Photos (Windows)

Not to be confused with Google Photos or Photos (Apple).

Photos
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release26 October 2012; 12 years ago (2012-10-26)
Stable release
2024.11100.16009.0 / 18 October 2024; 29 days ago (2024-10-18)[1]
Operating systemWindows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Xbox system software[2]
PredecessorWindows Photo Viewer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker
SuccessorClipchamp (for video editing)
Available in65 languages
List of languages
  • English (United States)
  • English (United Kingdom)
  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bangla (Bangladesh)
  • Basque
  • Belarusian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Estonian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • French (Canada)
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hausa (Latin)
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Kiswahili
  • Korean
  • Lao
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Norwegian (Bokmål)
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Portuguese (Portuga)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian (Slovenia)
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
TypeImage viewer, image organizer, video editor, video player, raster graphics editor
LicenseFreemium – Free base app, with in-app purchases
Websitemicrosoft.com/store/productId/9wzdncrfjbh4

Microsoft Photos is an image viewer and image organizer developed by Microsoft. It was first included in Windows 8 as a functional replacement for Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Photo Gallery.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Microsoft Photos". Microsoft Apps. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Microsoft Photos". Windows Store. Microsoft.
  3. ^ "How to use the Windows 10 Photos app". TechRadar. Future US. 12 February 2016.
  4. ^ Giret, Laurent (19 April 2016). "Microsoft Photos app gets updated – save still photos from videos and more". WinBeta.