Pluto Photos is an offline photo organizer and photo/video manager that runs entirely on your machine, with no account and no internet connection required, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Organize huge libraries with AI face detection, smart albums, plain-English photo search, a photo map, and a duplicate photo finder. Edit photos with layers, tone curves, HSL and presets, and edit video on a multi-clip timeline with LUT grading. Everything is processed locally. One-time purchase, no subscription, no cloud lock-in.
Point the photo organizer at any folder and it imports and organizes everything — dates, cameras, locations, people. It is built as photo management software for libraries in the tens of thousands of files, on an internal drive or an external one.
The AI photo organizer understands what is in a picture. Search for “dog on a beach” or “birthday cake” in plain English with AI photo search, and group everyone in your library automatically with AI face detection. Every model runs on your own CPU.
Smart albums file photos into themselves from rules you set — date, camera, rating, tag, folder or person — so the library keeps organizing itself as you import. Browse by place on the photo map, or by tags, ratings and colour labels.
The duplicate photo finder uses perceptual hashing, so it catches re-encoded copies, resized versions and burst shots — not just identical filenames. Review side by side, keep the best copy, and reclaim the disk space.
Google Photos charges monthly for storage and processes your photos on its servers. Pluto Photos is a Google Photos alternative you buy once. Import your export with the Google Takeout organizer, which reads the sidecar JSON so your capture dates survive the move — see the Google Photos migration guide.
Every AI feature — object removal, background removal, face detection and plain-English search — runs on your own hardware, using models downloaded once and then kept on your machine. No account, no upload, no per-image fee. It works on a plane, and on a machine that has never been online since setup. Read more about the offline photo organizer and the private photo organizer.
Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit), macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon, and Linux as an AppImage or .deb — plus a Docker server mode. See the full system requirements and the list of supported formats, or go straight to the Pluto Photos download page.
See full Pluto Photos pricing, compare it with other photo organizers, read the photo organization guides, or find out who builds Pluto Photos.