Catalog & Browse
One library for every folder, drive and cloud you keep photos in.
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What it does
Point Unicadr at the places your photos and videos live: the Pictures folder, an external drive, a network share, a synced iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Google Drive folder. It walks each one, reads the metadata with a bundled ExifTool, keeps everything in a local catalog and shows it as one library, ordered by when each picture was taken.
How it works
Organised by capture date
All Media is a year and month tree built from the capture date inside each file, not from folder names. Files without one are kept apart under No capture date instead of being guessed.
Search, filter and sort
Search by name, path or camera, show only photos or only videos, sort by date taken and resize the thumbnails as you go. Folders gives you the same grid per catalogued folder.
Every detail in the inspector
Select a file to see its capture time and where that came from, dimensions, camera and lens, exposure settings and GPS position, with the full metadata one click away.
Incremental scans
A rescan only reads files that are new or have changed size or modification time, so refreshing a large library takes moments rather than hours.
Unplugged is not deleted
Files that disappear are flagged as missing, never dropped, so the catalog of a disconnected drive stays browsable until it is back.
Cloud-safe
Online-only placeholders from iCloud, OneDrive and similar services are recognised and catalogued from their file information alone. They are never opened, so a scan cannot start downloading your whole cloud library.
Good to know
- Photos: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, TIFF, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF
- Camera RAW: DNG, CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, ORF, RW2, RAF, PEF and more
- Video: MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, MKV, WebM, MTS, 3GP and more
- Metadata read by the bundled ExifTool
- Scans can be cancelled and resume after a restart
- Light and dark appearance, or follow macOS