The fastest first pass in photography.
No import. No catalog. The folder is the catalog.
Click a folder of 2,000 RAWs and start culling immediately — while catalog apps are still importing, f/uno is already on frame forty.
No import step, no indexing, no database. Thumbnails stream from embedded previews the moment a folder is clicked — local drive or external SSD.
Stars, color labels, and rejects on the keys, with auto-advance. Rate a frame, you're already looking at the next one. Lightroom-matched filters: at least / exactly / at most.
Compare up to four near-identical frames with synchronized zoom — scroll on one and all four magnify the same eye. The sharpest frame wears the crown.
Every face cropped and graded: eyes open, squinting, or closed — smile-aware, so a laughing kid doesn't sink the frame. Click a face to inspect it at 1:1. All on-device.
Sharpness measured on the subject's face, not the whole frame. A crisp portrait against creamy bokeh scores high. A busy back-focused frame doesn't fake it.
Selects ship straight to Lightroom's import dialog or open in Photoshop, ratings and labels intact. Folder templates build your shoot structure in one click.
⌘F, type "4021", land on IMG_4021. Or type a job name and open that folder from any mounted drive, no browsing. Frames and folders, one keystroke away.
Insert a card and ingest reads the camera's serial number: it knows whose camera, files each shooter's frames into their own folders, and tops up half-copied cards instead of duplicating.
Give ingest a backup drive and every frame lands on both, each with its own free-space verdict before you commit. Rename on copy with live-preview patterns. Then eject, told honestly.
Ratings live in standard XMP sidecars. Lightroom, Capture One, and Photo Mechanic read them natively.
Ingest copies from memory cards — never moves, never modifies. The card stays exactly as shot.
Nothing is ever deleted in place. Every file operation is undoable.
Quit f/uno and your work is still in your folders and sidecars, readable by everything. There is no catalog to lose.
"Client gallery, 3600px, quality 85" as one saved click. Exports what the filter shows - all your 5-star reds - resized from the camera's own rendition, culling never blocked.
A fast, non-destructive crop saved to the XMP sidecar. Open the frame in Lightroom and it arrives already cropped, still adjustable. The pixels are never touched.
Ingest already copies to two drives. Next: checksums compared after the copy - "1,847 files, 2 destinations, verified" before you format a card.
⌘F grows tokens - type "red 5★" and the grid shows tonight's picks. Same palette, more verbs.
And a promise about what's not coming: no develop engine, no catalog, no subscription. f/uno stays the fastest mile between the card and your editor.
Free for 14 days — then $99 once, yours forever. Founders code FUNODERS: $79 for the first 100.
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