Fotollection is a free, open-source application that helps select and prepare photos for printing, running entirely on your computer: macOS, Windows, and Linux. No internet required, no account needed, photos never leave your machine.

Problem solved: After every trip, phones and cameras are filled with hundreds of photos, but rarely is any printed. Choosing the best picture from similar shots is time-consuming. Printing shops often crop photos improperly, sometimes losing part of a person or the horizon. Online photo editing sites require you to upload photos, including GPS location in the images. Fotollection combines all these tasks into one application: selecting, editing, printing dates, and cropping correctly, all right on your device.

Main features

• Select photos: automatically collect consecutive shots and suggest the best picture (sharpest, eyes open, no blur). There are star ratings, flags, a print basket, and a separate section for unused pictures.
• Print photos: crop to popular print sizes (9×13 to 20×30, square photos, photo strips) with DPI settings for each size. Print date and city name like film cameras. "Shot on" information frame with camera, lens, and settings. Combine two photos on one print, or create postcards with personal messages.
• Edit photos: colors, brightness, contrast, white balance, color histogram, blown-out area warnings, shortcuts like in Lightroom. Copy settings from one photo to multiple photos at once.
• Formats: JPEG, PNG, HEIC (iPhone), and RAW photos from many camera brands (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Olympus, DNG), read directly, no conversion needed.
• Export photos: maintain resolution and color profile for printed images; lightweight images sized perfectly for Facebook and Instagram while retaining colors; automatically delete GPS location when exporting.

Who should use it: Travelers who want to print photos from their trips; families creating photo albums with dates for grandparents; photographers looking to quickly select beautiful images from hundreds of RAW shots; people making postcards, themed photo sets as gifts; Linux users needing a user-friendly photo printing tool.

How to get started: Download the installer from fotollection.org (macOS, Windows, Linux; on Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint just one command needed), open a photo directory to start using it. The first launch features a 5-step welcome guide. Available in Vietnamese and English, light and dark themes. Available on VNLF App Explorer and CaramOS App Center.

What makes it different: Fotollection is not intended to replace specialized RAW editors like darktable or RawTherapee, nor is it a lifelong photo management suite like Lightroom (which requires an Adobe subscription). The application effectively handles the gap left by those tools: from the trip photo directory to the printed images in hand. Free, ad-free, unlimited, with no photo uploads; all speed and print quality figures are publicly measured on the Performance page.