Thumbs - Photo Culling
Cull for Lightroom Classic
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your first pass, off the desk. Send a shoot from Lightroom Classic, swipe it on the couch, and the keepers are flagged in your catalog before you sit down.
Culling is the part of photography that keeps you at a desk. Thumbs moves it to your phone.
Send a shoot from Adobe Lightroom Classic with the Thumbs plugin, and it appears on your phone as a deck of cards. Swipe right to keep, left to reject. Tap a star while you're at it. When you're done — on the couch, on the train, on a flight — Lightroom pulls every decision straight back onto the right photos in your catalog: reject flags, picks, and star ratings, exactly where a desk session would have put them.
BUILT FOR THE FIRST PASS
• One card at a time, full attention on one frame
• Swipe to decide, tap to skip forward or back
• Press and hold for a loupe — slide it across faces in a group shot in one gesture
• Haptic tick on every decision; a burst when the roll is done
• Undo, revisit, and finish in any order — progress syncs across devices
WORKS WHERE YOU ARE
• Download a shoot over wifi, then cull with no signal at all — airplane mode included
• Decisions made offline sync back when the network returns
• Nothing to charge, install, or carry beyond the phone already in your pocket
PAIRING WITHOUT ACCOUNTS
• No email, no password, no sign-up
• Lightroom shows a 6-character code, you type it once, and the phone is paired
• Photos travel as reduced previews; originals never leave your computer
TRY IT BEFORE PAIRING
• A built-in demo shoot of 43 frames works with no setup at all
• Or pick 20–30 photos from your own camera roll and swipe those — they never leave the phone
Thumbs requires the Thumbs plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic on your computer to sync real shoots. The demo and camera-roll modes work without it.
Thumbs is not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe. Adobe and Lightroom are trademarks of Adobe Inc.
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Information
- Seller
- David Maizil
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 David Maizil