Photo-Manager is packed with powerful tools for organizing, editing, and enjoying your photo library—all running at native speed.
Add folders, scan for media, and browse your entire library with a responsive grid that handles any size collection.
The media grid uses virtual scrolling with absolute positioning to render only visible thumbnails. Scroll through 100,000+ items as smoothly as scrolling through 100.
Find any photo instantly. Search by filename, filter by type, favorites, or tags. Sort by date taken, date imported, name, or file size.
Double-click any item to see the full picture. Complete EXIF data, camera settings, GPS coordinates, file info, and more.
Select one, dozens, or all items with clicks, checkboxes, or keyboard shortcuts. Then act on everything at once.
Group your photos the way you think about them. Albums for events, tags for themes, favorites for the best shots.
Create albums to group related photos. Add items by dragging from the grid to album names in the sidebar. Album cover thumbnails update automatically.
Create tags with custom colors for flexible categorization. A single photo can have multiple tags. Click a tag in the sidebar to filter the grid instantly.
Mark your best photos as favorites with a single click or keyboard shortcut. Filter the grid to show only favorites for quick access to your top shots.
Deleted items go to the trash, not into oblivion. Browse trashed items, restore anything by mistake, or permanently delete when you’re sure.
Non-destructive editing tools give you creative control without risking your originals.
Every edit is stored as a set of JSON instructions on the media record—your original files are never modified.
The edit pipeline applies operations in a fixed order (rotate, flip, crop, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpen)
for consistent results. Live CSS preview shows changes instantly while you adjust sliders. When you export,
the Rust backend applies all edits pixel-by-pixel using the image crate for high-quality output.
Not just photos. Photo-Manager handles your entire media library including videos, HEIC, and Live Photos.
Photo-Manager probes each video file to detect its codec. H.264 files play natively in the built-in player. HEVC, ProRes, and other formats are automatically transcoded to MP4 in the background.
Photo-Manager reads 22+ media formats out of the box. HEIC from iPhones, RAW-adjacent formats, standard web formats, and all common video containers.
Three-tier thumbnail strategy for maximum speed: EXIF thumbnail extraction (~1ms), scaled JPEG decode (~50ms), and full decode fallback for non-JPEG formats.
Perceptual hashing (pHash) finds visually similar images even when resized, recompressed, or converted to a different format. Review duplicates and keep the best version.
Get photos in from any device. Get them out in any format you need.
Plug in your iPhone or any MTP device and import photos directly. No cloud sync, no iTunes dependency. Photos are copied to a destination folder of your choice.
Export selected photos with full control. Resize, convert formats, adjust JPEG quality, strip metadata for privacy, and apply any pending edits during export.
Power users rejoice. Every major action has a keyboard shortcut. Navigate, select, edit, and organize without touching the mouse.
Photo-Manager is designed for speed. These shortcuts work globally, with smart context awareness that disables them when typing in search or input fields.
Photo-Manager is actively developed. Here’s what’s on the roadmap.
Share your library across multiple computers. Changes to favorites, tags, albums, and edits sync automatically via a lightweight server.
Simple license key activation for premium features. Manage devices and sync from a web dashboard.
Stay on the latest version with seamless background updates. Download, verify, install, and restart—all with one click.
Download Photo-Manager and see the difference native performance makes.
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