Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro Review, Instructions and Alternatives

Duplicates clutter up your photo collection and take up storage space. There are tools designed to help you remove them, and Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is one of them.

Is Duplicate Photos Fixer the best tool for you? Is it worth the money? Read this review to find out.

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro review

What is Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro?

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is a paid duplicate photo finder developed by Systweak Software. It's available for Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone, but it's named Duplicate Photos Fixer on iPhone.

(This review covers its Windows and Mac versions and focuses on the former.)

Is Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro safe?

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is safe to download and install. I haven't noticed anything suspicious during download, installation, and use. My antivirus software hasn't given any warnings or alerts.

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is safe to use. Features like Excluded Folder, Deletion Confirmation, and Send Duplicate Photos to Recycle Bin help enhance security.

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro cost

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is a paid app, although a free trial is available. Here's the pricing information.

Windows users can get the free trial from the official website. The free trial offers access to all features, but you can only remove up to 15 duplicate photos.

For Windows users, the app is a bit costly considering that it only deals with duplicate images. There are cheaper options available.

 Cisdem Duplicate Finder

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro Alternative and Beyond

• Identify duplicate photos, videos, documents, audio files, and all other files
• Identify duplicate folders
• Detect similar images
• Support Windows PC, Mac, external storage devices, cloud drives, and phones
• Find duplicate files in folders, iTunes, Apple's Music, and Mac's Photos
• Offer 3 modes to view duplicates, along with side-by-side image previews
• Automatically select all but one file for removal in each group of duplicates, enabling you to delete all duplicates at once
• Allow you to adjust selections manually or choose from 8 rules (e.g., Select Newest)
• Offer 3 removal methods, including Move to Recycle Bin (PC) or Trash (Mac)
• Easy to use and customize

Free Download Windows 10 or later Free Download macOS 10.11 or later GET IT ON Google Play Download on the App Store

Download and install

You can easily install and uninstall Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro on your device using the traditional methods.

Features and performance

1. Support various locations

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro supports various locations, from folders on your computer to a cloud drive. However, the support is a bit different on Windows and Mac.

When you add a location to scan for duplicates, you can exclude certain files from the scan by format, file size range, or folder. (The Mac version also allows you to exclude files by time.) This helps protect important photos, or improve efficiency by ignoring small photos.

2. Find identical and similar photos

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro offers 2 comparison methods: Exact Match and Similar Matches. Let’s take a look at the 2 methods and how well they work.

• Exact Match

This method only finds duplicate photos (exactly identical, regardless of their file names). Importing the same photo multiple times or copying and pasting photos can create these duplicates.

In the test, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro took 4 minutes and 34 seconds to scan 7.34 GB of files and found 2,910 duplicates, whereas an alternative found 2,936 duplicates in 7 seconds.

• Similar Matches

This comparison method can find both duplicate photos and similar photos. Here are some examples of similar photos.

• Burst mode photos
• Photos taken from slight different angles or distances
• Edited (e.g., rotated) or compressed versions of the same photo
• Different formats of the same photo, such as one in JPG and the other in PNG

You can specify how this duplicate photo finder measures the similarity between pictures by adjusting the general Matching Level slider. There are other settings. You can fine-tune them to get desired scan results.

• Bitmap Size allows you to decide the accuracy of scan result. The default setting is 64×64 pixels. There is a trade-off between quality and speed. Slide towards Performance to ensure fast scanning. Slide towards Quality to get highly accurate results.
• Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro also takes into consideration the time interval between two photos when identifying similar photos. The Time Interval setting can be used to find photos taken in burst mode.
• The app checks the GPS coordinates for photos and likely uses it as a factor when matching similar photos. The GPS setting is easily adjustable.

To test the performance, I used Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro and another app to scan the same Mac Photos library for similar photos. Both apps found burst mode photos and duplicate photos with different file sizes. The other app also found pictures captured from slightly different angles or distances and certain other visually alike pictures.

3. Preview found duplicates

Before removing, you can preview found duplicate photos. Detected duplicates will be categorized in groups and let you compare side by side. The Metadata section under the thumbnail allows you to see details of the duplicate photos. You can manually mark images by yourself, or using the auto mark feature.

4. Mark duplicates for deletion

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro can automatically mark the detected duplicate copies for you to delete. To adjust it, go to Preferences > Auto Mark. You can select/deselect options or change the priority to auto mark photos. This feature is useful. You can also mark duplicates by hand.

However, the Auto Mark feature can have a downside. When you use the Similar Matches method, the results window will display both exact duplicates and similar photos, and the auto marking will be applied to both types. But the Auto Mark feature can’t decide which is the best shot to you in each group of visually similar pictures. Simply deleting the automatically marked photos is very likely to delete your favorite photos!

Summary

Instructions: How to use Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro

Here’s a basic how-to guide. To make the most of the app, please read the review above.

1. Add folders to scan. Drag photos or folders into Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro. Alternatively, click the Add button.

2. Customize settings. Select a comparison method and customize settings if needed. You can configure further in Preferences.

3. Select dupes to delete. Click Auto Mark, and it will automatically mark duplicate copies according to default or custom setting.

Step 4. Delete. Click Trash Marked to send unwanted photos to Trash (Mac) or the Recycle Bin (Windows).

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro alternative worth checking out

If Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is not suitable for you, you can consider alternatives.

Cisdem Duplicate Finder is considered by many a great choice.

• Find exact duplicate photos, videos, audios, documents and any other types of duplicate files
• Also find near duplicate photos
• Work with computer, external hard drive, SD card, cloud drives, etc.
• Support Mac’s Photos, iPhoto, Music and iTunes
• Offer 3 preview modes to preview images, media files, etc.
• Automatically select duplicate files to mass remove all at once
• Also offer multiple rules to customize the selection
• Provide 3 removal methods including Move to Trash/Recycle Bin
• Available for both Mac and Windows

Free Download Windows 10 or later Free Download macOS 10.11 or later

Unlike Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro, Cisdem Duplicate Finder can find all types of duplicate files. Also, it is capable of detecting all of the duplicate files in the folder, drive or Photos library that you select. It’s more powerful.

In addition, this alternative can find more similar photos. Similar pictures are grouped for you yourself to easily pick the best shots. The auto-selection only applies to exact duplicates. But the app does provide 8 selection rules to help you mass select similar photos.

You can determine the similarity level before scanning similar photos. Click on Settings then go to “Similar Images” tab. If you choose “Custom” option, tweak the slider of “Histogram similarity” to 0% and “Features similarity” to 100%, you will find photos with the highest similarity.

Cisdem Duplicate Finder can help you get rid of duplicate photos and other duplicates easily, effectively and safely.

Here's a comparison of Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro and this alternative.