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Your photos,
beautifully organised.

Tag, search, map and name faces on your PC. Watch the 60-second tour, then start a fully working trial on the Microsoft Store.

Windows 10 & 11
£4.99 one-time
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Picca photo grid with tags and search

Everything you need

Powerful features, zero cloud dependency

Picca runs entirely on your machine. Your photos never leave your hard drive.

Boolean search

Find any photo instantly with AND / OR / NOT queries across tags, captions, dates, and file metadata.

Rich tagging

Create keyword, location and custom tag types. Add tags to single photos or thousands at once.

Face recognition

Detect and name faces automatically. Picca learns who’s who and suggests matches across your entire library.

Interactive map

See where your photos were taken on a zoomable OpenStreetMap. Drag photos to the map to geotag them.

Slideshow

Full-screen slideshows with smooth crossfade transitions and ambient music — relive your memories cinema-style.

Albums & folders

Browse your real folder structure or create virtual albums. Photos stay where they are — no imports needed.

Blazingly fast

Built with Rust and SQLite FTS5 for near-instant search across tens of thousands of photos.

AI captioning

Optional on-device tagging and captions with Moondream. It runs on your PC after a one-time local model download — no cloud account.

100% private

No account. No cloud. No subscriptions. Your data lives in a single local SQLite database you can back up anytime.

What's new

New tools for a growing library

Find look-alikes and identical copies, rename files in batches, switch catalogues, and explore how tags connect — still entirely on your PC.

Image file types

Catalogues JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, TIFF, and HEIC/HEIF/HIF from your folders. Files stay where they are — nothing is imported into a proprietary library.

Video file support

Indexes clips alongside stills: MP4, M4V, MOV, AVI, MPEG, M2TS/MTS, MKV, and WebM. Thumbnails come from Windows; clips play in the viewer.

Find similar images

Right-click a still photo and choose Find similar photos. Picca ranks other stills in your library by how they look — the same scene, a burst, a reprint — not identical file copies, and not videos.

Find duplicate images

Group files with the same contents — identical copies, not near-matches. Review each group, show it in the catalogue, or remove extras from the catalogue without deleting files on disk.

Batch file renaming

Rename selected photos and videos on disk from one stem. Batches are numbered uniquely; the catalogue, search, and thumbnails stay in sync.

Tag node network

Open a 3D map of your tags. Nodes are sized by how often they appear; lines show tags that share photos. Click a tag to search it.

Catalogue switching

Open a different catalogue, or create a new empty one, without moving photo files. Each library keeps its own local database beside the folder you choose.

Share on the local network

Start a small HTML server on this PC. Phones and other computers on the same Wi‑Fi can browse folders, thumbnails, full images, and slideshows — scan the QR code, or type the LAN address.

Look-alikes

Find similar images

Right-click a still photo and Picca searches the catalogue for shots that look like it. A local visual index runs on this PC. Photos never leave your hard drive. Tags, faces, and search stay as they are.

This is look-alike search, not duplicate finding. Identical file copies are a separate tool. Videos are skipped. If the folder has not been indexed yet, Picca offers to build the look-alike index first. The first time, it downloads DINOv2 Small once (about 85 MB, Apache 2.0) into the catalogue; after that the model stays on this computer.

Right-click a still and choose Find similar photos
Right-click a folder to build the look-alike index for that folder and its subfolders
Matches are ranked in the grid by visual similarity
Use Find duplicate images when you want identical file contents instead

Picca tag node network showing people and place tags linked by shared photos

Tag network

See how your tags connect

The node map lays out keyword, people, and place tags in 3D. Larger nodes appear on more photos; lines join tags that co-occur. Filter by tag type, pan and rotate the graph, then click a node to search.

Scope to the current folder or the entire library
Show or hide tag types such as people and places
Drag to pan, right-drag to rotate, wheel to zoom
Click a tag to run that search in the catalogue

Picca identical-images window listing duplicate photo groups with thumbnails

Identical copies

Find duplicate images

Scan a folder for files with the same contents. Picca groups identical copies so you can keep one, show the group in the grid, or drop extras from the catalogue — the files stay on disk until you delete them yourself.

Matches identical file contents, not look-alikes
Review each group with thumbnails, names, and sizes
Jump a group into the catalogue to compare in context
Remove a copy from the catalogue without deleting the file

File types

Supported formats

Picca catalogues these stills and video types from your folders. Files stay where they are — nothing is imported into a proprietary library.

JPEG: .jpg .jpeg
PNG: .png
GIF: .gif
WebP: .webp
BMP: .bmp
TIFF: .tif .tiff
HEIC / HEIF: .heic .heif .hif
MP4 / M4V: .mp4 .m4v
QuickTime: .mov
AVI: .avi
MPEG: .mpg .mpeg .mpe .m2v
AVCHD / MPEG-TS: .m2ts .mts
Matroska: .mkv
WebM: .webm

HEIC — decoding uses Windows Imaging Component, so you may need the HEIF Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store. iPhone stills often also need HEVC Video Extensions.

Video — clips are indexed with stills. Thumbnails come from Windows; playback uses the codecs already on your PC. Look-alike search skips videos.

Picca interactive map with geotagged photos

Geotagging

See your world on a map

Every geotagged photo appears as a pin on an interactive OpenStreetMap. Click a pin to view the photo, or drag un-tagged images onto the map to assign a location. If a photo has no GPS, Picca can also predict a pin from place-class image tags.

Zoomable map with photo thumbnails at each pin
Filter by “Located” or “No location” to find un-tagged shots
Search for a city or address and drop a pin
Full-resolution viewer right from the map

Picca face recognition and confirmation

Face recognition

Every face, a name

Picca scans your photos for faces, then learns who’s who from a handful of confirmations. The more you confirm, the smarter the suggestions become.

One-click confirm or reject for each detected face
Similarity-based suggestions ranked by confidence
Face names become searchable tags automatically
All processing happens locally — faces never leave your PC

Picca vs Google Photos

A better catalogue for photos you already keep on Windows

Google Photos is a cloud backup. Picca is a desktop catalogue: your folders, your tags, your PC. No Google account, no storage meter, no subscription.

Picca is the stronger organiser for a Windows drive you already keep. It does not auto-backup a phone to the internet; Google Photos does that, and that is the trade: their servers, their account, their storage meter.
What you get	Picca	Google Photos
Where photos live	On your PC, in your folders	Uploaded to Google’s servers
Who holds the library	You. One local SQLite catalogue you can back up	Google. The catalogue is their product
Account	None	Google account required
Price	£4.99 once	Free compressed quota, then Google One storage fees
Subscription	No	Yes, once you outgrow the free allowance
Internet required	No — the library works offline	Yes, for the cloud library
Search	Boolean AND / OR / NOT across tags, captions, dates and files	Google’s automatic labels; you do not run boolean over your own keyword system
Tagging	Keyword, people and place tags you control, including bulk edits	Limited; Google decides most of the labels
Face names	Detected and named on this PC	Processed in Google’s cloud
Map and geotagging	Map view; drag photos to assign a place	Shows GPS that is already in the cloud copy
Duplicates and look-alikes	Identical copies and visual similar-photo search	Basic cleanup; not a local duplicate tool
Files stay in place	Yes — nothing is imported into a silo	The upload is the library; your folders are not
Sharing	Optional browse-only server on your Wi‑Fi	Public or account links on Google’s servers
Try it	7-day full trial on the Microsoft Store	Sign in with Google

Guides

Looking for a specific job?

Short pages for the searches that usually bring people here. Each one ends on the Store trial.

Windows photo organiser

Catalogue the folders already on your PC. No cloud account.

Tag faces on Windows

Name people on this PC. Face data stays local.

Find duplicate photos

Identical copies and look-alikes, still on your disk.

HEIC photos on Windows

iPhone stills next to JPEG, RAW and video.

Questions

Before you open the Store

How do I try Picca?

Open the Microsoft Store listing, install Picca, and start the 7-day trial. The trial is the complete app — no feature locks and no watermarks. When you are ready, buy it on the same Store page for £4.99.

Is this a subscription?

No. Picca is a one-time Microsoft Store purchase. Microsoft may show an equivalent price in your local currency at checkout.

Do my photos leave this computer?

No. Picca catalogues folders on your PC. There is no Picca cloud account. Optional extras such as map tiles or a one-time local AI model download do not upload your library.

Which computers does it run on?

Windows 10 and Windows 11. Picca is a desktop app, not a phone app and not a website for your photos.

Where do I buy it?

Only on the Microsoft Store. This website does not take card details.

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