The invention provides a picture recommendation method and device. The picture recommendation method comprises the steps of detecting a target picture matched with predetermined conditions in a target album corresponding to a first terminal; determining a second terminal to which the target picture belongs responding to the detected target picture; controlling a third terminal to output acquiring approach information of the target picture according to the determined second terminal. Thus it can be seen that according to the technical scheme, the pictures, stored in a server, of the social software can be cross-matched based on the face recognition technology in combination with the social software, the pictures can be individually recommended to users, and therefore the purpose of enriching the functions of the social software is achieved.