One plan for the cull, the edit and the gallery
If you're looking past Aftershoot, look at CullTone. It sorts the shoot, edits the keepers and sends your client a gallery, all from one app and one flat monthly price, so the whole job from card to delivery sits on a single bill that doesn't grow with the number of photos you shoot.
What you get when you switch
Every frame sorted, with a reason
Each photo lands in Keep, Review or Archive with the reason beside it: eyes closed, motion blur, a better frame in the same burst. Bursts from several cameras are grouped together, even when the camera clocks disagree. Nothing is deleted, and you can change any call.
Edits that start from your camera
The keepers are edited at full resolution, starting from your camera's own colour. Pick one of 54 looks per project, or teach CullTone your style from your Lightroom catalogs or XMP files on Pro. Face retouch smooths skin and leaves bindis, nose pins and moles where they are.
The gallery comes with it
Your client gets favourites, approvals, redo requests, comments and ZIP downloads, with an expiry date you set and can extend. Before anything goes out, a check flags skin colour shifts, clipped highlights and size or metadata problems.
Lightroom still fits
Prefer to finish in Lightroom? CullTone writes XMP sidecars with the rating, colour label, reason and develop settings for every photo. Your originals are never changed.
How the yearly bill looks
CullTone Solo is $9 a month and Pro is $19, with culling, editing and the client gallery in both. There's no per-photo charge and no overage. Culling is free and runs on your Mac.
Aftershoot prices Select, Edit and Retouch as seven plans, with Galleries as its own product. The table shows the list prices from its pages.
CullTone runs on Macs with Apple silicon; Windows isn't available yet. It's in private beta, and billing isn't live yet.
| Plan | What it covers | A year |
|---|---|---|
| CullTone Solo | Culling, editing, client gallery | $108 |
| CullTone Pro | Culling, editing, learned style, client gallery | $228 |
| Aftershoot Select | Culling | $120 |
| Aftershoot Select + Edit | Culling, editing | $480 |
| Aftershoot Complete | Culling, editing, retouch | $540 |
| Aftershoot Galleries Premium | Galleries, 500 GB | $180 |
Moving over takes an evening
Start the 30-day trial, load your next shoot and let CullTone sort it. Pick a look, or point it at your Lightroom catalog so it learns how you edit. Then send the gallery. Your old files stay where they are.
Other tools you may be weighing: Narrative (culling from $10 a month billed yearly), FilterPixel (from $14.99 a month billed yearly) and gallery hosts such as ShootProof. Each covers part of the job. For the two side by side, see Aftershoot compared with CullTone.
Try it on your next shoot
Thirty days at no charge, and one bill to think about afterwards.