A fast, minimal desktop app for importing and organizing photos from SD cards. Review every shot before it lands on your drive - tag, move, and delete in one pass.

Think of it as a lightweight, free take on the pro ingest workflow: cull on the card, move (not copy) with verification, and land everything date-organized on your disk.

• Auto-detects SD cards - plugging in a card surfaces it instantly as a source option
• Visual review grid - browse all photos as thumbnails, grouped by date, before committing to anything
• Full-resolution preview with pixel inspection - click any photo for a lightbox with EXIF details and keyboard navigation; scroll to zoom, drag to pan, double-click for a 1:1 pixel view. Neighboring photos are prefetched so arrow-key browsing doesn't wait on the card
• Full-size RAW previews - CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/DNG show the full-resolution JPEG embedded by the camera (extracted straight from the file header, no RAW decoding), same as RAF
• Tag-based workflow - mark each photo as Transfer, Delete, or leave it untagged; filter the grid by any tag; shift-click or drag to multi-select
• Verified moves - every copy is checked against the source before the original is deleted; a failed copy never costs you a photo
• Safe deletes - rejects aren't erased: they're moved (verified, too) into a _Rejects/ folder on the destination drive, so a mis-tag at 2am is always recoverable. True deletion is an opt-in toggle. Library-mode deletes go to the OS trash.
• Auto-organizes by date - photos land in Destination/YYYY/Month/filename.jpg (optionally by day); files without a date go to Unsorted/
• True duplicate detection - files already at the destination are compared by content, not just name and size; real duplicates are skipped, same-name-different-content files are renamed IMG_0001_1.jpg, _2, …
• RAW-aware - reads EXIF from CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/RAF/ORF/RW2/DNG, extracts embedded thumbnails without decoding the full file, and can separate RAW files into their own subfolder
• Live transfer progress - byte-level progress bar with current file name, plus a transferred / skipped / error summary
• Persistent config - source, destination, and options are remembered between sessions

There is also an experimental Library mode for browsing, star-rating, and pruning an existing photo folder.

Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. SD cards are auto-detected on all three (Windows removable drives, macOS /Volumes, Linux /media and /run/media); anything with a DCIM folder is flagged as a camera card.

Prebuilt binaries are on the Releases page:

macOS builds are unsigned - on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open.

Setup	Review

Full-resolution preview	Done

Photos are organized automatically by the date taken from EXIF metadata (falling back to the file's modification date):

Destination/
├── 2024/
│   ├── April/
│   │   ├── IMG_0001.jpg
│   │   └── IMG_0002.jpg
│   └── March/
│       └── DSC_0099.jpg
├── 2023/
│   └── December/
└── Unsorted/          ← photos with no date at all

Optional: Year/Month/Day/ subfolders, and a RAW/ subfolder per date for RAW files.

1. Insert your SD card - PhotoMover detects it automatically and shows it as a source option. You can also browse to any folder manually.
2. Pick a destination - choose the folder where organized photos should land. Both paths are saved for next time.
3. Load Photos - scans the source and streams thumbnails into the review grid.
4. Tag your shots:
   • Click a photo to open the full-screen preview; press T to tag for transfer, D for deletion
   • Shift-click or drag to multi-select, then tag the whole selection at once
   • Use Tag all in the action bar to mark everything
5. Transfer - hit the Transfer button; a progress bar tracks the operation file by file. Each file is verified before the original is removed.
6. Review the summary - see how many files were transferred, skipped, or errored. Start a new import or go back to review more.

Photos tagged for deletion are moved to Destination/_Rejects/ (with the same copy verification as transfers) - empty that folder yourself once you're sure. Flip the "Keep rejects" toggle off if you want true deletion from the card instead.

All dependencies are pure JavaScript - no native build toolchain required.

• Node.js 18 or newer
• npm 9+

git clone git@github.com:alminisl/PhotoMover.git
cd PhotoMover
npm install

npm run dev

npm test           # unit + workflow-simulation tests
npm run typecheck  # strict TypeScript check across main, preload, renderer

The test suite simulates the full SD-card-to-drive workflow against temp directories: thumbnail generation, date organization, collision renaming, duplicate skipping, and verified moves.

npm run package        # build for the current platform
npm run package:win    # Windows installer (nsis)
npm run package:mac    # macOS dmg + zip
npm run package:linux  # Linux AppImage + deb

The packaged installers land in dist/. Releases are built for all three platforms automatically by GitHub Actions whenever a v* tag is pushed.

MIT