WildCull measures every frame and marks the ones that are measurably bad — soft, shaken, blown out — so you only spend your eyes on what’s worth it. And it shows its working for every verdict.
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Bursts laid out in capture order. Rejected frames are dimmed, never hidden, and say why.
Point WildCull at your RAW files. It groups them into bursts and measures every frame on your own computer. Reopening a folder you’ve already scanned is instant.
Each frame is sorted into Keep, Review or Reject. Every verdict comes with the numbers behind it, and a box on the subject so you can tell at a glance if it looked in the right place.
Walk the bursts with the arrow keys, press K to keep or X to reject, and your decision always wins. Then export, or write XMP sidecars for your editing software.
A verdict you can’t check is a verdict you can’t use. So every frame shows what was measured, in plain words, with the raw figure beside it.
See where the detector thinks the animal is, and where it thinks the eye is. Switch each on its own, and press Z to jump straight to the eye at full magnification.
A bird against a creamy background measures “soft” across the frame because the background is out of focus. WildCull says which pixels a verdict was made on, so you can tell the difference.
Long lens at dawn, subject in the only light there is. Shadow clipping is only ever a note, never a reason to reject, because that’s how wildlife photographs look.
The “Unique” view shows one clean frame from each burst — the whole shoot at a glance. It’s labelled “sharpest”, never “best”, and where a burst is too close to call it says so.
Open Preferences to see exactly what Keep, Review and Reject mean right now, and move the thresholds. Strict, balanced or forgiving. Your settings apply to every future cull.
Reads Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and other common RAW formats. Writes XMP sidecars (rating, label and keywords) next to your files, or exports the frames you’re looking at into a folder.
It won’t tell you which frame is the best. We tested whether measurable image properties predict which frame a photographer keeps, and they don’t reliably — so WildCull only ever claims a frame is bad, never that one is good. Survivors stay in capture order, with the obviously bad ones marked. Choosing the picture is still your eye’s job; WildCull just clears the pile in front of it.
The eye marker is a check, not a judge: it helps you decide how far to trust the other measurements on a frame. Its model was trained on mammals, so expect it to work better on a jackal than on a bee-eater.
Try everything free for 7 days. If it earns its place, one payment and it’s yours — with a year of updates included.
Prices in US dollars. Your licence key is emailed to you as soon as the payment is confirmed.
Install it, open Menu → Membership, and start your trial with your email address. We’ll send a 6-digit code to confirm it’s you, and that’s all there is to it.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
New folders stop being scanned until you buy. Folders you’ve already scanned still open, and nothing you’ve decided is lost. Enter a licence key and carry on.
A licence that never expires, for use on two of your computers, plus every update released in the first 12 months. After that your copy keeps working exactly as it is; you only need the $19 update plan if you want versions released after the first year.
Because there’s a full 7-day trial with everything unlocked, you can see whether WildCull works for your photographs before paying, and purchases are final. If something is wrong with your key or your payment, email us and we’ll put it right.
Only to start your trial, activate a licence and check it now and then. Once licensed it works offline for up to 30 days between checks, so a week at a camp with no signal is no problem. Past scans always open.
No. Everything is measured on your own computer. WildCull only talks to our licence server to check your licence.
Common RAW formats including Sony ARW, Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Fujifilm RAF, Olympus ORF, Panasonic RW2 and DNG, plus JPEG. It has been tested most on Sony and Canon files.
WildCull writes XMP sidecars with a rating, a colour label and keywords, which Lightroom reads. Lightroom ignores pick and reject flags in XMP, so WildCull doesn’t pretend to set them.
Windows is the supported platform for now.
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