
Skimrr
Find duplicate and blurry photos, 100% locally
Built this originally for myself after one too many trips coming home to a
photo folder full of duplicates and blurry shots I never bothered sorting.
Tried digiKam first since it's the go-to free option, but it's a full photo
management system, tags, faces, albums, way more than I needed. I just wanted
something that finds the duplicates and the blurry photos and gets out of the
way.
So that's what Skimrr does. Two things:
- Finds duplicate photos (exact matches via file hashing, near-duplicates via
perceptual hashing, catches the same shot resaved or recompressed too)
- Finds blurry photos (sharpness scoring, adjustable threshold)
Everything runs locally. No account, no cloud upload, nothing leaves your
computer.
Runs on Mac and Windows, one-time purchase, no subscription (felt weird
charging monthly for something people might open twice a year).
Still early, would genuinely love feedback from anyone who tries it. Happy to
send free keys to a few people willing to test and give honest thoughts on
what's missing or broken.
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I kept coming back from trips with a messy photo folder full of duplicates and blurry shots. Existing tools felt like overkill, so I built something that just does those two things, nothing else.

2 Comments
The narrow scope is probably the strongest part here. Skimrr is deliberately solving two specific problems instead of becoming another full photo-management system.