Photos Duplicate Cleaner

[Lane Frisch]

Youcan easily remove duplicate photos and videos from your library. Duplicates appear automatically in the Duplicates album in the sidebar. (Depending on the size of your library, duplicates may take some time to appear as Photos analyzes your photos.)

One original photo or video appears where the selected duplicates were located in your library. Deleted duplicates appear in the Recently Deleted album, where you can recover or permanently delete them.

Duplicate Cleaner has enough features to satisfy even the most demanding power user: findduplicate folders, unique files, search inside zip files, advanced filtering, virtual folders,snapshot states and much more.Full feature list

Duplicate Cleaner is a tool for finding and removing duplicate files from your computeror network drives. It is intended to be used on user content - documents, photos,images, music, video but can be used to scan any type of files.

Free has the basic functionality, and is only for personal/home use - not for use in acommercial environment. Pro has lots more functions including similar image detection,finding duplicate folders and unique files, searching in zip files and advanced filtersand search methods.Full featurelist and comparison.

Duplicate Cleaner (Pro Edition) is licensed for Personal or Commercial use. The Licenseis perpetual and all updates to the Duplicate Cleaner 5 series are included in theprice.Includes technical support by via our support centre and the forum.

I'm concerned that it may delete photo files that I don't want it to. As I understand it from the software description the app will find duplicates based on the image rather than the file name, which makes sense to me because the majority of my photos won't have specific names that I have given them. For example, I've just done a quick search and there are around 40 photo files called 008.JPG on my system, many are duplicates but about 15 are individual pictures that I want to keep. Obviously I don't want to be left with just one 008.JPG photo after running the app.

Once marked there is a Trash Marked button you can select if desired. That creates an album by the name of Duplicate Marked Photos containing those photos that were marked as duplicates. It will be up to you to actually delete them from the library.

That being said consider using PowerPhotos nstead. It's more powerful and can do what iPhoto Library Manage could for iPhoto, i.e. merge libraries, copy albums/photos between libraries with their metadata (keywords, titles, descriptions, faces, locations). IMO it's a much more worthwhile app.

Over time, duplicate photos can accumulate in the Photos app and folders on your Mac. They can take up storage space and lead to clutter and disorganization. The most efficient way to get rid of them is to use a duplicate photo finder or cleaner, a type of software designed to automatically identify duplicate photos and quickly remove duplicates.

I tested about two dozens of duplicate photo finder apps for Mac. Seven of them stood out. These seven apps are talked about in this article. All of them can deal with duplicate photos, i.e. photos that are exactly identical (regardless of name). Some of them can also handle similar photos (aka near-duplicate photos), like photos that look the same but have different formats or resolutions or photos that look alike.

Some apps can look for duplicate photos in both the Photos app and folders, and some only work with folders or the Photos app. Some are only compatible with newer macOS versions, and some support both new and old versions.

It displays the found duplicate photos and similar ones separately under two different tabs in its results window. There are three view modes, allowing you to conveniently preview photos side by side and see photo information.

In each set of duplicate photos, the app automatically selects all but one photo for deletion. You can select or deselect photos by hand too. There are also selection rules to help you select. Similar photos are not automatically selected, but selection rules are available to help. The deleted duplicates are moved to the Recently Deleted album in the Photos app or the Trash.

PhotoSweeper can be a good choice for photographers due to its support for Capture One and Adobe Lightroom Classic. It can also be a good choice for advanced users due to the many settings to play around with and customize. But some users may find this app confusing or overwhelming to use.

This duplicate photo finder for Mac supports folders, the Photos app and the two apps mentioned above. There are three sets of settings to compare photos, one to detect duplicate photos and the other two to detect similar ones. In version 4.8.5, a touch of AI slightly improves the accuracy in similar image detection. This app is indeed outstanding when it comes to finding similar photos and its customizability. But it missed a set of duplicate photos in the test.

It offers enough photo information and options when it comes to viewing duplicate photos and selecting duplicates for removal, which, if you are a photographer or know about photos, can help you deal with the found identical or similar photos in the most ideal way possible.

Like PhotoSweeper, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro supports folders and the Photos app, has the ability to look for duplicate photos and similar ones, and displays duplicates and similar ones in together for users to view and handle.

There are two modes, one to find identical photos only and the other to find both identical and similar ones. The latter provides four settings for users to tweak. In the test, this app also missed a set of duplicate photos. It does a good job of identifying certain edited (like resized, flipped or cropped) versions of the same photo, but fails to find similar pictures taken by my phone.

Hey, Rosa Reyes! Nice name, where are you from? I am Venezuelan. :)Thank you a lot for this post! Most apps did not help me, but the free one kind of did. It is nice to find such in-depth review of these apps, because right now I have a 10,000-items Finder Folder, and I am pretty sure every two of them are duplicates. :P

Hi, Isaiah, Cisdem DuplicateFinder can find and remove duplicate files from virtually any storage devices like internal Mac hard drives, external hard drives, cameras, iPods, USB flash drives, memory cards, etc

I've tried a lot of duplicate photo finders over the years, but i never found a perfect duplicate photo finder which could satisfy all my needs, but i will keep trying. Thanks for sharing these duplicate photo cleaner for me to try.

First, are you sure they are duplicates? I have to ask that because I get people asking me all the time about this and it turns out they are viewing the same photo in the Library (All Photos) and then in some albums. Those, of course, are not duplicates as the photos are there only once. Albums are just a different way of viewing them.

If you do see the same photo repeated more than once in your All Photos list, then the first thing you need to do is to figure out how it got that way. You've got to make sure if doesn't happen again.

Sometimes people import the photos from a camera, select not to delete them on the camera, and then import them again the next time. The Photos app warns you when this happens, but the warning can be ignored. Other times people are syncing via iCloud, or maybe Photo Stream, and then also importing manually. Whatever the reason, make sure you change the behavior or the problem won't go away.

Now to delete them I recommend only one method: manually. Photos are just too valuable to leave it to any photo-duplicate-cleaner app, not matter if it is trustworthy or not. In All Photos any true duplicate will be next to the original, so it will be easy to spot. Just go through all of your photos and clean it up. If there are too many, then try doing it in groups, 10 minutes today, 10 minutes tomorrow.

If you have your photos synced to an iOS device, use the app 'Remo Duplicate Photos Remover' from the app store. It is free, locates the duplicates and then gives you the opportunity to remove them one by one. I have been working on my photos app, albums and metadata during the lockdown. I had hundreds of photos that were duplicates and I found this app a Godsend. Hope that helps.

Brian: If all the app does is to show you duplicates one-by-one, then why do you need it? Just look in All Photos and you'll see duplicates together (same photo, same time). Plus you can also see photos you may want to delete for other reasons. No third-party app required.

And don't forget that simply removing duplicates is a temporary fix. You've got to figure out why you have duplicates and change that behavior so it isn't a constant problem.

Hi Gary, I recently started using iCloud photos and at the same time I backed up my old iPad in preparation for moving to a new iPad. Now I have about 4 duplicates of many of my photos! I have over 9,000 so the idea of doing it one by one is overwhelming. My photos are not works of art, but they are memories. Isn't there at least 1 program that you trust fairly well to remove duplicate photos?

Thank you so much, Pamela

Pamela: Are you sure you have that many duplicates? If you use Library view, do you actually see the same image 4 times, and then the next image 4 times, etc? I have to ask because all too often people look in Library and then in an album or other way of viewing the photos and assume each view is a separate copy of the photo, when it is just different ways to view the same photo.

Otherwise, first try to make sure you understand what happened to create so many duplicates so it doesn't happen again. Review your settings carefully. Then manual deletion is all I would recommend. Do it in small batches, 10 minutes here and there.

Thank you for responding Gary, yes I am sure they are duplicates. And I do know the cause - it was a one time manual back up from my phone and then from my old iPad. I wanted to turn off photo stream and turn on iCloud photos. It gave me a message that turning off photo stream would delete 30 photos permanently. I didn't know which 30 they were so I did a manual backup to my mac, knowing it would create some duplicates. Then I did a manual back up of my iPad in preparation for transitionin

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