Shuttergrove View in Mac App Store

For Lightroom Classic on Mac

Find the photos you remember.

Shuttergrove organizes your Lightroom Classic catalog automatically. It adds photo-type keywords and smart collections, with optional content keywords for what appears in each image. Analysis runs on your Mac.

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Requires Adobe Lightroom Classic for macOS. Available in six languages.

Lightroom Classic showing photos in a Shuttergrove Seascape smart collection
In your catalog. Shuttergrove’s Seascape collection in Lightroom Classic.

Existing catalog + new importsPhotos are classified as you work.

Lightroom stays in chargeResults become ordinary Lightroom keywords and collections.

No photo uploadsBoth models run locally on your Mac.

See it work

From a crowded catalog to a useful view.

See real Lightroom Classic collections, a content keyword search, and the controls for local analysis.

Shuttergrove in Lightroom Classic

Photo-type collections, content keywords, and scan controls. 47 seconds.

Find by visible content

Choose a generated keyword and filter the matching photos. 26 seconds.

What appears in Lightroom

Useful structure, right where your photos already live.

01 / Photo types

Collections that build themselves.

Shuttergrove recognizes supported photo types such as Seascape, Portrait, Wildlife, and Macro. When a type is accepted, its keyword is written to the photo and its smart collection appears inside the Shuttergrove collection set.

Open a collection to see its photos in Lightroom Classic. Collections appear only when they contain a matching photo.

Shuttergrove photo-type smart collections in Lightroom Classic
Real Lightroom Classic collection list
02 / Visible content

Find the bridge, river, or mountain.

Turn on content analysis to add up to 20 localized content keywords per photo. Set how prominent a subject must be before Shuttergrove adds its keyword.

The Shuttergrove Content command shows keywords found in your catalog. Select one to open matching photos through Lightroom’s Library Filter Bar.

Shuttergrove Content dialog listing detected keywords
Shuttergrove Content inside Lightroom Classic

How it works

Set it up once. Keep importing.

Shuttergrove is a menu-bar app with a bundled Lightroom Classic plugin. Your Lightroom catalog remains the place where you browse and manage photos.

  1. 01

    Connect your catalog

    Install the Mac app, allow access to your photo folders, and let it install the bundled Lightroom Classic plugin.

  2. 02

    Analyze on your Mac

    The initial scan processes catalog photos. New imports are picked up while Lightroom runs. You can pause the scan and adjust confidence or content settings.

  3. 03

    Browse in Lightroom

    Use generated type collections or the content-keyword browser. Your existing manual Lightroom keywords are preserved when Shuttergrove rescans.

Control and privacy

The analysis is local. The choices are yours.

Photo files and paths stay on your Mac. The bundled models run without a cloud account, and Lightroom Classic owns the catalog changes.

  • Set the minimum confidence for photo-type keywords.
  • Turn content keywords off, or adjust their number and threshold.
  • Pause analysis and see progress and logs from the menu bar.
  • Re-Scan replaces only Shuttergrove-generated keywords.
Read how local processing works
Shuttergrove menu-bar app showing catalog progress and pause controls
Progress and controls in the menu bar

Before you download

Made for Lightroom Classic on Mac.

Shuttergrove works with the desktop Lightroom Classic catalog. It does not organize Lightroom’s cloud catalog, and there is no Windows version.

The app and plugin are localized in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Generated keywords follow your macOS language so names stay consistent in the catalog.

Setup and compatibility help

Questions

What photographers ask first.

Will Shuttergrove change my existing keywords?

It adds its own generated Type and Content keywords. Re-Scan replaces those generated keywords; manually created Lightroom keywords remain intact.

Does it send photos to an AI service?

No. The photo-type and optional content models are bundled with the Mac app and run locally. Photos and photo paths are not uploaded.

Why might a photo have no type or content keyword?

Shuttergrove writes only results that meet the thresholds you set. A photo can have no accepted type, and content analysis can be turned off.

Does it work with Lightroom, rather than Lightroom Classic?

No. Shuttergrove requires Adobe Lightroom Classic on Mac. Lightroom’s cloud catalog and Windows are not supported.

All support answers

Shuttergrove for macOS

Give your Lightroom catalog a clearer structure.

Photo-type collections and content keywords, created on your Mac and ready to use in Lightroom Classic.

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