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Version 0.2.0

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A free, open source, offline photo browser for your local folders and Google Takeout exports.

Your photos stay yours. Imagory makes no network connections: no telemetry, no accounts, no update checks. It only reads your photos and never changes, moves, renames or deletes them. Clean up Takeout writes copies only into an output folder you pick.

What’s new since 0.1

  • Several sources: add photo folders and extracted Takeout exports; rename, relocate, rescan or remove them in Sources…. Moved files are recognised, and missing files are hidden, not forgotten.
  • Google Takeout: dates, places, captions, favourites and the people tagged in Google Photos are read from the JSON files. Trash is skipped.
  • Dates: from Takeout, EXIF (with its time zone when known) or the filename, including Android IMG_, VID_, PXL_, WhatsApp and screenshot names.
  • Exact duplicates show once, wherever they are.
  • Grid and viewer: a fast grid with month headers for 100,000 photos, a viewer with zoom and an info panel, and Show in folder.
  • Search and filters, including by person. Albums.
  • Clean up Takeout…: makes a tidy copy of a Takeout export, with one file per photo in YYYY/MM folders, the original file names, and no JSON clutter. All the metadata is kept in a database and a plain-text metadata.json. Every copy is verified, the original is never touched, and the cleaned folder can be added to your library with its albums.
  • Linux build: a single x86_64 binary for Ubuntu 22.04 or newer (best effort).

Downloads

File For
Imagory.exe Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Double-click to run, nothing to install
Imagory-0.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz Linux x86_64 with X11 or XWayland. Unpack, then run ./Imagory

Known limits

  • Not code-signed. Windows SmartScreen may say “Windows protected your PC”: click More info, then Run anyway. Some antivirus tools flag unsigned single-file programs. See Windows warnings.
  • Tested by hand on Windows 11 only so far; Windows 10 and the Linux build have had less testing. Takeout cleanup has been tested on generated exports, not yet on many real ones.
  • Takeout zips must be extracted first (zip support is planned).
  • Linux: on some distros Qt needs libxcb-cursor0; Show in folder opens the folder without selecting the photo.
  • Your library from the early 0.1 test build is not carried over.

Licence

Imagory is MIT-licensed. Bundled components keep their own licences, listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt. HEIC support (pillow-heif) bundles the GPLv2 x265 library, which makes that component GPLv2 as a whole; how to handle this in later releases is still open.