PhotoSweeper 4+
Smart duplicate photos cleaner
Maksym Cherniaiev
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- $14.99
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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
Worked as it was supposed to.
I have many many photos that I have tried to put together in one place from various family members over many years all from similar events. It was something I had been putting of doing for a long time. This software made it very easy to put all the pics in one folder, then go through all versions of similar pictures in one place. I chose auto select and changed the selection as I went through each set as I desired. I was able to get rid of many versions of essentially the same shot in the 1300 sets of similar pictures it found. I trashed 8GB in one push of a button. I would recommend it to anyone looking to put their photos and videos (I had many version of the same video which had been imported by mistake with a different file name) in order.
Needs more stars
I can't find the option in the AppStore to leave more than 5 stars. This app is worth at least 42 stars. :) I am a power user and know exactly why I have ended up with vast numbers of HEIC and JPEG files which are the same image, but different types and sizes. I know why I have duplicates which are the same picture, but some imported via the Wi-Fi app from my camera and some from SD card, with slightly different metadata and worse jpeg compression on one copy. This app is a massive time saver, and well worth it. The best available IMO. It smells of a developer who built it for their own perposes out of anger and frustration at existing inadequate solutions. Very solid, reliable. Buy it. If you think you need this - you do. Great and fast (all things considered) result on an 800GB iCloud Photo libary here.
Could be more intuitive
This saved countless hours of manual sorting, however there is room for imrovement to make this a 5 star experience.
The auto-mark settings are buried in the Preferences menu. I had trouble with the wrong files being marked for deletion, and each change requires another scan…
I only just discovered that you can drag to re-order the auto-mark logic. After importing photos to scan, these critical settings should be PROMINENTLY shown, and possibly with pre-sets such as “Keep originals”. I spent several scans fumbling with the settings to try to eliminate all the modified duplicates, and filename (1), filename (2) duplicate files it was deciding to keep instead of the original, shorter filename.
Exact match is not what it says. I happened to have a partially corrupted original file, but an intact duplicate of a priceless family photo. PhotoSweeper didn’t notice the very noticable visible difference, and marked the good file for deletion.
Without the slider set to exact match, and Time Gap set to Max, be careful you don’t inadvertently delete all your iPhone screenshots!
Very fast, considering the quantity of files to compare, however PhotoSweeper doesn’t seem to utilise the machine’s full potential. Only 2% of my multi-core CPU was utilised during the scan, memory not fully utilised, and SSD read/write speed with pleny to spare. Makes me wonder whether the hours spent scanning could have been reduced.
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Maksym Cherniaiev
- Size
- 45.9 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Overmacs Team
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.