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dupeGuru vs Czkawka: catalog facts
dupeGuruCzkawka
Free

Free and open source under the GPL 3.0.

Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence, with no advertising.

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
  • Fuzzy image matching finds resized and re-encoded copies
  • Separate music mode that compares tags rather than bytes
  • Finds duplicates, similar images, similar videos and similar music
  • Written in Rust and multithreaded, with caching for repeat scans
  • Last release was July 2022 and the project is asking for maintainers
  • Fuzzy matching is slow on very large photo collections
  • The Czkawka GTK interface ends at 12.0; new work goes to Krokiet
  • Similar-image matching produces false positives you must review
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License: MIT
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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