Audience

Amateur and professional photographers culling large RAW shoots on Windows, macOS or Linux

About CoolCroco

CoolCroco is a free image viewer built for one job: getting through a shoot
without waiting.

It decodes a whole folder of RAW files on background workers and holds them in
memory, so once the first pass is done you move through hundreds of frames
instantly, forwards or backwards, with no re-decoding and no cache thrashing.

Cull with one key. A files a photograph into an Approved folder, X into Rejected,
and Ctrl+Z puts it back. Nothing is ever deleted - files are only moved beside the
originals. Rate from 1 to 5, written as XMP where Lightroom, Bridge and Capture One
read it.

It reads RAW from Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Leica,
Hasselblad and Phase One through LibRaw, plus HEIC, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP, up to
100,000 photographs in one folder. It also finds duplicates and bursts, and
searches a shoot by what is in the pictures, entirely on your own computer.

Windows, macOS and Linux. No account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracki

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Pricing

Starting Price:
$0
Pricing Details:
Completely Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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Ratings/Reviews - 1 User Review

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

Ahmet Yüksek
Founded: 2026
Austria
ahmetyuksek.com/coolcroco

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Cull a shoot at the speed you can press a key

Cull a shoot at the speed you can press a key

Cull a shoot at the speed you can press a key The whole folder at once, as a contact sheet Find the frames that are the same photograph Search a shoot by what is in the pictures, on your own computer Find the timelapses and bursts, and file each one whole Filter a shoot down to one lens, one ISO, one afternoon
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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Training
Documentation
Videos
Support
Online

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CoolCroco Verified User Reviews

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  • Shelly L.
    Photographer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
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    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Excellent app for organizing large photo libraries"

    Posted 2026-09-07

    Pros: This app makes finding duplicate photos and culling even huge photo archives incredibly easy and extremely fast. It is intuitive, convenient, and perfect for daily use if you want to keep your photo library organized without spending hours sorting through thousands of pictures. I can 100% recommend it

    Cons: NA

    Overall: I can fully recommend it because it makes my life so much easier - it’s fast, convenient, and incredibly handy. 10/10 points recommendation

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