Guide · October 2026
Apps that copy camera cards to your drives and check every file before you format, from one-person shoots to DIT carts.
We make Caretaker, so it's first on our list. Other apps' prices are from their makers' sites, October 2026, as they list them.
Copies a card to one or two drives and checks every file against the card with SHA-256. Part of an app for your whole Mac: drive speed tests, media cache cleanup, project health and Boost for the export.
Download freeFormerly Hedge. Verified offloads to as many drives as you need at once, with xxHash, MHLs, reports, presets and S3 upload. Mac and Windows.
Visit OffShoot ↗Verified offloads with PDF reports, a production standard for many years. Mac and Windows.
Visit ShotPut Pro ↗Pomfort's verified offload app, without the media management of Silverstack.
Visit Offload Manager ↗Verified offload, indexing and reports, with LTO archiving, conform and transcode as add-ons.
Visit YoYotta ↗Pomfort's media management for DITs: offload, metadata and reports. Silverstack Lab adds playback, grading and transcoding.
Visit Silverstack XT ↗Yes, if you'll format the card. A copy can look complete and still have a broken file. Verification reads every file back and compares it with the card.
Caretaker: card offload is part of Pro, from $5.99 a month or $129 once for life.
Free to download. Pro free for 7 days, from inside the app.
Caretaker