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DuoBolt for Mac

Find duplicate files byte-for-byte and similar photos with on-device AI.

$34.99
In English
5.0
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DuoBolt overview

DuoBolt is a high-performance desktop application for reclaiming disk space, with two engines. The first identifies duplicate files byte-for-byte, using a multi-threaded BLAKE3 engine that processes folders, codebases, design archives, external drives and NAS volumes with uniform accuracy at any scale. The second finds similar photos — bursts, edits, re-saves, screenshots of the same thing — and groups and ranks them using AI that runs entirely on the machine.

The workflow is intentionally simple and review-first:
  • Select the locations to scan.
  • Review results in a two-column layout, filtered by name, type, extension, tag or size.
  • Act safely — Trash, Delete, Archive or Copy, all recorded and restorable.

AI Curation ranks a group of near-identical shots and explains each pick: eyes open, smiling, face sharpness, framing. It reads RAW files directly from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and more. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and no network connection is used for analysis.

DuoBolt includes an Operations History with session tracking, allowing users to review past cleanup operations, restore files when needed, and clean up fully recovered sessions. On macOS it detects APFS clones, so the space it reports is the space the disk actually frees.

All duplicate detection is performed using byte-for-byte comparison, without relying on filenames, metadata, or heuristics. Results are deterministic, verifiable, and suitable for professional environments where correctness, traceability, and reversibility are essential.

Every download starts with a 7-day Pro trial. After it ends the application keeps working: scans and results stay complete and unlimited, and a single operation is capped at 25 files. A one-time license removes the cap — Standard for duplicates, Pro for similar photos and AI Curation. There is no subscription.

What's new in version 2.0

DuoBolt 2.0 is a complete rewrite. Same app, rebuilt from the ground up in Rust on a native UI toolkit, with a second engine beside the duplicate finder.

  • New: similar photos — finds and groups photos that merely look alike, where duplicates means byte-for-byte identical.
  • New: AI Curation ranks a group of near-identical shots and says why it picked what it picked. Entirely on-device.
  • New: RAW read directly, from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and more.
  • New: Dashboard with lifetime scan and deletion stats, recent scans, and space reclaimed by file type.
  • New: fullscreen preview plays photos, video and audio in place.
  • Duplicate results are now two columns — groups on the left, files on the right — instead of expanding a group in place.
  • Results filter by name, file type, extension, tag and size range, and each filter reports what its values are worth over the set the other filters leave.
  • The app no longer stops working when the trial ends. Scans and results stay complete; only what a single operation moves is capped.
  • Rewritten in Rust: roughly half the memory of 1.x, and responsive on result sets that used to crawl.
  • Thumbnails are cached on disk between runs.
  • Licenses from 1.x are adopted automatically on first launch and keep their seat.
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DuoBolt for Mac

$34.99
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Version 2.0
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