Snapselect: Amazing Photo Duplicates Finder and Duplicate Cleaner. App Reviews

I spent hours sorting through duplicates only to find when I was done that I couldn’t delete them from the Photos app. I waited over 12 hours for it to sync with Photos (on a highend macbook pro) and all it did was move them into an album. And when I deleted the photos from that, they did not get deleted from my main collection. So they’re all still there. And I can’t find any customer support either.

Frankly, the size of my image libraries doesn’t come close to what professionsals have so, unless you just want to process a few images, this thing is a waste of money. It took TWO DAYS to scan my folders of images, then each additional step estimated even bigger waits. After letting it run for two solid days it still hadn’t finished loading images, let alone processing them. I know this can be done faster because I can clone the drive where the images are stored in just a couple hours. Why does it take almost 25 times longer just to load the images, let alone do anything with them? This piece of junk is strictly amateur hour. Completely inadequate for even a moderately large image collection. I have no idea if it actually does what it says because I’m not going to burn out a hard drive by running it continuously for a week. DO NOT BUY

This app sounds like a nice idea. I was a bit dissapointed that after launching it it said it would take 24 hours on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro to analyze my library. After the 1st day it then said it would take and additional 20 hours to build thumbnails. Then about 10 hours into that it crashed due to a memory leak. I’m not sure if it would ask for another 20 something hours for an additinoal step before I would actually be able to use it. I contacted support and they thanked me for my patience. Ridiculous. Where is my refund?

My library of images is over 10K so I figured this would be a good app to have. Well after running it several times without anything happening, the developer says to me in a an email that it wount handle that many files?! Then why have it? its a waste of money. In all fairness they did tell me that why were working on increasing the library size it could handle so maybe someday it will be worth the cost!

I take a lot a HDR photos and end up with tons of duplicates and double shots. Thanks to this app I have cleaned out my back lock of photos in hours instead of days. Knowing what window I am working with in double view can get a little consufing but not terribly so. If they would add support to view my iPhone directly instead of having to import my photos with image capture first it would easily be my mostusefull app. This Pixelmator and iPhoto will now be my permenant workflow. I would buy ASAP

As a blogger, I have to take multiple photos of various items for my blog. SnapSelect is amazing and saves me so much time by helping me sort and select the best photos for my projects. It’s very easy to use, especially for someone like me who doesn’t use photo software often. It works well with both Aperture and iPhoto, but also as a standalone. Because I’m able to easily sort and select my best photos with SnapSelect, my folders are less cluttered and better organized. It’s a small investment for time and sanity saved.

I’ve been struggling with literally 1000’s of photos on different drives and unlabeled. This program cleans them up for me in a tenth of the time it was taking me to go through them. Now I can get rid of duplicates and store the photos in correct folders in many different ways, Dates, content, scenes etc. really some of the best software I’ve ever bought. Worth many times the asking price. R gilchrist

Basic collage app. Saves in its own “collage” program but can be exported in other forms. Simple, fast, straightforward. No complaints.

I never bother reviewing apps but this one does it exactly right. I had scanned thousands of family photos over hte past year. At some point a couple of boxes got mixed up and I ended up with almost a thousand dupes, too. About half way thru my scanning project last year I upped the resolution of my scans. So now the job was, find the duplicates..choose to keep the higher-resolution version and discard the other one. This app worked perfectly on those thousand dupe images. 1) It displayed the multiples of the same image. 2) It showed my the file sizes so I could choose the better (higher-res) version of my scans each time. 3) Once all the keepers were selected it let me delete all the discards. 4) Bam. I never bother reviewing apps but this one is just GREAT.

Can not get snapselect to work on Aperture. After snapslect support did the standard try this and this, remove and reinstall, to be truthful no real troubleshooting. I did mention my Aperture library is located on an external drive and support then asked that I try to move the library to the internal drive. I replied that this is not an optoin as my library is large and I should be able to use this product on an external drive I have not received any further support. So with out being able to use the app for the reason I purchased it and please note in the app discrription it does say any folder and exteranal drive. I will have to give this app a zero on rating.

I was excited to use this product. Until it took all of my trashed photos and put them back into iPhoto. It undid months of work (that I thought this program would help me with). I am so screwed. I don’t know how or why it did it but that is where I am. Now I am too terrified to use it again so I must delete the app and spend weeks sorting out my messed up iPhoto. Plus I lost the money I spent buying the program. For me this has been a complete disaster.

Useful to weed out unnecessary images! Must have!

i use this app for editing photos for staging for my business. It’s fantastic - easy to use with beautiful features and effects. People comment on the quality of my photography and think its professionally done! To

Mac Apps are suppose to shine when they apply the Unix philosophy: "do one thing well”. Snapselect could be like that: it has very basic functions for sorting photos in two groups only (good image viewers allow sort to multiple target folders, this is not the case here). It is quick and seems to work (at least with less that a hundred images). Unfortunately some “genius” had to ruin it and add buttons, links and items that, without warning– hijack your workflow and switch you focus to their online store! Use it for picking shots you like if you don;t know or don’t like to use the Finder, or if don’t need to do any serious sorting in categpries, etc. It could have been simple and great, but they decided to make it just OK. And for “just OK” it is way overpriced. Recommendation: look elsewhere.

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for - it turns a process that really took a long time and was incredibly tedious into a quick and enjoyable experience. I’m always experimenting with settings on my camera so I have a lot of duplicate images - this handles those perfectly and lets me get the good shots copied over to my Mac in no time.

I previously gave this App 2 stars because of my old age senility. I griped about not having enough information as to which photo to delete based primarily on file size. I sent an email to MacPhun and in less than a day, I was given the information that I should have been able to find myself. Great Response and great App! My apologies to MacPhun and to any other purchasers looking for an intelligent review.

The concept of this app is great and EXACTLY what I need. When I first heard about it and read good reviews, I immediately purchased it as it would solve a ton of image management issues for me. That is, if it would actually work. I have tried at least a dozen times and it never finishes analyzing the images. It will hang on “less than 30 seconds remaining” for literally hours. I’ve let it run overnight, thinking it maybe just needed more time to process my large image library. Nope. it will still be on “less than 30 seconds remaining” in the morning. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing. Someone else mentioned the developer said it can’t handle large libraries, so maybe that’s my issue. But to that I say… what’s the point of this app, then? Aren’t people with large image libraries most likely to be the ones who would need something like this? I’m holding out hope it improves someday because I would love to have this functionality. In the meantime, it was a waste of money and time.

I like how this software allows me to pick my photo software and workflow. I can quickly and easily manage my photos whether I store them on dropbox, uploaded them to facebook or send them to people I work with. I can easily sort through and delete bad photos and move the ones I wish to keep to whatever location I choose.

The concept is great, but I cannot get it to run. I went to the extext of trying to get it to load five photos from Aperture and the program keeps crashing.

Does exactly what it says, and I love using it… the only problem is that, while I got it on sale, if it weren’t on sale it would be too expensive for what it gives you.