Imagen or CullTone: edit the shoot on your own Mac
Copy the card and CullTone gets to work on the Mac in front of you: it sorts every frame, edits the keepers in your look and hands the client a gallery. One flat plan, no per-photo bill, and the cull starts as soon as the files are copied.
Our pick: CullTone. The cull, the edit and the client gallery come in one plan, from $9 a month. Every photo gets Keep, Review or Archive with the reason beside it, the edit is ready to check in the same app, and nothing is ever deleted.
CullTone runs on a Mac with Apple silicon; Windows is not available yet.
How a week goes in CullTone
The first decisions appear within seconds of the card going in. You read the Review pile, glance through Archive and change anything you disagree with. Bursts from every camera on the day are grouped together, even when the second shooter's clock was off.
Then the keepers are edited. Choose one of 54 looks for the project, or a personal style CullTone has learned from your Lightroom catalogs or XMP sidecars. Every edit starts from your camera's own colour, so the work you do on top is taste, not repair. The preview you adjust is the same as the full-size file you deliver.
Lightroom still fits. Each photo gets an XMP sidecar with its rating, colour label, the reason for the decision and the develop settings, so you can point Lightroom Classic at the folder and carry on there.
| CullTone | Imagen | |
|---|---|---|
| Where edits run | On your Mac | Imagen's servers |
| Pricing style | Flat per month; no per-photo charge | Per photo, or a flat unlimited plan |
| Culling | Included, from $9 a month | Sold too |
| Personal style | Learned style on Pro ($19 a month) | Personal AI profiles |
| Client galleries | In every plan | None listed |
| Status | Private beta; billing not live yet | On sale |
Delivery is in the plan
When the edit is done, CullTone checks every file for skin colour shifts, clipped highlights and size or metadata problems, then publishes a private gallery where your client can heart favourites, approve, ask for a redo, comment and download single photos or a ZIP. Paint out a small distraction for free. Bigger changes from a prompt show their price before they run. Read how CullTone edits and how galleries work.
Edit your next shoot at your desk
The 30-day trial is free and runs on a Mac with Apple silicon.