See more in your pictures.

SeeDis Media Browser is a fast, native browser for the photos and videos on your Mac and iPad. It puts the folders on your disks and your Apple Photos library in one window, with no import step and a grid that stays smooth beyond 100,000 images — then finds pictures the Finder can't: by how they look, who's in them, where they were taken, or as exact duplicates. It helps you cull a shoot down to its keepers, too, and it works with Shortcuts.

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macOS 26.5+ iPadOS 26.5+

Get SeeDis Media Browser on the App Store —
$9.99, one purchase for Mac & iPad.

New in 26.11

Cull a shoot. Then put every picture where it belongs.

Culling

Go through a shoot burst by burst: SeeDis groups near-identical frames, and a single key — or a swipe on iPad — accepts or rejects each one. Compare a burst side by side, check focus at a true 100 %, and let on-device checks flag blurred, badly exposed or eyes-closed frames. Finish & Apply then files the keepers into a Virtual Folder or Apple Photos, moves the rejects to the Trash, and can write XMP sidecars for Lightroom and other photo apps.

Move & copy by drag and drop

Drag thumbnails onto a folder in the sidebar to move or copy the files — or pick the folder with Move to… and Copy to…. A RAW partner and its .xmp sidecar travel along, and ratings and tags stay with the picture. Apple Photos works both ways: drag pictures out as files, or drop files onto a year, month or day to import them there.

Bigger thumbnails, your way

Choose how many images fill a row — with the slider under the grid or in Settings — and the thumbnails grow and shrink with the window, now up to twice their old maximum size.

A culling session in SeeDis on the Mac: frames grouped into bursts, thumbnails marked accepted or rejected, and the session's progress and options in the panel on the left. — A culling session: frames grouped into bursts, a decision on each, and your progress at a glance.

What SeeDis is

Everything in one place, indexed privately on your device.

Every search below runs on a private index SeeDis builds on your device — a preview, a visual “fingerprint” and the faces of every picture. Your files stay where they are, and their contents are never changed.

Folders & Photos together

Folders on your disks and your Apple Photos library, side by side in one tree. Eject a drive and its folders grey out — they come back on their own.

Videos beside your photos

Videos from your folders and your Apple Photos library share the grid with your pictures, each with its running time on the tile. They play with the system's own controls, Picture in Picture included — and on the Mac you can skim a clip by moving the pointer across it.

Find Similar

SeeDis's signature search: start from any picture and find others that look like it, with a Strict ↔ Loose slider to widen or tighten the net.

Same Face

Faces are detected on-device and grouped by likeness. Pick a photo and instantly round up every other picture of the same person.

Around the same place

Any picture with a camera-stamped location can anchor a search: SeeDis puts the spot on a map and rounds up everything shot within 1 to 100 km (or miles).

Duplicate detection

One command finds byte-identical copies across your whole library. Keep one of each and clear out the rest in a couple of clicks.

Ratings, tags & Virtual Folders

Rate 1–5 stars and tag with your own keywords, a whole selection at once. Gather pictures from anywhere into Virtual Folders — like playlists, without moving a file.

Batch Rename

Rename a whole selection from the original name, a counter and the date — with a live preview before a single file is touched.

Shortcuts & Siri

More than twenty actions for the Shortcuts app — find similar pictures or duplicates, rate, tag, hide, or file pictures into Virtual Folders. On macOS 27 and iPadOS 27 you can also ask Siri to create, open or rename a Virtual Folder in SeeDis, add a picture to one, or search your library.

Slideshows & presentation

Play any set full screen with your own timing and transitions, or present it on an external display from your Mac or iPad — with several connected, you choose which one.

A look inside

Built for browsing, made for finding.

Folders and Photos on the left, thumbnails in the center, details on the right — then powerful search when a folder isn't enough.

The SeeDis library: a folder tree on the left, a grid of thumbnails in the center, and an information panel on the right. — One window for everything — including the searches this picture can start.

The Search panel with stacked active filters combined with AND, and unused filters waiting below. — Mix-and-match filters — rating, tags, folder, file name, media type, duplicates — combined with AND.

A Find Similar search showing the reference image with a Strict-to-Loose slider beneath it. — Find Similar starts from a picture; the Strict ↔ Loose slider sets how close a match must be.

The Location filter in the Search panel: a map centered on the picture's coordinates, a translucent circle marking the search radius, and a slider beneath it. — The circle is the search radius — drag the slider from 1 to 100 km (or miles).

A single image filling the center pane, ready for arrow-key navigation. — Open any picture or video large, full screen, or as a slideshow — the arrow keys step through the set.

On iPad

Your whole library, under your fingertips.

Buy SeeDis once and it's yours on Mac and iPad, running the same private, on-device engine. On iPad it's built for touch — the same folders, Photos and searches, a tap or a long-press away.

SeeDis on iPad: a sidebar on the left, a grid of thumbnails in the center beneath a floating glass toolbar, and the Information panel on the right.

The same three panes, rebuilt for iPad — a floating glass toolbar switches between grid, single image and slideshow.

A single photo filling the center of the iPad screen, with controls to step or play through the current set. — Open any picture large or as a slideshow, then swipe or use the arrows to move through the set.

SeeDis on iPad after touching and holding a thumbnail: a large preview card of the picture above the thumbnail's context menu. — Touch and hold a picture for a large preview above its menu — tap the preview to open it — or tap Select to rate and tag a batch.

Mac & iPad

Same core. Shaped for each device.

Every feature works the same way on both — only how you reach for it changes. Each device keeps its own library and index, computed privately on-device.

On your Mac

pointer & keyboard

Full menu bar and keyboard shortcuts
Right-click context menus
Drag pictures onto a folder to move or copy them — or into the Finder
Reveal originals in the Finder
Skim videos from your folders by hovering
Hold Space to peek at a picture or video
Cull with single keys: P, X, U and K

On your iPad

multi-touch

Touch and hold for a large preview and menu
Tap Select to pick many at once
Drag thumbnails onto a folder to move or copy them
A floating glass toolbar for view modes
Two-finger swipe to scrub a video
Swipe up or down to accept or reject while culling
On-screen or hardware keyboard
Every command gathered in a ••• menu

Get SeeDis Media Browser

One purchase, $9.99, for both Mac and iPad. No subscription, no account, nothing uploaded.

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