Duplicate Photos PC finds every copy of an image on your disk—exact matches, burst frames, cropped versions, resaved messenger photos—and moves the extras to the Recycle Bin in one click. Free, portable, no account.
Years of phone backups, vacation folders, and messenger app saves pile up fast. A single photo might exist as five different files: the original, a resized version, a screenshot, an edited copy, a burst frame. Multiply that across thousands of photos and you're paying cloud storage fees for gigabytes of garbage.
A duplicate photo scan cuts through the mess without breaking anything. Everything deleted lands in the Windows Recycle Bin—you can undo it tomorrow if you change your mind. Nothing vanishes permanently until you empty the bin yourself.
Duplicate Photos PC does both kinds of scans: exact byte-for-byte matches (fastest) and visual similarity (catches the tricky ones—burst frames, slightly different crops, the same photo saved by three different apps).
An 'Exact only' scan uses cryptographic hashing—if two files are byte-for-byte identical, they land in the same group. This is fast and safe: zero false positives. Use it if you just want to nuke obvious copies and don't care about burst frames.
A 'Similar + exact' scan adds perceptual hashing, which catches images that look the same but aren't identical bytes. Burst frames from your phone camera, the same landscape photo with a different crop, a picture your friend sent you via messenger (which got re-compressed), slightly edited versions—all land together. Slower on massive libraries, but if you've got ten years of phone photos, this is the mode that actually clears space.
You choose the mode before scanning starts. No switching mid-way, so think about what you're hunting for. Most people run 'Similar + exact' first, then 'Exact only' again later on new photos.
Every file you delete goes to the Windows Recycle Bin, not into a digital shredder. You can restore anything with one right-click in the bin, or empty the bin later when you're confident. The app never hard-deletes anything.
The app is fully offline—no upload, no cloud sync, no telemetry. Every file it reads sits on your local disk. Your photo library never leaves your PC.
Before hitting 'Move to Recycle Bin', you review every group. The app auto-picks the highest-resolution or sharpest copy to keep, but you can manually choose which version to save if you prefer a different one.
Yes. Free forever, MIT licensed, no watermark, no trial restrictions, no Pro tier. Download once and you own it.
No. The app opens straight to the main window. No sign-up, no login, no sync.
No. It scans local folders on your PC—internal drives, external USB drives, mounted network shares. Cloud libraries that aren't mirrored to disk are out of scope. Download your photos first if you want to scan them.
It goes to the Windows Recycle Bin. Right-click the bin and restore it, or wait until you're sure before emptying the bin. The app doesn't touch the bin—that's a Windows action.
Yes. Windows 10 and 11, both 64-bit.
No. The app runs fully offline. Zero dependencies on external servers or cloud storage.
Download Duplicate Photos PC for free, unzip it, and open the app—no setup, no sign-up.
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