Some frames are worth an eternity. Most aren't. Vampire helps you tell them apart — fast.
A photo cull with refined taste and inhuman speed. Glide through a shoot and keep only the frames worth forever — from your photo library, or now straight off your camera.
CULL RIGHT OFF YOUR CAMERA
Shoot RAW all day and keep everything on the card as your backup. Each night, connect your Sony camera over Wi-Fi and cull the day's shots from your phone. Vampire previews every frame — focus point, faces, blinks, bursts — without transferring a single RAW, keeps working offline if the camera sleeps, and brings home only your keepers as full RAWs — imports keep going with the phone locked, with progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Rejects never leave the card; Vampire never deletes anything on your camera. Your decisions persist night after night, so a whole trip can be culled one evening at a time.
Tested on the Sony α7R V. Likely compatible (untested): α7 IV, α6700, α7C II, α7CR, α7S III, FX3, FX30.
Camera setup: MENU → Network → Cnct./Remote Sht. → Remote Shooting On with Wi-Fi Direct, and set Access Authen. to Off. Then tap Camera → Connect in Vampire: pick your camera's Wi-Fi once and enter the password it shows — after that, Connect joins it for you.
BUILT FOR iPHONE DUO
Unfold and the extra canvas goes to work: the whole burst lines up beside the frame you're judging — every frame, its verdict, and the best pick at a glance — with larger face crops for checking eyes. Fold it back and keep culling on the 5.4" outer screen.
READ THE FRAME LIKE THE CAMERA DID
Vampire reads the camera's own autofocus point and draws it right on the photo — the quickest way to know a shot nailed focus. Rapid-fire bursts gather into a single stack, led by the frame Vampire thinks is best — flip through and crown a keeper, or reject the whole burst in one tap.
A heads-up display reveals what matters at a glance:
• The autofocus point the camera actually used
• Faces, ranked by capture quality, with blink warnings
• A composition score, plus exposure warnings for blown highlights and crushed shadows
• An artificial horizon that shows tilt right on the image
Everything happens on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. A vampire keeps its secrets.
Culling is painless and reversible. Keep and reject decisions live in a local log you can undo anytime. Nothing is deleted until you say so, and library rejects rest in Recently Deleted for 30 days before they turn to dust.
• Swipe between frames; keep or reject with a tap
• Pinch to inspect critical sharpness
• Best-of-burst picks from faces, focus, and composition
• Sony (ARW), Fujifilm (RAF), and everyday photos
• Sort newest or oldest first
• One clean batch at the end — no endless dialogs
FREE FOREVER. OPEN SOURCE.
Vampire is free and always will be — no subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. It's open source under the MIT license: github.com/chriskonstad/vampire
Cull like a Cullen. Keep only the immortals.
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