Sponsor

January 2, 2026 11:30 AM PT

PowerPhotos ↦

My thanks to PowerPhotos, from Fat Cat Software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works in conjunction with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. It lets you 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.

If you already have multiple libraries, you can use PowerPhotos to merge them together while weeding out duplicates along the way. PowerPhotos also features a powerful duplicate photo finder, batch photo metadata editing, multi library search with nested search terms, advanced export, and more.

PowerPhotos 3.0 can be downloaded for free, with many of its features available for free. Purchase a license to unlock advanced features such as library merging, deletion of duplicate photos, and unlimited photo copying, metadata editing, and exporting. Existing users of PowerPhotos 1 or 2, or iPhoto Library Manager can use their license key to upgrade for 50% off the regular price, and Six Colors readers can use the coupon code SIXCOLORS26 to receive a 20% discount for both regular and upgrade orders.