Improve your photographic workflow

Import your photos and videos efficiently and reliably
Rapid Photo Downloader for Linux is written by a photographer for professional and amateur photographers. Its goal is to be the best photo and video downloader for the Linux Desktop. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL license.

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Main features
  • Select which photos and videos
    you want to download
  • Preview photos and videos
    before and after you download them
  • Download videos
    as well as photos
  • Download in parallel
    from multiple devices
  • Rename your photos and videos
    with meaningful names you specify
Latest News
January 22, 2013: Version 0.4.6 has been released, primarily to provide a preliminary fix for a critical bug (the fix was also included in 0.4.6 beta 1). All those running a recent Linux distribution such as Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 14 and Fedora 18 are recommended to update. Read the release notes for more details.
December 3, 2012: Version 0.4.6 beta 1 has been released to provide a preliminary fix for a critical bug. Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora 18 users are recommended to update. Read the release notes for more details.
November 19, 2012: Added note about the current incompatability of Rapid Photo Downloader with Ubuntu 12.10. Update: Fedora 18 is also affected.
June 24, 2012: Version 0.4.5 has been released. Performance has been substantially improved when scanning a large number of files. You can now specify from where to download using command line options. All users are recommended to update. Read the release notes for more details.
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