Picasa like Photo Organising Software for Mac

[YoShLK]

I switched from Windows 10 to macOS about a week ago. I used an outdated version of Picasa to organise my photos while on Windows. Unfortunately, however, Big Sur won't allow me to install Picasa because it's not developed anymore. Can someone recommend an app similar to Picasa, please?

 

[IHelpId10t5]

Photos. It's an application that comes preinstallaed on all Macs.

 

[YoShLK]

Photos. It's an application that comes preinstallaed on all Macs.

Thank you very much. I feel the UI is not that friendly but, it's very close to Picasa.

 

[Madmic23]

I used Picasa on my old Windows machine ages ago. It was good, but I definitely enjoy Photos more, especially using iCloud Photos to have access to everything across my Mac, iPhone and iPad. Depending on how big your library is, you’ll probably need to buy some iCloud storage.

I use both Google Photos and iCloud Photos, but now that Google has done away with free storage, I’m primarily using iCloud Photos. Since I’m paying Apple already for storage, I might as well use it.

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

I switched from Windows 10 to macOS about a week ago. I used an outdated version of Picasa to organise my photos while on Windows. Unfortunately, however, Big Sur won't allow me to install Picasa because it's not developed anymore. Can someone recommend an app similar to Picasa, please?

You could try Mylio and see if you like that.

 

[alanmcdonley]

Nikon NX Studio is the best free, non-destructive, organizer-editor with tagging I have found:

Nikon | Download center | NX Studio

 

[Clix Pix]

Isn't Nikon NX Studio meant for those who are actually using Nikon cameras and lenses?

 

[alanmcdonley]

>Isn't Nikon NX Studio meant for those who are actually using Nikon cameras and lenses?


There are a few features only useful to shots taken with Nikon cameras (optional focus point display ...) but the package works totally for any camera. The only downside for me is long startup time for catalog over 100k pics.

 

[allan.nyholm]

Nikon NX Studio is the best free, non-destructive, organizer-editor with tagging I have found:

Nikon | Download center | NX Studio

Thank you so much for sharing this. I think I'll pass this info on to another person asking for a photo viewer. I've suggested XnViewMP to him, but this is also a cool looking app and much more macOS-like in its appearance than XnViewMP .

 

[lokerd]

I switched from Windows 10 to macOS about a week ago. I used an outdated version of Picasa to organise my photos while on Windows. Unfortunately, however, Big Sur won't allow me to install Picasa because it's not developed anymore. Can someone recommend an app similar to Picasa, please?

Like you and others, I used Picasa on PC (and Mac) since it's inception...frustrated when they killed it. Used Google Photos until they started charging. So, I decided to pay for Apple One and started trying to migrate 100% to Apple Photos for easy sync across lots of devices. Unfortunately, I ended up paying for Google Photos also because of too many years of many, many thousands of photos, from Apple and Android, and DSLRs.

And, there are still some features in Picasa, like scanning an entire drive and finding every picture in every folder, etc.

So, is there no point in even trying to get Picasa on my new M1 Mac Mini running OS12.4?
Does it try to install and not work, or refuse to even install?

Thanks!