Your folders are already organised.
Each subfolder becomes a set, in the same order. Drop a folder of event folders and every event gets its own gallery.
New · Semuko Uploader for Mac
Drop a folder.Get a gallery.
A Mac app that turns the folders you already have into Semuko galleries. Subfolders become sets, a folder of events becomes a gallery for each one, and it all uploads from the menu bar while you get on with your day. Watch your export folder and it uploads new work by itself.
- Free with your Semuko account
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Signed and notarized by Apple
Try it
Drag a folder in. See what comes out.
Three kinds of folder, three different results. Drag one onto the window, or click it. This is a demo: nothing leaves your browser.
On your Mac
Then switch on Optimize for a folder or two and press Start upload.
What are we uploading?
Watched folders · the one photographers ask about
Export it. It’s already uploading.
The edit is done. The export is done. And then the gallery sits there for a week, because uploading it is one more small task on a day full of them. Point the uploader at the folder you already export to, and that task stops existing.
Lightroom ExportsWatchedOkafor Weddingempty
Okafor WeddingSemuko gallery
0 of 412 photos
Watching Lightroom Exports. Nothing to do.
What you do
- Export
- Open Semuko
- Find the gallery
- Drag the files in
- Wait and watch
- Come back later
One step. The one you were doing anyway.
Set it up once
Choose your export folder. Each new folder inside it becomes a gallery with that name, and folders inside those become sets.
Waits for the export to finish
Files still being written are left alone until they stop changing, so half an export never goes up.
Never doubles up
Export again into the same folder and only the new photos upload. What was there when you started watching is left alone.
Then your workflow takes over
When the upload finishes, Semuko can publish the gallery and send your gallery email by itself.
The drop shelf
Drag from anywhere. It comes to you.
No hunting for the uploader’s window. Start dragging a folder in Finder, on your desktop, or out of another app, and a drop target slides out from the top of your screen. Let go on it and the review screen opens.
- Appears when a drag starts, and tucks itself away when the drag ends.
- Folders or loose files. Whatever you can drag, it takes.
- Yours to control. Pin it open or switch it off from the menu bar icon.
The shelf drops in the moment a drag starts.
Drop to uploadFolders become galleriesWhat it does
Built for the big upload.
Smaller files, same picture.
Switch on Optimize for a folder and its JPEGs are re-saved smaller, checked so the difference is not visible. Your files on disk are never touched. The example is a wedding saved at high quality; your savings depend on how you export.
38.2 GBto upload and store4 h 15 minat 20 Mbps
Close the window. It keeps going.
The app lives in your menu bar and shows how far along it is. Quit by accident and it picks up where it stopped next time.
Venue Wi-Fi? It waits.
When the connection drops, the upload pauses and picks up where it was. Try it.
Uploading
Nothing goes public by accident.
Every gallery it creates is a draft. You review the galleries and sets before anything uploads, and publish from Semuko when you are ready.
Draft · not published
Sign in the way you already do.
Choose “Sign in with your browser” and approve it in Semuko, where your saved login, password manager and two-factor code already work. The app never sees your password.
Stays up to date.
When a new version is ready, a pill appears in the app. One click installs it.
New version available · Update
Drop it twice. Nothing doubles.
If the gallery already exists, the app offers to add to it and skips every photo that is already there. Folders that match an event are linked to it.
Adding to Okafor Wedding · 628 skipped
Ready the moment it lands.
Your Mac makes the gallery previews while it uploads, so photos are viewable as they arrive instead of waiting in a processing queue. Watermarked and protected galleries are still finished by Semuko.
Drag from anywhere.
Start dragging a folder in Finder and a drop shelf appears at the top of your screen. Let go and the review screen opens. No hunting for the window.
Drop to uploadUp and running in a minute.
02
Sign in
Open the app and choose “Sign in with your browser”. Approve it in Semuko and the app signs in by itself.
03
Drop a folder
Check the galleries and sets it found, then start. Find the drafts under Galleries in Semuko.
Questions, answered.
Drop one folder and it becomes one gallery, with each subfolder as a set and loose files left without a set. Drop a folder that holds several event folders and each event becomes its own gallery. You review everything first: rename galleries, untick anything you do not want, then start.
Tonight’s shoot, uploaded by morning.
Drop the folder, close the window and get on with your evening. The galleries will be waiting as drafts.
Download for MacmacOS 11 or newer