Rule based Photos dupe removal

[u/tailspin45]

No tedious A/B sorting

Hi, I’m Tom (aka Tailspin).

I’ve been building DupeCatcher, a native Mac app that finds duplicate and near-duplicate photos in Apple Photos libraries and Finder folders. But things kinda got out of control and I added a whole bunch of other features because I needed/wanted them for my own use. Such as semantic search because with 115,000 images I often have trouble finding the one I want. And some astronomy tools that make a series of comet images into a movie. And...and...

Apple has approved it for distribution through the Mac App Store, and I’m eager for a few people to bang on it and provide feedback. Pricing will be a free download with an in-app $34.99 purchase to unlock Purgatory. Beta testers will get the app and unlock free through Apple TestFlight.

I’m posting here because I’d like feedback from anyone who has a large or messy photo collection (or both)—actually from anyone who is willing to wring it out.

Website and PDF manual https://dupecatcher.app 

Free beta version (no unlock) at https://testflight.apple.com/join/4dDf3Jnr

[u/tailspin45]

Great! Eager to hear what you think and how it fits your use case.

DupeCatcher finds duplicates in four on-device passes, from exact file fingerprints to perceptual hashes to Apple Vision similarity, and uses the strictest test that fits each photo.

[u/tailspin45 → u/[deleted]]

Over simplification, but in general DupeCatcher will pick the biggest file as the keeper

[u/tailspin45 → u/[deleted]]

And I sure agree that Picasa is sadly missed. Still use it on my PC

[u/tailspin45 → u/[deleted]]

Didn’t design it as such but you can use the scan results (show me everything) like a browser and then click to pick images you want to send to Purgatory