Every photo you own, in one clean library.

Shutterfold gathers your photos from old phones, hard drives, OneDrive, Google Takeout and iCloud. It removes the duplicates, sets aside screenshots and blurry shots, and saves what's left to the cloud you already pay for. It runs on your computer and gives you a report of every file it touched.

Pre-order for $29 How it works

For Mac and Windows. Founders get the first version, and you can ask for a refund at any time.

How it works

Most people have the same photo saved in three or four places, with years of screenshots mixed in. Shutterfold sorts that out and only asks you to confirm the decisions.

  1. Add your sources

    Point it at folders, old drives, a Google Takeout zip, OneDrive, or the Photos library on your Mac. For Google Photos and iCloud we walk you through exporting first, which takes a few clicks.

    Sources
    Photos library (this Mac)24,118
    takeout-2026-01.zip11,402
    OneDrive/Pictures/Camera Roll8,977
    Seagate 2TB, 2014–20196,340
    Reading 50,837 files

  2. Review what it found

    Copies of the same photo are grouped and the best one is kept. Screenshots, receipts, forwarded memes and blurry shots go into their own piles. Albums are suggested from dates and places, like a December trip to Goa. You approve each pile in one go.

    To review
    Duplicates, best copy kept14,206
    Screenshots and forwards3,511
    Blurry and extra burst shots1,088
    Goa, Dec 2023 · 412Uni 2016–19 · 2,930Mum's 60th · 188

  3. Save the clean library

    Shutterfold writes one tidy library, with dates and locations fixed, to Google Drive, OneDrive, Apple Photos, Immich or Ente. The report lists every file that came in and where it ended up. Anything removed stays in a quarantine folder for 30 days.

    Report
    Files in50,837
    Kept32,032
    Merged or set aside18,805
    Missing0
    Saved toOneDrive

The screens show the planned app with an example library.

Where it reads from

Shutterfold works with the files you already have. It doesn't ask you to move to a new cloud.

Folders, drives and old phones
Any disk, NAS, USB stick or copied phone folder.
Google Photos
Through a Google Takeout export. Shutterfold puts the dates and captions from Google's separate JSON files back into each photo and drops the extra copy Takeout makes for every album.
iCloud Photos
On a Mac, straight from the Photos library with originals. On Windows, from an iCloud export folder.
OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive
Sign in once and Shutterfold reads and writes your own folders.
Immich and Ente
Send the cleaned library straight into either one.

Founder licence

We're building Shutterfold with the first 50 people who buy it. You get the first version, a say in what we add next, and a full refund if it doesn't do what this page describes.

The regular price will be $39. Founders pay $29 once and get a year of updates. There's no subscription and no storage plan, and you don't need an account to run it.

$29$39

US dollars, one payment

  • Mac and Windows app for one person
  • No limit on library size
  • Duplicate removal across every source, with the full report
  • AI sorting and album suggestions, with your own OpenAI key or 50,000 photos on ours
  • Saves to your cloud, Immich, Ente or Apple Photos
  • Refund any time before delivery and up to 30 days after
Pre-order for $29

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Questions

Where do my photos go?

They stay on your computer. The index, the duplicate groups and the report are saved on your disk. If you turn on AI sorting, a 512-pixel preview of each photo is sent to OpenAI to get its label. With your own OpenAI key, that preview goes from your computer to OpenAI and never through us.

Can it read my Google Photos directly?

Google stopped allowing that for outside apps in March 2025, so Shutterfold works from a Google Takeout export. It puts dates, places and captions back into each file and removes the extra copies Takeout creates for every album.

Does it work with iCloud Photos?

On a Mac it reads the Photos library directly, originals included. On Windows, export from iCloud for Windows or Apple's data and privacy page and add that folder.

Will it delete anything?

Only after you approve it. Removed files go to a quarantine folder for 30 days, and the report lists each one.

What does the AI do?

It sorts each photo into a type: photo, screenshot, receipt, document, forwarded image or blurry shot. It also suggests album names from dates, places and what's in the pictures, such as "Goa, December 2023". Duplicates and burst shots are found by comparing the files themselves, without AI.

Is it a subscription?

You pay once. Later there may be an optional plan that tidies new photos automatically, and the app you bought keeps working without it.

Why pay before it's finished?

It tells us people want this before we spend months building it. Founders get the first build and help decide what we add. If we don't ship what's described here, we refund you.