Seula: Photo & RAW Viewer
Cull, rate and compare fast
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Find the keepers, fast. Review big shoots, compare similar images, and use ratings and labels to prioritize and organize your selects before editing.
Seula is a Mac app for photo review and culling before editing. It's designed for going through large image sets, comparing similar frames, and organizing the initial selection before moving to a full photo editor.
FAST REVIEW BEFORE EDITING
Seula uses preview-based viewing by default, so browsing, zooming, and comparing images stays responsive with large folders. When more detail is needed, high-quality RAW rendering can be enabled. Seula works with JPG, RAW, mixed JPG+RAW sets, and other commonly used image formats.
GROUP AND CULL BURSTS EFFICIENTLY
Seula detects consecutive burst shots by capture time and similarity and groups them into a single stack, so a hundred near-identical frames read as one card instead of cluttering the grid. Stacks can be split, merged, or dissolved at any time, and every correction is undoable. Burst Review then steps through every stack in a folder one at a time: pick the frames worth keeping, and the rest are marked rejected in one undoable action, so culling a folder full of bursts takes a fraction of the clicks.
SELECTIONS THAT CARRY FORWARD
Ratings, color labels, and pick / reject marks can be added during review, before importing or opening images in an editor. They are useful for early prioritization and categorization: selects, alternatives, rejects, and images that need another look. Seula saves this information as compatible photo metadata for use in metadata-aware editing workflows.
TOOLS FOR CLOSER REVIEW
Survey mode helps review related images as a group. Compare mode is for side-by-side inspection of similar frames, and a single keypress blinks between a photo and its nearest neighbor at the same zoom and position, useful for spotting the sharper frame in a burst. Seula also supports deep zooming, focus peaking, autofocus point overlays when available, and batch renaming after the selection is done.
Seula works with local files on your Mac. No account is required, and photos are not uploaded to a cloud service.
Ratings & Reviews
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Stacks in the Viewer: A burst now reads as a pile in the viewer too. Command-Down opens a stack, Command-Up closes it, everywhere. A closed stack behaves as a single photo, so stars, color labels, picks, rejects, and rotation apply to every frame.
Smarter Burst Detection: Grouping now compares the images themselves, not just capture time and camera, so more real bursts are found.
Survey Upgrades: Visible pick and reject buttons on every tile, adjustable tile size, and an animated step in from the viewer.
Pick Up Where You Left Off: Seula reopens the folder, the photo, and the view you were last in. A photo opened from Finder lands straight in the viewer, with its folder behind it.
Faster and Lighter: A large photo releases its memory when you leave it, scrolling no longer touches the disk for every tile, and refreshing a folder skips the metadata re-read.
Also in this update:
- The rating bar can be always visible, shown on hover, or hidden.
- The info panel now works in Compare.
- Arrow keys navigate the grid, and Shift extends the selection.
- Double-click a filmstrip thumbnail to swap the focused pane in Compare.
- An unreadable folder now says so and offers to retry instead of looking empty.
- Dozens of smaller fixes, including a long freeze when opening the first photo in a large folder.
The developer, Juha Berglund, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Juha Berglund
- Size
- 44.7 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 14 more
- English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Seula for Professional Use $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Juha Berglund
