Spend less time culling,
more time shooting

Automatic burst culling built for wildlife photographers. Local processing—your photos never leave your machine.

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BurstPick's top-scored frame from an Iceland 2025 wildlife session — a keeper selected from a 3-frame burst
Best of 3
Score 86
DSC_0275.NEF · 1/800s · ISO 720 · 500mm Iceland 2025 · Nikon D500
Burst frame 1 of 3 — chosen as the keeper Pick
Burst frame 2 of 3
Burst frame 3 of 3

You shot 3 frames. BurstPick picked #1 in under a second.

The scoring rubric

Six things every keeper gets right

Existing culling software is trained on human faces and fails on animals. BurstPick scores every frame across six dimensions — tuned on wildlife photography, not portraits.

Live scores · DSC_0275.NEF

DIM 01

Focus

Edge sharpness on the subject — not the branch behind it.

100

DIM 02

Eye visibility

Eyes open, catchlight present, in focus.

82

DIM 03

Exposure

Recoverable highlights and shadow detail in the RAW.

100

DIM 04

Composition

Subject placement, headroom, leading space in the frame.

63

DIM 05

Noise

ISO-aware: grain is allowed, only banding and hot pixels are penalized.

78

DIM 06

Context

Subject in its environment — a keeper the tool doesn't mistake for clutter.

72

Shown: one frame from a real cull. Every photo gets the same six.

From chaos to clarity

4 bursts, one keeper — found in under a second.

4 frames · you'd cull by hand
DSC_2043.NEF — frame 1 of 4, composite score 72 1/4 72
DSC_2044.NEF — frame 2 of 4, composite score 81 2/4 81
DSC_2045.NEF — frame 3 of 4, composite score 80 3/4 80
DSC_2046.NEF — frame 4 of 4, composite score 77 4/4 77

~2 minutes of pixel-peeping each frame.

BurstPick · 0.4s
DSC_2044.NEF — selected as the keeper with composite score 81
Score 81
Keeper
Focus
88
Eyes
75
Exposure
100
Composition
68
Noise
67
Context
63
A keeper from a BurstPick cull — razor-sharp subject, every detail preserved

Composite 80 · picked from the same cull

This is what BurstPick kept.
Everything else got culled.

DSC_2222.NEF · 1/800s · ISO 1600 · 500mm

A real session, start to finish

Minutes, not hours

Pulled from a typical October cull. The counts are real; the timings are approximate for a mid-range GPU.

  1. 00:00

    Folder opened

    4,605 frames · Nikon D500 · October session

  2. 00:04

    Bursts detected

    1,577 groups · timestamps within 0.8s

  3. 00:28

    Scoring complete

    GPU pass · 7 dimensions × 4,605 frames

  4. 04:15

    236 high-score frames surfaced

    Composite ≥ 80 · one keystroke to pick or reject

  5. 04:40

    Exported to Lightroom

    Metadata + XMP flags preserved

4,605 frames → 236 keepers → ~4 min total

In private beta with wildlife photographers

No cloud

Runs 100% on your machine

6

Scoring dimensions per frame

10+

RAW + JPEG formats supported

$0

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Launching Tue Jun 23, 2026

Downloads open at launch

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Will run on macOS 12+, Windows 10+, or Ubuntu 22.04+ · 8 GB RAM recommended

Supported formats

CR2 CR3 NEF ARW RAF ORF RW2 DNG JPEG TIFF

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