Trail-Camera Sorting

Rack Detector

Quickly sort thousands of trail-camera photos into per-species folders. Easily sort out wind pictures, cattle and more to find the pictures you're looking for.

Sort trail-camera images completely offline using custom built and trained machine learning models that are more than 99% accurate. Blanks, livestock and every species get a folder of their own, and nothing is ever deleted.

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Free to try. Sort up to 10,000 images. Windows 10/11. An NVIDIA GPU is strongly recommended. It runs on CPU-only PCs too, but is much slower. Try the free version to check the speed on your computer first.

How it works

Point it at your photos. Get sorted folders.

Drop in all of your SD cards and let Rack Detector do the sorting, no manual filtering out bad images.

01 // BLANKS

Throws out the empty frames

Wind, branches, and faulty cameras can lead to thousands and thousands of blank images that take forever to sort through. Every frame with nothing in it goes straight to its own blank folder, so you can ignore them or quickly look through them in bulk.

02 // LIVESTOCK

Separates the cattle

Do your cameras sometimes take thousands of images of cattle? With Rack Detector, cattle, sheep, goats and horses land in their own livestock folder. Save yourself an afternoon of scrolling through moo cow pictures.

03 // SPECIES

Sorts the rest by animal

Species are sorted into folders of their own: elk, mule deer, whitetail, birds, bears, mountain lion, human and more. You can now easily find the animals you're looking for.

The Rack Detector window starting a run on one folder, its log reading: compute device GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, filtering out species that don't occur anywhere in the USA, and source folder 21,429 images to sort — 21,429 photos off a single camera, queued as one folder. The log names the GPU it found and confirms the species filter before it reads a frame.

The Rack Detector window part way through a five-folder run, showing four input folders, a processing bar at 100 percent, a sorting bar at 32 percent, and a log line confirming all 489 source images were verified as sorted — Point it at an entire group of trail camera image folders and walk away. Each folder is counted back against its source before the next one starts, so nothing is quietly left behind.

A Windows Explorer window showing the output folder for a camera named BearPaw, containing folders named bear, blank, elk, human, livestock, mule deer, other and whitetail, alongside a classification.json file — One camera's card once the run finishes. Blanks and livestock are out of the way, every species has its own folder, and **classification.json** keeps the full result if you ever want the raw numbers.

Combine Folders

Several cards. One set of folders.

Combine Folders, the app's second tab, merges any number of already-sorted runs into one set of species folders, so the camera ends up with one elk folder instead of four.

Files are prefixed in card order, so a name sort stays chronological and nothing overwrites anything. Each source folder is only removed once it has been checked empty.

The Combine Folders tab of Rack Detector, listing four sorted card folders numbered 01 through 04 for a camera named CaseyClearing, with an output location and a Combine button — Four cards off one camera, in the order they were pulled. Those 01 to 04 prefixes carry through to the combined folders, so a name sort stays chronological.

Pricing

Simple, one-time pricing

Try it free, then buy a license when you're ready. No subscription, no cloud fees.

$100 / one-time

One license activates on one computer · no subscription · free updates within this version

NVIDIA GPU strongly recommended. Much slower on CPU-only PCs. Non-refundable; the free trial lets you test speed first. See our Terms.

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