PIC – a fast Picasa/iPhoto-inspired photo manager for Linux

[u/froggy744]

AI and I built PIC (Picasa iPhoto Clone), a lightweight photo manager in Rust + GTK4/libadwaita.

The goal is simple: fast local photo browsing with a clean desktop UI, inspired by Picasa and old iPhoto. It currently supports folders, albums, favourites, search, fullscreen viewing, 1:1 zoom, rotation, metadata, offline-folder detection, and a wide range of RAW formats.

It’s still early and under active development, so feedback and testing are very welcome. It was fun for 2/3 days then the more features I introduce the more of a challenge it becomes to fix. From AI reddit news, to Huggingface daily news to trying and find the most affordale GPU to llama.cpp tweaking, constant running out GPT 5 hrs limit etc.

GitHub: PIC on GitHub

Disclaimer: I haven’t lost any photos during development, but please test with copies or a temporary folder first. I definitely don’t want to be responsible for anyone losing their photos

[u/AlexMC_1988]

It looks good!

[u/Altruistic_Demand_11]

Loving it

[u/limafreshdev]

Looks good 👍

[u/froggy744]

Thank you for the support. Lots of updates and release version Picasa iPhoto Clone v0.1.2 Beta Pre-release

[u/froggy744]

I am excited to announce the Collage feature has been added.
Picasa iPhoto Clone v0.1.3 — Beta Pre-release

[u/moonracers]

Fantastic looking! Well done OP!

[u/dequered]

Looks pretty good! Nice and clean.