im looking for some software that would help me experiment with sequencing my photos for zines and exhibits and photo essays. i have tried the following:

>digikam
this is what i use to organize photos into sets. its fine. but it gives me thumbnails which are sorted by date or whatever. there’s no way to do sequencing as far as i know.

>notion.so
not bad. you can drag photos around easily, put them next to eachother etc. requires a paid subscription to be able to upload large images though. i am allergic to paid subscriptions.

>affinity publisher (similar to adobe indesign)
not very good for quick experiments because dragging things around is tedious. the advantage though is that what you get is literally a photobook. so you’re closer to a result when you play with this app.

>ordering a shitload of small prints
i saw some jesus youtuber guy talk about this. its fine, i guess. but i dont’ want to order a bunch of prints, and i don’t have much clean physical space to arrange them in, since my house is also the toilet. im really looking for a software solution that i can use to drag a thousand images around.

>photomechanic
$299-399 for a perpetual license. haha.