PiCellOne

Native on Windows · macOS

A fast image viewer, built for organizing photos

It looks like an image viewer — and inside it carries a full set of tools for sorting a shoot.

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Windows 10 or later · macOS 11 or later

App languages · Korean · English · Japanese · Traditional Chinese

Folder tree, viewer, thumbnails, metadata and histogram in one window

Workflow

Photo sorting, simplified and then automated

From Import to the moment you start editing, PiCell One handles the files. Scheduling and client sharing belong to PiCell · Works, the web service.

After the shoot — From Import to editing

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    Put the shoot on the schedule

    Set the date on the web beforehand. Templates cover any kind of shoot.

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    Insert a card and Import opens

    Connect a memory card and the Import window comes up on its own. It builds folders to match the schedule and finishes the backup in the same pass.

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    RAW and JPG sorted for you

    Folders split by extension. On a wedding job, the frames shot with flash go into a folder of their own.

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    Culling

    Pick the frames you will use with ratings, color labels and the Basket.

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    Extract the RAW, then edit

    Pull out only the RAW that pairs with the JPGs you kept, and hand those to your editor.

Client selection — From sharing to delivery

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    Send to the gallery

    Upload the photos once they are sorted.

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    Pass on the link

    Send your client a single address. There is nothing for them to install.

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    Alerts as they pick

    A notification reaches you each time the client downloads or picks a photo.

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    Apply their picks as they are

    Pull the client’s list back in, apply it, and export to your editor.

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    Deliver the edits

    Upload the finished files to the gallery and the client downloads them. That closes the job.

PiCell · Works is a web service for scheduling, uploads and client selection.

Features

What a viewer is for, and then the sorting

Editing is left to the apps built for it. What is here is what you need to look, pick and organize.

Arrangement

  • Drag, split and tab panels together
  • Panel widths that survive a window resize
  • Save a layout and switch to it at once
  • A classic thumbnail-first arrangement built in
  • High-DPI display scaling

Controls

  • Reassign the shortcut for any command
  • Defaults close to the viewers you already know
  • Several keys bound to one command
  • The same controls in preview and full screen

Speed

  • Opens on click, with no loading screen
  • RAW on screen the moment you open it
  • 30fps fast browsing
  • Skim through without skipping a frame
  • A screen the GPU draws directly

Review

  • AF point overlay and grid lines
  • Color space (ICC) correction
  • A dark tone set so the photo stays the brightest thing
  • Shooting info, histogram and camera settings
  • Shutter count
  • Lossless rotation

Culling and search

  • Ratings and color labels straight on the thumbnail
  • File times that hold still when metadata changes
  • Automatic picks by focus and open eyes
  • Filter by shutter, aperture, ISO and lens
  • Import from a memory card by date

Sorting and batch tasks

  • Sort JPG and RAW, and match the missing files
  • Take only the RAW left over from culling
  • Fix capture times across several cameras
  • Batch rename and convert format
  • Edit and sync EXIF data

macOS

“Isn’t there a proper photo browser for Mac?”

Photo communities ask it often, and macOS never had a clear answer.
PiCell One fills that gap, native on Apple Silicon.

Workspace

Everyone arranges it differently

Drag any panel, split it, tab it together, or float it like a window.

Resize the window and the panel widths you took the trouble to set stay where you put them.

Tab them together, float them, dock them where you want

Layout presets

Change the preset at the top and the whole arrangement switches with it.

  • Drag, split and tab panels together
  • Save a layout and switch to it at once
  • Fixed-width and flexible panels told apart

Shortcuts

Shortcuts bent to fit your hands

Reassign the shortcut for any command, and hang several keys on one of them.

Keys you press thousands of times a day

Hover a command and click the pencil that appears to bind the key you want.

  • Defaults close to the viewers you already know
  • Several keys bound to one command
  • Put every default back in one go

Viewer

RAW on screen the moment you open it

The embedded preview comes up first, and full decoding waits until it is actually needed.

AF point overlay

See where the camera actually focused, drawn over the photo itself.

  • AF point overlay and grid lines
  • Zoom centres on the AF point
  • Color space (ICC) correction applied
Shooting info and the filmstrip stay with you in full screen, and the controls are the ones you already use.

Speed

The fastest image viewer

GPU

A renderer that draws it directly

The GPU draws the whole screen, so zooming in and out answers the instant you ask.

30fps

Fast browsing

Hold an arrow key and it shifts into fast mode, skimming down without skipping a frame.

Culling and search

Less of your hand in the picking

The best of a burst

It measures focus and open eyes across a burst and puts the keepers in front of you.

Ratings and color labels

Set them right on the thumbnail. They are written into the file, so other programs read them just the same.

Narrow by what the camera recorded

Filter by shutter, aperture, ISO, focal length, lens and shooting mode.

Metadata at a glance

Shooting info, histogram and camera settings in a single panel.

Shutter count Sony · Nikon

Open one photo and see how many frames that body has taken.

Import in the same pass

Copy from the memory card into folders by date, skipping anything already brought in.

Import — skip duplicates, group by date, filter by rating, keep a backup copy

Photo organizing tools

Six ways to clear up a shoot folder

JPG and RAW mixed in one folder, files with no partner, shooting info lost on the way through an editor. All of it used to be done by hand.

Even hunting down the RAW left over after culling finishes inside PiCell One.

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    Sort by extension

    Split JPG and RAW into folders by extension, with the flash frames kept apart.

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    Match missing files

    Pair JPG with RAW and find the files that exist on only one side.

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    Extract RAW from culled

    Take only the RAW that pairs with the JPGs you kept, then copy or move them.

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    Extract JPG from RAW

    Pull the JPG preview out of a RAW and save it as a file of its own.

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    Sync EXIF data

    Copy shooting info between a JPG and a RAW of the same name, bringing back the capture time and rating an editor wiped out.

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    PiCell · Works sync

    Build folder names from the schedule by rule, and send up the number of frames you actually shot.

Capture time

Several cameras, every clock drifting a little

When frames from more than one body fall out of order, it sets the capture times right on its own — and by hand when you would rather.

It points out the frames that land on the same second, and a slider nudges one body’s clock into line
  • Bodies told apart by serial number and grouped for you
  • Pick a reference body, fix automatically, tune to the second
  • File modified times brought along as well

Batch tasks

The useful odd jobs

Batch rename, EXIF edits, format conversion and resizing, all in one place.

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    Rename

    Build a rule out of name, date, time and counter, and read the new names in a table before you commit.

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    Edit EXIF data

    Correct capture time, GPS and camera info field by field, or strip the lot before delivery.

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    Convert format

    Convert to JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC and scale by the long edge, keeping the shooting info and color profile.

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App languages · Korean · English · Japanese · Traditional Chinese

Windows 64-bit Windows 10 or later Checking… macOS Apple Silicon · M series macOS 11 or later Checking… macOS Intel macOS 11 or later Checking…

Once you have it, the changelog tells you what changed in this release.