The Best Free Picasa AlternativesTop Photo Managers & Image Viewers like Picasa

The best free alternative to Picasa is digiKam, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Picasa and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Picasa are FastStone Image Viewer, Ente Photos, ImageGlass and Fossify Gallery.

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  1. digiKam icon

    digiKam

     368 likes

    digiKam is an advanced digital photo management tool that simplifies importing and organizing photos into albums. It supports various formats including RAW, features tagging, metadata management, duplicate finder, photo editing, sharing, GPS data handling, and has cross-platform compatibility.

    131 digiKam alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Qt
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    digiKam vs Picasa Comments
    Elros Telperien
    Positive
    4

    Great photo and tag management tools. It's also apparently the only program, from the ones listed, that has facial recognition features (although not great in comparison to Picasa's).

    tomater
    Negative
    0

    Well, the UI of digiKam is a torture. Using it after Picase is like going from UI back to command line. It's packed with features, yes, but UI overcomplicated far beyond what is necessary. Tabs on top, tabs on the left, tabs on the right, and yes, each window section can also have tabs...

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It plays motion Gifs, and has the functionality I was looking for after Picasa as a program on my computer, not on google servers

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    • digiKam is Free and Open SourcePicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
    • digiKam is Privacy focusedPicasa is not according to our users
  2. FastStone Image Viewer icon

    FastStone Image Viewer

     486 likes

    Fast image browser and editor for Windows with robust support for browsing, editing, and conversion. Features red-eye removal, resizing, enhanced EXIF access, and musical slideshows with over 150 effects.

    149 FastStone Image Viewer alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    FastStone Image Viewer vs Picasa Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    1

    decent sorting, good full-screen view. Fair replacement to but sub-par to Picasa.

    • FastStone Image Viewer is Free Personal and ProprietaryPicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
    • FastStone Image Viewer is an Image Viewer Picasa is a Photo Manager
    • FastStone Image Viewer is LightweightPicasa is not according to our users
  4. Ente Photos icon

    Ente Photos

     207 likes

    Open-source, end-to-end encrypted backup and sharing for photos and videos, multi-platform sync, original quality preservation, privacy-first design, collaborative albums, family sharing, secure external sharing, robust data replication, and device imports.

    163 Ente Photos alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Flatpak
    • Cloudron
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    Ashampoo Photo Commander

    Ashampoo Photo Commander provides robust photo management, editing, and sharing, along with audio and video features. It includes automatic image optimization, batch processing, and tools for red-eye correction, noise reduction, ...

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    ImageGlass

     266 likes

    A feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.

    90 ImageGlass alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    ImageGlass vs Picasa Comments
    BarnMTB
    Positive
    0

    While ImageGlass is only a photo viewer and not a full-on Photo Management software, ImageGlass can be configured to look and work pretty similarly to the Picasa Photo Viewer (part of Picasa), albeit it doesn't match Picasa's Photo Viewer completely. ImageGlass itself is a great piece of software.

    • ImageGlass is Free and Open SourcePicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
    • ImageGlass is an Image Viewer Picasa is a Photo Manager
    • ImageGlass is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusedPicasa is not according to our users
  8. Fossify Gallery icon

    Fossify Gallery

     116 likes

    Privacy-focused offline gallery offers photo and video management, editing tools, secure locking by pin or fingerprint, EXIF metadata removal, recycle bin support for recovery, universal format compatibility, customizable material design themes, and no ads or trackers.

    74 Fossify Gallery alternatives

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    • OpenAPK
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  9. nomacs icon

    nomacs

     255 likes

    nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.

    107 nomacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
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    nomacs vs Picasa Comments
    yuriykaz
    Positive
    0

    Nomacs is an image and photo browser and viewer. It's fast, cross-platform, and open source.

    • nomacs is Free and Open SourcePicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
    • nomacs is an Image Viewer Picasa is a Photo Manager
    • nomacs is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusedPicasa is not according to our users
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    Shotwell

     188 likes

    Shotwell is an open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment.

    113 Shotwell alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    Shotwell vs Picasa Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Works like Picasa (the Windows program) and its editor is so easy as powerfull.

    Windowsfree
    Positive
    0

    sorting and editing abilities

    • Shotwell is Free and Open SourcePicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Shotwell is Lightweight and Privacy focusedPicasa is not according to our users
  12. Apple Photos icon

    Apple Photos

     63 likes

    Photos is a digital photograph manipulation application developed by Apple, intended to be less complex than its predecessor iPhoto .

    146 Apple Photos alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Apple Photos vs Picasa Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Apple Photos backs up your photos automatically and allows you to keep the original, unedited photo.

    Guest
    Negative
    0

    It doesn't have the same organizing and album things and it constantly uses up the system and is not user friendly

    Guest
    Negative
    -2

    Cannot upload to google photos. I can share photos to flickr but selecting more than 99 photos will disable that option too. Cunning product design that they don't support integration with google product.

    • Apple Photos is Free and ProprietaryPicasa is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Piwigo

     74 likes

    Manage your photo collection with Piwigo Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.

    146 Piwigo alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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    gThumb

     108 likes

    gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

    127 gThumb alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  15. Simple Gallery icon

    Simple Gallery

     85 likes

    Simple Gallery is a highly customizable offline gallery. Organize & edit your photos, recover deleted files with the recycle bin, protect & hide files and view a huge variety of different photo & video formats including RAW, SVG and much more.

    67 Simple Gallery alternatives

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    • Warning

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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