Shotwell Alternatives

Shotwell is described as 'Open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment' and is a very popular Photo Manager in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Shotwell for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best Shotwell alternative is Ente Photos, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shotwell are digiKam, XnView MP, darktable and RawTherapee.

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  1. Recall Photos icon
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    Recall is an open-source and decentralized alternative to Google Photos built on top of Blockstack. Photos are stored encrypted with the user's private key and therefore not accessible to anyone else.

    68 Recall Photos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Blockstack
     
  2. Pix icon
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    An image viewer and browser utility - primarily for Linux Mint. Pix is part of the X-Apps project, which aims at producing cross-distribution and cross-desktop software.

    28 Pix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  3. QuMagie icon
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    QuMagie is a QTS photo management application that uses AI to help you manage photos and videos stored on your QNAP NAS. QuMagie integrates facial recognition and object recognition to make browsing and organizing photos and videos easier than ever before.

    52 QuMagie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  4. Vipsdisp icon
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    Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without using much memory. As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL and GIF, it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS, MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
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    Pics.io is a cloud-based service that enables photographers to work with no syncing hassles and storage issues. It stores everything valuable (photos, metadata, catalog) securely on the web allowing to work from anywhere, using any device you have.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    WidsMob Viewer is a super fast photo viewer for Mac, support RAW formats and ordinary photo formats. It also provides some excellent photo editing and managing features, such as batch process, select photos from different folders and more.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. KPhotoAlbum icon
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    If you have hundreds or even thousands of images on your hard drive, it becomes impossible to remember the story behind every single image or the names of the persons photographed. KPhotoAlbum was created to help you describe your images and then search the big pile of pictures...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    A fast and powerful file browser, ideal for viewing RAW images, as well as searching and sorting your media libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Tiat icon
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    Finally, a simple and powerful image organizer. Tiat is a simple and powerful image organizer, build for designers, photographers and magpies. Tiat can handle millions of images with high performance and smooth user experence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Tropy icon
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    Bring order to your research — use the power of Tropy to organize and describe your research photos so you can quickly find your sources whenever you need them, whether that’s days or years later.

    13 Tropy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  11. Pentaprism icon
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    An image sorting software that displays images, tags them internally based on your keypresses, and finally separates them into individual folders based on their tag.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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