Bulk edit Flickr photos faster on Mac.
Photo Stream Assistant is a macOS app that applies one change to many Flickr photos at once: tags, title, description, privacy, licence, safety level, dates, rotation and location. Select photos from your library or from an album, set the fields, and the change is sent to Flickr for the whole selection. The free version applies a change to 10 photos at a time; the one-time Pro Unlock removes the limit.
Stop opening one photo at a time. Photo Stream Assistant gives Flickr Pro account owners a focused bulk editing workflow for metadata, privacy, dates, licenses, and more.
Why bulk editing matters
Large Flickr libraries become expensive to maintain when every metadata correction has to be repeated manually. Bulk editing turns those repetitive edits into one controlled batch workflow, and Pro Unlock removes the per-batch limit.
- Update titles, descriptions, and tags across large selections in one pass.
- Set privacy, safety, visibility, and licensing rules without repetitive clicks, from Flickr's full license list, Creative Commons 4.0 included.
- Apply date and geo corrections to entire groups of photos from a single screen.
- Select the way you would in the Finder: click a thumbnail to select it, shift-click for a range, double-click to open it.
- Number the titles across a selection: Paris_### gives Paris_001, Paris_002, in the order shown, with a preview first.
- Every bulk action, albums and galleries included, runs behind one notice with a progress bar, and ends by saying how many photos changed, how many were already so, and why Flickr refused any of the rest.
- Select several photos on any screen, your feed, Explore, groups, galleries and favorites included, and act on them from one bar that stays in view as you scroll.
- Delete a selection from the same screen, with a confirmation that names the count.
- Take your photos out of several groups at once, from a list of the groups they are actually in, and mark yourself or any contact in many photos at once.
- Remove the location from many photos at once before sharing them, or when the pin is wrong.
- Filter any search by license: any Creative Commons license, or one in particular, in your library or across Flickr.
- Remove hundreds of photos from an album in a few seconds: they go 50 at a time, and any Flickr refuses are reported one by one with the reason.
Typical bulk edit workflow
Step 1
Open your library or album and select the photos that need the same correction.
Step 2
Choose the metadata field you want to update, from tags to privacy or geolocation.
Step 3
Apply the change once and review a consistent result across the whole batch.
Flickr Bulk Edit screenshots
These screens show how the workflow looks inside Photo Stream Assistant on macOS.
Frequently asked questions
What can I bulk edit on Flickr?
Photo Stream Assistant covers titles, descriptions, tags, privacy, licenses, dates, rotation, safety, search visibility, and geolocation-related fields.
Is Flickr bulk editing available in the free version?
Bulk editing is in the free app, applied to 10 photos at a time so you can see how it behaves. Pro Unlock removes that limit.
Can I bulk edit from albums too?
Yes. The same workflow runs from an album, so you can select album photos and edit them directly.
Can I give a series of photos numbered titles?
Yes. With several photos selected, tick Number the titles under the title field. A run of # in the title becomes the number, zero padded: Paris_### gives Paris_001, Paris_002. Without a #, three digits are added. Photos are numbered in the order shown, a start number continues a second batch, and a preview shows the first and last title before anything is sent.
If I fill in only the title, does the description survive?
Yes. Flickr writes title and description together and leaves unsaid what happens to the one you omit, so the app reads each photo first and sends both. A field left empty is kept as it is on every photo.
Related workflows
Flickr Metadata Editor
Edit Flickr titles, descriptions and tags across a whole selection on Mac, with a choice of adding tags or replacing them. One dialog, many photos.
Flickr Album Manager
Manage Flickr albums on Mac: rename, reorder, set covers, and file a selection into several albums at once. Galleries and collections too.
Flickr Photo Organizer
Organize a large Flickr library on Mac: browse everything in one window, filter, select across pages, and act on the selection at once.
At a glance
- Platform
- macOS 12.0 or later, Apple silicon or Intel
- Price
- Free to download. Pro Unlock is a one-time purchase of 12.99 EUR, not a subscription.
- Requires
- A Flickr account. Some features need Flickr Pro, which is Flickr’s own subscription.
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese
- Version
- 1.5.0, on the Mac App Store
How-to guides for this
- How to bulk edit Flickr photos: Flickr's own bulk editing lives in Organizr, the tool linked from the You menu.
- How to find duplicate photos on Flickr: Flickr does not detect duplicates, on upload or afterwards, and its website has no view that lists them.