Silent Sifter App Reviews

Great tool. Only glitch is that the OK (check mark) and Cancel (X-mark) are not visible to me on the configure screens. I have to hover the mouse until it figures out where the (invisible) buttons are. Might be because I’m using the software remotely (through TeamViewer). No biggie. Everything else great. I used it in conjuction with PhotoSweep which has a more sophisticated way of finding duplicates and near duplicates. 1/16/15 - Update. Well I must join another reviewer and add “Ridiculously Good Service” to the title. I just got a post from a Silent Sifter who had read my review and who invited me to see whether the issue with the invisible buttons (above) had been corrected. Of course, it has been, because they just fixed it. Sweet! Silent Sifter is a wonderful app, with a great service team. I can only recommend it to others.

Thousands of photos on 4 different hard drives are now organized. I’d been dreading even attempting to organize them. WOW, this is better than sliced bread since you can quickly slice a loaf, but cannot quickly sort out thousands of photos. I could not be happier.

For the past few years I have been trying to figure out how to better organize my photos in iPhoto. I have been using a mac since 2004 and previous versions of iphoto had different file naming conventions for imported photos that created lots of disorganization. To correct this I used Silent Sifter to re-organize all my photos that were in Pictures/iPhoto Pictures/Masters. I was able to designate a target file where all of the photos that were re-organized were saved to. The copying of the photos in the Masters file was non-destructive and more importantly all copied photos retained their original create date which is essential for viewing my photos in chronological order in iPhoto. I was also able to specify the naming convention for the folders that contained the copied photos. After all photos were copied I created a new iPhoto library and imported all of copied photos that were all in order now. When I was done I had all photos in iPhoto shown in chronological order with all duplicates removed. All events had the same naming format now. My only complaint is that I wish that one of the options for the date format for the copied photos was Month Day, Year (e.g. Mar 1, 2015). This would mimick the event naming convention that iPhoto uses.

Wow - An app that automatically catalogs the way I manually organize! Simply: Drag a folder or drive full of images into the input. Drag a new folder on where you want the images copied and sorted to and let it go to town. Basically the app copies the images - leaving the originals untouched. It deduplicates images and copies the images to the new location with the sub folders of YEARS, folowed by Months inside each year, and then Events if you have a lot of photos taken on a specific date. If you have to sort through a ton of photos taken by digital cameras then this is a god send! Just make sure your destination has enough space. Feature requests - Look at the app Perfect Rename and allow folder and file customization at that level. Have preference option for allowing the month names to also include the year info (i.e. 2010 folder > 01 - March - 2010 > Event

Search and searched and searched for an app, or a script, of a command line terminal thingy, or an anything that could take a random unorganized folder full of various images and video and put them into a single folder organized by date: year / month / day - found it with Silent Sifter! Great layout, intutive design, fast. One folder to folder process was 600GB+ with thousands of files. Took about 45 to complete. I hope you keep updating this great app! Not cheap but worth $20 for sure.

This is a waste of money and time!!!

Clear and concise instructions from the developers web site, an intuitive and easy to use app to sort and manage photos, videos and their related data files (gpx, kml, doc, etc.), SilentSifter frees iPhoto and Aperture users from the drudgery of migrating to newer ways of managing, curating and post processing photos. And, if you have multiple macs, multiple iOS devices, multiple cameras containing randomly located videos and photos, this app is definitely worth the price to collect everything in one coherent structure and avoid duplications in the process. Cant say enough good about it.

I’ve never felt compelled to write a review before, but Silent Sifter has completely blown me away. I have 15+ years of poorly organized photos and videos, almost 1TB worth of stuff. All of this was spread across multiple databases and folders - from several iPhoto libraries to a few Photos databases to other half-hearted attempts at using other programs - Lightroom, Aperture, etc. This meant that I had muliple copies of photos stewn across many places. What a mess. Secret Sifter has made it a cinch to organize these into a neat, clean, hierarchical structure - with no duplicates. Sure, there is a learning curve - but within one day, my entire photo library is organized and clean. I’m really amazed. Now I can use Secret Sifter going forward to import from my phone and not have to worry about having folders all over my comptuer called “Phone_Import_Jan_2015” - everything will get “sifted” automatically into the right spot. Great job Vector 15.

This app is amazing! It is simple to setup and and run. Even the most basic user can run every feature. Most importantly: It actually works perfectly!!!! I have spent hundreds of dollars on dozens of other apps looking for something like this that inadequate and even dangerous. In two hours it sifted through 150,000 photos and videos from 5 different locations on my computer, it copied them all to one centralized folder of my choice and no duplicates were copied. It left source folders untouched so that I could decided whether or not it was safe to trash them. Best $20 i have ever spent.

I use this program to sift through thousands of photos and videos—all disorganized and unnamed—and it sorts them neatly in folders by year and month within seconds. It’s stable, fast, and I trust my photos to it. And the best part is it won’t change or rearrange any files on its own; it’ll make neat copies of files that make backups very easy. An absolute necessity for everybody in my opinion.