KPhotoAlbum vs Tonfotos
KPhotoAlbum
kphotoalbum.orgTonfotos
tonfotos.comSide by side
| Figure | KPhotoAlbum | Tonfotos |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Photo Management Software | 7.5 (#27) | 8.7 (#8) |
| Documentation | The project provides a quick start page, a three-minute tour, and links to online and PDF documentation. | The official manual covers library setup, imports, duplicates, people, family trees, events, locations, tags, metadata, conversion, slideshows, hotkeys and supported formats. |
| Purpose | KPhotoAlbum tags and manages a photo collection so it can be searched. | Tonfotos organizes photo and video collections, removes duplicates, recognizes people, and helps preserve family stories. |
| Support | The project lists Matrix chat, a mailing list, and Bugzilla for questions, discussion, bug reports, and feature requests. | The Personal license includes priority email support, and the privacy policy lists [email protected] as the developer's contact address. |
| Video support | The 6.2.0 release added support for a QtMultimedia video backend. | The application indexes and plays video files as well as still images. |
Plans
Tonfotos
- Free licenseFree
- Personal license$59, paid once
- Family license$159, paid once
In their own words
KPhotoAlbum
KPhotoAlbum has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Tonfotos
Tonfotos organizes photo and video collections, removes duplicates, recognizes people, and helps preserve family histories. Its face recognition groups people and learns from identifications, including faces partly visible or shown at different ages. Users can record relationships and genealogical details, view family ties in a tree, and search an archive by people, events, tags, dates, or shooting locations. Archives can remain on a PC, NAS, or removable drive, with offline use described for disconnected drives or shared folders. TonfotosSync for iOS and Android sends new phone photos to a computer or NAS archive after QR-code pairing. The app can also download photos and videos shared with the user on Telegram. It indexes RAW and HEIC formats and can display HEIC without conversion to JPEG. Other tools include albums, slideshows, photo conversion, and duplicate removal. The free lifetime license has full functionality but limits the number of people in photos. The Personal license costs $59 once and supports unlimited people for one user or device.