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Finally found a photo manager that stays offline

I've been meaning to sort out my photo mess for ages. Years of phone dumps and old camera folders, all sitting in random directories, and every tool I tried wanted me to upload everything to some cloud I didn't trust. A friend mentioned Lap last week, so I gave it a shot. It's a local-first, open-source photo manager that just points at your own folders and indexes them right there on your machine. Nothing gets uploaded, which is the part I care about most. I ran it against my main drive and it handled tens of thousands of files without choking. Browsing by date, searching by location or camera, even catching near-duplicates, all offline. If you've got a sprawling library you've been avoiding, it's worth a look. I set it up as my local photo library app and haven't looked back: https://lapphotos.com/ Simple, private, and it just works.

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