Pixiple

While there are many applications that can be used to find duplicate items on your computer, they are usually not capable of detecting images files that have similar pixel content but differ from one another in most other respects.

Pixiple is a handy application that can come to your aid, as it is designed to analyze the pixel content of picture files stored in various locations, along with the image metadata, and then assess how different they are from one another.

First of, you need to select a folder on your PC for the application to scan. The operation is performed very quickly, and the program then creates a series of image pairs that you can cycle through. Pixiple currently supports the PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and BMP formats.

The program ignores file metadata, such as name, path, size, date and format, and is best suited for detecting images that have similar pixel content. If one of the pictures has been cropped or has had its brightness, contrast or saturation modified, it may not be listed as similar.

Pixiple features a minimalistic, fully resizable interface, and each image is displayed on the left and right side of the window, although you can swap their positions at any time.

By default, Pixiple rates image pairs using a combination of the following parameters: visual similarity, time difference and location distance. You can select only one of these if you wish, but you cannot select two at the same time.

Moreover, you can limit the maximum age difference between paired images to anywhere between one day and one year, as well as prevent the application from pairing images that are in the same folder or different directories.

Pixiple is a straightforward application that does its job well and is very user-friendly, in addition to being completely portable. It can help you find similar images on your PC, and even complete novices can learn to take advantage of its capabilities in no time.