Retrobatch is a unique application for automating actions to tens, hundreds, and even thousands of images at the same time.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
United States
digiKam Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to digiKam is XnView MP, which is free for personal use. Other popular alternatives are RapidRAW, darktable, RawTherapee and Adobe Lightroom. Photo Managers like digiKam are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone.
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Darkr is the darkroom-inspired app that lets you develop photos similar to how you would in a real dark room.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
Sweden
EU
Galapix is an image viewer that allows you to directly zoom into large collection of tens of thousand of images from tiny thumbnails down to the images original size fluently with very short load times and no loss of interactivity.
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
The app will take your photos and put them into the destination folder, sorted into folders according to your selected folder schema. App allows YOU to create your own schema or select a pre-defined one. Search for duplicates inside a single folder or between two folders.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
+2
LeafView is a lightweight, cross-platform image viewer with smooth zoom, folder browsing, and grid view, built with Electron and Leaflet.js.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Japan
Platforms
- Linux
gtkam is the official GTK2 GUI for libgphoto2. Its purpose it to provide a standard client for libgphoto2 aimed at GNOME users. Consider it as a reference implementation for a graphical libgphoto2 client.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
StarRate is a Nextcloud addon that lets photographers rate and organize photos collaboratively using 1–5 stars, color labels, and Pick/Reject flags – just like Adobe Lightroom's rating workflow. Ratings are written as XMP metadata directly into JPEG files, making them fully...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Nextcloud
Germany- EU
Lightweight and fast free image viewer, ' FocusOn Image Viewer '. It is free for everyone - individuals, companies, organizations. It can also automatically organize photos by date and edit the photos without damaging the original.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Culling, rating, tagging and duplicate finding directly on drives, shares or cloud with no import. Cross-platform tool with local AI for semantic and face detection, RAW and video support, XMP integration, comprehensive toolkit and perpetual license terms.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
+3
A native macOS app for viewing, editing, searching, and exporting EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata across 50+ image and video formats.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Netherlands- EU
+8
VDAM connects to Google Drive or Dropbox and automatically reads every image, video, audio file, and document as it lands — generating captions, keywords, color palettes, scene and mood tags, and custom metadata. Files become searchable in plain English without manual tagging.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- United States
+5
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