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Image Organizer
RulZ Image Organizer is a free Windows app that works like the People view in Google Photos. Point it at your photo folders and it finds every face, groups the same person together, and lets you search by who is in a photo, their expression, which way they're facing, and their pose.
Everything runs on your own PC. Your photos and face data never leave your computer, and your files are never moved, renamed or changed.
| I want to... | Read |
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| Install the app and add my photos | [[Getting Started |
| Understand scanning and my folders | [[Library and Scanning |
| Name people, merge groups, fix mistakes | [[People and Corrections |
| Find photos by person, smile, direction or pose | [[Search and Filters |
| Use the full-size viewer, tag a missed face | [[Photo Viewer |
| Switch between dark and light | [[Appearance |
| Fix a problem or answer a question | [[FAQ and Troubleshooting |
| Build it from source, or see how it works | [[How It Works |
- Automatic people groups that you name, merge and correct. Your corrections are never undone by later scans.
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Search like you talk:
Mom smiling, Dad,facing left,standing. - Handles big libraries: tens of thousands of photos, with thumbnails cached on disk.
- Formats: JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF, TIFF and HEIC (iPhone).
- Dark (black and red) or light, remembered between runs.
- Open source under the MIT License.
| Version | What changed |
|---|---|
| 1.3.0 | Scanning no longer locks the library (no more "database is locked"); faces are found on several threads; the photo viewer loads in the background; thumbnails load the ones you're looking at first; 16-bit images no longer turn white; closing during a scan finishes cleanly. |
The screenshots in this wiki use public-domain NASA photographs. See Credits.