PowerPhotos overview

PowerPhotos allows you to break up your Photos.app images among multiple Photos libraries, rather than having to store all of them in one giant library. You can easily switch between libraries, or just browse the photos in your libraries directly from PowerPhotos, without having to open each library in Photos.

PowerPhotos also supports searching across all your libraries at once to help track down a particular photo. If you use iCloud Photo Library to sync photos with your other devices, splitting up your library can help save on iCloud storage costs. Use a single library to hold a smaller collection that you sync with iCloud, while keeping the bulk of your photos in separate libraries so they don't take up space on iCloud. PowerPhotos can analyze your libraries for duplicate photos, showing them to you side-by-side and letting you get rid of extra copies of photos that you no longer need.

What's new in version 3.4

This release focuses on a variety of new features to help you manage albums in your photo libraries. This includes:

Added a row of buttons at the top of the album list to perform common actions like creating and deleting albums.
Added a search field above the album list that lets you filter the album list by name.
Added new "Add to Album" menu items.
Added "Copy To" and "Move To" items to the contextual menu in the album list.
If multiple albums are selected in the album list, the "New Folder" menu item now changes to "New Folder With Selection" and will automatically add the selected albums to the new folder.
Added a menu item to sort a folder of albums by name or date.
Added a "Delete Album and Photos" menu item that deletes all the photos the selected album contains before deleting the album itself.
Added a "Duplicate Album" command. This will duplicate an entire album, including any child albums contained by a folder, with all albums being populated with the same photos as the original.
Created a new "Album" menu to hold album related commands.

Other bug fixes and improvements

When creating or adding a library, there is now a popup menu in the file chooser that lets you specify a library group to which to add the new library.
Fixed a bug where performing a search with an empty smart album selected would show results from the whole library instead of just the smart album (i.e no results).
Whenever the photo browser is empty, we now display a message explaining why, e.g. "The selected album has no photos" or "The search found no results"
Fixed a crash that could occur while loading photo data.

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User Ratings

danmindo

Jan 13, 2023

2.1.4

1.0

Version: 2.1.4

Crashes every time I try to open a new library. Won't access libraries on an external drive which is where the bulk of my photos are. Waste of money and time!

bernies3115

Jul 26, 2021

1.9.8

0.0

Version: 1.9.8

I haven't purchased PowerPhotos as yet because I want to know whether the app can distinguish between photos that have incorrect "date photo taken" dates. 90% of my photos are incorrect - they were altered when I updated to a new Mac. Thanks BernieNZ

geswoody1

Apr 8, 2021

1.9.6

Version: 1.9.6

The Update 19.6 resolve scratch on Big Sur ! IT WORKS !!! take it !

Apr 5, 2021

1.9.5

Version: 1.9.5

Fusion between several library doesn't work on BIGSUR ! Don't buy it I tried every things with an iMac and a MacBook Pro with library on my disk and extern disk. Big scratch !

Dominikhoffmann

Feb 3, 2021

1.9.3

5.0

Version: 1.9.3

I know of no other utility capable of copying content from one Photos library to another. That is something I have to do from time to time, in order to share full-resolution edited images with other people in the family.