Early accessYour photos, found and organised.
Dot Photos organises the photos and videos already on your computer, on Windows and Linux. Search by the words inside photos, clear out duplicates and find any day in seconds. Indexing and edits never change your originals.
Windows · Linux Mint & Ubuntu
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Settings
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Privacy & data
Settings shows exactly what Dot Photos stores on your computer. No account, no tracking, photos never uploaded. The app only goes online if you download the Smart search model.
Try it
Highlights
Find anything. Keep only the best.
Describe a photo to find it
Optional Smart search, after a one-time download. It matches things, scenes and colours.
⌕ “dog on grass”
Free the space taken by copies
Exact copies and look-alikes. You tick, they go to Trash.
Clear out the shots you will never use
Bursts keep the sharpest. Blurry and very dark photos are flagged for you to review.
Jump to any month or place
A timeline of your years and months. GPS photos group by area, worked out offline.
New in Build 10
Yours, and only yours.
Private Vault
Move photos in and they're encrypted (AES-256) with your passphrase, with a recovery key you can print. They only open inside the Vault.
People, if you want it
Optional face grouping that runs only on this computer. Type a name once. Erase all face data with one click.
Send to your phone
Scan a QR code on your home Wi-Fi and the photos go straight across. Nothing goes through the internet.
Bring your photos home
Import a cloud photo export with the real dates and places kept, and duplicates skipped.
App lock
A passcode when Dot Photos opens or sits idle, so a shared computer stays private.
Create
PDF from photos, convert and resize, batch rename, compare two photos and convert videos, all from one page.
Text in photos
Point at a word. Dot Photos already read it.
Words on receipts, signs and screenshots are read in the background, fully offline. Search finds them, and the info panel shows them.
CORNER CAFETable 4 · 09:41
Flat white2 × 4.20
Croissant1 × 3.50
Total 11.90
Thank youHighlights & one library
Every folder, one library. Then it brings the good ones back.
Add the folders you already have. Dot Photos indexes them where they are, and Highlights brings back On this day, a throwback year and your favourites.
PicturesDownloadsDesktopPhone backupExternal driveCamera cardPicturesDownloadsDesktopPhone backupExternal driveCamera card
One library, on your computer
Edit & convert
Fix it, convert it, share it. The original stays put.
Drag to compare Auto enhance
Crop, brightness, contrast, colour, warmth and sharpness. Saved as a new copy.
BeforeAfterPhotos to PDF
A4, Letter or fit. Drag to reorder.
PDFHEIC to JPEG, PNG or WebP
Resize too. GPS is removed from copies by default.
IMG_2041.HEICJPEGPNGWebP
Videos made smaller
MP4, a smaller 720p MP4, WebM or audio only.
Birthday.mp4original
720p MP4never overwrites the original
↑ 0 KB sent↓ 0 KB receivedWhat Dot Photos sends and receives while you use it. The one exception is the optional Smart search model, downloaded only when you click Download.
Nothing is uploaded
No account, no tracking, no telemetry. Your photos never leave your computer.
Your originals stay as they are
Indexing never moves, renames or changes your files. Edits and exports save as new files.
Your data, your call
Settings shows exactly what is stored on your computer. Back up, restore or erase all Dot Photos data in one click. Your photos are never deleted.
The full feature list.
Get started
Your photo folders, found for you
Choose a folder, use your Pictures folder, or let it look for you. It searches your drives, skips system folders and icons, and lists photo folders for you to confirm.
Browse while it is still indexing
A progress bar shows how far it has got, and photos appear as they are found. A short start guide shows you around, and you can hide it.
Every photo in one fast grid
Thumbnail grid with adjustable size and six sort orders, and a sidebar for favorites, videos, screenshots, tags, folders, albums and files it can't open. Full-screen viewer with zoom, pan, view-only rotate and keyboard shortcuts.
Browse
Jump to any month or place
Browse by year and month. Photos with GPS group into areas, worked out offline.
Every detail at a glance
Date, size, camera, location, folder, editable tags and the text found in the photo.
Rediscover photos you forgot
On this day, recently added, a throwback year and a favorites mix, the same picks all day, and you can dismiss any. Slideshow in full screen with 3, 5 or 10 seconds, shuffle and smooth fades.
Search
Find a photo by what you remember
Name, folder, tag, dates and ranges, size, width and height, orientation, camera, file type, GPS, favorites, screenshots, blurry or dark.
Yes, it finds the words in your receipts
Words on signs, receipts and screenshots are read in the background, fully offline. Search finds them.
Describe a photo to find it (optional)
Describe a photo, like “dog on a beach” or “birthday cake”. Needs a one-time download of about 155 MB (an open image model), checked before use, then works offline. It matches objects, scenes and colours, not specific people.
Organise
Organise without touching your files
None of them change your files. The selection bar acts on everything selected, and “Needs review” lists photos not yet tagged or in an album.
Albums that fill themselves
Save any search as an album that updates by itself.
Rename in bulk, with undo
A live preview, clash checks and one-click undo.
Clean up
Free the space taken by copies
Exact copies checked byte for byte, and look-alikes with adjustable strictness.
Clear out the shots you will never use
Keeps the sharpest shot of a burst and finds blurry or very dark photos. You review and tick, and removed files go to the system Trash so you can restore them.
Pick the better shot side by side
Two photos side by side with linked zoom, or a before/after slider.
Edit and export
Fix a photo, keep the original
Free, original, square, 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 crops, rotate, flip, Auto enhance, brightness, contrast, colour, warmth and sharpness. Hold to see the original. Saves “name (edited)” next to it.
Make copies ready to share
JPEG, PNG or WebP with a preview of every new file, and GPS removed from copies by default. Make a PDF from photos in A4, Letter or fit, dragging to reorder. Exports never overwrite existing files.
Shrink videos to share them
MP4, a smaller 720p MP4, WebM or audio only.
Make it yours
Make it look like yours
Dark or light, six accent colours and four text sizes.
Set the grid the way you like
Thumbnail size, file names on or off and your default sort.
Fast with a keyboard, clear for screen readers
Shortcuts for everything, and every control is labelled for screen readers.
Pricing
Fair, simple pricing. Downloads aren't available yet. Join early access and we'll email you the price when it's ready. No payment now.
Requirements
- Windows
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Portable app: unzip and run, no admin rights needed.
- Linux
- Linux Mint, Ubuntu and similar, 64-bit. Installs just for you, no sudo.
- Video
- Video conversion needs FFmpeg.
- Formats
- Common photo formats including HEIC. RAW camera formats aren't supported yet.
Questions you might have.
When can I get Dot Photos?
Downloads aren't available yet. Join early access and we'll email you when it's ready.
Will it change or move my photos?
No. It reads your folders where they are. Edits and exports are saved as new files.
Does it recognise faces?
Only if you want it to. People is optional: after a one-time 39 MB download it groups faces on this computer. Faces are never uploaded, and you can erase all face data with one click. It isn't perfect with side profiles, babies and tiny faces, so you can merge or fix groups.
What if I delete something by mistake?
Removed files go to your system Trash, so you can restore them. Batch rename has one-click undo.
Does it need the internet?
No. Only the optional Smart search model needs a one-time download.
Can I remove all its data?
Yes. Settings shows what's stored and erases all Dot Photos data in one click. Your photos are never deleted.