Location/Sorter Get it free for 7 days

Every shot, filed by where it was taken.

Point Location Sorter at a folder of photos from your phone or camera. It reads the GPS in every shot, groups them into places named from the map, and sorts them into one folder per place once you've checked it all on a map.

runs on your PCno accountundo any sort

Get it from Microsoft Free for 7 days, then €24.99, once.
Windows 10 and 11.

Location Sorter's map of the Athens recce: eight coloured place pins over central Athens, the place list on the right and the Apply bar at the bottom.
Athens recce: 641 shots, 8 places, on one map.

How it works

One library, eight places, from a single day of scouting in Athens. These are its real numbers.

01

Grouped by place, named from the map

344 shots · Φιλελλήνων

A week of shooting comes back as a few tidy places instead of a thousand IMG_ files. Each place is named from the map, and you can rename it, star the keepers, add a note or a tag.

Places as strips of shots: Μουσείο with 31 shots, three of them selected, then Πετράλωνα and Πολύγωνο.
02

Fix it on the map

139 shots · Μενιδιάτικα

Wrong place? Lasso shots on the map and move them, or drag one into another place. Shots without GPS go to No place, and you can give them a position by hand.

139 shots lassoed on the map, shown in a rail on the left, ready to move to a new place.
03

Leave out the near-duplicates

80 shots · Άγιος Ιωάννης Ρέντης

Ten frames of the same corner sit side by side. Keep the best one and leave the rest out of the sort. Nothing is ever deleted.

The Duplicates panel: groups of similar shots side by side, the kept one marked Keep, with buttons to drop the extras.
04

See every move first, undo any sort

31 shots · Μουσείο

Every move, star and name is a step Ctrl+Z takes back, and nothing moves on disk until you press Apply. The bar says how many shots it will re-file. Changed your mind after a sort? Put shots back returns every moved shot to where it came from.

A strip of shots with the message “Moved 4 shots. Undo”.
05

Works with the folders you already have

26 shots · Πετράλωνα

Sort straight from OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud or Nextcloud folders on your PC. Already sorted some by hand? Bring those folders in as places and carry on from there.

Your libraries: Sort a folder of shots, Use folders I already have, Open libraries, and the Athens recce library with 641 shots in 8 places.
06

Find a shot by what's in it

12 shots · Πολύγωνο

Type "balcony" or "staircase" and every library on your PC answers, by picture as well as by name, date and note. The search runs on your PC too.

A search for “balcony” across every library: 24 strong matches found by picture.

Made on real recces

For scouts

It began as a film scout's own tool, so what a recce needs after the shooting is already in it.

01

The sun, drawn into the frame

Press S on any shot to see where the sun was, and where it will be on the shoot day, any day of the year.

A street seen from a balcony, with the sun's path for 21 June, 23 September and 21 December drawn across the frame.
02

A report the director opens anywhere

Places, a map and your picks in one file that opens in any browser, even offline. One report can hold places from several jobs.

The scout report for the Athens recce: a map of the eight numbered places beside the list of places and their shot counts.
03

The recce route, in Google Maps

Pick places from any of your libraries, put them in the shortest order and open the drive in Google Maps.

A route through four places across Athens, with Shortest order and Open in Google Maps.

Private by design

Everything runs on your PC. There is no account, no upload, no tracking and no advertising. The app goes online only for map tiles and place names from OpenStreetMap (including a place or address you ask it to find, which may come from a folder name), and to open a route in Google Maps when you ask it to. Read the privacy policy.

Details

Shots
JPG, HEIC and PNG photos, and MP4, MOV, M4V and 3GP clips, with the GPS your phone or camera wrote.
Windows
Windows 10 version 2004 or later, and Windows 11. From the Microsoft Store, which keeps it up to date.
Price
Free for 7 days with every feature. Then €24.99, once: no subscription.