Nothing imported
Reel reads the folders you already have, exactly where they are. No library on top of yours, no OneDrive prompt, no reorganizing.
BatchDrop Reel · by ZacLabsYour photo folders, scrolling like a phone gallery.
Add a folder and start scrolling. Reel indexes in the background, opens iPhone HEIC out of the box, and never imports, moves, or uploads a thing.
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- 100% offline
- No account
- One-time purchase
Inside the app.
A smooth thumbnail wall in four sizes, a folder tree and a year-and-month timeline, and search with filters like ext:, year:, and size:.
Fast at any size
The thumbnail wall stays smooth from five thousand photos to half a million. Reel fills in thumbnails as it indexes in the background.
Safe on your library
Reel never moves, renames, or edits photos. Its index is a disposable cache. The only change it makes is a delete you ask for, and that goes to the Recycle Bin.
Add a folder. Scroll.
That is the whole setup. Reel keeps up with File Explorer on its own afterwards.
Add a folder
Point Reel at a photo folder or a whole drive. Thumbnails appear right away while indexing continues in the background.
Browse by folder or by time
Use the folder tree, or jump by year and month on the timeline. Switch the wall between four thumbnail sizes.
Open, find, tidy
Full-screen viewer with instant previous/next and a details panel. Search names with filters, delete to the Recycle Bin, or show any photo in File Explorer.
Gallery features.
Built for big local libraries, iPhone photos included.
| Formats | JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, iPhone HEIC/HEIF, and AVIF built in, with no codec to buy or install. RAW previews for CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, DNG, ORF, and RW2. |
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| Browsing | Thumbnail wall in four sizes. Folder tree, or year and month on the timeline. |
| Search | File and folder names, with ext:, year:, before:, after:, size:, res:, and type:raw filters. |
| Viewer | Full screen, instant previous/next, and a photo details panel. |
| Watched folders | Photos added, moved, or deleted in File Explorer show up in the grid by themselves. |
| Selection | Click, Ctrl-click, and Shift-click. Delete to the Recycle Bin. Show in File Explorer. F1 lists every shortcut. |
| Privacy | Runs entirely on the PC. No account, no upload, no subscription. |
| System | Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit. |