A Narrative Select alternative for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Narrative Select brought welcome speed to culling on the Mac. Cull Me uP extends the same urgency across every Apple device — with a Light Table gesture instead of AI assessments.
Same problem, different room
Culling shouldn't wait for the desk.
Mac-only culling assumes the first pass happens at the studio. For most photographers, the best moment is earlier: in the car, on the train, on the couch — while the shoot is still fresh.
Narrative Select is a respected choice for photographers who cull at a Mac and like image assessments — focus checks, closed-eye warnings — guiding their pass. Cull Me uP starts from a different observation: the first pass belongs to the moment right after the shoot, wherever you are.
That is why Cull Me uP is iPhone-first for momentum, iPad for tactile review, and Mac for the studio session — one photographic gesture across all three, with decisions that travel as portable XMP.
Why photographers switch
The first pass follows you, not the other way around.
01
Cull where the energy is.
Start on iPhone minutes after the last frame, continue on iPad, finish on Mac. No waiting for the desk, no re-importing.
02
Seeing over scoring.
Instead of per-image assessments, Cull Me uP gives you a fast, visual Light Table: grid, full-screen, compare, decide.
03
Structure for heavy shoots.
Nala groups bursts and near-duplicates so large weddings and sports days read as series, not as thousands of singles.
04
Files stay yours.
No proprietary library between you and your RAW folders. Decisions are recorded as portable XMP your editor understands.
Honest fit
Two valid answers to the same urgency.
If your culling life is a Mac desk and you like assessment overlays, Narrative Select serves that well. If your culling life starts the second the shoot ends — pocket first, studio later — that is the life Cull Me uP is built around.
Curious about the speed claims? The Performance Lab publishes measured grid-opening benchmarks, and How to cull photos faster explains why culling fresh is worth 20–30 % of your selection time.
Take the first pass with you.
Cull Me uP is the Light Table that starts in your pocket and ends in a clean editing session.