Use PhotoMove To:
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Automatically move photos and videos to directories or folders based on each file's embedded EXIF date taken | ✔ | ✔ |
| Preview before Copy or Move More Info New in 2.5.4! | ✔ | ✔ |
| Undo Last Copy/Move (last batch, same session — not a history) More Info New in 2.5.4! | ✔ | ✔ |
| Significantly faster performance – Native high-speed EXIF engine (no command windows, no antivirus false positives) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Handle any image format that contains EXIF Date Created information (including RAW from Canon, Nikon, and others) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom folder templates — build your own path with {YYYY}, {MM}, {DD}, {Camera} More Info New in 2.5.4! | – | ✔ |
| Full international filename support (UTF-8) – accents, Cyrillic, Chinese, and other non-Latin characters | ✔ | ✔ |
| Modern Windows folder picker with Quick Access, OneDrive, Dropbox, network drives, and direct path pasting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Interactive Scan Reports – Sortable data grids, double-click to open image or video files, and easy spreadsheet export | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort photos and videos into a structured folder format by Year, Month, and Date Taken | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort photos and videos into a folder format by Year, Month, Date Taken, and Camera Model | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional preset folder layouts (Year/Month, Year only, camera-based, and others) Examples | – | ✔ |
| Process video files and clips | ✔ | ✔ |
| Choose which file types to move or copy (Example) | – | ✔ |
| Choose files to move or copy for specific camera model(s) (Example) | – | ✔ |
| Optionally move or copy files without a usable date to a user-defined folder (Takeout JSON sort is separate and included in Free) | – | ✔ |
| Optionally move or copy files without a usable date to structured folders using the file date More Info | – | ✔ |
| Control how duplicate files are handled (Skip, Rename, Overwrite, or Move to separate folder) (Example) | – | ✔ |
| Run PhotoMove from a batch file or the command line More Info | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort using Google Takeout JSON dates when EXIF in your photo or video is missing; runs on your PC — PhotoMove does not talk to Google online. More Info New in 2.5.4! | ✔ | ✔ |
| Write the recovered Takeout date into the file so other programs see the correct date taken More Info New in 2.5.4! | – | ✔ |
| Run on your Mac (requires Parallels or another Windows VM) More Info | ✔ | ✔ |
Choose the Pro or Free Version to Download:
PhotoMove 2.5.4 $8.99 US
One time fee includes future upgrades.
Not available for Mac.
“Hi Bob! Thanks for the suggestion. I completely agree, and I’ve actually just coded this in. It will be available in version 2.5.3.0 coming out this Tuesday! (Mar-29-2026)”
Hi Folks – this is a great help and time saver, but I do have one suggestion for the wish list. When the box pops up stating a file could not be copied for whatever the reason might be, a check box to take the same action (Continue) would be very helpful indeed! When you’ve searched a large drive returning in excess of 32 thousand files found, the copy process forces you to sit with your hand poised over the mouse button to select Continue over and over again. If you get busy away from the keyboard, the copy process can become a weekly miniseries on ABC.
Other than that one wish, this program is the perfect answer to the dreaded “How will I ever get all these pictures organized?” question. Kudos to you and thanks for making this available at such a reasonable cost and (GASP!) not making it yet another endless subscription!
Exactly what I needed, with no coding necessary, and it will save me hours of manual sorting. Thanks!
Best $9 I have spent maybe ever. I have been looking for something to move iphone photos to year_mon_day folders by using the date taken for a long time now. I just took over 11,000 images/videos and was able to have new date based folders in 30 minutes. This has been an issue for me for years! So happy!
This is the best and easiest photo sorting app out there. I am a scrapbooker and my pictures are one of my dear possessions! Keeping photos sorted by date and year has been a game changer and saves me so much time. I have used this numerous times over and over after downloading my photos from iCloud for storage to an external drive for safekeeping. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!
I simply have no words. Within 10 minutes on the free version I was conviced.
PhotoMove changed my workflow for better, so much better and easier. :)
Saves me so much time. :D Totally worth it.
Thanks Chris. And thanks for the nice comment. Happy to hear PhotoMove was helpful.
After years of HDDs gathering dust and drives cloned, the photo situation was a mess. Well over 450,000 photos and no idea where to start with the cleanup process.
Got a NAS, set it as the output location, went through each of my hard drives with a USB dock, a few days of work (mainly the software doing its thing in the background) a very clean and tidy library.
This is the absolute best software i have ever paid for.
It is so easy to use, the duplication checking and move to feature is a savior. Nothing was deleted, all the duplicates sent to its own directory for revision.
Do not hesitate, the trial version had me sold within the first few minutes of use.