Gem Finder scores every photo in your Lightroom catalog from 1 to 10 and builds you a collection of the ones worth editing — surfacing the best shots from your archive that would otherwise stay buried. Runs entirely on your machine. Nothing leaves your disk.
Most photographers have years of photos they'll never get back to. Shots from before you had a rating system, trips you meant to revisit, whole folders sitting untouched because manually going through them isn't something you'll ever find time for.
Gem Finder goes through the whole catalog and scores each photo on what makes images visually compelling: composition, quality of light, colour, and sharpness. The good ones float to the top. You set the threshold; it builds the collection. Your best shots from years ago surface the same way your best shots from last week do.
Three steps, no cloud, no subscription.
Scan your whole catalog, a specific folder, a collection, or just the photos you have selected. With or without filters for unrated or unadjusted shots.
An AI model trained on millions of human aesthetic ratings scores each photo 1–10. Scores stream in as batches finish — you don't wait for the whole scan. Results are cached, so re-scanning is fast.
Set your minimum score threshold. Everything above it goes straight into a Gems collection in Lightroom. Rate them, flag them, or just start editing.
Gem Score is a first pass, not a final verdict. It finds photos worth looking at harder — what you do with them from there is still your call. Score guide →
The scoring model runs as a small local process alongside Lightroom. No photo data is uploaded anywhere. No account required. No internet connection needed to score photos. Scores are saved in your Lightroom catalog and cached locally — so even if you never connect to the internet, everything works.
Download Gem Finder, install it as a Lightroom Classic plugin, and let it run. Free to try on your first 500 photos — one-time license for the full catalog.
