HACKER Q&A
📣 b20000

Best organizing software for large photo collections on Linux


What is your favourite application for organizing very large (100GB+) collections of photos on linux? Features I am personally interested in is automatically detecting duplicates, various ways to view collections, for example by date range etc without having to do any manual work, automatically sorting photos into folders to keep the number of files per folder limited, etc.

  👤 FrenchAmerican Accepted Answer ✓
Digikam is good. I haven't found anything great yet, but my 40,000 photos are well enough organized using Digikam's features.

What I like is that its database is easily hackable through scripts (I use Python). So one can fit one's - peculiar by nature - needs.

The face recognition feature is way back when compared to Windows Photos though. Of course MS has a whole team working on this, difficult to compete.

👤 mikewarot
I'll second Digikam. It's fairly good (though buggy under Windows 10, I assume since it's a KDE project it works perfectly under Linux).

I've had my photos sorted into yyyy\yyyymmdd folders forever, it makes finding things much easier.