PiqoPiqo

PiqoPiqo is a lightweight JPEG viewer / metadata editor built with Python and PySide6.

It is aimed at replacing the workflow I had with Adobe Bridge for triaging JPEG + custom command-line tools. In the current version, it is a relatively basic replacement and it is only for macOS but it is still convenient for me.

Beyond JEPG triaging and metadata editing, it also allows:

• copy from a SD card (by date, taking into account the last copied images)
• georeferencing from a GPX file (functionality of gpx2exif)
• upload to Flickr (functionality of Flick API Utils)
• setting the lens info for manual lenses
• saving to EXIF

Limitations

• It only works on macOS (only tested there + some non-abastracted dependencies like pyobjc).
• It is limited to JPEG (no support for RAW).
• The EXIF is extracted to an external SQLite DB for edition. It is not possible to directly edit the EXIF but there is a command to save the SQLite data back to EXIF explicitly.
• exiftool needs to be installed (used for all EXIF reading and writing + small thumbnail extraction). Homebrew can be used to install it: brew install exiftool.
• The only view common with Adobe Bridge is the grid (Essentials). All the others (Libraries, Filmstrip, Output, Metadata, Workflow) are not available (I never used them).

Usage

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run the application
uv run piqopiqo /path/to/your/images

pyinstaller

It is possible to generate a .app. Run:

uv run task build

Copy the generated file in the build to your /Applications folder.