Built this originally for myself after one too many trips coming home to a
photo folder full of duplicates and blurry shots I never bothered sorting.
Tried digiKam first since it's the go-to free option, but it's a full photo
management system, tags, faces, albums, way more than I needed. I just wanted
something that finds the duplicates and the blurry photos and gets out of the
way.
So that's what Skimrr does. Two things:
- Finds duplicate photos (exact matches via file hashing, near-duplicates via
perceptual hashing, catches the same shot resaved or recompressed too)
- Finds blurry photos (sharpness scoring, adjustable threshold)
Everything runs locally. No account, no cloud upload, nothing leaves your
computer.
Runs on Mac and Windows, one-time purchase, no subscription (felt weird
charging monthly for something people might open twice a year).
Still early, would genuinely love feedback from anyone who tries it. Happy to
send free keys to a few people willing to test and give honest thoughts on
what's missing or broken.
The narrow scope is probably the strongest part here. Skimrr is deliberately solving two specific problems instead of becoming another full photo-management system.