PhotoSift 📸

PhotoSift is a high-performance desktop application designed for rapid photo organization using AI-powered face recognition. It helps you sort through thousands of images in seconds, grouping them by people, dates, and quality.

Download 📥

Download the latest version for Windows

1. Download the PhotoSift_v0.1.0.zip file.
2. Extract it to any folder.
3. Run PhotoSift.exe to start organizing!

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Key Features 🚀

• AI Face Recognition: Automatically detect and group people across your entire library.
• Smart Sorting: Organize photos into a clean folder structure based on identified individuals.
• Privacy First: All processing happens locally on your machine. No photos are ever uploaded to the cloud.
• GPU Acceleration: Utilizes CUDA/DirectML for lightning-fast AI inference.
• Metadata Aware: Reads EXIF data to optionally sort files by year and date.
• Duplicate & Junk Detection: Identifies identical copies and low-quality/small files automatically.

Tech Stack 🛠️

• Frontend: React + TypeScript + Vite + Tailwind CSS.
• Backend: Rust (Tauri) for high-performance system operations.
• AI Engine: Python-based sidecar using InsightFace and ONNX Runtime.

Development Setup 💻

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• Rust & Cargo
• Python 3.10+
• Visual Studio Build Tools (Windows)

Installation

1. Frontend & Tauri Dependencies:

   npm install

2. Python Engine Setup:

   cd python-engine
   python -m venv .venv
   .\.venv\Scripts\activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   deactivate
   cd ..

3. Running in Dev Mode:

   .\dev.bat

4. Building the Production Installer:

   # First build the Python sidecar exe
   cd python-engine
   .\.venv\Scripts\activate
   python build.py
   deactivate
   cd ..
   
   # Then build the Tauri app
   .\build.bat

License 📜

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.