ZippyCraftEverything inside
All ZippyCraft features
An AI that edits like a careful assistant, on top of a full professional raw editor and library.
Getting started
Install, open a folder, start talking.
- Runs on Mac (Apple silicon and Intel) and Windows
- No API key needed: the AI is built in
- No AI account or model setup: the app handles the model for you
- 100 free AI edits, with no expiry
- Guided first-run tour that points at each step as you reach it
- Example prompts you can click to try
- Import photos, drop in a folder, or import an existing catalog
- Welcome Back card: continue where you left off, watch the replay, start a new project or open a recent one
- Updates itself when you open the app, with a What's New popup after each update
- Offers to move itself into Applications on Mac
- Report a Bug button that opens the support form already filled in
AI editing
Say what you want in plain English.
- Tell the AI what you want and it edits the photo
- Edit one photo, a selection, the next N photos, or every photo in view
- Send any number of photos in one go (1 edit per photo)
- Choose how many photos the AI works on at once (1 to 8)
- Skip Photos I've Already Edited, so "next 25" means the next 25 new ones
- See the estimated cost and time before you send; runs of 40+ photos ask you to confirm
- Upload reference images, or use the photo on screen, so the AI matches a look you like
- The AI works with real editing sliders, so you can see and change everything it did
- Every AI edit can be undone and is listed in History
- Your original files are never touched; the AI only receives previews
- Pause or stop a run at any time; finished photos keep their edits
- Try Again button for photos that failed
- Send your next message while the AI works: it waits its turn
- Remove a queued message before it runs
The AI checks its own work
It looks again, measures, and fixes.
- Looks at the result after editing and corrects it instead of accepting its first try
- Choose how hard it works: Fast, Balanced (checks twice) or Thorough (up to three checks)
- Set the number of double-checks from 0 to 10, or say "keep going until it's perfect"
- Demanding checks: a visible flaw, or falling short of your request, fails the check
- Reads professional scopes as numbers: histogram, RGB parade, waveform, vectorscope, shadow and highlight casts
- Measures what you asked for: "black" has to measure as black
- Reference images give it target numbers to match
- Spots and fixes yellow or blue colour casts, so whites look white
- Calms photos drenched in one colour
- Checks focus at 100% on a close crop of the main subject
Culling and picking the best
Find the keepers fast.
- Totally blurred photos are flagged automatically, at no cost
- Suggests deleting hopeless shots: black frames, blank frames, accidental shots
- Nothing is deleted until you confirm: Keep, Delete, or I Trust the AI · Delete All
- Restore photos you just deleted
- Rates, flags and rejects photos when you ask
- Scores each photo from 0 to 100 on focus, open eyes, expression, moment and composition
- Keep the Best Shots: finds photos taken seconds apart and keeps the best 1 or 2
- A photo unlike the others in its burst is always kept
- See the numbered contact sheet as the AI sees it, and read its reasoning
- Click any photo to flip keep or remove
AI cropping
Framing on request.
- Ask for a crop: "crop in on the couple", "cut out the sign on the left"
- Ask for a shape: square for Instagram, 4:5, 16:9 for YouTube — locked in the Crop tool
- Crops on its own when it clearly helps, avoiding heads, hands and feet
- Straightens tilted horizons
- Ask it to undo the crop
A real conversation
Every photo has its own chat.
- Reply to continue: "too warm", "again but warmer", "same for the next 5"
- Knows if you went back to a version or moved a slider yourself
- Ask questions about a photo and it looks at the photo to answer
- Asks which photos you meant when a request is unclear
- Offers app actions as buttons: export, reset, undo, rate, flag, save edits into files
- Understands "the first 10", "the picks" or "the ones you didn't edit"
- Short, funny messages that roast the light, never the people
- Conversations are saved per library and survive a restart
- New Chat starts fresh; Start Over returns a photo to the original
Recipes (saved prompts)
Your look, one click away.
- Save any prompt under your own name and set it as Your Default
- Read, change or delete your own recipes
- Built in: Make it POP, Do My Editing for Me, Just Make It Look Great, Copy My Style, Bright & Dreamy, Moody Movie Look, Sell the House, Timeless Black & White, Just Pick My Best Shots
Watch it edit live
See every move as it happens.
- Watch It Edit stage: one photo at a time, large
- Sliders glide to their new values; the photo crossfades between versions
- Speech bubbles show what the AI is thinking and doing
- Big tick and confetti when a photo is done
- Live notifications for each AI message, with a click to open that photo's chat
- Pause, Next Photo, Full Screen and Hide — the AI keeps working while hidden
- All Activity list: every run, each photo's outcome, the AI's full reply and every slider it set
- Select Edited and Select Rejected buttons after a run
Replay
Rewatch any run for free.
- Replay the AI's edits at any time: no AI runs and no edits used
- Speeds: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x — everything speeds up together
- Replay From Here on any photo, or Watch Again on any finished run
Versions and before / after
Nothing is ever lost.
- Every AI change is its own version: Original, V1, V2… plus Yours
- Click any version to go back to it in one step
- Drag a Before / After line across the photo, against the original or any version
- Play Change: a two-second animation from before to after with slider values counting
Professional manual editing
A full raw editor underneath.
- Non-destructive, 32-bit float, wide-gamut image pipeline
- Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks
- White balance with presets, Auto and an eyedropper
- Vibrance that protects skin tones, plus Saturation
- 8-band Color Mixer, Point Color, 3-way Color Grading, Calibration
- Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Vignette and film Grain
- Parametric and point Tone Curves for RGB, Red, Green and Blue
- Black & White with an 8-band B&W Mix
- Sharpening, noise reduction, and AI Denoise for Bayer raw files (optional download)
- Histogram with draggable tonal zones and clipping warnings
- Copy, paste and sync edits; full undo and History
Masking and retouching
Local control where it matters.
- Brush, linear and radial gradient masks
- Luminance Range and Color Range masks
- Sky, Subject and Background selection
- Object and Describe masks: click or type what to select (optional download)
- Add, subtract, intersect and invert masks; 17 local adjustments per mask
- Remove, Heal and Clone spots, non-generative Fill, Visualize Spots
- Red Eye and Pet Eye removal
Crop and lens
Geometry, fixed.
- Aspect ratios 1:1, 4:5, 5:7, 2:3, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10 or original
- Straighten and auto straighten; thirds, grid and golden-ratio overlays
- Upright: Auto, Level, Vertical, Full, Guided, plus manual transforms
- Distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration and defringe corrections
Presets and profiles
Looks you can dial in.
- 41 built-in presets, such as Golden Hour, Teal & Orange, Faded Matte, Selenium Tone
- Preset Amount slider from 0 to 200%; save your own and mark favourites
- Color, Neutral, Vivid, Landscape, Portrait and Monochrome profiles
- Virtual copies and saved versions
Library and organising
Fast with tens of thousands of photos.
- All Photos, Recently Added, Picks, By Date, Recently Deleted
- Albums, folders and smart albums
- Star ratings, pick and reject flags, colour labels, keywords
- Stacks, including auto-stack
- Field search, such as rating:>3 flag:pick iso:>800
- Compare (synced zoom) and Survey views, auto-advance for fast culling
- People view with face recognition (optional download)
- GPX location tagging and offline place names
- Import in place, copy or move; rename templates, duplicate detection, watched folders
- Crash-safe library; reads and writes XMP sidecars
Export and output
Get your photos out, your way.
- Export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, flat PSD, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, DNG or the original file
- Sizing, file-size limit, output sharpening, naming templates and batch export
- Metadata controls and text or image watermarks
- Add to Apple Photos on export, optionally into an album (Mac)
- HDR editing and HDR export; Photo Merge: HDR, Panorama, HDR Panorama
- Print layouts and colour-managed Print to PDF; Contact Sheet PDF
- Slideshows exported to PDF, JPEG sequence or video
Speed and interface
Native and responsive.
- Native app with GPU acceleration, falling back to the CPU
- Slider changes re-render in milliseconds
- Panels you can move, split, float and reset
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts
- Library and editing tools available in 18 languages
File formats
- Raw
- DNG, Canon CR2 and CR3, Sony ARW, Nikon NEF, Fujifilm RAF (including X-Trans), Panasonic RW2, Leica RWL, Pentax PEF, Olympus ORF, Samsung SRW. Some compressed variants are not yet supported.
- Also opens
- JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, PSD composites, JPEG XL, GIF (first frame) and BMP.
- Exports
- JPEG, PNG, TIFF, flat PSD, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, DNG or the original file.
Download free
100 free edits, no expiry.