Sync Shutter vs FreshImport

Never lose a shoot. Sync Shutter backs up your camera card the moment you insert it. Set it up once on your Mac, then plug in any card and walk away: every photo and video is copied to every destination you chose, automatically. On iPhone or iPad, plug in a card reader and import straight from the card. It was built for photographers who come home with several cards and cannot afford to lose one. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INSERT A CARD • The card is detected and the backup starts on its own. Progress lives in the menu bar; a notification tells you when it is done. • Only new files are copied. Already-backed-up shots are recognized and skipped, so the second run after a shoot takes seconds. • Copies to a folder or drive can be verified byte for byte after copying. • Files can be sorted into date folders taken from the photo's own capture date. • Cards that do not use a DCIM folder — video-first layouts from Sony, Panasonic and Canon bodies — are recognized too, and any card can be copied whole from the menu bar. • No internet where you're shooting? The card is still safe. Sync Shutter keeps its own copy and sends it to your cloud destinations on its own the moment you are back online. • A backup that cannot reach one of your destinations says so and names it. It never calls itself complete when something is missing. EVERY CARD, BY NAME • Each card gets its own name the first time it goes in, like purple-frog. Rename it, number it, give it a colour. • Say what each card was doing in a shoot: Primary, Backup slot, Second shooter or Video. • Cards lists every card with its last job and whether it is safe to format, meaning nothing on it would be lost. • Nothing is ever written to your cards. WHERE THE FILES GO Send one card to several places at once: a local folder or external drive, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Photos, the Lightroom auto-import folder, or the Photos library. Turn on as many as you like; each card is copied to all of them in a single pass. CHOOSE WHAT COMES OFF THE CARD Turn on a review step and a grid of thumbnails appears before anything is copied, so you can leave the test frames behind. SYNC SHUTTER PRO — ONE PURCHASE FOR MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD • Back up to a NAS or server: any S3-compatible storage (Synology, Backblaze B2, MinIO, Amazon S3), or SFTP over SSH. • Cold storage: Amazon S3 Glacier and Deep Archive storage classes, chosen per destination, for an archive that costs cents a month. • RAW+JPEG pairs: keep both, RAW only, or JPEG only. • Import date filters: only today's shoot, the last few days, or everything since a date. • Custom file naming from the capture date, a counter and the original name. • Per-card rules on the Mac: route each card to its own destinations. • Auto-delete from the card after every destination has confirmed the copy, and low-storage alerts before a backup would fill the disk. Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription. IPHONE AND IPAD Plug in a USB-C or Lightning card reader, open Sync Shutter, and pick the card. Photos go to your Photos library, a folder in Files, your cloud drives, or an S3 NAS. A Live Activity follows the import and a widget shows your totals. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no servers of ours in the path. Files go straight from the card to the destinations you chose. The only thing the app ever sends home is an anonymous count of backups and errors, so that problems get fixed; it is never linked to you. Works with any card your Mac or card reader can mount: SD, microSD, CFexpress, CFast, XQD.

When importing from a camera, the Photos app shows the oldest shots first. FreshImport turns that around: connect your camera via USB and your newest photos and videos are on top. No more scrolling through hundreds of old pictures. Try FreshImport for 3 days with all features. After that, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks importing for good, with no subscription. You can always browse your camera. HOW IT WORKS • Connect your camera via USB and choose mass storage (MSC) or PTP mode, FreshImport finds it on its own • Your shots appear sorted by day, newest first • Select a whole day with one tap or tap individual shots • “Import New” only takes what isn’t in your library yet • After importing, FreshImport asks whether to delete the shots from the camera, just like the Photos app FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS • RAW+JPEG as one photo, like the Photos app, or JPEG only or RAW only • Import RAW-only shots as JPEG if you like, to save space • Pick a time range: today, this week, this month • Optionally, a separate album for every import • Importing keeps going when you leave the app • Videos are imported too PRIVATE • Everything stays on your iPhone or iPad • No account, no ads, no tracking, no data transfer • By default, FreshImport can only add photos to your library and never sees it Works with cameras that connect via USB as mass storage or via PTP, and with USB card readers.