Limited early access — desktop app

Your footage, tagged and searchable. Automatically.

Scruto watches your folders, tags every clip and photo, pulls speech transcripts, renames files with descriptive names, and makes your entire library searchable.

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Your files now
C0001.MP4
MVI_0847.MOV
GH010093.MP4
IMG_4382.JPG
DSC_0019.ARW
After Scruto
interview-client-office-closeup.mp4
broll-city-traffic-sunset-wide.mov
product-demo-warehouse-handheld.mp4
portrait-team-outdoor-golden-hour.jpg
landscape-mountains-morning-fog.arw

See how Scruto organizes your library

Scruto — Library
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187 clips
1:43
159-scenic-travel-sicily-driving-pov
scenic-travel
A dashcam-style driving POV through Sicily, beginning on a two-lane coastal road...
0:26
02-broll-camper-motorhome-bath...
b-roll
A handheld walkthrough of a camper/motorhome bathroom, showing...
0:40
01-broll-camper-van-interior
b-roll
A handheld walkthrough tour of what appears to be a camper van...
0:31
187-scenic-sicily-regalbuto-la...
scenic-travel
The clip opens on a wide meadow carpeted with white wildflowers...

Browse your entire library at a glance

Search by content

Type "driving shot coastal road" and find it instantly. Search across descriptions, tags, transcripts, and metadata.

Auto-tagged by scene type

Every clip gets a scene label — b-roll, interview, scenic-travel, talking-head — so you can filter without watching.

Thumbnail grid with descriptions

Each clip shows a summary of what's in it. No more scrubbing through C0001.MP4 to remember what you shot.

Scruto — Clip detail
07-talking-head-sunday.MOV
Description

The clip opens with the vlogger standing outside next to his van in a large empty parking area in Sicily, Italy, under a dramatic overcast stormy sky. He addresses the camera directly to deliver a Sunday morning intro.

Transcript
Today, good morning, today is Sunday and we have an unpredictable weather actually, maybe it's predictable because very bad weather prediction for today, it's actually predicted a really heavy rain...
Quality

Acceptable — visuals are 4K, well exposed. Audio: heavy wind noise and low SNR throughout.

Info
Duration1:22
Scene Typetalking-head
Size227.0 MB
Tags
sunday morning intro talking head stormy sky sicily carini vanlife outdoor rain forecast
Metadata
LocationCarini, Sicilia
DeviceiPhone 14 Pro
Resolution3840x2160
CodecHEVC
Bitrate22.9 Mbps

Every clip tells you what's inside

Full transcripts

Every word spoken in your clips is pulled out as searchable text. Find clips by what someone said.

Quality scoring & suggested use

Each clip is rated for focus, exposure, and audio quality — with suggestions on how to use it in your edit.

GPS location & device metadata

Camera model, resolution, codec, GPS coordinates — all pulled directly from your files.

Video file management features

Tags & descriptions
Every file gets searchable tags and a description of what's in the shot — scene type, subjects, setting.
Transcripts
Speech in your clips becomes searchable text. Find clips by what someone said, not just filenames.
Smart rename
C0001.MP4 becomes interview-client-office-closeup.mp4. Your folders make sense at a glance.
Full-text search
Search your entire library by content — "product demo warehouse" or "interview rooftop sunset."
Quality scoring
Each file gets a quality score — focus, exposure, stability. Surface your best shots first.
Folder watching
Point Scruto at a folder and walk away. New files are picked up and processed automatically.

Built for video editors, videographers & photographers

🎬
Video editors
75TB of footage, zero idea what's on each drive without opening every clip.
📹
Videographers
The last thing you want after a shoot day is to manually organize 200 files.
📸
Photographers
DSC_4291.JPG tells you nothing. A decade of files across five drives.

Three steps. No manual tagging.

1
Point Scruto at a folder
Select a folder of clips or photos. Scruto watches it — new files get processed automatically.
2
Scruto examines every file
Each file is examined for scene content, speech, camera metadata, and visual quality. Tags, descriptions, and transcripts appear automatically.
3
Search, browse, find anything
Files are renamed. Your library is searchable. Type "interview rooftop sunset" and find it in seconds.

How people organize footage today

Manual organizing
  • Hours of renaming and sorting by hand
  • Still can't search by what's in the shot
  • Falls apart after every new shoot
Enterprise DAMs
  • Built for teams, overkill for individuals
  • Expensive monthly subscriptions
  • Complex setup and learning curve
Scruto
  • Automatic tagging, transcripts, and renaming
  • Search by content, not filenames
  • Works with your existing folder structure

Common questions

What file formats does Scruto support?

Video (MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI), photos (JPG, PNG, RAW formats like ARW, CR2, DNG), and more. If your camera saved it, Scruto can read it.

Will Scruto modify or move my original files?

Renaming is always optional and fully reversible. Scruto never deletes or moves your files to a different location.

How fast is processing?

Most files are analyzed in seconds. A full library scan runs in the background so you can keep working while Scruto does its thing.

What platforms does it run on?

Windows, macOS, and Linux.

How much will it cost?

Pricing will be announced at launch. Join the waitlist to be the first to know.

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