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About Tonfotos
Tonfotos organizes a large local collection of photos and videos by year and date, finds duplicates to free up space, and treats a PC, external drives and a NAS as one archive. Search covers people, events, tags, dates and shooting locations.
Face recognition finds people in photos and learns from the ones you have already marked. You can link relatives to build a family tree. The TonfotosSync app for Android and iOS sends new pictures from a phone to the archive on your computer or NAS. There is a free download and a paid version.
Strengths
- Face recognition that learns from photos you have tagged
- Treats PC, drives and NAS as one archive
- Phone photos sync to your own computer or NAS without a cloud
- Builds a family tree from people marked in photos
Limitations
- Not open source
- Some features require the paid version
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree download for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a paid version available.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Tonfotos
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Families organizing a large local photo archive by person and date
- Categories
- Photo libraries, Photo tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Tonfotos
Compare allSoftware that can replace Tonfotos for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Mylio Photos
A photo library app that organizes and syncs photos across your own devices without requiring cloud storage.
Mylio Photos also combines photos from drives and devices into one private library without cloud storage, but it has no Linux version.
PhotoStructure
A self-hosted photo and video library that organizes and deduplicates collections spread across drives and backups.
PhotoStructure is self-hosted rather than a desktop app and focuses on deduplicating scattered collections, leaving files in your own folders.
Shotwell
A photo manager for the GNOME desktop that imports, organises and makes simple edits to photos.
Shotwell is a free open-source photo manager with simple editing, but it runs only on Linux and has no face recognition or phone import listed.
KPhotoAlbum
A KDE desktop app for tagging, describing and quickly searching large personal photo collections.
KPhotoAlbum is a free, open-source KDE app for Linux that searches by people, places and custom categories, but tagging is manual and there are no phone apps.
Photo Supreme
Digital asset management software for cataloging and searching large photo archives on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Photo Supreme is paid cataloging software for Windows, macOS and Linux built for very large archives, with a server edition for shared catalogs, but no listed phone sync or family tree.
IMatch
A Windows digital asset management app for cataloging, tagging and searching large photo and media collections.
IMatch is paid, Windows-only asset management with standard-compliant metadata and an AI AutoTagger, suited to metadata-heavy collections but with a steeper learning curve than Tonfotos.
Excire Foto
An AI photo organizer for Windows and macOS that tags, searches and culls local photo libraries.
Excire Foto is a paid Windows and macOS organizer with AI tagging, search and culling of shots with closed eyes, but it lacks Linux support and phone apps.
Fotocx
A free Linux photo editor and collection manager released under the GPL version 3.
Fotocx is a free GPL-3.0 Linux program combining a photo editor and collection manager, but it is a small single-developer project with no phone apps or face recognition listed.
Tonfotos as an alternative
Listings that name Tonfotos as an alternative.
digiKam
A photo manager built for libraries of a hundred thousand images, with face recognition, batch processing and heavy metadata support.
Tonfotos is a freemium, closed-source organizer with face recognition, duplicate finding and phone sync to your own computer or NAS, plus a family tree feature.
Lomorage
A photo backup system that copies phone photos to your own computer, NAS or Raspberry Pi.
Tonfotos syncs phone photos to your own computer or NAS and adds face recognition and a family tree, with some features in a paid version.
PhotoSweeper
A Mac app that finds and removes duplicate and similar photos across folders and photo libraries.
Tonfotos is a freemium photo organizer with duplicate finding and face recognition on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, but it does not integrate with Capture One or Lightroom.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
PhotoSync
A mobile app that transfers and backs up photos and videos between phones, computers, NAS devices and clouds.
Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile apps, aimed at replacing Google Photos.
PhotoPrism
A self-hosted photo library that tags pictures and recognises faces on your own hardware, not a company's.
Synology Photos
A photo library app for Synology NAS devices, with mobile apps that back up phone photos.
Damselfly
A server-based photo management system for large folder-based collections, with fast search and keyword tagging.
