FledgeView is a free photo viewer and culler for burst shooters, built by a wildlife photographer. Import your card, cull, make quick edits, and share, right in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Best in Chrome or Edge, on Windows and Mac
Choose your card and your main photo folder, and FledgeView copies everything into folders by date and lens, with teleconverter shots in their own subfolder.
FledgeView groups each burst and scores how sharp every frame is, so the keeper stands out.
A slide-out panel with the adjustments most photos need: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks, color, sharpening, and vignette.
Export the right size for Instagram, Stories and Reels, Facebook, and YouTube in one step, each with its own crop, starting on your subject.
Sort photos already on your computer into lens folders, with teleconverter subfolders. See the plan first; sidecars move along; undo anytime.
Your settings as your camera shows them, including effective focal length with a TC or crop mode. Blinkies, focus peaking, and Sony focus points.
Ratings go both ways: write them to .xmp sidecars for Lightroom, and FledgeView picks up ratings already made in Lightroom.
See a photo framed and hanging on a wall, with real frame and mat choices, and a check that the file is big enough for the print.
Depth of field and field of view, filled in from the photo you’re viewing. See what a 1.4× or 2× teleconverter would have framed, versus cropping.
No account, no uploads, no tracking in the app. It works offline after your first visit, or download the single file.
There are plenty of photo apps out there. I wanted something light, that anyone with a web browser could use, and free.
My favorite feature sorted fifty thousand of my photos into folders by lens, raw files and all. Now my FledgeView picks arrive in Lightroom already organized.
Frank Hatcher, wildlife photographer · www.frankhatcher.com
Yes, every feature, with no account and no trial. If FledgeView saves you time, you can leave a tip on Ko-fi. Tips are optional and nothing is locked.
No. FledgeView runs in your browser and reads photos directly from your computer. There’s no server to send them to. Some browsers (Safari and Firefox) label their folder button “Upload,” but that’s the browser’s wording: your photos never leave your computer.
Yes. Import copies a card (or any folder) into your main photo folder, sorted by date and lens, or by your own folder pattern. Every copy is checked, photos you’ve already imported are skipped, and nothing on the card is changed or deleted. Import works in Chrome and Edge.
Everything works in Chrome and Edge, on Windows and Mac, including Import, moving files, and saving to folders. Safari and Firefox can view, rate, edit, and export, but can’t import or move files.
Yes, for viewing and culling: FledgeView shows the preview your camera stores inside each RAW file, and writes ratings to .xmp sidecars for Lightroom. It isn’t a raw developer, so do heavy editing in Lightroom, DxO, or similar. Quick finish works best on JPEGs.
Import and organize in FledgeView first, then bring the folders into Lightroom, and everything lines up. If photos were already imported, Lightroom marks them as missing after a move; FledgeView explains how to relink them, and Undo puts everything back.
Yes. After your first visit, fledgeview.com works without internet, and Chrome or Edge can install it from the address bar. You can also download the single file and open it on your computer.
No. Rejects move into a _rejects folder next to your photos, and you can move just the rejects, just the picks, or both. Once you’re sure, delete that folder yourself in File Explorer or Finder, which sends it to the Recycle Bin or Trash.
In your browser on that computer. Clearing your browsing data removes them, so use Write ratings, Move picks and rejects, or exports for a lasting record.