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Shotwell

Shotwell is a photo management program, available on Windows and Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Shotwell is a photo management program, available on Windows and Linux.

File formats mentioned: PNG, JPEG and TIFF.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Shotwell is a personal photo manager.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “It also offers basic photo editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Shotwell is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (LGPL-2.1+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to import photos from your camera or disk, organize them by date and subject matter, even ratings. It also offers basic photo editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten. Shotwell’s non-destructive photo editor does not alter your master photos, making it easy to experiment and correct errors. When ready, Shotwell can upload your photos to various web services, such as Flickr, Google Photos, and more. Shotwell supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and a variety of RAW file formats.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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