Photo Management


I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo management tools, which, I will admit are pretty good, considering that both companies will mine every bit of data they can from my images in an attempt to extract money from me for their billionaire owners.

Here are the features I'd like to have:

  1. Facial recognition to be able to identify people in photos and to be able to group photos of the same person together
  2. Object search (e.g., dogs, landscapes, babies etc)
  3. Being able to search by dates is a must
  4. Tagging
  5. Smart folders/albums
  6. The ability to use photos in my file system without the need to enter them into a proprietary system like Apple Photos Library
  7. The ability to at least read EXIF data and ideally to be able to (batch) edit it.
  8. A free trial or money back guarantee
  9. A companion iOS or iPadOS app would be awesome.

Potential Apps

So far, these have been suggested to me, but not buy anyone who actually has any experience with them:


If you know of or use a photo viewer or management program with all or most of these features, please use one of the contact methods at the bottom of the page to let me know. I appreciate it! Thanks for reading App addict!


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