Photo organizer for Windows. Pay once. Your photos never leave your PC.
A lifetime of photos. Finally in one place.
Plug in your iPhone and Sorta brings over the whole library, including the photos Windows skips. Then add every old drive, memory card and folder, and it sorts the lot into one library by year and event.
Originals are never moved, changed or deleted. Sorta copies.
Only exact, byte-for-byte duplicates are flagged. Never "similar" photos.
Faces, search and the map run on your PC. No cloud, no account.
Polaroids that got scanned once and forgotten. A memory card from a camera you don't own anymore. Photos copied from an old computer to a new one, and then again. Decades of memories, saved out of love — and impossible to find.
Polaroid
Memory card
First iPhone
Old computer
Exact copies
The same photo, saved five times, comes in once.
Sorta recognizes exact copies by their contents, not their names, wherever they turn up, and brings each one into your library once. Edited or resized versions are different photos, so they're all kept. Nothing is ever deleted.
11 → 1
Organize
One library. Zero guesswork.
Your photos and videos go into one library, organized by year and event. Documents and other files come along too, if you choose.
Plug in your iPhone and Sorta imports its photos and videos, Live Photos and edits included, and next time only what's new.
Search & map
Find any photo by what's in it.
Search by the people and objects in your photos, and by scenes like a beach or snow — not just file names and folder paths. A map shows where your photos were taken. Included with sorta Plus.
"I had years of photos and files scattered across old drives and folders. Sorta helped me bring everything together and finally make sense of it all. Now I can find what I'm looking for without digging through a maze of folders."
— Early sorta user
Why not the cloud
Everything else can be replaced. These memories can't.
$0/mo
no subscription, ever
0
photos ever uploaded to the cloud
100%
of your originals never changed, moved, or deleted
Pricing
Two ways to get organized.
Both are one-time purchases. No subscriptions, no upsell tricks.
sorta Basic
$20plus tax
one-time purchase
✓ Scan old drives, folders, and memory cards
✓ Import from your iPhone
✓ One library of your photos and videos, by year and event
For Windows 11 (64-bit). iPhone photos need Microsoft's HEVC Video Extension ($0.99 in the Microsoft Store; some PCs already have it) for their previews. Face recognition and search download their models once (about 40 MB and 785 MB), the first time you turn each on, and then run offline.
About
Built by someone with the same shoebox of photos.
Sorta started with the same problem you have: decades of photos spread across old drives, memory cards, and phones. It's independently built and actively maintained.
