Photos Workbench is a companion application to Apple Photos on macOS. You can use Photos Workbench to browse your photos library: view albums, filter and sort photos, and organize photos into albums.

Photos Workbench has unique capabilities to help you organize and find your photos:

– Batch change titles. Give photos descriptive names
— Build names following a format. Example: “Hawaii 2022_12_01 – Maui #018”
— Find & replace text

– Add location information with minimal effort
— Drag-and-drop geocoding. Drop photos on a large map
— Geocode automatically from a GPS track log
— Incremental geocoding workflow to place photos accurately with minimal map movements

– Use star ratings to classify and find photos by their relative quality or relevance
— Filter albums to view only your best-rated shots
— Star ratings translate to keywords in Apple Photos

– Apply keywords. Keep a concise and consistent vocabulary
— Keyword Palette. One-click apply keywords from ready-made and custom keyword sets
— Set up shortcuts to flag photos with a keyword with the press of a single key

— Compare photos to find the best shot in a series
— Photos Workbench has you compare photos in pairs
— Compare the best photo so far to one you have not seen yet
— Repeat until you have seen all photos and found your favorite
— Apply star ratings for a more fine-grained classification