julyx10/lap
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
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Lap - Private Local Photo Manager Open-source desktop photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux. English | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano | Magyar | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Українська | 中文简体 | 中文繁體 | 日本語 | 한국어 Lap is an open-source, local-first photo manager for browsing family albums, finding old photos quickly, and managing large personal media libraries offline. It is a privacy-focused alternative to cloud photo services: no forced upload, local AI search, folder-first workflow, and free to use. Open the latest release page, then download the file that matches your system: An experimental source-built Arch recipe is in contrib/aur. It has not been published to the AUR, so yay -S lap is not available yet. To build and install it locally on Arch Linux: The recipe pins an upstream source commit and checksums the bundled AI models and FFmpeg tools. The…
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- Download Lap
- macOS with Homebrew
- Arch Linux (x8664)
- Screenshots
- Why Lap
- Features
- Metadata, Collections, and Moving Files
- What stays with the file
- What is stored locally by Lap
- Working with files outside Lap
- Uninstall Lap
- macOS
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What this repository does
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
Repository facts
- Owner
- julyx10
- Primary language
- Vue
- Stars
- 2,684
- Forks
- 165
- Open issues + pull requests
- 38
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2024-08-11T16:24:28.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-24T09:52:36.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: desktop-app, digital-asset-manager, duplicate-detection, face-recognition, family-photos, image-search, large-photo-collections, linux-app, local-first, macos-app, offline, open-source, photo-library, photo-management, photo-organizer, privacy, windows-app
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