Feature
Folders for work.
Smart collections for logic.
A library is only useful if you can find things in it. Aperture gives you two tools: collections (folders you arrange) and smart collections (saved searches that update themselves). Together, they make a growing library navigable forever.
The easy explanation
Two kinds of order.
Regular collections are folders: you decide what's in them, by dragging. "Aurora Launch", "B-roll 2026", "Client favorites". Smart collections are rules: "anything tagged interview and still needs review". You save the search once — the collection maintains itself, forever.
Tags and bulk operations — the muscle.
Shift-select anything
Select ten assets or a hundred. The action bar appears; everything you do next applies to all of them.
Bulk tag, collect, delete
Tag, favorite, add to collections, or remove — in one motion. Filter chips keep the grid honest.
Auto-tagging on ingest
The AI reads the file and the transcript and writes tags and a description for you. Toggle it on; the library organizes itself.
Duplicate detection
Every file is fingerprinted (sha256) at the gate. The duplicates view groups them — merge with a click, junk never enters.
- Kind-aware tabs: video, audio, image, document
- Smart collections = saved searches that stay current
- The library is shared tenant-wide — one truth for the whole team
- Per-collection permissions on the Team plan
- Favorites and notes ride along on every asset
"Stop naming files properly. Start saving the searches that find them."
— smart collections, in one lineA moment of silence for NEW FOLDER (4)
Somewhere, a file named "NEW FOLDER (4)" wept quietly.
Smart collections are saved searches that never go stale. The library finds things for you — even that shot from March you described as "blue, urgent-ish".
Organize foreverFolders for work.
Smart collections for logic.
A library that stays findable — because organizing it is drag-and-drop, and the smart views organize themselves.