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Kura is a Mac app for organizing exported photos. Point it at your photo folder and it builds a library on top, without touching a single file. Collections, tags, people and locations live inside the app. Most photo managers want to own your library or make you move files around. Kura does neither. It watches your master folder, so new Lightroom exports show up on their own and deleted photos disappear. Rename or move a file and Kura still recognizes it.
Hi everyone, I'm Pascal, and I built Kura.
Organizing photos in Lightroom had become tedious for me. The UI is cluttered, partly because it's full of RAW files that never made the cut. And since those files are huge, I ended up buying a new hard drive every two or three years, which meant I only ever had access to a slice of my photos at a time.
What I wanted was a library of just my finished exports, from every drive, in one place. That's Kura. You can connect several folders and drives, and it never moves or renames anything. It stays in sync with them on its own.
Leaving out RAW support is deliberate. Kura is for the photos you actually kept.
It's a native Mac app and everything runs locally. There's a 7-day free trial, and it's $24.99 if you keep it.
I'd love to hear how you organize your photos today, and what would make you switch.
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About Kura on Product Hunt
“Organizing photos without touching files”
Kura was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #116 on the daily leaderboard. Kura is a Mac app for organizing exported photos. Point it at your photo folder and it builds a library on top, without touching a single file. Collections, tags, people and locations live inside the app. Most photo managers want to own your library or make you move files around. Kura does neither. It watches your master folder, so new Lightroom exports show up on their own and deleted photos disappear. Rename or move a file and Kura still recognizes it.
Kura was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Productivity (663.5k followers) and Photography (143.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 194.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Kura?
Kura was hunted by Pascal Wildermann. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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