BatchPhoto vs libvips
BatchPhoto
batchphoto.comlibvips
libvips.orgSide by side
| Figure | BatchPhoto | libvips |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 1 |
| Spec score · Image Converter Software | 9.0 (#5) | 7.7 (#20) |
| Image formats | BatchPhoto converts to and from more than 170 image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, and PDF. | It supports formats including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF, SVG, GIF, DeepZoom and OpenSlide. |
| Integrations | Images can be sent to FTP or SFTP, emailed, and launched from the Windows Explorer context menu. | The site lists Mastodon, sharp, imgproxy, wsrv.nl, bimg, Ruby on Rails, CarrierWave and MediaWiki as users of libvips as an image processing engine. |
| Purpose | BatchPhoto automates repeatable photo tasks such as resizing, converting, cropping, watermarking, date stamping, and renaming. | libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library that runs quickly and uses little memory. |
| Support | Support provides activation and license-transfer instructions, video tutorials, online help and email assistance. | The official site links to documentation, issues and a wiki. |
Plans
BatchPhoto
- BatchPhoto Home$29.95, paid once
- BatchPhoto Home$29.95, paid once
- BatchPhoto Pro Mac App Store$29.99, paid once
- BatchPhoto Pro$49.95, paid once
- BatchPhoto Pro$49.95, paid once
- BatchPhoto Enterprise$129.95, paid once
- BatchPhoto Enterprise$129.95, paid once
In their own words
BatchPhoto
BatchPhoto has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
libvips
libvips is an image-processing library built for demand-driven work across multiple threads, with low memory use. Its roughly 300 operations cover arithmetic, histograms, convolution, morphology, frequency filtering, colour, resampling and statistics. It handles formats including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF, SVG, GIF, DeepZoom and OpenSlide. Developers can use C, C++, command-line tools, or bindings for Ruby, Python, PHP,.NET, Go, Lua, Crystal, Elixir, Java and Nim. Packages are available for most Unix-like systems, and libvips can also be installed on macOS and Windows. Windows downloads include a web-focused build with a limited reader set and a larger build with all supported readers; the project advises care before publicly deploying the latter. Optional dependencies and build choices can be selected from source. Use cases include large images, many CPUs, colour work, scientific analysis and general research and development. Its official GUI is nip4, and the library is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later. The listed plan is free.