LIMO
Free & open source ยท Windows app
The free photo organizer that finds anyone by their face. No uploads, no accounts, no cloud: just your photos, sorted and searchable.
LIMO keeps every photo on your machine; nothing is ever uploaded. It sorts your library automatically into portraits, couples, groups, and more, and can find anyone in seconds just by showing it their face.
Built by Avijit RoyWhy LIMO exists
For a decade, Google Picasa made messy photo folders feel organized: fast, free, and running quietly on your own PC. Google shut it down in 2016, and nothing free ever fully replaced it. LIMO is a love letter to that era, the same "it just works" feeling, rebuilt with modern local AI and zero cloud strings attached.
Photo studios hear it every week: a customer comes back years later wanting reprints, but their receipt or order token is long gone. Instead of digging through filing cabinets, the studio snaps one new photo of the customer (or scans an old print), and LIMO's face search finds every past shoot that face appears in.
Search by face, not by file name.
What it does
Drop in any photo of someone and LIMO finds every picture of them in your library, even in old, unsorted folders.
Portraits, couples, groups, landscapes, and documents get sorted automatically as your photos are scanned in.
Thumbs up a good match or thumbs down a bad one, and LIMO remembers: face search keeps improving the more you use it.
Select a batch of photos like you would in Windows Explorer, then re-sort them all into the right category in one go.
Switch between one big library view or familiar folder-by-folder browsing, whichever feels more natural to you.
Photos appear as they're found, so even libraries with thousands of files feel instant to browse.
Smart thumbnailing keeps memory use low, so LIMO stays fast even on massive personal photo archives.
Minimize LIMO to the system tray and let it index quietly in the background while you do other things.
Privacy model
LIMO is built for personal archives, family albums, and private photo folders. Every scan, face match, and category runs on your desktop, and the index stays on your hard drive, never on someone else's server.
Latest release
Download the installer from GitHub Releases and run LIMO_Setup.exe to install the desktop app.
For developers
Most people should just grab the installer above; this path is for developers who want to audit or modify the open-source code first.
Create a Python virtual environment and install the project requirements.
Run PyInstaller with LIMO.spec and copy the generated EXE into installer/.
Use Inno Setup 6 and installer/limo.iss to create LIMO_Setup.exe.
Common questions
Yes. LIMO is completely free and open source under the MIT license, with no subscriptions, ads, or paid tiers.
Yes. LIMO runs 100% offline. Photo indexing, categorization, and face search all happen locally on your Windows PC, and nothing is ever uploaded to the cloud.
Yes. Drop in any reference photo of a person and LIMO searches your library locally to find every photo that contains a matching face.
LIMO is inspired by Picasa's simplicity and built as a free, open-source alternative for people who miss it, with modern local face search added on top.
Yes. Studios use LIMO's face search to locate a customer's past photo orders from a brand-new snapshot or a scanned print, even if the customer has lost their order receipt or token number.