Photo Mechanic

RATING:

4.8

(16)

About Photo Mechanic

Photo Mechanic is a media management software that helps photo studios and photographers view and manage images via a unified portal. The platform allows users to import, edit and export photos stored on memory cards and other external storage devices. Photo Mechanic includes file sharing functionality, which allows professionals to share images with teams and clients using SMTP email servers. It offers a variety of features such as GPS tagging, catalogue management, web galleries, image comparison, media preview, archiving, metadata management and more. Additionally, organizations can upload images to various websites like SmugMug, Zenfolio, Flickr, Amazon S3 and Twitter. Photo Mechanic lets photographers add watermarks to images and update captions, credits, keyword...

Photo Mechanic Pricing

It is also available at $229/license with additional features.

Starting price: 

$139.00 one time

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Photo Mechanic Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

5

Most Helpful Reviews for Photo Mechanic

1 - 5 of 16 Reviews

Spencer

11 - 50 employees

Used less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed May 2023

Culling at the Speed of Light! ⚡️

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Sam

Verified reviewer

Design, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2021

Easily the best way to manage RAW files

I've loved using it. I work with a huge amount of RAW photos at a time and it's made the narrowing down process exceptionally easy. Saves me hours each week.

PROS

I used to spend a significant amount of time trying to find a specific RAW photo file using the normal mac finder or Lightroom, but Photo Mechanic makes it very easy and loads the files so quickly it amazes me that they're actually RAW files! Hugely speeds up my work flow.

CONS

The way the software updates is a little annoying, and it seems like every other time I open it there's a update! Which means downloading the new version, installing it, etc. Wish this was a simpler process that worked in the background and didnt require you to overwrite the old version... or that it was less frequent!

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

Photo Mechanic saves you days in your image editing!

Brilliant from the start. If culling is hard for you - this software will shave off so much time!

PROS

I have used the software for more than 5 years and as soon as I installed it, it shaved off days of my image editing process. As a wedding photographer, you come home with thousands of images and the culling process was the one thing that made the whole thing unbearable - until I found Photo Mechanic. I can now open folders with 1000 images in them and cull them easily by keeping the finger on the keyboard for adding colour flags. Adobe Bridge cannot cope with so many photos and it would take ages (up to 20 minutes) to display all images in the folder - even though I have a powerful iMac! But Photo Mechanic breezes through the amount of data and the culling process now takes hours instead of days!

CONS

Can't say anything negative about it. Just love it!

Reasons for switching to Photo Mechanic

Bridge simply can't cope with large numbers of images in one folder and it would take forever to display them all. Photo Mechanic doesn't have this issue (even with super large RAW files that are 50MB+ in size!)

Alexander

Photography, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2021

Photo Mechanic Review

PROS

Photo Mechanic is good at working fast compared to lightroom.

CONS

Several cons about Photo mechanic is that crop tool doesn't show case what would be cropped, and you can't select a specified thumbnail.

Sam

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2021

Working with large amounts of photos? Best way to manage

PROS

I use Photo Mechanic to speed up my workflow by helping me to narrow down large quantities of images, usually in RAW format. This software has shaved hours off of the time it used to take me to do this as it loads RAW photos in milliseconds and allows you to very quickly flag the ones you want to keep. I also love that it's a one off payment, so not another subscription to keep up with.

CONS

I don't think it's that visually appealing compared to other software I use... has a very dated feeling, but honestly as the functionality is flawless I'm happy to overlook this.

Reason for choosing Photo Mechanic

I had read some reviews of other photographers who used it and recommended it so took the leap and invested the money.