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January 3, 2025 9:00 AM PT

PowerPhotos ↦

My thanks to Fat Cat Software’s PowerPhotos for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

I spend a lot of time using and writing about Apple’s Photos app. And the pre-eminent utility for Photos on the Mac is PowerPhotos. It works in conjunction with the Photos app, filling in missing features that Apple didn’t provide.

You can work with multiple Photos libraries and store them wherever you want, including on an external drive or a network drive. Split up your giant library into smaller ones by copying photos and albums with a simple drag and drop, preserving metadata such as descriptions and keywords along the way. You can free up space on your laptop’s drive or save space on iCloud while still keeping all your photos handy in the Photos app.

Or, if you already have multiple libraries, use PowerPhotos to merge them together while weeding out duplicates along the way. PowerPhotos also features a powerful duplicate photo finder, a browser to let you see your libraries side by side in multiple windows, multi library search, advanced exporting, converting old iPhoto/Aperture libraries, and more.

PowerPhotos 2.0 can be downloaded for free and offers many of its features for free. Purchasing a license unlocks advanced features such as library merging, deletion of duplicate photos, and unlimited photo copying and exporting. Existing users of PowerPhotos 1.0 or iPhoto Library Manager can use their serial number to upgrade for 50% off the regular price, and Six Colors readers can use the coupon code SIXCOLORS25 to receive a 20% discount.