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The offline photo organizer and photo/video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. Version 2.5.2, released October 21, 2026. Free to use up to 500 photos with no account and no card: or try every Pro feature free for 30 days.
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Run the installer and follow the prompts. It offers a per-user install or an install for all users; the all-users option puts the AI model files in a machine-wide folder so every account on the PC shares one copy.
Open the .dmg and drag Pluto Photos into Applications. Because a .dmg has no install step, the AI model files download quietly in the background on first launch, give it a few minutes on a new machine before the AI tools are ready.
On Ubuntu, Debian and Mint, install the .deb: it adds Pluto Photos to your app menu and fetches the AI model files during setup. The AppImage runs on every other distribution with no extra packages.
The download is the same file either way: there is no separate trial build. Installed and unlicensed, Pluto Photos runs as the free tier: one library of up to 500 photos, with tags, ratings, albums and export. Entering a Pro key in the app unlocks unlimited photos, both editors, and every AI feature. Pro is a one-time $29 purchase, not a subscription.
Check the system requirements if you are unsure whether your computer is fast enough. The short version: a 64-bit computer running Windows 10 or 11, macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon, or a current Linux, with a 4-core processor from 2018 or newer, 8 GB of memory (16 GB is better) and an SSD. A graphics card is not required, but it makes photo descriptions about 8 times faster on Windows. Older and entry-level laptops will run Pluto, but slowly.
The app also downloads its AI model files separately from the installer, once, after installation: about 0.9 GB on macOS and Linux and about 1.6 GB on Windows. That is why the AI tools can be briefly unavailable on a brand-new install while the files arrive in the background. Everything else works immediately.
The supported formats page lists every image, RAW, video and metadata format the app reads, so you can check your camera's files before importing anything.
If you are moving off a cloud service, install first and read the Google Photos migration guide second: the Google Takeout organizer reads the sidecar JSON files Google exports, so your original capture dates survive the move instead of collapsing to the day you downloaded the archive.
Pluto Photos can also serve your library to other devices on your own network. This is covered in the companion browser feature documentation.
Version 2.5.2 shipped on October 21, 2026. The release notes list what is new in each version, and updates are free for the lifetime of the licence. There is no upgrade fee between versions.
