SENEX Corvus · The Crow
Only the new photos, straight from the card.
Corvus is a small menu-bar app that copies new photo and video originals from a camera card or folder into ordinary folders, and checks every copy. No account, no cloud service, no photo library database.
From card to folders. Nothing is copied until you say so.
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Insert a card
Corvus notices the card and scans it in the background. Scanning only previews; nothing is copied until you click Import.
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New photos come selected
Click to include or exclude, Shift-click for a range, filter by date or file type, or hide what is already imported. RAW, JPEG and sidecar files stay together.
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Your folders
Year / Month / Day by default, or your own template from
{YYYY},{MM},{DD}and{event}. Each photo goes to its own capture day; a missing date is never guessed. -
Copied, then checked
Every copy is verified. Duplicates are confirmed by content, name clashes are handled safely, and an interrupted import says what happened and can be retried.
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On to your editor
Optionally open the new folders in your photo editor and eject the card once the import is verified.
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Out of the way
Corvus lives in the menu bar. Close the window and scans and imports keep running; ⌘O opens a folder instead of a card.
Build it yourself. There is no signed download yet.
You need macOS 13 or later and Apple's Command Line Tools; no Xcode project or paid Apple membership. The first build takes about two minutes.
xcode-select --install
git clone https://github.com/endthestart/andermic-photo-importer.git
cd andermic-photo-importer
./build.sh
The app appears in dist/. The README covers installing, updating and every setting.
Details. Private by design.
- Version
- 0.1.0-alpha.2 source preview, 5 October 2026
- Runs on
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon or Intel
- Tested
- With synthetic cards; real-camera and clean-machine checks are in progress
- Privacy
- Reads the cards and folders you choose and writes only to your destination: no account, no cloud, no telemetry
- Licence
- MIT
- Source
- github.com/endthestart/andermic-photo-importer