PhotoSortBuddy: Photo Manager
Catalogs, duplicates & drives
Only for Mac
$17.99
Mac
Find photos across folders and external drives. Keep catalog previews when a drive is offline, and check exact duplicates. One purchase, no subscription.
Your photos do not all live in one place. Your photo organizer should help you find them anyway.
PhotoSortBuddy gives you a clear view of images across your Mac, external drives, USB storage, iCloud Drive and your Photos library. Build useful collections while keeping originals where you want them.
ORGANIZE WITHOUT MAKING EXTRA COPIES
Create catalogs for trips, clients, family or personal projects. Select a group of images and drag the entire selection into a catalog. The same image can appear in several catalogs without a new original copy for each one.
KNOW WHERE EVERY FILE BELONGS
See the storage location beneath each image. Name folders and drives in a way that makes sense to you. Browse saved previews even when an external drive is disconnected.
REVIEW DUPLICATES WITH CONFIDENCE
Find identical files by their contents, even if their names differ. Use the separate visual-similarity search to find candidates worth comparing. You choose what to keep; nothing is deleted automatically.
MOVE FILES WHEN YOU MEAN TO
Catalogs organize your collection. Physical folders hold your files. When you want to copy or move originals, choose a folder, review the operation and start it yourself.
BRING PHOTOS AND ICLOUD INTO THE PICTURE
Add permitted Photos items and request cloud downloads when needed. Complete-resource export includes the Live Photo and RAW/JPEG components that Photos makes available.
MADE FOR EVERYDAY PHOTO ORGANIZATION
Search, filter, rename and open originals in your preferred editor. Built-in catalog backups and searchable help support your workflow. One-time purchase, with no subscription.
Requires macOS 14 or later. Photos access requires permission; cloud downloads require internet access. Actions on originals require available files. Catalog backups do not replace backups of original images. Edits to working copies opened from Photos are not automatically written back to the library.
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Information
- Seller
- thomas pentzek
- Size
- 4.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Thomas Pentzek
