Pluto Photos Blog https://plutophotos.com/blog/ Tips, guides, and comparisons for photo organization, AI face detection, and managing your photos offline with Pluto Photos. en-us I Had 80,000 Photos in a Folder Called "Unsorted." So I Built an App. https://plutophotos.com/blog/why-i-built-pluto-photos/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/why-i-built-pluto-photos/ The story behind Pluto Photos — why I quit using cloud services, what made me start building my own photo manager, and the mistakes I made along the way. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT Story I Left Google Photos. Here's How I Did It Without Losing Anything. https://plutophotos.com/blog/leaving-google-photos/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/leaving-google-photos/ A walkthrough of exporting from Google Photos via Takeout and actually keeping all your dates, locations, and albums intact in a local photo manager. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT Tutorial Pluto Photos Now Has a Video Editor https://plutophotos.com/blog/video-editor-announcement/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/video-editor-announcement/ We just shipped a full multi-clip video editor inside Pluto Photos — timeline, transitions, audio overlays, color grading, and export. Here's what it does. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Release Running Pluto Photos on Your NAS with Docker https://plutophotos.com/blog/self-hosting-pluto-photos-docker/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/self-hosting-pluto-photos-docker/ A guide to self-hosting Pluto Photos as a Docker container on your NAS or home server — no desktop app required. Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT Tutorial Why Your Google Takeout Dates Are Wrong (And How to Fix Them) https://plutophotos.com/blog/google-photos-takeout-metadata-fix/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/google-photos-takeout-metadata-fix/ Google Takeout exports strip date metadata from your photos and bury it in JSON files. Here's what's happening and how to get your timeline back. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT Tutorial The Tagging System I Use to Actually Find My Photos https://plutophotos.com/blog/tagging-system-guide/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/tagging-system-guide/ After trying five different organizational systems, here's the one that stuck — a simple tagging approach that makes any photo findable in seconds. Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT Tips The Simplest Way to Get Photos Off Your Phone and Into a Real Library https://plutophotos.com/blog/phone-photos-to-desktop/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/phone-photos-to-desktop/ Your phone is full and your camera roll is a mess. Here's how to move your photos to your computer and never worry about running out of space again. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT Tutorial Cinematic Video Effects, Green Screen, and a Pro-Grade Image Editor — All in One App https://plutophotos.com/blog/cinematic-video-editor-image-editor-update/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/cinematic-video-editor-image-editor-update/ Pluto Photos v2.3.14 adds letterbox bars, film grain, LUT color grading, chroma key, and a full photo editor with tone curves, HSL, portrait blur, and more. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Release I Had 6,000 Duplicate Photos. Here's How I Found Them. https://plutophotos.com/blog/finding-duplicate-photos/ https://plutophotos.com/blog/finding-duplicate-photos/ After years of importing photos from multiple devices, I ran a duplicate scan and found 6,000 wasted files. Not all of them had identical filenames. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Tips