BredoLaunch price $79 once, then $99
Everything you’ve filmed. Found.
Plug in a card. Bredo copies it, checks the copy and files it by day. Later you find any clip by what’s in the shot, what someone said, or a sign in the background.
macOS 26 · Apple silicon · nothing is uploaded
- One colour per camera
- One folder per day
- One search for all of it
Your drive says DJI_0045.MP4. Bredo shows you the shot.
No renaming and no tagging. Bredo watches each clip once, on your Mac, and after that you look at pictures instead of file names.
1Bring it in
Plug in a card. That’s the import.
Bredo spots the card and shows where every file will go before anything moves. Then it copies to each of your drives and reads every copy back to make sure it matches.
- Dated folders, with the camera’s own file names
- If the cable comes out mid-copy, it carries on where it stopped
- Clears the card for you once every file is proven to be in your library
Return Import
2Find it
Search the way you remember it.
Bredo has already watched and listened to every clip, and read the signs in them. Type what was in front of the camera.
- Finds things in the picture, in speech, and on signs or screens
- Says why each clip matched
- Works when the drive is unplugged
undergroundwaterfall in the snowlondon eye at night“the ferry leaves at nine”
⌘F Search
3Go through it
Pick the good ones with three keys.
Open a day and go through it clip by clip. Keep, great or don’t use. Mark the part you want, and only that part goes to the edit.
- Takes of the same shot are grouped, so you choose once
- Sends your picks to Final Cut, Resolve or Premiere
F Keep G Great X Don’t use IO In and out
4Keep it safe
Know what you’d lose if a drive died.
Bredo counts the clips that exist on only one drive, and copies them to your other drives when you ask.
- Unplugged drives stay in the list
- Every copy is checked and comes with a list of checksums
- Nothing is deleted without asking
5Make room
Clear the card. Keep the footage.
Before a file leaves the card, Bredo reads it once more, reads its copy in your library, and deletes it only if the two are identical. Anything it can’t match stays where it is.
You press the button. Bredo never does this by itself.
You can’t film it again. So Bredo has rules.
Six of them, the same in every version.
Your originals are never changed
Bredo doesn’t rename, recompress or move them. It only reads them.
A copy counts once it’s checked
Each file is hashed as it’s written, then read back from every drive and compared. What that proves.
Nothing is deleted without asking
Bredo deletes a file from a card only if its copy is identical, and only when you say so.
Nothing leaves your Mac
The models run on your Mac. There’s no account and nothing is uploaded. What is recorded.
Ordinary folders
Your footage sits in dated folders in Finder, under the camera’s own file names. You can open them without Bredo.
If Bredo ever goes away
Your clips stay where they are and your copy of the app keeps working. It doesn’t depend on a server.
And the rest.
Home
Your year at a glance: what you filmed, with which camera, and what still has only one copy.
Cameras
Every camera gets a colour and its own page, named after the card it came from.
Takes
Shot the same thing three times? The takes sit together, so you choose once.
Drives on the shelf
Browse and search clips whose drive is unplugged. Switch on small copies and they play too.
Hand off
One folder for your editor: the clips, a timeline that opens without relinking, and a contact sheet.
Light and dark
A native Mac app in both. It follows your system, or you choose.
For keyboard people
- ⌘F Search
- ⌘0 Home
- ⌘1 Library
- Space Open a clip
- F Keep
- G Great
- X Don’t use
- IO In and out
Pay once. Keep it.
- Every featureOn all the Macs you use yourself.
- Updates for all of version 1Version 2 will be an optional paid upgrade. Version 1 keeps working either way.
- Try 500 clips freeWhen the trial runs out you can still browse, play and export everything already in your library.
- 30-day refundSee the refund policy and the licence.
Bredo isn’t out yet.
Version 1.0 is nearly done. Send us an email and we’ll write back once, on the day it’s released. You won’t be put on a mailing list.
Guides you can use without Bredo.
For anyone who films more than they get round to organising.
Questions
When can I get it?
Bredo 1.0 is not out yet. Write to support@bredo.app and you get one email the day it is, and nothing else.
What does Bredo run on?
macOS 26 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. The picture and speech models run on the Neural Engine, so Intel Macs are not supported.
Where does my footage actually live?
On the drives you choose. Bredo keeps its catalogue in Application Support and never puts your files inside it, so deleting Bredo leaves every clip where it is.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Analysis and search run on your Mac. Bredo's only network use is checking for updates, and asking Apple for a place name from coordinates if you switch that on.
How is this different from Hedge or ShotPut Pro?
Those copy cards and stop there. Bredo does the checked copy and then keeps the library: every clip filed, visible and searchable afterwards, including footage on drives that are disconnected. See the workflow.
How is this different from a drive cataloguer like NeoFinder?
A cataloguer indexes filenames and metadata after you have copied files yourself. Bredo does the checked copy, reads the picture and the speech in each clip, and files everything by date and shoot without you naming anything. More on cataloguing drives.
What happens to my footage if Bredo is ever discontinued?
Nothing. Your footage is in ordinary dated folders on your own drives, with the names the camera gave each file and an ASC MHL hash list beside it, all readable without Bredo. The licence is checked on your Mac with no server involved, so the copy you have keeps working.
How is this different from the search inside Final Cut, Premiere or Resolve?
An editor searches the project or library you have open. Bredo searches everything you have shot, across every project and before any of it is in an editor, including footage on drives that are disconnected. It also does the checked copy and the filing first.
Can I try it first?
Yes, from the day it is out. The trial brings in 500 clips with every check, report and export working. Whatever is already in your library stays browsable and exportable afterwards, licence or not. The download page says when there is a build.
Is it a subscription?
No. $79 once at launch, $99 after. Updates through Bredo 1.x are included, and a future major version will be an optional paid upgrade.
Which cameras and card formats work?
Anything that writes files a Mac can read, including RED RDC folders, Panasonic P2, Canon XF, BRAW with its sidecar, Sony proxies, plus photos and audio recordings.
Can I send footage to an editor on another Mac?
Yes. Hand Off copies the clips you pick into one folder, checked, with timelines for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve that point inside it, a contact sheet and an ASC MHL. Copy the folder to their drive and it opens without relinking. How a hand-off works.
Can I watch clips when their drive is unplugged?
Yes, once small copies are switched on. Bredo makes a light version of each clip on your Mac, so it plays, skims and can be gone through while the drive is on a shelf. Without them you still see every clip's frames and details.