FREE SOFTWARE

Your real photography stats

Discover what camera, lens, and settings you actually use. Scan your photos locally and see your habits instantly.

Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

FEATURES

What you can do with Photo Stats

A simple desktop app to analyze your photography habits. Runs entirely on your machine, built to index fast and respect your privacy.

📷 Most Used Gear

Discover your top cameras and lenses. Make data-driven decisions on what to buy or sell.

âš¡ Lightning Fast

Reads EXIF metadata in parallel to index thousands of photos in seconds without lag.

🔒 100% Local & Private

Your photos never leave your hard drive. No cloud uploads, no accounts, zero tracking.

📊 Interactive Charts

Click any bar to filter all your stats instantly and visualize your timeline month by month.

🎯 Settings Tracker

Find your true favorite focal length and what aperture you shoot at the most without realizing it.

📂 Smart Duplicates

Automatically groups RAW + JPEG files from the same shot so your metrics stay perfectly accurate.

Unlock the secrets of your photo archive

No clouds, no uploads. All metadata analysis is done privately on your computer.

Most used cameras & lenses


Find out which gear is your true workhorse.

  • Filter and compare all your camera bodies.
  • See which lenses perform best for you every year.
  • Make data-driven decisions on what to buy or sell.

Focal lengths & apertures


Are you really an f/1.4 shooter, or do you stop down more than you think?

  • Know your true favorite focal length.
  • Discover the aperture you shoot at the most.
  • Understand your visual trends over time.

100% Local & Private


Your photos never leave your hard drive.

  • The database is saved in your own local folder.
  • No user accounts or subscriptions required.
  • Zero telemetry, zero tracking. Everything stays local.

Lightning fast


Reads thousands of photos and metadata in seconds.

  • Parallel processing to squeeze the most out of your CPU.
  • Smart duplicate handling (groups RAW + JPEG).
  • Ultra-fast subsequent scans (only reads new or changed files).

Interactive charts


Your habits change, and your data does too.

  • Click any bar to filter all charts together instantly.
  • Watch your shooting volume month by month on the timeline.
  • Clean, intuitive interface with zero complex setup.

Open & Exportable


Your data is yours. Do whatever you want with it.

  • Export your filtered results to CSV or JSON.
  • Use the command-line interface (CLI) for your own scripts.
  • 100% open-source code available on GitHub.

How Photo Stats works

Install, drop your folder, and start discovering things about your photos.

1. Download the app

Grab the free version for Mac, Windows, or Linux from GitHub.

2. Open your folder 

Open your main photography folder.

3. Explore your data 

Click on the charts and discover your habits instantly.

Know your gear inside out

Download Photo Stats and stop guessing about what gear you really use.

Completely free and open-source.

Photo Stats FAQ

Quick answers about the app and privacy.

No. It runs 100% locally. There is no cloud, no user accounts, and no external servers reading your photos.

Yes, there are ready-to-use versions available for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows, and Linux.

Photo Stats automatically groups the RAW and JPEG files from the same shot and counts them as a single photograph, ensuring your metrics stay perfectly accurate.

It is a completely free, open-source project licensed under MIT.

Yes. It uses exiftool under the hood (the industry standard), making it compatible with virtually any RAW format and metadata out there.

100% Free.