An Aftershoot alternative — without an AI that chooses for you.
Aftershoot made AI culling famous: it rates and selects your photos for you. Cull Me uP takes the opposite path — a fast Light Table where intelligence structures the shoot, and the photographer keeps the verdict.
The real question
Do you want the AI to pick — or to prepare?
AI-driven culling tools promise to hand you a finished selection. That works when you trust the verdict. It breaks when your taste, your client or your story disagrees with the model.
Aftershoot belongs to a family of tools where the software decides first and the photographer reviews the decision. Many photographers love that trade. Many others quietly redo the whole selection because they cannot explain — or trust — why an image was kept or killed.
Cull Me uP starts from the other end: the first pass is a photographic gesture, not a delegation. The app makes the gesture fast — instant RAW grid, one decision per image, Pick / Reject / Maybe — and the optional intelligence (Nala) groups bursts, stacks near-duplicates and structures heavy shoots before you judge. Suggested, not decided.
Why photographers switch
Verdicts stay yours. Speed comes from the gesture.
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No black-box selection.
Cull Me uP never marks an image as good or bad behind your back. Signals are visible, suggestions are reversible, and nothing is culled silently.
02
Fast because the first pass is light.
Instant grid on 1,000+ RAW folders, full-screen review, one swipe per decision. The speed lives in your hands, not in a processing queue.
03
Order before judgment.
Nala structures the shoot — bursts, series, near-duplicates — so a 2,000-photo wedding reads like 300 decisions. You still make them.
04
Apple-first, files-first.
iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your folders stay folders, your choices travel as portable XMP, and no catalog takes your shoot hostage.
Honest fit
When an AI-picker is the right tool — and when it isn't.
If you shoot thousands of near-identical frames and genuinely want a machine-made shortlist, an AI selector can serve you well. Cull Me uP is for the photographers who want the time savings without giving up the eye.
The numbers behind the approach live in the open: see the Performance Lab for measured RAW grid benchmarks, and How to cull photos faster for the 20–30 % insight — most of the time you lose in culling comes from culling too late, not from deciding yourself.
Keep the speed. Keep the eye.
Cull Me uP is the missing step between the card and the edit — fast, visual, and photographer-controlled.