The fastest photo and video organizer on Windows - for FREE.

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Diffractor helps manage a collection of photos and videos. It indexes files for duplicate detection, fast search, and collection presence.

PC used to centralize and manage the collection.

Synchronize files to a NAS or network drive.

Import, structure and remove duplicate files.

Publish to family, friends and clients from the NAS.

Diffractor can:

View everything

Users can view photos and play videos or audio files without switching apps. It supports most formats, including RAW photos. No extra codecs are needed.

Find anything

Users can search by any metadata properties. The sidebar provides an overview by date, location, or file type. XMP, IPTC, EXIF, ID3, and other common metadata standards are supported.

Compare and sort

Users can compare photos and videos side‑by‑side, highlight the best items with ratings, tags, and flags, and prune the rest.

Edit and fix

Users can add or fix metadata like ratings, tags, and locations. Simple photo edits include resize, rotate, crop, and adjust color.

Never miss a file

Diffractor indicates when files are present in the collection. This is useful when an old memory card turns up and it’s unclear whether those files are already saved.

Synchronize

Automatically synchronize the collection to a NAS or network drive. Synchronization can be bidirectional, allowing collaboration and syncing others’ changes.

↓ Download as Windows installer

Version 126.0
(released 2024-5-10)

Diffractor is covered by the following Terms and End User License Agreement.

Diffractor 126.0

This release fixes two long time issues:

AV1 software support #159.
Location map fixed #116

Nowadays my free time to work on Diffractor is limited but I am trying to keep it going. These two issues were annoying but thanks to those who have been so patient. The map has been changed to Bing maps because Google maps no longer supports the Windows HTML control.

Older versions are available at Github.