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Start with a FREE trial of the Ultra plan. No credit card required!
Save up to 40% with yearly billing
Great for basic AI culling. For 1 user.
Start Free TrialFast culling
Unlimited images and projects
Ship to Lightroom, Photoshop & Capture One
Advanced AI culling & AI editing. For 1 user.
Start Free TrialFaster culling with advanced AI
Immediately find your best shots
You maintain full control
Unlimited editing with Core + Marketplace AI Presets
Advanced AI culling & custom AI editing. For up to 2 users.
Start Free TrialUnlimited editing with 1 Color AI Preset & 1 Black & White AI Preset
AI image straightening
Advanced AI culling & diverse editing. For up to 4 users.
Start Free TrialUnlimited editing with up to 5 Color AI Presets & 5 Black & White AI Presets
Dedicated personal onboarding
Early access to new features
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$8,160
and 28.8 work days
% time saved culling and editing with Narrative
80%
Value of time saved by using Narrative per year
$8,640
Cost of annual Premium subscription
$480
Total saved
$8,160
Narrative starts at $10 per month on the Lite plan when billed annually, or $15 billed monthly. Standard is $20 annually or $29 monthly, Premium is $40 or $59, and Ultra is $60 or $79. Every plan includes unlimited projects and unlimited images, with no per-shoot or per-photo cap. Premium covers two users and Ultra covers four, so studios splitting a subscription usually land there.
Narrative is not permanently free. Every new account starts with a full free trial of Ultra, with no credit card required. Ultra is our most comprehensive plan, and the free trial is designed to give you a run of a real AI-assisted photo culling experience with your own gallery through it before deciding.
After the trial, paid plans start at $10 per month.
Yes, especially if you are a high-volume professional photographer.
Narrative users report saving 253 hours a year, on average. Against a Premium subscription at $480 annually, that math works out for most photographers shooting regularly. It works out less well if you shoot occasionally or in low volume.
Rather than take our word for it, run the free Ultra Trial on a full gallery from a recent shoot. One real wedding or portrait session will tell you more than any calculator.
Lite covers the basics: fast culling, unlimited images and projects, Image Focus Scores, eye and focus assessments when you hover over a face, and Ship to Lightroom, Photoshop and Capture One.
Standard adds Advanced AI Culling (Scenes View and rank ordering, the Close-Ups Panel, and filters for AI First Pass and focus scores) plus unlimited editing with Core and Marketplace AI Presets.
Premium adds AI Presets trained on your own edits (one colour, one black and white) and AI image straightening, for up to two users. Ultra extends that to five of each, for up to four users, with dedicated onboarding and early access to new features.
Lite gives you the basics: unlimited images and projects, three-second RAW import, Image Focus Scores, Smart Face Zoom, eye and focus assessments when you hover over a face, AI First Pass indicators on each photo, Survey Mode image compare, renaming and capture-time changes, crop and level, and Ship to Lightroom, Photoshop and Capture One.
Standard adds Advanced AI Culling: Scenes View and rank ordering, the full Close-Ups Panel, full eye and focus assessments, filters for AI First Pass and focus scores, Survey Mode face compare and People Filter. It also adds unlimited AI editing with Core and Marketplace AI Presets.
Yes. AI-Assisted Culling is the core of Narrative. It finds the main faces and key elements in each photo, assesses focus and eyes, groups your shoot into Scenes, and ranks the photos in each Scene so the strongest ones come first.
The word that matters is assisted. Narrative sorts, assesses and ranks. You choose what goes in the final gallery.
There isn't one answer, because the right tool depends on how you work. If you want the AI to make selections for you, fully automated tools suit that. If you want speed and convenience without handing over the editorial call, assisted culling is the better fit.
Narrative is built for the second group: photographers who shoot high volume, work in Lightroom or Capture One, and want their own judgement preserved in the final gallery. We keep honest side-by-side breakdowns against Lightroom Classic, Aftershoot, Imagen AI, Evoto, and Photo Mechanic on our comparison pages.
Both names point to the same software. The app is called Narrative. Narrative Select (Select + Edit) is the earlier name, and it still appears in some page titles and URLs because it is what a lot of photographers search for.
It is one app covering both halves of the workflow: AI-Assisted Culling for choosing your images, and 1-Click AI Editing for applying your style on the way to Lightroom. You may also come across "Narrative Cull" and "Narrative Edit" in older articles and reviews. Those were never separate products, just earlier names for the two feature areas.
Narrative Publish is a different product. It builds image-heavy blog posts and publishes them to your site, and it is sold separately.