Pixieset or CullTone: cull, edit and gallery on one bill
CullTone was built from the cull outward. It sorts the card, edits the keepers in your look and ends in a client gallery inside the same project, so there is no export, no re-upload and no second subscription between the shoot and the link you send.
Our pick: CullTone. Culling, editing and a 100 GB client gallery come in one plan at $19 a month, and every cull decision explains itself in a sentence you can check.
CullTone runs on a Mac with Apple silicon; Windows is not available yet.
The same storage, priced both ways
| CullTone Pro | Pixieset Gallery Plus + Photo Editor Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Gallery storage | 100 GB | 100 GB |
| Price a month | $19, one plan | $16 + $12 = $28 billed yearly; $20 + $18 = $38 billed monthly |
| Culling | Keep, Review or Archive with a written reason | Duplicates, closed eyes, blur, focus, lighting and expression scores |
| Editing | 54 looks, learned styles, masks, face retouch; free spot removal | Personal AI Styles; RAW editing; masking, erase, generative fill, healing |
| Runs on | Mac with Apple silicon | Desktop app or web browser |
| Status | Private beta; billing not live yet | Editor labelled beta |
CullTone Solo is $9 with 25 GB. Pixieset's smaller gallery plans: Free (3 GB, 15% store commission) and Basic, $8 yearly or $10 monthly (10 GB), with the editor billed separately.
A reason beside every photo
Every photo lands in Keep, Review or Archive with a sentence beside it, such as "eyes closed" or "a sharper frame in the same burst". You can disagree with a specific call. The first decisions appear within seconds of the card going in, and nothing is deleted.
Edits in your look
Each edit starts from your camera's own colour. Pick one of 54 looks per project or let CullTone learn your style from Lightroom catalogs or XMP sidecars. Face retouch leaves bindis, nose pins and moles alone.
One project, start to finish
A quality check flags skin colour shifts and clipped highlights. Then the gallery goes out from the same project. One bill.
What your client sees
Your client opens a private link and can heart favourites, approve, ask for a redo, comment and download single photos or a ZIP. You decide whether downloads are on, when the gallery expires (six months by default, and you can extend it) and when to revoke it. Any photo changed with AI carries a label in the app, in the gallery and in the file itself, so your client always knows which frames were retouched. The gallery features page lists everything a client can do.