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I don’t know what kind of algorithm Duplicate Photo Cleaner uses to identify what pictures are similar, but it does a reasonable job. I suppose that while to a human eye these images are all obviously similar, to a computer, it’s not at all obvious, since as far as the computer is concerned every single pixel is different from picture to picture. Here are the thumbnails of the photos I tried:
In truth all 11 photos I tested here ought to have been considered similar, but Duplicate Photo Cleaner said just 8 were similar. With just 11 files, the scan was done very quickly:
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The layout and GUI feels like something from 10 years ago and the window was huge on my laptop.īut as for whether the software actually works or not, I ran a simple test by taking 11 extremely similar photos of my laptop screen as I was writing this post, then fed them into Duplicate Photo Cleaner. I suppose it’s not a big deal, but my first impressions of this software is that it’s a bit goofy. When you open the software for the first time, you’ll see this (click to enlarge):
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It’s a very quick and simple install process, with no options to consider:
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This will start the installer download automatically (52.6MB for Windows at the time of writing). Got to and click the “DOWNLOAD for Windows” or “DOWNLOAD for Mac” button.
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Click here to skip to my verdict on how good Duplicate Photo Cleaner is or keep reading for the full review. In this Duplicate Photo Cleaner review, I’ll download and test the software and share my thoughts on it, with the goal of helping you decide if it’s worth paying for. If the software works as intended, this would be quite helpful in an age where phones and cameras can usually hold thousands of photos, and it’s standard practice to take many photos of something to get a good shot. It does indeed do that, but also can identify photos that are only similar (not 100% identical), and assigns a % rating for just how similar they are (then allows you to delete duplicate or similar images in 1 click). How is this acceptable to Apple's leadership? This feels like a monopoly situation on my most important digital assets, my family photos.When I first came across Duplicate Photo Cleaner, I assumed it would only identify 100% similar photos by comparing photos pixel-by-pixel. I have 30,000 images over a 10 year span. I confirmed this with Apple Support today (10:30am PDT - James - 17:58min hold time) and they're recommendation was to not use any 3rd party app as they will likely corrupt the Apple Photo Library.Īpple support recommends importing all photos and going through them manually. This means Apple Photo will recognize a photo as a duplicate during an import if it has the same file name even when it's a different photo. So you will invariably end up with multiple photos with camera assigned names like IMG_0001 but they are different photos (with the same name). This issue I and I'm sure many others have is that the automatic image naming that various camera's use is often the same.
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Submit Enhancement Request using Apple Mac OS "Photos" app feedback formĭo you or anyone else on the thread know if any of the 3rd party apps mentioned above actually look at the images visual characteristics when determining if it's a duplicate? Submit Enhancement Request using Apple IOS "Photos" app feedback form
Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problemĪpple support "photos" specialist confirmed following :ġ) The new Photos app and old iphoto app had a way to search for duplicates on import this does not work once the duplicate photos are imported into library (by error or otherwise)Ģ) Apple photos has no way to search for duplicate photos, they suggested that users "manually search for duplicate photos".ģ) Apple support do not recommend third party apps to remove photos as they can damage the library.Ĥ) They acknowledged this approach is less than ideal when you have 20,000+ photos (or in my case 80,000 + photos) and suggested that all users who have concerns should log a new feature request using apple feedback form (URL below for IOS and OS Mac Photos feedback form). All, I spoke to Apple support today () and they confirmed that as of today Photos App has no way to identify or find duplicate photos in your photo library or icloud library.
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