Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

Post by theshrike79 » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

mac-monet wrote: post #10

A bit off-topic, but the point on duplicate detection reminded me of a thought I've had while taking photos on trips, in a swarm of other people doing the same. I've always wondered how much of the ICloud's storage is taken up by duplicate photos across everyone's phones. How many petabyte would this be? Imagine swapping one person out for another, in the same exact location in an image. How many then?

Post by delusional » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #9

mcvanhassel wrote: post #2

Hey HN! After drowning in 50,000+ unorganized photos across multiple devices and much frustration, I built FlipFocus Photo Organizer to solve my own problem. What it does: * Smart organization - Sorts by date/device/EXIF automatically * Duplicate detection - Finds duplicates even with different filenames * 100% offline - Your photos never leave your device * Cross-platform - macOS & Windows Why I built it: A lot of p…

$25 for this app is quite expensive. not sure how much I would pay for it. I would consider this only if it was completely free, open-source, and self-deployed. so would use it only at $0.

Post by nottorp » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

Amwam wrote: post #6

Brajeshwar wrote: post #5

First, is it just me, or can I not scroll your website (tried different browsers), though I can click the links to hop around. Second, I’d love this to be like Obsidian. Takes care of the organization without dumping it in a local database with metadata. As part of my digital chores, I back up and export a copy of each month’s photos from Apple Photos. I want to organize them decoupled from Apple’s App. Will “Photo O…

> First, is it just me, or can I not scroll your website (tried different browsers), though I can click the links to hop around. It is the same for me. Looks like there is an `overflow:hidden` style applied to the body for some reason Edit: Tried a different browser, there is a cookie popup that was getting blocked. I think that is blocking the scroll

Post by mkbkn » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC

Post by reassess_blind » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:51 AM UTC