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Description

PhotoSweeper is a fast, precise & super efficient tool to eliminate similar or duplicate photos even in huge photo collections. It works with Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, Capture One and Lightroom media libraries as well as photos from your hard drives and external storages.

“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 photos with software like Photoshop, Pixelmator etc., and make backups just in case.
• You have photos scattered on external hard drives and local disks, in Apple Photos, iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom libraries.
• You have a mess in your photo collection or just want to free disk space by removing junk photos.

Features

• Easy search of photos
Just drag and drop folders from your Mac to allow PhotoSweeper to find all photos inside. Add more photos from your Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, Capture One or Lightroom library via the Media Browser window.

• Flexible comparison settings
Powerful multi-settings to easily find duplicates, similar photos, series of shots. The app finds duplicate photos, even those edited in external programs such Photoshop, regardless of image size or format.

• “Side to Side” comparison
Find duplicates between two groups of photos while ignoring those inside each group. It allow you to compare the contents of two folders with each other or find similar photos to a single image.

• High speed and quality
PhotoSweeper was developed as a tool for extremely fast comparison of a huge number of photos. Cutting-edge technologies and unique algorithms make searching duplicates incredibly fast and gives excellent comparison results.

• Efficiency
You can regroup the results without re-comparing photos by changing matching level with a slider. Using caches makes the next comparison much faster.

• Marking duplicates automatically
Mark photos you want to get rid of manually, or use the "Auto Mark" feature to mark duplicates automatically based on the list of rules you can adjust to your needs in the Preferences.

• Comfortable viewing results
PhotoSweeper provides 3 modes for reviewing results: “One by One”, ”Face-to-Face" - one or two large photos with an opportunity to mark a photo with just a click, “All in One“ - all groups of duplicates in one list.

• Great photo browsing
PhotoSweeper also serves as an up-to-date photo browser with a built-in search of photos by metadata, Quick Look preview, the "Info" panel with a detailed photo description, including histogram and image metadata (EXIF, IPTC etc.).

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

What’s New

Version 4.0.1

+ Compatibility with Capture One 21.
+ Other minor improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
307 Ratings

307 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, Ivan Prymak, 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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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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