15 Best Photo Organizing Software

Adobe Bridge CC is a free photo organizing software with many advanced functions like organizing and storing the HDR and panoramic images, managing resources, batch photo editing, watermark adding, adjusting colors in pictures, and many more. Bridge CC is particularly useful for Adobe Illustrators and Photoshop users.

Yes, unsurprisingly, Google is here too. Google Photos, which is now known by only Photos, allows you to automatically create a backup of your image folders on Google’s cloud service – Google Drive. It is quite an advanced photo manager with AI organizing your photos chronologically and auto-suggesting you the improved version of your photos. Google Photos would also automatically create a collage, panorama with the pictures you have saved on it.

Magix Photo Manager, just like its name, magically manage your images. It is a relatively straightforward, fast, and intuitive image organizer. Its import functionality helps you to classify and share the pictures with others. Magix has a smart sorting feature that filters your images as per the name, date, people, etc.

ACDSee Photo Studio ultimate is another popular photo organizing software that provides much more than just managing pictures. It gives you a lot of convincing photos organizing options. It can categorize your images as per ratings, tags, categories, keywords, and color markings. ACDSee Photo Studio also comes with advanced tools such as resizing, rotating, exposure adjustments, renaming, and several others.

Zoner Photo Studio is a unique photo manager and editor that supports picture organization based on keywords, dates, titles, and labels. After importing pictures from your camera, smartphone, or PC, it would intelligently sort them in the folders. It saves all the necessary information about the photographs in the database called the Catalogue, which makes photo organizing more effective.

Apowersoft Photo Viewer is one of the best photo organizing software that comes with many dedicated managing tools. The best function of the JetPhoto Studio is, this program supports professional image formats like HEIC (HEIF), PSD, CDR, RAW, etc.

Movavi Photo Manager is another image managing application. Like Google Photos, it also has an advanced face recognition feature that can sort the images by detecting the faces on it. It also has a built-in graphical editor, but that only provides standard functions like renaming, cropping, rotating, etc.

Digikam Photo Manger is another excellent open-source freeware Photo Manager. It allows you to process the raw images. You also get the option to comment on the photos and sort them based on size, date, title, and more. Comments, ratings, and other metadata can be viewed, edited, and saved in the SQL database or organized as a file.

FastStone Image Viewer is a dedicated photo organizer software that also comes with a surplus of editing options. Along with that, it also comes with converting abilities; i.e., it can convert one format picture into another format. It is frequently updated to keep up with the latest tech and optimization.

Phototheca lets you arrange your device’s photos and videos according to various factors such as date, event, related images, camera model, and more. You can also manually add the images in multiple groups or albums. It also lets you import pictures from various devices and posting them on social networks.

Like others in the list, Picktorial is also an effective photo organizing software. The thing that makes it apart from others is its ability to direct work with your computer’s file system. It means that the programs do not create a separate folder for saving the images. Picktorial also has excellent color correction and other editing tools.

CyberLink PhtoDirector lets you sort a picture using its keywords, date, location, color, and even the faces that you have tagged. The straightforward interface and support for multiple formats make it even better. There is also an excellent editing tool with lots of advanced features.

StudioLine Photo Basic is freeware, and despite that, it offers some highly useful functionalities such as image tagging, adding GPS-coordinates, and descriptions. Apart from that, it also provides valuable photo editing tools and extensible database archiving.

IrfanView is another popular photo organizing and viewing application. It provides an option to quickly sort out the photos and create a slideshow. The program also offers a robust image editor and image conversion. The best part is, if you want more functionalities, you can further add plug-ins and expand the IrfanView’s utility.

XnView lets you view and organize images with over 500 different formats. It is entirely free for use and that too, without any ads or added software. It also provides a screen capture module and Windows TWAIN & WIA interface to capture images. Such options are scarce in free applications. Further, you also get features like batch renaming, batch converter, duplicate image search, photo comparison, and it is even possible to create contact lists and slideshows.