From a Thousand Raw Files to a Handful of Edited Keepers, in Record Time.

The only software built for bird photography workflows. Import pictures from your camera, cull bursts automatically, edit with bird masks, put every photo on the map, export for DxO or Lightroom and publish eBird checklists, all on your own computer.

Import

Your birding sessions, organized from the start.

Import

From your camera over USB, or any folder or memory card.

Sessions

Name the trip and say where it was. Species suggestions then favour the birds found there.

Cull

A thousand photos, sorted in one pass.

Every frame is checked before you see it: is there a bird, is it sharp, did the focus land on it, what species is it? Bursts collapse to their best frame, so culling a trip takes minutes, not evenings.

The Cull grid filtered to Keepers, with burst badges and an AI Score row on each tile.

Bursts

Frames shot close together stack into one, with the sharpest on top. You judge the burst once, not every frame.

One grid tile standing for a 9-frame burst of a kingfisher in flight, its top pick as the cover.

AI Species ID

AI suggests the species for every burst, for birds of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Timor-Leste, for now. Override it with one click when you know better.

By species view: photos grouped under Blue-eared Kingfisher, each with an editable species label.

Filters

Show only the grades you want, Blurry to Very sharp, or what fails a check: No bird, AF off bird.

The AI Score filters open: Sharpness split into five grades, Blurry to Very sharp, each with a count.

One by One

Every photo full size, with its AI Score underneath. P keeps, X rejects, 1 to 5 rates.

One by one view: a single photo full size, with its AI Score strip and Reject/Keep bar underneath.
Edit

A full editing flow, with masks that find the bird.

Light, crop, denoise and masks, in one place.

Bird Mask

Bird or background in one click, plus line, radial and brush masks. Here: the bird's Shadows +20 and Saturation +15, the background -1 EV.

The photo before any mask.
The masks applied: the bird's shadows and colour lifted, the background darkened.
The Bird mask shown as a red overlay.

Denoise

For high-ISO raw photos. Drag to compare, ISO 12800.

Denoise on: the same photo, clean.Denoise off: the ISO 12800 photo, with high-ISO noise.
Denoise OffDenoise On

Crop, Denoise and Masks

Reframe, clean up noise and paint a mask.

Create

From keeper to showpiece.

Turn your bird photos into pieces made for printing and sharing, in a few clicks. Sequence, shown here, puts a whole flight into one image.

The Sequence editor: a kingfisher's take-off from its perch, three moments of the flight layered onto one background, with the burst's photos ticked in Layers.
Enrich

Every photo, pinned to where you took it.

Most cameras record no location. Put every photo on the map in seconds, ready for your checklists and your archive.

  • Import a GPX track from your phone or watch.
  • Drag photos onto the spot where you took them.
  • Use your camera's own location, if it records one.
Export

JPEGs for sharing, originals for your editor.

  • JPEG at any size, with presets for Instagram and WhatsApp.
  • The original file, with a sidecar for DxO or Lightroom.
  • Camera data, location, rating and species carried along.
Publish

An eBird checklist from what you photographed.

  • A separate checklist for each place you visited, even several in one day.
  • Each checklist pinned to the coordinates where you took the photos.
  • Species filled in from your photos, counts and notes before you upload.
  • Exported as an eBird-compatible file, ready to upload at eBird.
Privacy

Your photos stay on your computer.

Runs Locally

Culling, scoring, species identification and edits run on your computer.

No Account

Download it and start. No sign-up, no login.

Requires Internet Only for the Basics

It goes online for setup, maps and place names, never to upload a photo. See everything it connects to.

The birdflow app icon: a kingfisher in flight
Download

Spend your time birding, not sorting.

Every feature, free for 10 days of use.