Download Bloom for Mac

In the edit

Bloom records every operation for undo. That is the kind of detail that tells you this app was built for people who move files around all day — photographers, designers, anyone who has ever hit cmd+Z and wished Finder worked the same way.

It runs on macOS 14 and later, and it handles the basics well: search inside a folder with ⌘F, tag management, and inserting images from the internet when you need a quick reference. The Portal mode is where it gets interesting — a compact window without a sidebar or preview that you can pin above other windows or dock at the edge of the screen. Handy when you are sorting files and need the manager visible without losing your workspace.

How bloom fits into your mac workflow

Bloom sits alongside the apps you already use rather than trying to replace everything at once. Because it integrates with iCloud Drive, your cloud files are available in the same interface as local folders — no switching back and forth between Finder and a browser window. If you work with Terminal regularly, bloom lets you launch it directly from the folder you are browsing, which saves a few steps when you need to run a quick command or a script on a batch of files.

The task scheduler is another piece that connects to the rest of your day. You can set file operations to run on a schedule, so routine jobs like cleaning up a download folder or moving processed images to an archive happen without you remembering to do them. It is a small thing until you realise how many times you have forgotten to run that weekly tidy-up.

Preview archives without extracting them

• Preview archives without extracting them. Bloom shows you what is inside a zip or similar archive before you commit to unpacking it. Saves time when you are looking for one file buried in a package.
• Preview text, images and PDFs smaller than 10 MB. No need to open a separate app just to check a document. It works inline and keeps you in the browsing flow.
• Automatic column resizing. When you switch between folders with different filename lengths, bloom adjusts the columns so you are not constantly dragging dividers.
• Advanced renaming with regular expressions. If you rename batches of files often — say, adding dates or standardising naming conventions — regex support means you can do it in one pass instead of renaming each file by hand.
• Instant jump to a system location with ⌘⇧⏎. A quick shortcut to get to the folders macOS uses for applications, utilities and system files.

Customise your workspace first

When you first open bloom, the default layout is sensible, but a few adjustments make it feel like yours. Start with workspace customisation: arrange the panels and preview area so the information you use most is front and centre. If you work with image files, set the preview to show thumbnails at a size that works for your screen.

The tag management panel is worth enabling early if you use macOS tags to organise projects. Bloom treats tags as a first-class organising tool, so you can filter by tag and see everything in one view. It is faster than hunting through folders.

If you use the Portal mode, set its pinning behaviour to match how you work. Docking it at the screen edge keeps it out of the way but always reachable. Pinning it above other windows works better when you are dragging files between bloom and another app.

Sorting RAW files with treemap view

It is a Thursday afternoon and you are sorting through a batch of RAW files from a midweek shoot. You open bloom and navigate to the folder where the files landed. The folder scan with treemap view shows you at a glance that the biggest space hog is a set of TIFF exports you do not need any more. You delete those in one go.

Next, you use the search inside a folder with ⌘F to find all images tagged with the client's project code. The results come back fast, and you select the keepers. Using the advanced renaming tool, you apply a regex that adds the shoot date and a sequence number to each filename. It takes a few seconds.

You open Portal mode and dock it at the side of the screen, then drag the selected files into a folder inside your editing app's working directory. The portal stays visible the whole time, so you do not have to keep switching windows. When you realise you need a reference image from a previous project, you search for it using keyword search in a predefined location — no scrolling through folders.

After the edit is done, you use bloom to convert the final JPEGs to smaller, optimised versions for the client preview gallery. The image conversion tool handles that inside the app. You schedule a task to move the original RAWs to an archive folder tomorrow morning, so they are out of the way but not deleted.

If anything goes wrong — and sometimes it does — every operation is recorded for undo, so you can step back without losing work. By the time you close bloom, the folder structure is clean, the files are named consistently, and the next day's task is already queued.

Workspace customisation is there too, so you can set it up the way you like and get on with the job.

Mac it needs

• macOS 14 or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon
• English interface language