Microsoft Photos
Updated
About Microsoft Photos
Microsoft Photos is an image viewer and organizer built into Windows that lets you manage, edit, and share your photos and videos.
People use it to organize growing photo libraries, clean up and enhance images, and pull text out of pictures for quick searches. It suits casual users and photography enthusiasts who want photo management and editing in one app without adding separate tools.
- Album creation and tagging
- AI-powered background blur
- Object removal from photos
- AI auto-categorization into folders like receipts
- Optical character recognition for text extraction
Good to know: Built into Windows and syncs with OneDrive for cloud storage.
Key features
- AI auto-categorization: Automatically sorts photos into categories like screenshots, receipts, and identity documents.
- Super resolution upscaling: Uses AI to upscale low-resolution images and add detail without losing quality.
- OCR text extraction: Pulls text from images and lets you search the web directly from the app.
At a glance
- Category: AI Image
- Type: Photo editing & enhancement
- Jobs: Create Images & Graphics
- Evidence: Proven · 100+ reviews
- AIME Score: 69 of 100
- Website: microsoft.com
Alternatives to Microsoft Photos
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (AIME Score 88)
- Picsart (AIME Score 78)
- GIMP (AIME Score 72)
- Photoshop Elements (AIME Score 72)
- Pixlr Editor (AIME Score 70)
- Luminar Neo (AIME Score 67)
More Photo editing & enhancement tools
Sources: Details checked on the tool’s own website · Researched by AI Made Easy
This is a tool profile with the essentials. Spotlights, our in-depth reviews with screenshots and video, are added every day, Proven tools first. How we pick Spotlights
Is this your tool? Claim, update or remove this listing, or get a badge