Dispatches: Photo Workflow

Your photo desk fits in your pocket.

Dispatches turns your iPhone into the whole filing workstation that used to mean a laptop and a stack of apps. Import a shoot, cull and rate it, caption the take, and send it to where it needs to go — all from the field, before you leave the venue.

Built for the way working photographers actually deliver:

- Import straight from an SD card or a folder, and bring in only the rated or flagged frames so the throwaways never touch your phone
- Cull fast with star ratings, flags, and picks, then filter the grid by file type (RAW, JPEG, video) and by rating to reach your selects in seconds
- Keep every shoot together as one event: imported assets, picks, ratings, metadata, and delivery history in one place
- Caption a whole take with a single voice memo — Dispatches writes clean IPTC captions across the batch instead of making you type field by field
- Save your byline, credit, copyright, location, and contact as reusable IPTC presets and apply a full set in a tap
- Check captions before they file: Caption Coach flags missing captions, placeholders, datelines, keywords, and length issues
- Send straight from the app to FTP, email, your editor, Files, or social — and save the send so the next job files the same way in one tap
- Track delivery progress, history, and retries, so you know what filed and what needs another go

One app instead of five. No bouncing between the camera roll, a notes app, an IPTC editor, and an FTP client — and no waiting until you're back at a laptop.

Yours stays yours:

Dispatches imports to your iPhone first. Your photos only move when you send them. Calendar access, notifications, and online captioning are all under your control. Online captioning is optional and off by default — when you turn it on and start an Event Brief, Dispatches sends only your brief text (typed or dictated — voice notes are transcribed on your iPhone first — and, if you link a calendar event, its title, time, location, and notes), the event's location, and the event's date and approximate time to Google's Gemini service to draft richer captions. Your photos, per-photo metadata, and raw voice audio never leave your iPhone.

For wedding, event, sports, and press photographers — anyone who shoots in the field and has someone waiting on the files.

Free to download — import, organising, and on-device captions are always free. One monthly subscription with a 14-day free trial unlocks online AI Event Briefs (50 included each month), exporting, and sharing. The price is shown in the app before you subscribe and varies by region.

Dispatches requires iOS 26.

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