A correction that sees people
Auto finds faces and lifts them when they're backlit without blowing out the sky, keeps skin tones natural and adds a little crispness. It tries a few variants and keeps one only if it's clearly better. All on your Mac.
Photo editor for the Mac
A whole shoot, looking good, in minutes.
Goldfinch gives every photo a careful one-click Auto, lays a look over the lot, and helps you pick the keepers. Ask Claude for “warmer, softer, a bit more film” and watch it happen.
- First 20 photos free
- One purchase, 2 Macs
- macOS 12 or later
How it works
Auto first. Then a look. Then just the nudges you want.
Looks that fit each photo
Natural, Airy, Matte, Vivid and Moody, plus a film and cinema set: Warm Film, Golden, Pastel, Cinema, Teal & Orange, Silver and more. A look is fitted per photo, so dark and bright shots land in the same place.
Learns how you edit
Point Goldfinch at a few photos you've already edited and it learns your style for the rest of the shoot. Or make a look from reference images, or turn one finished photo into a look.
Simple tools, every slider
Brightness, Face light, Contrast, Warmth, Color, Skin glow and Fade, one slider at a time. Every real slider is one click away, with crop and straighten, a histogram and before/after.
Works with Claude
Describe the edit. Claude makes it, then checks it.
Goldfinch includes an MCP server, so Claude (in the Claude desktop app or Claude Code) can work on your shoot: apply looks, make adjustments, build a look from your description and look at a preview to see whether it worked. Every change Claude makes shows up live in Goldfinch, with a note saying why, and can be undone.
Claude is a separate product from Anthropic; you use your own Claude account. Goldfinch works fine without it.
These beach photos feel flat. Make them warmer and a bit more like film, but keep the skin natural.
apply_look warm-film · 42 photos
adjust fade+=8 warmth+=6 · preview
Done. I used Warm Film at 70% and lifted the blacks a little. Skin stays close to Auto. The three shots into the sun were too orange, so I pulled their warmth back.
Picking
Find the keepers without squinting.
Focus check
Each photo's subject is checked for sharpness at full resolution, and the soft and blurry ones are marked. A soft background doesn't count against it.
Picks and Review
Closed eyes, too dark, blown-out faces and tilted horizons are tagged. Bursts are grouped with the best shot marked, so Picks shows one good frame per moment.
Many photos at once
Select a batch and apply a look, adjust them together, or copy one photo's settings and paste them onto the rest.
Your files
Your RAW files are never changed.
Every edit is a small, readable recipe kept beside your project, with a full history you can step back through. Export full-size JPEGs, or Lightroom-style XMP sidecars if you finish elsewhere.
Good to know before you buy
- Mac only: macOS 12 Monterey or later.
- Opens Canon CR3 RAW files, plus JPEG and PNG.
- Previews and exports are made from the JPEG your camera embeds in each RAW file. There's no full RAW decoding yet, so you don't get RAW's extra highlight and shadow range.
- Claude features need your own Claude account.
The free trial is the full app, so you can check it on your own photos first.
Try it on your next shoot.
Everything works in the trial; your first 20 exported photos are free, with no time limit. Then it's $29, once, for 2 Macs, with free updates.