Shoot more, edit less

Jepex is the all-in-one photo library, editor, and film simulation recipe manager.

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Jepex runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Windows and Android are on the roadmap for 2027.

Jepex editor: photo browser with tone curve and filmstrip

What's inside

Photo library. Editor. Recipe manager.

Sort, finish, plan: three tools, one workflow.

Library

Cull thousands of photos, fast.

Browse photos directly from the file system. No import, no catalog. Cull with star ratings and pick/reject flags. Keyboard-driven. Inspect EXIF, film simulation, and recipe data on any photo.

Multi-folder browsing: switch between them with one keystroke
Folders, external drives, iCloud Drive, and Apple Photos albums as sources
Adaptive gallery grid that zooms with Cmd + and Cmd −
Star ratings and pick/reject flags for fast culling
Video clips beside photos, with the same ratings and filters
Metadata Inspector with full EXIF, film simulation, and recipe data
Arrow-key navigation, drag-and-drop, and “Open With” from Finder
Copy a card to a folder on the Mac, every file verified before the card is cleared

Editor

Crop, straighten, and finish JPEGs.

Fix a horizon, finish the light. Every edit stays high quality, and your camera’s EXIF and MakerNote come through exactly as they were.

Crop and straighten with Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, and Diagonal grid overlays
Light controls: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks
Color controls: temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance
Color Mixer by color band, and color grading for shadows, midtones, and highlights
Five-point tone curve and live RGB histogram
LUTs: bring your own look from a .cube file and set the amount
Effects: halation, black mist, fade, grain, vignette
Heal blemishes with one click, with automatic patch matching
Optional border and film frame for sharing
Export with your own file names, size, and quality
MakerNote preserved byte-for-byte, EXIF intact, on every save

Recipes

Browse, match, and manage recipes.

Plan your next shoot. Browse a curated Featured Collection paired with reference scenes. Match the recipe used in any photo from its metadata. Compare side by side. Favorite to build your collection. Publish your own.

Featured Collection: curated recipes paired with reference scenes for true side-by-side comparison
Recipe matching reads your photo metadata and surfaces the closest fit in one click
Side-by-side compare in two, three, or four columns
Favorite recipes to build your personal collection
Publish your own recipes with creator credit
Share any recipe as a card, sized for posts and stories

Camera support

Made for your camera.

Not a generic tool: each camera brand gets its own support, built one by one.

Any camera: Full shooting info on every photo, and every setting survives the save
Fujifilm: Recipes end to end: detect the recipe behind any shot, match, create, share; down to the white balance shift
Ricoh GR: Image Control recipes, the same depth
Sony: Creative Look recipes, in progress
Nikon and Canon: Shooting info in the Info panel today
Next: More brands, each with its own look system

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What’s next

Plug in your Fujifilm: send recipes, develop RAW.

Both free, on the Mac first. Sony recipes are in progress too.

Soon
Send recipes to your camera

Any recipe, written to a custom slot over USB. No dialing settings by hand.
Soon
Develop RAW with your camera

Your Fujifilm renders the RAW file itself, so any recipe looks the way it does in-camera. Try a new recipe on an old shot.
In progress
Sony Creative Look recipes

Creative Look recipes end to end: detect the look behind a shot, match, create, share.
Missing a feature?

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Roadmap

Native on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Recipes on the web.

Native where it matters. The library and editor stay on your machine; recipes travel with you on the web.

Released
macOS

The Mac app ships the full workflow: library, editor, recipe manager. Native, offline, no catalog.
Released
Web Recipes

The web ships the recipe library, EXIF-to-recipe matching, and a per-recipe page anyone can dial into their camera.
Released
iPhone + iPad

The iPhone and iPad app ships the library, the editor, and recipes. One app for both, available on the App Store.
2027
Windows

Same app, native on Windows. The waitlist put it ahead of Android, so it goes first.
2027
Android

Same app, native on Android. Toggle Android in the waitlist if you’d use it. That’s how we prioritize.

Requirements

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Operating system

macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later

Processor

Apple Silicon and Intel

Disk space

Under 100 MB

Internet

Optional

Required only for the community recipe library and signing in to your account.

Pricing

Pick the plan that fits.

Free

€0 forever

See how any shot was taken, down to the film simulation
Detect the recipe behind a photo, or turn yours into one
Browse, compare and favorite every recipe

Jepex Pro

€49.99/year

€4.17/month, save 58%

Rate and flag to sort a whole shoot in minutes
Final touches: crop, straighten, heal, tone, borders
Save clean JPEGs that keep every camera setting
Apply the same edits to a whole shoot at once
Your work continues on any device, no vendor cloud

Cancel anytime. Your files, ratings, and recipes stay yours.

FAQ

Questions, briefly answered.

Why JPEG first?

SOOC is making every choice at the shutter and trusting the camera. The JPEG is the photo. Jepex works on top: small adjustments (crop, light, color, heal) at high quality, EXIF and MakerNote intact.

What about RAW files?

Develop RAW files in the editor: exposure, white balance, shadows, noise reduction, sharpness, local tone mapping. Save JPEG writes the developed photo next to the RAW and opens it with every tool: crop, light, color, effects, heal, borders. Develop takes DNG, uncompressed RAF, and the RAW formats macOS itself opens. Compressed RAF can’t be developed yet. Info and Recipes read a RAF the way they read its JPEG: shooting info, film simulation, and the recipe behind the shot.

Recipes vs filters or presets: what’s the difference?

A filter or preset is a transformation applied after capture. A recipe is a set of in-camera parameters (film simulation, grain, color chrome, white balance, dynamic range, tone curve) that the camera renders before the JPEG is written.

Jepex catalogs and matches the latter. The community is sensitive to the distinction; we are too.

Do I need an account?

No. The full library, browsing community recipes, and trying every editor tool all work without an account. A free account adds the rest of the recipe side: create, publish, favorite, and match recipes from a photo, all unlimited. Jepex Pro adds the workflow: ratings, flags, batch operations, and saving edits.

Is there a web version?

Yes. The web covers the recipe side of Jepex: browsing the community library, reading EXIF and recipe metadata from any JPEG you drop in, creating and publishing your own recipes. The library and editor stay native, where the file system and performance work properly: Mac, iPhone, and iPad today, with Windows and Android on the roadmap for 2027.

Is Jepex on iPhone and iPad?

Yes: one app for both, with the library, the editor, and recipes. Download it from the App Store; it needs iOS 17 or later. RAW develop stays on the Mac.

Will there be Windows, Android, or Linux versions?

Windows and Android are both on the roadmap for 2027, Windows first: the waitlist asked for it ahead of Android. Linux stays demand-driven. Toggle your platform in the waitlist; that mix sets the order.

What cameras are supported?

Fully supported today: Fujifilm X (X-Trans I through V) and Ricoh GR III/IIIx/IV, with full MakerNote and Image Control parsing. Sony Alpha (Creative Look) recipes are in progress. Nikon and Canon photos show their shooting info in the Info panel today, and photos from any camera show full shooting info.

Where do my photos live?

On your disk. Jepex reads photos from the folders and Apple Photos albums you point it at, edits them in place, and never uploads anything. The library and editor work entirely offline. No catalog, no import, no copying anywhere. We don’t upload anything you didn’t explicitly publish.

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