Findtheshot.
Notthefolder.
CreatorMaze catalogues every clip on every drive and NAS you own. Tag it once and it stays found — renaming, moving, a whole new folder structure, nothing breaks the link. The AI runs on your Mac, so not one frame ever leaves it.
Free
11 MB
macOS 15 or later
Apple silicon
Two years of B-roll.
Every file called C1902.MOV.
It is spread over an internal drive, an external drive, a NAS and a card you never emptied. Finding one shot means opening forty — so most people give up and film it again.
Tag it once.
Find it forever.
One catalogue across every drive you own. Search “coffee” and every coffee shot is there, whatever the camera called it.
What it does
Everything you shot, in one place — and findable in one search.
CreatorMaze sits beside your footage rather than swallowing it. No library to import into, no proxies to render, no format to convert. Point it at a folder and start searching.
Tags that outlive your file names
CreatorMaze recognises a clip by its content, not its path. Rename it, move it, restructure the whole drive — your tags, ratings and notes come with it. Nothing to relink, ever.
Search that speaks human
Type “sunset” and get the clips you filed under “dusk” too. Dates work as words — 2026, August, summer. Save a search and it keeps re-running itself as new footage arrives.
AI tagging that never leaves your Mac
Suggested tags from what the picture actually shows, using Apple’s on-device Vision and language models. No upload, no API key, no frame on anyone else’s server — and always a proposal you accept, never a decision made for you.
Works with the NAS switched off
Browse, search and read everything about a clip on a plane. Only playback needs the file itself.
Tag a whole shoot with the keyboard
Review mode: arrows to move, number keys for your nine most-used tags, ⌥ and a number to rate. Culling speed, for footage.
Reads what the camera really recorded
S-Log3, V-Log, C-Log, N-Log — plus body, lens, exposure, date and location, pulled from the clip itself. And it tells you where each answer came from instead of guessing quietly.
Straight into your edit
Drag one clip or a whole selection into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or the Finder. Hover a thumbnail to scrub it without opening anything.
Privacy by architecture
Your material stays yours.
Even when the AI looks at it.
There is no account to create and no server to trust, because there is no server. Your tags live in a small file beside each clip, so moving the footage moves the work with it — and two Macs on the same network see each other's tagging with nothing in between.
No account
Nothing to sign up for. Download it, open it, point it at a folder.
No cloud
Your libraries, clips and tags never touch our servers. There is no “our servers” for them to touch.
No upload
AI runs inside macOS. Not one frame, and not one search, leaves your machine.
AI — and nothing leaves your Mac
Practically every competitor that offers AI tagging does it by uploading your frames to be analysed. CreatorMaze asks the model that is already inside macOS. Same suggestions, on your own hardware, with no API key, no quota and no copy of your footage on anyone else’s disk. On Macs without Apple Intelligence the feature quietly does not appear — nothing else changes.
Camera metadata
It reads what the camera
actually recorded.
S-Log3, V-Log, C-Log, N-Log — plus the body, the lens, the exposure, the date and the location, pulled out of the clip itself. And every value says where it came from, so you know the difference between a fact and an estimate.
CreatorMaze parses standards rather than camera models — ISO-BMFF atoms, EXIF, XMP, MXF descriptors, sidecar files, with ExifTool as a last resort. That is why footage from a camera nobody has tested still has a good chance of being understood, and why support for new hardware arrives as a data update instead of an app release.
C1902.MOV
Camera
Sony α7 IV
detected
Lens
FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
detected
Picture profile
S-Log3
detected
Colour gamut
S-Gamut3.Cine
detected
Recorded
12 August 2026, 07:14
detected
Duration
00:00:14:08
file
How it works
Three steps, then never again
There is no import, no proxy render and no migration. The longest part is the first scan, and you can keep working while it runs.
Point it at a folder
Your Mac, an external drive, a NAS — however deeply nested. CreatorMaze catalogues everything inside it and never copies, moves, renames or converts a single file.
Tag it once
Accept the on-device suggestions, or fly through a shoot in review mode. The goal is two seconds a clip instead of twenty — and CreatorMaze stops your vocabulary splitting into “sunset”, “Sunset” and “sun set” while you do it.
Find it forever
Search tags, notes, filenames, folders, camera, lens, colour profile and dates all at once. Then drag the result straight into your timeline.
And then you edit
Drag it straight into your timeline
One clip or a hundred, from CreatorMaze into the editor you already use. It hands over the original file at its original location — whether your NLE links to it or copies it in is your import setting, not our decision.
After Effects
Premiere Pro
DaVinci Resolve
Final Cut Pro
Finder
Questions
The things people ask before downloading
Short answers. If something is missing, the address in the footer reaches a person.
Is CreatorMaze free?
Yes. CreatorMaze is a free download for macOS. There is no subscription, no trial period and no account to create — you download the disk image, drag the app into Applications and start cataloguing.
Does CreatorMaze move, rename or convert my video files?
Never. CreatorMaze is strictly read-only towards your media: nothing is copied, moved, renamed, transcoded or written into your clips. It builds a catalogue around your footage and leaves the footage exactly where and how you put it.
Where are my tags stored?
In a small hidden file next to each clip, not in a database only CreatorMaze can read. Move the footage to another drive and your tags, ratings, notes and markers travel with it. The local database is only an index — delete it and the next scan rebuilds it from those files.
What happens if I rename or move a clip?
Nothing breaks. CreatorMaze identifies footage by a fingerprint of the file's content rather than its path, so renaming a clip, moving it into a different folder or reorganising an entire drive never costs you your tags. A clip on a disconnected drive is marked as away rather than deleted, and relinks itself the moment the drive comes back.
Does CreatorMaze work with a NAS?
Yes — that is what it was built for. Point it at an SMB share and it catalogues the whole thing. Because network shares do not report file changes reliably, CreatorMaze checks them on a schedule you choose instead of waiting for events that never arrive. Browsing, searching and reading metadata all keep working when the NAS is asleep or you are away from the network; only playing a clip needs the file.
Does the AI upload my footage to a server?
No. Image recognition and AI search run entirely on your Mac using Apple's built-in on-device frameworks. No frame is uploaded, no search query is transmitted, and there is no API key to supply. The AI features need macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled; on older systems they simply do not appear and everything else works exactly the same.
Which macOS version do I need?
macOS 15 or later. Apple silicon is recommended. The optional AI tagging and AI search additionally require macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence available.
Does it work with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro?
Yes. Drag a clip — or a whole selection — straight from CreatorMaze into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, After Effects or the Finder. CreatorMaze hands over the original file at its original location; whether your editor links to it or copies it into its own library is your editor's import setting, not something CreatorMaze decides.
Which cameras and file formats are supported?
CreatorMaze parses standards rather than individual camera models — ISO-BMFF atoms, EXIF, XMP, MXF descriptors and sidecar files, with ExifTool as a last resort — so footage from cameras nobody has tested still has a good chance of being read. Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Nikon, Fujifilm, DJI, Blackmagic, ARRI, GoPro and iPhone material are all understood, and support for new hardware arrives as a data update rather than an app release.
Can two Macs share the same library?
Yes, with no server in between. Because tags live beside the footage, two Macs pointed at the same NAS see each other's work — on the next scan, the newer file wins. When a library cannot be written to, CreatorMaze disables editing rather than risking a change it cannot save.
Is CreatorMaze in the Mac App Store?
No, and deliberately so. The App Store sandbox makes SMB network shares unreliable, and cataloguing footage on a NAS is the whole point of the app. CreatorMaze is distributed directly, signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple — the same automated malware check every app goes through, so macOS opens it without complaint.
Is there a Windows or Linux version?
Not today. CreatorMaze is a native macOS app built on Apple's own frameworks — that is what makes the on-device AI, the metadata reading and the drag-and-drop into editors work as well as they do.
Stop scrubbing through
C1902.MOV
Free, no account, and it never touches your files. Point it at one folder tonight and see how much you already shot.
Free
Version 1.0.0
11 MB
macOS 15 or later