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One library for all your drives, photos, and footage. Turn raw media into organized source material for your next project or pitch.
Bring together your photos, videos, and RAW files across Mac, external drives, NAS, and Dropbox. Grain catalogs them where they are, and an unplugged drive stays in your library. No uploads, no migrations.
How one library works across your drivesOne libraryOne library, on your Mac
Fly through years of photos and footage. Super-fast RAW previews and navigation, so you’re never stuck waiting.
Explore browsing and reviewDescribe any shot in plain language, no keywords required, or use reverse image search. Filter your whole library, or any search, by date, rating, camera, custom fields, and more.
Explore search and filtersAll your footage, transcribed automatically on your Mac. Search dialogue and visuals, review takes, and cut clips for your editors and agents.
Learn more about ClipsEvery recording is transcribed on your Mac, so you can read and search what was said.
Your agent describes what’s on screen, timed beside the dialogue.
Keep the takes you want as clips. A clip marks a range on the original recording, so nothing is copied.
Find the people you’ve photographed across every shoot and year. Name a face once, review the matches on your Mac, and gather their photos for a portfolio or delivery.
Learn more about PeopleGive Claude, ChatGPT, and your editing agents the media and context to work with.
Built-in MCP and CLI access, with skills to guide your agent. Your library stays on your Mac; your assistant’s policies apply to what you share.
Example
You: Find three close surfing shots in warm evening light for a client pitch.
Searched Grain Photo
Assistant: These three give us the spray, the turn, and the finish.
You: Turn these into a short pitch.
Drafted the pitch
Campaign concept
Stay with the ride
Keep the camera close enough to feel the water. Open on the gold-lit spray, follow the turn, and finish with the carve.
Open On the face, spray lit gold behind.Turn Under the lip on a green board.Finish The carve through white water.Bring your photos and footage into the next edit, pitch, or delivery.
Transcripts, searchable B-roll, and fast clipping take you from raw media to organized source material, ready for your editor or agent.
Review and deliver today’s shoot, then turn your archive into material for pitches, campaigns, social, and more.
Pull concert and tour highlights, organize festival shoots, and find every frame of a band across years of shows.
Develop a body of work around a place or an idea. Gather years of photographs into a series, a book, or an exhibition.
Drop in any image to find similar shots, other versions of the same frame, or the original behind an export or a client’s reference.
Narrow your whole library or any search by date, rating, camera, tags, or custom fields. Scrub through time with the date handle.
Move quickly from frame to frame, with large RAW previews and camera details ready for review.
Collect photos and footage from any drive in one place. Export your selection when you’re ready to edit, pitch, or deliver.
Keep your picks, notes, and client details together with ratings, tags, and custom fields. Read existing XMP and IPTC metadata.
Take your selection into the next stage: export files, copy a preview, or open originals in your editing tools.
More answers on Support.
Keep editing where you edit. Grain Photo is a photo and video organizer for Mac that reads the ratings and keywords those apps save to XMP.
No. Indexing and search only read your files. Ratings, keywords, collections, and custom fields live in Grain’s own catalog, so your originals and XMP sidecars stay as they are.
No. Grain Photo catalogs, analyzes, and searches on your Mac. With Dropbox, it reads from your own account. If you connect an external assistant, it receives catalog information and any previews or original file bytes you allow; that provider’s data handling applies.
Download Grain, sign in with your email, and use the full app for 7 days. You don’t need a card to start. When the trial ends, Grain asks you to buy it for $49 to keep going. Nothing is charged automatically, and your files are never touched either way.
Turn every drive into one library of your work, ready for you, your editors, and your agents.
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