Store Your Photos Simply
A simpler way to store your photos - whether you're learning photography or just tired of losing track of where that perfect mountain sunrise went. Coming soon - 3Q 2025
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I’ve been taking photos for almost three decades - which is how I’ve ended up with thousands of shots of my thumb, eight great ones, and several dozen selfies that would make Pinocchio say, “I’m made of wood… what’s wrong with you?”
I started in a photo shop back in the ’90s, selling cameras and collecting film rolls filled with birthday parties, broken fingers, and things that made my entire generation of photo/video part-timers eternally grateful for the invention of digital cameras. Later, I built a surveillance camera streaming and storage company. But photography always stayed with me - as a hobby, a habit, and eventually, a problem.
StorePhotos is the tool I didn’t know I needed 25 years ago. It came out of sorting through decades of disorganized images across phones, SD cards, hard drives, and cloud accounts - and realizing there had to be a better way. Granted, the fact that my photo naming convention was seemingly invented by someone who doesn’t understand either "naming" or "convention" didn’t help. But even that, StorePhotos can fix.
Store photos your way
StorePhotos isn’t a social network. It doesn’t sort by hearts or trends. It doesn’t have sharing buttons or algorithmic feeds. In fact, everything - except optional cloud backups - works perfectly offline. StorePhotos is a desktop application for people who want to keep the photos that matter, and archive them in a way they can use, learn from, and laugh at later.
Organize your photos
Unify your storage
Optimize your photos
The StorePhotos promise(s)
This application will never include tracking or telemetry. I think you should track migratory birds, not customers. It will never have ads, adware, or in-app purchases. Not everything needs a price tag. Life is expensive, and hobbies add up. If you can’t afford it, contact me and ask for a copy - I don’t need to profit off every person who crosses my path.
And if you do something creative with it, let me know so I can help share it. Good news and creativity are worth celebrating.
Coming soon - StorePhotos
The useful photo application with the overtly literal name will launch for Windows in the third quarter of 2025. Contact me to join the waitlist - if you’d like, I’ll send you one email when the app goes live on the Microsoft App Store.
A Linux version (tested on Ubuntu) works surprisingly well. I’m not sure when - or if - it’ll be released, because monetizing Linux software is somehow harder than writing it. And I believe a MacOS version will arrive in early 2026… though to be honest, I didn’t know I was launching this one a month ago, so consider that more of a weather forecast than a release date.
StorePhotos Content
New Resource - Photo Glossary
I launched a new resource today - a glossary of photography terms that I find conversationally helpful. By conversationally helpful, I mean that they're really useful when you have the chance to learn and ask questions. But they're just as useful when you want to learn more and consult Google or an LLM.
The Soft Launch That Got Too Loud
What was supposed to be a quiet test run for a street magazine turned into a full-blown media frenzy — thanks to two unstoppable vendors, rudimentary desktop publishing skills and excellent content. This is the origin story behind a project that eventually helped inspire part of StorePhotos.ca.