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It’s well worth the price if you routinely experience frustration within Photos for tasks it lacks or is poor at, such as library management and searches.

After entering a search, PowerPhotos lets you constrain it to a filename, caption, keywords, or other elements.

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You can select to search against the full library, favorites, albums, or other subsets. PowerPhotos also has you start with a single search field. For simplicity, Apple either lets you search in a single field and then refine it from a popup set of matching results or use a smart folder to add criteria for more complicated matching. PowerPhotos’s search controls offer an alternative to those in Photos.

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It allows previewing and other actions, and downloads any images or videos to your Mac when they’re needed, just like Photos.Ī list-based view lets you see more information at a glance as you review photos in libraries and albums. With version 1, PowerPhotos couldn’t access media stored in iCloud version 2 takes care of that. Version 2 also solves a problem that made the app useless to people who relied on iCloud Photos with optimization enabled. Apple also doesn’t expose its logic so you can understand why it selected some images as duplicates and others not.)Īfter finding duplicates, PowerPhotos includes sophisticated review options so you can ensure you’re retaining the right one. (macOS Ventura, iOS 16, and iPadOS 16 include a machine-learning-assisted Duplicates album, but as with most things Apple, it’s automatic, quite useful, and cannot be configured. The core de-duplication feature in PowerPhotos has expanded its utility by allowing visual matches that you can limit or refine based on image data, like dimensions or the embedded timestamp. The new version of PowerPhotos enhances export options far beyond the limited, useful choices within Photos. But you’ll turn to Photos for making and managing albums, viewing and applying metadata, and editing images and videos.Įnhanced export options in version 2 provide more detailed choices than in Photos. It also provides both a thumbnail- and list-based view in contrast to Photos, which shows only thumbnails. PowerPhotos relies on Photos as an engine to drive its management, search, and export options. You might consider PowerPhotos as a sidecar to Photos instead of a replacement: the two overlap only in certain ways.

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The program lets you merge Photos libraries, view multiple libraries without quitting Photos and re-selecting them (including in separate windows simultaneously), create libraries on external files, and move or copy images and videos among libraries without losing information you’ve added or edits you’ve made. The app is the solution for many of the problems with Photos that people routinely write to us about at Mac 911.

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Fat Cat Software’s PowerPhotos has filled that role since 2015, and the company released a major update in 2022 to version 2 that offers even more refinement. However, Photos still has substantial missing pieces for managing libraries. The current version mostly resembles the one introduced but with everything working reliably most of the time. ProsManages and acts on multiple Photos librariesDe-duplication of imagesOpen multiple libraries at once in separate windowsMerges librariesCopies and moves media among librariesAdvanced export optionsWorks with iCloud Photos-stored images and videosConsNo metadata inspectorOur VerdictPowerPhotos offers the missing management features needed in the Photos app while adding powerful de-duplication, an alternate search approach, and a list view.Īpple has matured its Photos app for macOS substantially in the several years since the company cut the thread for iPhoto and declared Photos its new approach.

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