The software evaluates sharpness, exposure, blown or black frames, faces, eyes, bursts, and near-duplicates.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Trial terms

The seven-day trial includes full features, needs no payment card, and ends without charging unless the user later subscribes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · cullaistudio.com

Plans and prices

Every Cull AI Studio plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

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