Local Windows utility

Photo Organizer

Twelve years of photos in folders called "New folder (3)", with the same holiday saved four times. Photo Organizer renames them from the date the camera recorded, files them where they belong, and shows you exactly how many gigabytes the duplicates are costing you.

Download for Windows

Windows 10/11 (x64) · Free · No account

Files are renamed or moved where you tell them to go — and nothing is deleted without you choosing it.

Abstract illustration: scattered cards settling into ordered stacks with a duplicate pair highlighted, suggesting photos filed by date and duplicates found.

What it's for

Real jobs — Photo Organizer

Not feature bullets — the actual situations people open this for.

A Pictures folder that has grown into hundreds of unsorted subfolders.
Photos from three cameras and two phones that all number their files from 0001.
Finding out how much of a full drive is the same photo saved repeatedly.
Consolidating years of backups into one dated structure before an archive.

What it does

Everything Photo Organizer handles

Everything below runs on your own machine, on as many files as you give it.

Rename by the date taken

Not the file's modified date, which every copy and backup resets — the DateTimeOriginal the camera wrote when the shutter fired.

File into dated folders

Year and month folders, built automatically from the same EXIF date. One structure, applied to everything, instead of whatever each import decided.

Find real duplicates

Perceptual hashing catches the same photo saved twice at different sizes or quality — not just byte-identical files, which is the easy half of the problem.

You choose what goes

Duplicate sets are shown side by side for you to decide on. Nothing is deleted automatically, ever — this is the one tool in the belt that never runs unattended.

Reads HEIC and RAW too

The EXIF date is read from HEIC, RAW, JPEG, TIFF and PNG alike, so an iPhone import and a camera card sort into the same structure.

Rescans are quick

Results are remembered between runs, so a second scan only looks at what actually changed rather than re-reading the whole drive.

How it works

From drop to done

1
Point it at your folders
One folder or several. It reads them where they are — nothing is copied to a library first.
2
Choose rename, file, or scan
Rename from the EXIF date, file into a dated structure, or scan for duplicates. You see exactly what will change before anything does.
3
Review and confirm
Duplicate sets come back as side-by-side comparisons with sizes and dates. You pick what to keep; PhotoTray does not guess for you.

Under the hood

The engines, named

How it reads your photos, and what it remembers.

Metadata: exifr — DateTimeOriginal from HEIC, RAW, JPEG, TIFF, PNG
Duplicate detection: perceptual hashing via sharp (libvips)
Hash store: SQLite, local to your machine, keyed by path and size
HEIC decoding: Windows Imaging Component, via the bundled wic-decode
Platform: Windows 10/11 (x64) — no cloud library, no account

This is the one tool that will never run automatically. Deciding which copy of a photo to keep needs a person, so Photo Organizer is deliberately excluded from folder rules — it cannot be scheduled and cannot delete anything on its own. Scans are also on demand: PhotoTray does not run a background indexer over your drive.

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