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Neatling — Wait — where was that again?

Tens of thousands of photos. Days scattered across calendars. Notes that only ever pile up. Neatling doesn't take them off your hands — it works beside you.

Free to download · unlimited preview · macOS 15 or later

🇰🇷 The app's interface is in Korean for now. The screenshots below show exactly what you'll see. English and Japanese are planned. If you'd like a note when they land, send us a line and we'll tell you.
It reads the capture date and place, and builds “that day, that place” folders
Preview showing photos split into folders by date and place — Barcelona, Granada, Seville and Fátima
6,502
photos in one pass
238
folders it produced
0 bytes
extra disk space used

The name

neat + -ling
the small thing that tidies

Neat is the state we're after. -ling means something small. Not an agent you hand everything over to — a small thing that helps from the side. You decide what gets tidied and how; the tool only takes over the part that costs you time.

2020/
  January/
    20.01.19 Barcelona, Spain168
    20.01.20 Granada, Spain135
    20.01.21 Seville, Spain179
    20.01.22 Lisbon, Portugal105
2026/
  June/
    26.06.02-04 Iksan, Korea359

What we hold to

Tidying tools are frightening
because they rarely undo

So we fixed four rules before writing anything. However many apps there are, these don't change.

1

Show first, move later

You see every folder before a single one is created. Don't like a name? Fix it right there.

2

Originals stay put

Tidying never deletes or overwrites what was already there. On the same disk it costs no extra space.

3

Undo is always free

We don't charge for the safety net. Holding your way back hostage isn't right.

4

Not a subscription

Buy once, done. We won't hold features hostage to invent a reason to bill you monthly.

Neatling · Mac

A trip splits itself
by where you actually went

Go by date alone and a five-day trip collapses into one folder of 764 photos, named after whichever city you shot most. Neatling splits a folder when the ground moves under the camera. Places you're always at — home, the office — never split, and their names are dropped so the trips are the ones that stand out.

More about Neatling
Settings for how many days and how far apart photos are grouped into one folder
A map pinning where photos were taken, with a field to name the place yourself

Where maps fall short

It doesn't guess.
It helps you remember

Korean law restricts exporting detailed map data, so Apple Maps carries almost no Korean landmarks. Rather than invent a name, Neatling pins the spot on a map and shows you the photos — you write the name. Write it once and it sticks as a nickname, applied automatically from then on.

What we make

Built at i Lab

Every name starting with i came out of the same small studio. Neatling was the first one to leave the house, which is how its name ended up on the door. The rest are used daily — at home or in a dental clinic — and sharpened as they're used.

Neatling

Mac App Store

Turns tens of thousands of stored photos into folders by capture date and place. Shows the result first, and uses hard links so it costs no extra disk space.

More about it →

i Day

In progress

A calendar that uses Google Calendar itself as its store. Hours read as numbers; minutes fill like a clock face.

i Note

In progress

Throw a thought at it and an AI files it away with a title and a category already attached.

L

i Link

In progress

Pick one folder on your PC, flip the switch, and a QR code appears. Scan it and that folder opens. Read-only, and gone the moment you switch it off.

S

i Smile

Used in a clinic

Sorts and aligns the nine standard orthodontic record photos into a single board. Everything stays on the clinic's own computer.

O

i Ortho

In progress

Logs daily myofunctional exercises and reflects them back, so missed days show up before they stack.

See how it would land, before it moves

The preview is unlimited. Drop in 30,000 photos and you'll see every folder it would make. Tidy only if you like what you see.

One-time purchase · not a subscription · English and Japanese planned