Private photo software for real life
Pika Photos brings your scattered family photos and videos into one beautiful, searchable library—without an account, a subscription, or a cloud upload.
Public release in preparation · Planned 30-day trial · Your originals stay untouched
Your family history is not a feed
Phones fill up. Cloud accounts change. Old hard drives get forgotten. Pika gives ordinary families a clear, permanent home for the photographs that matter most.
It is designed around ownership: your files remain normal files, your library lives on your computer, and every organizational choice stays reversible.
A complete photo home
Pika handles the unglamorous work—imports, metadata, duplicates, organization, and backups—then gets out of the way.
Private visual search
Search naturally for “ocean,” “dog in the snow,” “Sophie wearing a yellow dress,” dates, places, people, favorites, or camera details. Local vision and OCR models do the work on your own computer.
Bring everything home
Use a USB cable, private Wi-Fi transfer, camera, memory card, watched folder, or cloud-sync folder. Dedicated migration tools restore Google Photos Takeout and Apple Photos privacy exports.
Photo Care
Pika groups bursts, similar photos, and recompressed copies, flags blurry or dark images, and recommends the strongest shot. Nothing is deleted without you.
Non-destructive editing
Adjust exposure, contrast, color, warmth, rotation, and straightening with a live rule-of-thirds grid. Save a reversible recipe or export a new full-resolution image.
Privacy is the architecture
Pika is a native desktop application. Its catalog, face recognition, visual search, OCR, maps, edits, and backup history all run locally.
More than a gallery
Backup & protection
Verified incremental backups, external-drive health, and gentle reminders help stop a phone loss from becoming a memory loss.
Offline Places
Browse GPS-tagged memories on a completely offline map.
A viewer made for photos
Filmstrip, full screen, borderless mode, keyboard controls, Live Photos, motion photos, and video playback.
Inside Pika Photos
Natural language, filename, date, location, camera, people, ratings, captions, keywords, OCR, and visual concepts.
Private facial recognition, editable face portraits, unnamed-face groups, and confirmation before names are applied.
Google Takeout, Apple privacy exports, USB phones, Wi-Fi phones, cameras, cards, folders, and cloud-sync presets.
Albums, favorites, People, Places, folders, Smart Sort, memories, timeline, Photo Inbox, and rapid review.
EXIF dates, GPS, camera details, captions, keywords, ratings, corrections, and optional XMP sidecars.
Non-destructive indexing, editing, duplicate cleanup, verified transfers, safe cancellation, and external-drive backups.
Keep the memories. Skip the account.
The public release will include a 30-day full-feature trial, followed by an optional one-time purchase. After the trial, your photos remain viewable, searchable, and recoverable. No subscription or cloud storage plan.
Ubuntu and compatible 64-bit Debian systems
Public trial installer being preparedWindows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit
Public trial installer being preparedApple silicon and Intel Mac support is planned
Desktop applicationThe Windows installer is available and its download will be connected here shortly.
Good questions
No. Pika reads and organizes media locally. An internet connection is not required for everyday use, and Offline Lock can shut off network access whenever you want.
No. Watched folders are indexed in place. Edits are stored as small reversible recipes, and an edited image is created only when you explicitly export a new copy.
Yes. Pika uses a persistent SQLite catalog, cached thumbnails, progressive gallery rendering, and resumable analysis built for libraries with tens of thousands of items.
Yes. Your originals remain ordinary files. Portable XMP sidecars can preserve ratings, captions, keywords, dates, locations, rotation, and favorites outside Pika’s catalog.