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A privacy-first desktop app that sorts and groups your photos by face, date, and location entirely on your own machine, with no cloud upload.

Open-source alternative to:Google PhotosApple PhotosAmazon Photos

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What is it?

Local Lens is a desktop photo organizer for Windows and macOS. It scans a folder of images, detects and recognizes faces, reads dates and GPS coordinates, and lets you browse photos by person, timeline, or location. All processing runs on the local machine, and the app works without an Internet connection.

Face detection uses a two-pass approach: a lightweight HOG detector runs first, and a CNN detector is used when the first pass is uncertain. If memory runs short, the pipeline falls back to a lighter model. The original files are not modified; the app only organizes them.

The app is built with Tauri and React on the front end, with a Python FastAPI backend running as a sidecar process. It supports common formats including JPEG, PNG, HEIC, and several RAW types such as CR2, CR3, NEF, and ARW.

Key features

  • 01Groups photos by recognized faces, which you can train with named people.
  • 02Plots photos on a map using GPS data and clusters them by location.
  • 03Builds a chronological timeline from messy folders.
  • 04Filters search results by date, location, or person.
  • 05Keeps original files unmodified and runs fully offline.

Use cases

  • Organizing a large family photo archive stored on a home PC.
  • Sorting years of camera roll backups by people and trips without uploading them.
  • Cleaning up unsorted folders of phone and camera imports by date.
  • Photographers who want to find shots of a specific person or location offline.

Topics

#photo-management#face-recognition#privacy#offline#computer-vision#desktop-app#tauri#python#ai-tools#automated-categorization

FAQ

What is LocalLens?
A privacy-first desktop app that sorts and groups your photos by face, date, and location entirely on your own machine, with no cloud upload. Local Lens is a desktop photo organizer for Windows and macOS. It scans a folder of images, detects and recognizes faces, reads dates and GPS coordinates, and lets you browse photos by person, timeline, or location. All processing runs on the local machine, and the app works without an Internet connection.
Is LocalLens free to use? What license does it have?
LocalLens is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.
Is LocalLens still maintained?
Actively maintained. The last commit to LocalLens was on Oct 12, 2026.
What can I use LocalLens for?
Organizing a large family photo archive stored on a home PC. Sorting years of camera roll backups by people and trips without uploading them. Cleaning up unsorted folders of phone and camera imports by date. Photographers who want to find shots of a specific person or location offline.
Where can I get LocalLens?
The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/ashesbloom/LocalLens

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