Any suggestions for a software to catalog the 30k photos on my pc?

I spent $80 on this crap software (I will post the name if I find the damn thing again.) I threw it somewhere after seeing how screwed up it made everything. I need it to file by date created ,not modified, and only preview each folder by month, year…The crap version opened everything in preview pane and sorted illogically. Obviously opening 30k pic in preview defeated the purpose of time saving and efficiency I was going for and exhausted my patience. PLease only refer if you have first hand knowledge since all sound great on paper and in sales pitches. I need real user advice! thanks!