Shoots, already sorted.
Split by capture time.
Named by you.
Keep the good ones
Quick cull before you copy
Everything stays together.
Clips, sidecars and RAW + JPEG pairs.
Interrupted? Pick up here.
Verified files stay done.
Copied. Read back. Verified.
Safe to format in camera.
Sortify for Mac
Sortify splits a memory card into shoots, copies it into one folder structure and reads every file back before it says “safe to format in camera”.
Native for macOS 26+ / Entirely offline
From the camera to your Mac
Insert your card. Your next step is already waiting.
A familiar starting point
Capacity, camera and earlier ingests. A little context before the first copy.
A welcome back.
Your card. Your camera.
Right where you left off.
A card with a history.
Already-ingested files are recognised and left out by default.
A little understanding
Capture times, cameras and companion files, brought together in one scan.
The whole picture.
Photos, video and the files
that belong beside them.
The time you took it.
Capture time comes from camera metadata, with filesystem dates only as a last resort.
Room for every story
Split by capture time. Named by you. With every frame there to review.
One card. Three shoots.
The brand film. The portraits.
The next day’s lookbook.
Suggested by Sortify. Decided by you.
Review each split, give it a name and keep the frames you want to copy.
Order, before the copy
Choose a disk. Preview the folders. Know exactly where your work will land.
Everything has a home.
Shoot
Category
Camera
Together, where they belong.
Clips, proxies and sidecars stay paired. Original filenames are kept by default.
Confidence in every copy
Every copied file is read back from your destination and matched by checksum.
Copied is only halfway.
Copy the file
Read it back
Match the checksum
An extra read. A real reason to trust.
The destination is read back before a file counts as verified. An interrupted copy can resume.
Ready for what comes next
Every selected file and sidecar verified. Safe to format in camera.
Every selected file.
Photos, clips and sidecars.
Read back and matched.
The proof comes with you.
An ASC MHL manifest lives with each shoot, ready to verify the copy again later.
Why Sortify
It never rates, develops, tags or catalogues an image; Lightroom owns that. Sortify owns the copy, the proof that the copy is complete, and the folder you will find it in.
Inside Sortify
A card is not a folder of files. It is several jobs, in two or three cameras, with the clips’ metadata and proxies scattered where the camera put them. Sortify reads it that way.
Brand film, 60 files; Portraits, 61 files; Rooftop, 30 files; Lookbook, 40 files
Boundaries fall at a time gap, a location jump or a new day, and every split is explained between the two shoots. Name, merge, split or drop; suggested splits are offered, never applied.
C0039.MP4: captured 3 Oct 2026 · 12:51, time source Sony clip metadata.
Nothing usable?It goes to an Undated shoot. Never “now”.
Camera metadata comes first, then filename dates, with filesystem dates as a last resort. See where each capture time came from. Undated files get their own shoot.
Clip metadata, telemetry, edits and companion audio stay with their primary. Paired proxies get their own folder. RAW+JPEG twins stay together, with original names kept by default.
Settings › Folders
Names made safe for each.
Shoot, then category, then camera, with names made safe for APFS, exFAT and SMB. Unknown files go to Other and nothing is dropped silently.
From your history
Pick a client you have worked with before. Call your cameras Cam A and Cam B. Return to a recent destination, with its connection and free space shown before you choose.
04:00
Shoot day starts
One evening. One shoot.
A late finish belongs to the same night. The shoot day starts at 4 am by default, so midnight alone will not split it. Set a different start to suit your schedule.
12 ingested before · left out. 6 new · selected.
A card is recognised by its volume, so what was already copied is marked and left out. Forget This Card offers it again.
Preview a RAW using the JPEG the camera embedded inside it. Arrow keys to walk, X to keep or drop, I for the details. Review the frames before they take up space.
Progress and time left while copying; your cards with Scan and Eject when idle.
The little decisions around every shoot. Already thought through.
Keep camera filenames, or build your own from the date, client, shoot and a sequence. Paired sidecars follow the rename.
{date}_{shoot}_{seq}
Rename category folders, add a client level or turn camera subfolders off. Preview the result before the copy.
Folders, your way
Bring the camera’s paired proxies along, or leave them out of this copy. The full-resolution originals stay in the plan.
Copy proxies · optional
Merge neighbouring shoots, move frames or split a shoot yourself. Split Back restores your last merge.
Before anything is copied
Sortify flags signs of a camera clock or time-zone mismatch. Files with no usable date get an Undated shoot.
No invented capture dates
Choose to open the destination in Finder and eject the card automatically. Auto-eject waits for a fully verified ingest.
Set once in Settings
Sortify computes an xxHash64 of every file while it copies, then reads every file back off the destination and compares. Only then does it count as verified. A mismatch is copied again once; if it still does not match, that file fails visibly and the rest carries on.
“Safe to format in camera” appears only when every selected file and every sidecar came back matching. Not after the copy. Not after a completion tick. After the read-back.
Each shoot folder gets an ASC MHL manifest, the open standard pro offload tools read, and Verify Folder re-checks a copy against it months later. A pulled card, a crash or sleep leaves no half-written file looking finished; the next run skips what was proven and continues.
| File | Size | xxHash64 | Read back |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSC00418.ARW | 24.1 MB | 7c1e 9a40 b3d2 f08e | Matched |
| DSC00418.JPG | 6.8 MB | 0b94 e7c1 55aa 3d1f | Matched |
| DSC00419.ARW | 24.4 MB | a3f0 12c8 9e77 b4d6 | Matched |
| C0038.MP4 | 412.6 MB | 5e8d 7b03 c21a 90f4 | Matched |
| C0038M01.XML | 18 KB | d14b 6f2e 0a9c 87e3 | Matched |
| C0038S01.MP4 | 31.2 MB | 9f3b 4d1e 66c0 e21a | Matched |
Verified — safe to format in camera
60 of 60 files and sidecars read back and matched. Manifest written to ascmhl/.
A file that already exists at the destination is checked, not replaced. A name that is taken gets a suffix, and the plan says so before anything starts. Free space is checked first.
The default is to format it in the camera. Deleting from the card is a choice per ingest, never remembered, and a file goes only when the log proves a verified copy exists and the file on the card still matches it, re-checked right before deletion.
Sortify 2.0 for macOS 26 Tahoe or later. Universal, notarized by Apple. Nothing is ever deleted from the card unless you explicitly opt in.
Download for macOS
