Erica has wanted to be a travel writer since college and now as a mom of two, she's finally pursuing that dream. She takes pride in researching the best trip information and test driving the recommendations you'll find on this site. When she's not immersed in travel research you can find her with her kids or attempting to learn tennis (advice accepted!).
: Alex dragged in massive folders and connected the Apple Photos library. PhotoSweeper didn't just look for identical files; it compared images pixel by pixel , identifying similar shots even if they were different formats like RAW, HEIC, or JPEG.
Meet Alex, a photographer whose digital life was buried under 140,000 photos. Every session—from family vacations to professional shoots—left behind a trail of nearly identical bursts and resized exports. Desperate for disk space, Alex turned to , a version specifically updated to handle the modern complexities of the Mac ecosystem. The Breakthrough with 4.7.0
: A new setting in this version allowed Alex to ignore groups with only locked photos , ensuring that protected memories remained untouched while the "noise" was swept away. Deciding "Which to Keep, Which to Sweep"
The most reassuring part for Alex was the system. PhotoSweeper didn't instantly vaporize files. Instead: Release Notes – What's new in PhotoSweeper and PhotoMill