Tropy

Desktop app for organising, describing and annotating photographs of archival research material.

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1 release· tracked since October 28, 2026

v1.17.3
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Detected on October 28, 2026

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Project Details

Platforms

Desktop

License

AGPL-3.0

Self hostable

Repository details

Version

v1.17.3

Created

11/3/2015

Stars

1,160

Forks

Open issues

223

Last commit

10/27/2026

Updated 10/28/2026, 9:00:54 AM

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