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.
Main features
- 1Generates meaningful, user configurable file and folder names
- 2Downloads photos and videos from multiple devices simultaneously
- 3Backs up photos and videos as they are downloaded
- 4Is carefully optimized to download and back up at high speed
- 5Easy to configure and use
- 6Runs under Gnome, KDE and other Linux desktop environments
- 7Available in thirty languages
- 8Program configuration and use is fully documented
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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