PhotoSweeper 4+

Smart duplicate photos cleaner

Maksym Cherniaiev

    • 4.7 • 645 Ratings
    • $12.99

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Description

PhotoSweeper is a fast, accurate and highly efficient tool for removing similar or duplicate photos even in huge photo collections. It works with Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, Capture One, and Lightroom Classic media libraries, as well as photos from your hard drives and external drives.

“Swift, easy to use, thorough, analyzes specific libraries, can search according to various criteria, offers choices in photo handling” - TheNextWeb
"PhotoSweeper packs a powerful punch in de-cluttering any size collection. 9/10" - Mac.AppStorm
"PhotoSweeper is a simple and efficient utility for organizing photos. 4.5/5" - Macworld
"The interface is a breeze to use. 9/10" - MacNews
"I do like this app, it works really well and under the hood is written to utilize the abilities of your Mac." - MacTricksAndTips

PhotoSweeper will help you if:

• You take a series of shots of the same scene, trying to get the perfect one.
• You edit your photos with programs like Photoshop, Capture One, etc. and make backups just in case.
• You have photos scattered across external hard drives and local drives, in your Apple Photos, Lightroom Classic, or Capture One libraries.
• Your photo collection is a mess or you just want to free up disk space by deleting unnecessary photos.

Features

• Easy photo search
Just drag and drop folders from your Mac so PhotoSweeper can find all the photos inside. Add more photos from your Photos library, Capture One, or Lightroom Classic through the Media Browser window.

• Flexible comparison settings
Powerful multi-settings for easy search for duplicates, similar photos, series of shots. The program finds duplicate photos, even edited in external programs such as Photoshop, regardless of the size or format of the image.

• “Side to Side” comparison
Find duplicates between two groups of photos. This allows you to compare the contents of two folders or find photos that are similar to a single one.

• High speed and quality
PhotoSweeper was designed as a tool for extremely fast comparison of a huge number of photos. Advanced technologies and unique algorithms make searching for duplicates incredibly fast and provide excellent comparison results.

• Efficiency
You can regroup the results without comparing the photos again by changing the level of matching using the slider. Using a cache makes the following comparison much faster.

• Automatic marking of duplicates
Manually mark the photos you want to get rid of, or use the Auto Mark feature to automatically mark duplicates based on a list of rules that you can customize to suit your setup needs.

• Comfortable reviewing of results
PhotoSweeper provides 3 modes for reviewing the results: "One by One", "Face-to-Face" - one or two large photos with the ability to mark with a single click of the mouse, "All in One" - all groups of duplicates in one list.

• Great photo browsing
PhotoSweeper is also a modern photo browser with built-in metadata photo search, Quick Look preview, Info Panel with detailed photo description including histogram and image metadata (EXIF, IPTC, etc.).


A comprehensive user manual is available on our site: http://overmacs.com/

What’s New

Version 4.8.5

+ Integration with macOS Sonoma.
+ New AI-powered comparison method - "Subjects".
+ New option in Settings to ignore groups with locked photos only.
+ Color Label: tag your photos to organize them in Finder.
+ Enhanced user interface and experience.
+ Fixed issues reported by our customers.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
645 Ratings

645 Ratings

Le vraie Francois ,

Incredible software, and will work directly on Photos file

My Mac Photos file is 1.5T, over 200,000 photos! This software easily found the duplicates, which helped save a lot of wasted storage space on my drive & on the iCloud. In the digital world, where some of us take many shots, this software is fabulous at comparing photos, and cleaning up. Default settings exist, they are good, having said that it allows you to define criterias as simply, or as specifically as you would like.

Given everything this software does, the price is an absolute bargain! Buy it now, you won’t be disappointed
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Greg Veres ,

What a time saver

I stopped actively organizing my photos in 2012 and each year I would get worried that i would lose photos so I started making backup of backups on my NAS. My photos are out of control now and I have about 6 TB of photos that should only take up .75 TB of storage when de-dupped.

This program is making that task possible and doing it in a way that makes it easy. It is still a slow process, but that is because I am loading a directory with hundreds of files over the network to compare with a directory with hundreds of files locally. It still handles it like a champ.

What I learned over the years is don't get sucked into using a program like iPhotos to organize your photos. I was using Aperture when Apple killed it. The problem is that those programs hide your photos. You need to organize your photos using the filesystem so that it is easy to move to the next photo management tool. I have been taking digitial photos for 20 years now and i have been through many photomanagement tools.

I highly recommend Photosweeper for duplicate finding.

TigerWWood ,

Best Photo Duplicate App I've Used

I'm very impressed. It quickly went through a 'mess' going back 20 years - spotting duplicates. Removing of duplicates is easy. The only challenge I encourated - likely due to the size of what I attempted (deleting 500GB of 2TB - which included some video files even though I had tried to avoid that) was that my application memory couldn't accommodate the task. Once I checked for duplicates more incrementally, removed them, and then attempted the overall check again - it worked.

App Privacy

The developer, Maksym Cherniaiev, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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