PhotoSweeper Lite App Reviews

Took a few minutes to familiarize myself with the automark rules and set them up to how I wanted them for my particular situation, after that it worked awesome. Matching algorithm works super fast, and app seems nice and stable. An image set of over 1000 didn’t even hiccup. I hit one or two UI bugs in the preferences pane, but that’s SO negligible compared to the utility I got from this app. Thanks developer, keep up the great work!

I’ve tried Gemini and Duplicate Cleaner and they found absolutely NOTHING in my iPhoto library. I was so frustrated. I decided to give another app a chance, and finally this one worked! Freed up at least 2 gigs in my library. Now I wish I would have purchased the full Photo Sweeper version instead of the lite, but I don’t see an option to upgrade. Also, this worked blazing fast. Great job, guys!

No complaints here - works perfectly with new Photos app

The app has been running for a couple of hours and has been stuck on the "Loading Library" the entire time with no progress update at all. Im going to be requesting a refund since I cant even use the app!

This isn’t the most obvious piece of software because it has a lot of flexibility but their support team is great about helping you figure out how to use it. When I first tried to use this I ran into an error adding my Photos library: Couldnt read the library at path: "/Users/xxx/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary". Please provide a valid value. I emailed their support team and they suggested repairing my Photos library (open Photos while holding Command + Option). At that point I was able to get it to run but PhotoSweeper wasn’t seeing the images that had been imported multiple times from Photo Stream as duplicates. I sent their support team another email and they sent back screenshots and instructions on how to change the settings in the Preferences dialog to start cleaning those out.

Great app!

I haven’t been able to use this program at all. Pretty much EVERY photo just shows up in the browser with a black box and a “caution” mark (yellow triangle with exclamation point). Wish it worked!

My aperture library is over 30G. I know there are lots of duplicates. Finding duplicates by size/image did not work well but finding by duplicate file name was great. Overall I’m pretty impressed but the gui and options are a bit overwhelming and may take some digging to understand. After loading my library I got the message that 18,000 photos were not found so I have to go investigate that but I suspect it’s because the drive is offline for now. We’ll see when we I get the drive mounted.

Just what you want out of a Mac program.

This one worked when others didn’t.

Not being very computer saavy I found that I had somehow duplicated (over and over) my photo downloads and before I knew it, I had three times as many photo’s as I should have. I spoke to an Apple Genius on the best way to clean my iMac and they suggested this app. Sure enough, it did a fabulous job and was easy enough that I was able to use it without assistance. I did however find that I had “touched” some photo’s and the app did not remove photo’s that were no longer exactly identical. I used the HELP feature, connected with a Super Helpful gentleman who not only was quick to respond to my emails, but he also sent pictures and step by step instructions. Loved the app and the support so much, I purchased the Full Version and have told everyone I know with similar issues to do the same. Was not expensive and I’ve never regretted the purchase.

I downloaded four other apps to delete duplicate photos off my “Photos” (previously known as iPhoto) application only to find out that those apps are not advanced enough to use on the new Photos App. None of them were compatible and right when I was going to give up I found this app. Yeah it is not free but it is worth every dollar! I saved 7.19 gb’s in less than five minutes and now my computer is much faster and scrolling through pictures is more enjoyable. Thanks Photosweeper! Going to reccomend this app to everyone I know!

This app is amazing! It is simple, effective, and outstanding. It works very quickly, has a simple tutorial to help guide you through, and saved me over 9 GB on the first run. THANK YOU!

I got this not knowing the difference between the 9.99 version and this one (still don’t) and found the interface to be overly complicated. For example, the iphotos library opens in another window with no clear way to search for duplicates. Once I figured out you had to drag them to the dark gray window and run compare, all was well until I realized there are a lot of duplicates in Photos that this tool does not find. But I ran this against a huge 32GB aperture library and it worked great. Go figure.

I’m very happy. My old iPhoto libraries and new Photos library had tons of duplicates for whatever reason. It has been bugging me forever. I tried another app called duplicate cleaner a while ago, but it didn’t do the job. This one worked great and fast considering I had thousands of photos. It was super easy once I figured out the settings. I saved a couple hundreds gigs that would have been impossinble to sort out manually. My digital life is organized again. Very greatful.

HANDLED THE LARGE FLE VERY WELL. DESCRIPTION OF FILTERS SHOULD BE MORE WORDY TO AVOID CONFUSION OR HAVING TO “TEST” HOW IT WORKS. ADD OPTION TO MARK SAME NAME FILE +(1) (2)(ETC) VERSIONS.EXPLAIN UNLOCKING PHOTOS IN GROUPS. WHERE IS THE CACHE?

That’s all you really need to know, right? It’s not the prettiest, but darn if it isn’t cheap and does the job. I just upgraded my machine, merged Aperture and iPhoto libraries and then ran this to weed out the (thousands) of duplicates. I recommend moving through the different ‘compare’ scenarios from tightest parameters to loosest. That makes the process a little easier.

DO NOT BUY until this gets fixed. This used to be a great app, but now it no longer finds any duplicates in Apple Photos even when there are hundreds.