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Photos widget for Windows

A pinboard for the pictures you keep going back to: the kids, the boat, the whiteboard from that meeting, the reference shot for the thing you are building. Paste an image from your clipboard, drop one from a browser or Explorer, or pick files from disk, and it lands in a grid of thumbnails. Click one for a viewer with arrows (or the arrow keys), a caption, copy and reveal in Explorer. Right-click a photo to give it up to five stars, hearts or thumbs up, then filter the grid down to your favourites, and sort by date, name, size or rating. Export the photos you are looking at as a PDF, one per page with its caption. Drag a thumbnail back out and it is a real file again, into an email, an upload field or a folder.

Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required

Photos

The real Photos widget, running live. Drag it around.

What it’s for

What Photos is good for

The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.

Keep a photo of the family, the dog or the boat on the dashboard where you glance all day

Park screenshots and reference images for the thing you are working on this week

Drag a saved photo straight into a Slack message or an upload form without hunting for the file

Rate a batch of shots, filter to the best ones and send them on as a single PDF

Originals are kept as files on your machine with a small thumbnail beside each, so a tile full of full-resolution photos stays quick and nothing goes near a cloud. Deleting is one click backed by ten seconds of Undo, because a confirm dialog on a pinboard is friction and a timed double-click looks broken.

Settings

Every Photos setting

5 options, set per widget - so two copies of Photos on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.

Thumb size

smallmediumlarge

Fit

covercontain

Show captions

OnOff

Rating icon

starheartdotthumbs-up

Advanced

Sort order

newestoldestnamelargestsmallestrating
Setup

Getting Photos on your desktop

  1. 01

    Install

    Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.

  2. 02

    Add the widget

    Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.

  3. 03

    Make it yours

    Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.

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