A library, not an editor.

Negativo catalogs the photos already sitting on your disks. No import. No copies. No lock-in.

Download for macOS

One-time purchase · macOS 15 or later

The Negativo library window: a grid of catalogued photos with filter and rating controls in the sidebar.

Your originals are never touched

Ratings, keywords and notes go into a standard .xmp file next to each photo. Uninstall tomorrow and you lose nothing.

Fast enough to actually use

Native, no Electron. 100,000 photos filtered in under 50ms.

Edit wherever you like

Open any shot in Pixelmator Pro, Photoshop or Affinity. The result comes back stacked next to the original.

Built for the first pass.

Full-screen, keyboard-driven, no panels in the way. Arrow keys to move, numbers to rate, P and X for picks and rejects. The interface gets out of the way and comes back when you need it.

Negativo's loupe view: a single photo full-screen with rating and pick controls overlaid at the edge.

Your track knows where you were.

Drop in a GPX file and Negativo matches every photo to the route by timestamp. Rides, hikes, road trips — the whole archive on a map, without a single manual pin.

Nothing here is locked in.

The catalog is an index, not a vault. Delete it and Negativo rebuilds itself by reading the sidecars off your disk. Your archive was never ours to hold.

One price. No subscription.

Price:69US dollars, one-time

One-time purchase. Free updates for a year.

Download the trial

30 days, full version, no account required.