Syrinx Ventures

Syrinx Ventures

Washington State · Independent syrinxventures.com

A small company that publishes software.

Two things so far — a photo culler that scores your library on-device, and a utility that keeps a Kindle from updating itself.

PicSift on macOS showing a grid of photographs, each tile carrying a numeric score, sorted best-first.
Plate I PicSift ranks a photo library best-first and prints the score on every frame. Nothing in this view left the machine.

No. 01 · Shipping

PicSift

Find what matters.

What it does

Score, sift, and share your best photos — a whole library ranked best-first, in minutes rather than an evening.

How it decides

On-device models rank across six qualities — overall appeal, sharpness, lighting, composition, faces, subject — and show their work, so you can see why a photo placed where it did.

Where it runs

Your photos never leave the device. No accounts, no uploads, no analytics — the scoring happens on your own Mac or iPad.

A single photograph filling the PicSift window in review, with the rest of the run waiting as thumbnails along the bottom.
Plate II One frame at a time. Keep or reject at full size, with the rest of the run on the strip below.
PicSift's search view filtering a photo library down to matching frames.
Plate III Search runs against the library on the device. No accounts, no uploads, no analytics.
Mac and iPad — available now Get PicSift — App Store picsift.com More on PicSift

No. 02 · Free & open source

KindleFill

Hold the update.

The KindleFill window on macOS, showing the connected Kindle's storage being filled and a stop control.
Plate IV Fill, then stop. The app only removes files it can prove it wrote.

Fills a Kindle's storage so it can't download a firmware update, then clears the filler again afterwards. Stop responds in about a second, and it only deletes files it can prove it wrote.

Free · open source · macOS on Apple silicon Source — github.com/SyrinxVentures/kindlefill More on KindleFill

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Syrinx Ventures

A small company that publishes software.