AccioPix Photo Culling vs Kepla

AccioPix Photo Culling is a free browser tool that analyzes photo shoots and recommends picks, keepers, duplicates, and rejects with reasons. Processing runs on the user’s device, and the maker says photos are not uploaded. It accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, and RAW formats including CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, and DNG; RAW files use their embedded JPEG previews without conversion. The tool groups bursts and can identify softness, closed eyes when a better frame exists, blown highlights, and black frames. Optional people analysis checks face sharpness, closed eyes, expression, head pose, and skin exposure. Optional NIMA appeal scoring considers composition, subject, and light only when technical results are tied. Users can review by keyboard, inspect eyes at 1:1, and override results. Exports include XMP star ratings for RAW files, a keepers list, and a CSV with reasons. Chrome and Edge can write XMP sidecars into the selected folder.

Kepla is a Mac app that sorts photo cards as they copy, flagging frames for the photographer to review rather than making the final selection. It groups burst duplicates and flags similar shots, out-of-focus frames, closed eyes, very dark or blown frames, and images with nobody in them. The maker says it does not delete, move, rename, or add reject flags to photo files; decisions are recorded in XMP sidecars. Processing runs on the Mac, works offline, and does not upload photo frames, according to the maker. Supported formats include CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, DNG, ORF, JPEG, and HEIF. Kepla provides a Lightroom Classic plugin; the maker says Capture One and Bridge read the same sidecars. It requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. The app is in private preview, with the preview plan listed at free and billing starting when version 2.0 ships. Solo is listed at $15 a year, billed $15 a month yearly. A separate Solo monthly option costs $19 a month.