RAW files from most cameras with their previews and EXIF, searchable by description, kept as ordinary files on your own disk.
The shoot lives in 2024-06-11. Your memory of it is "the misty morning at the harbor".
Your own frames, the photographers you study and the moodboards for the next shoot share one Downloads folder.
Your archive is your livelihood. Keeping it in a format only one app can read never felt right.
CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2, DNG and more come in like any image, with the camera preview, sensor dimensions and EXIF. The original stays untouched.
Type "fog, backlit, single figure" and the frame comes up. Find Similar starts from one image and brings back its visual siblings.
Every file stays in a plain folder, with a small text file beside it for title, rating and tags. Delete the app and nothing is lost.
The vault format →Select a whole shoot and rate, tag or file it in one move. Every change is undoable.