Picasa
- Cause of death
- Killed by a successor
- Made by
Google retired Picasa to consolidate on Google Photos, closing Picasa Web Albums on 1 May 2016.
Picasa was a genuinely good photo organizer that Google bought from Lifescape in July 2004 and then spent a decade quietly outgrowing. On 12 February 2016 Google announced it was retiring the whole thing: desktop support ended 15 March and Picasa Web Albums closed on 1 May, with everything pushed toward Google Photos. Anyone who had already downloaded the desktop app could keep using it unsupported, which made Picasa software that outlived its own funeral.
Standing in the archive
Rank 78 of 127 by lifespan. Picasa outlasted 39% of everything else on file.
Cite this entry
"Picasa." How Long It Lasted, https://www.howlongitlasted.com/thing/picasa.
Died nearby
- Chromecastabout 11 years · killed by a successor
- Google Daydream Viewabout 3 years · killed by indifference
- Google Glass (consumer edition)about a year · killed by scandal
- Google Podcastsabout 6 years · killed by a successor
- Google Reader7y 8m · killed by one executive
Sources
- Google will retire Picasa on May 1, 2016 — gHacks Tech News
- Google is shutting down Picasa on May 1, 2016 — VentureBeat
- Google Killing Off Picasa to Focus on Google Photos — PetaPixel
Last checked by a human on 24 July 2026