Photos Workbench is a companion application to Apple Photos on macOS. You can use Photos Workbench to browse your photos library: view albums, filter and sort photos, and organize photos into albums.
Photos Workbench has unique capabilities to help you organize and find your photos:
- Batch change titles. Give photos descriptive names
-- Build names following a format. Example: "Hawaii 2022_12_01 - Maui #018"
-- Find & replace text
- Add location information with minimal effort
-- Drag-and-drop geocoding. Drop photos on a large map
-- Geocode automatically from a GPS track log
-- Incremental geocoding workflow to place photos accurately with minimal map movements
- Use star ratings to classify and find photos by their relative quality or relevance
-- Filter albums to view only your best-rated shots
-- Star ratings translate to keywords in Apple Photos
- Apply keywords. Keep a concise and consistent vocabulary
-- Keyword Palette. One-click apply keywords from ready-made and custom keyword sets
-- Set up shortcuts to flag photos with a keyword with the press of a single key
-- Compare photos to find the best shot in a series
--- Photos Workbench has you compare photos in pairs
--- Compare the best photo so far to one you have not seen yet
--- Repeat until you have seen all photos and found your favorite
--- Apply star ratings for a more fine-grained classification
