Constellate
Photo sorting that shows you the plan before it moves a thing.
A real library, warts and all. Constellate found 2,789 photos here, worked out the date for 2,754 of them, and set 202 duplicates aside. Only 35 needed a second look. You see all of this before a single file moves.
See the plan before anything moves
Every sort starts as a preview. Constellate shows you exactly where every photo will go, and nothing moves until you press Sort. Change your mind afterwards? Undo puts everything back.
A week away becomes a story
Photos taken around the same days are gathered into one memory, and a memory that crosses borders becomes a trip. Every country is a numbered stop in the order you visited, with each day laid out inside, so the folders retell the journey end to end. Even a photo that lost its details can be matched back to the days it belongs with, and nothing sits more than two clicks from the top.
It knows where, without the internet
Photos that remember where they were taken are matched to the nearest real place, entirely offline. Your locations never leave your computer, and you can file photos by country or city if you like.
Made for real, messy libraries
Point it at the pile you have been avoiding. Constellate puts your whole computer to work, keeps count of everything it finds, and has been proven on libraries of more than 700,000 photos. If a big run is interrupted, it picks up where it left off.
A mode for everyone
Simple mode asks two questions and sorts with one button. Standard lays the everyday choices out in plain English. Pro opens up filters, and folder and naming templates. The same careful engine underneath, as simple or as deep as you want it.
Chat photos find their way home
Photos saved from WhatsApp, Facebook or Signal arrive with their details stripped, so the date they were taken is easily lost. Constellate reads it back out of the filename, and copies of your own shots rejoin the trip they came from.
Your originals are never touched
Constellate moves files into order, but never edits what is inside them. No rewritten photos, no deleted memories, no surprises.
Duplicates, found and set aside
Copies are matched by what is in the file, not what it is called, so renamed duplicates are still caught. They are set aside in their own folder, never deleted.
Live Photos stay whole
The photo and its little video clip travel together through the sort, and there is a switch to repair pairs that iCloud would otherwise reject.
A tidy home for every photo
The everyday choices are already made for you - clean Year, Month and Day folders with consistent names. Have a look, change what doesn't fit, or pick your own layout by camera, country or city.
Wrong labels, fixed
A photo saved with the wrong file type gets the right one back, worked out from what the file really is rather than what its name claims.
If it is not sure, it asks
Photos with no reliable date are never guessed at. They go to a Needs Review folder where you can see why, and decide for yourself.
Constellate gathers your scattered photos and quietly puts them in order - sorted by date, place and camera, with duplicates set aside and Live Photos kept whole.
And you’re closer than you think: your photos already remember when and where they were taken. Constellate just listens, and puts everything where you can find it.
Copy is the default, so your originals stay exactly where they are. Choose Move and Constellate relocates and renames them into order, but it never changes what is inside a photo, and it never deletes one. Everything runs on your own machine; nothing leaves your computer. You see a preview before anything moves, and you can undo the last sort.
How it knows
- When a photo was taken - read straight from the photo’s own details; if it can’t be sure, it asks rather than guesses.
- Where it was taken - matched offline to the nearest real place, so your location never leaves your device.
- Duplicates - compared by content, not filename, so renamed copies are still caught.
Nothing is deleted, nothing is rewritten, and every run tells you exactly what it did. Greatness is a choice, and it starts with software you can trust with twenty years of memories.
We show our work
Every release ships with a plain-English account of what was wrong and what it does now - no jargon, no burying it in a changelog. Read what we fixed, release by release.