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A private photo manager that keeps every picture on your own disk
Made by julyX10
View profile on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Lap is an open-source, offline-first photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux: a privacy-focused alternative to cloud photo services with no forced upload and no subscription.
Your photos stay in your existing folders instead of a locked database, and AI features — search, similarity, smart tags, face recognition — run locally on your machine. It is built for large libraries of 100,000+ files.
Can I use this?
You'll need A Mac, Windows, or Linux computer · Setup needed
Worth knowing Local AI features need a reasonably capable machine; no cloud means no automatic off-site backup. BuildTube has not run or verified this software.
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