digiKam
digiKam is an advanced digital photo management tool that simplifies importing and organizing photos into albums. It supports various formats including RAW, features tagging, metadata management, duplicate finder, photo editing, sharing, GPS data handling, and has cross-platform compatibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Qt
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Tag based
- Geotagged Photos
- Facial Recognition
- Tagging
- Raw editing
- File Tagging
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- RAW Photo Editors
- Image stacking
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Photo Recovery
- Built-in Photo editor
- Duplicate File Finder
- Workflow
- Geotagging
- Dark Mode
- Non Destructive Editing
- Batch Editing
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Raw View
- Raw import
- Multiplatform Export
Tags
- photography
- face-tagging
- geolocation
- image-organizer
digiKam News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about digiKam
digiKam 8.8 adds hierarchical tag import, focus point preview, and new blur tooldigiKam 8.8 introduces workflow improvements with the ability to import and export hierarchical tag...
- POX published news article about digiKam
digiKam 8.7 adds AI face scan improvements, new GPU options and AI auto-rotation plugindigiKam 8.7.0 arrives as the newest release of the open source photo management and editing softwar...
- Maoholguin published news article about digiKam
digiKam 8.6 update brings enhanced Face Recognition, Auto-Tagging, and moredigiKam 8.6 features a complete overhaul of the face recognition system, improving accuracy and spe...
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1.6gb space to install. From LeoAI: "You cannot move a tag directly on the image itself within digiKam. Tags are metadata associated with the image file and are managed within the software's interface, not overlaid onto the image display."
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What is digiKam?
digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections.
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Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Rating
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- English
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Hungarian
- Vietnamese
- Galician
- Dutch
- Greek
- Georgian
- Danish
- Hebrew
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Icelandic
- Spanish
- Italian
- Catalan; Valencian
- Chinese
- Korean
- Khmer
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Marathi
- German
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Occitan
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Northern Sami
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Thai
- Turkish
- Uighur, Uyghur
- Ukrainian
- Finnish
- French
- Hindi
- Croatian
- Czech
- Swedish
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Japanese
Comments and Reviews
Unfortunately, the windows version is not reliable at a very fundamental level. This software will scan your images, let you spend hours tagging and burning cpu to use the facial recognition feature, then the database will corrupt. It has happened twice so far, and I'm not willing to attempt the journey again. They need to stop letting google summer of code students write this software, like, yesterday.
1.6gb space to install. From LeoAI: "You cannot move a tag directly on the image itself within digiKam. Tags are metadata associated with the image file and are managed within the software's interface, not overlaid onto the image display."
Wonky UI. Broken facial recognition and duplicate checker. Hardware acceleration does not work on Intel Arc GPUs. Overall waste of time.
I'd say that facial recognition is half-baked. At least it is improving in updates.
I got this because it supported AVIF and other modern formats, however it did not render the HDR AVIFs I had properly. But that's simply disappointing and a waste of my time. What was infuriating was that I opted for the machine learning face-detection etc. features, which said it'd be about ~2-3 gigs. Then 9 gigs vanished from my free space, and I got hardly any of it back after uninstalling, *and it didn't even delete the ML stuff* (~900mb) or however else it stole that space, and gave ZERO options on what to remove other than the program, like whether to leave database files, etc. for a reinstall.
~~I still don't know where the space went. ~~ I FOUND IT. This program has horribly confused (and confusing, but I mean the program itself is confused) regarding what an "Album" is, and what a Folder/directory is. I tried to add a Folder to the library. It was a screenshots folder on another drive. It gave me errors saying a file/folder exists with the same name already. (Okay, User/Pictures has a "screenshots" folder by default... but why TF would that be relevant if I'm trying to create a separate ALBUM?) Can you even create an actual other ALBUM? Who knows. So I renamed the folder to "Game Screenshots"; sure, whatever.
What did it do? IT &&%$**# COPIED that folder into my User documentsPictures folder!!! What is the point of a photos program that has a database if it just copies everything without comment into your Windows UserPictures directory?!
And, yeah, it still never automatically cleaned up its ~900mb of files (to say nothing of how much extra that would have been had I added a terabyte of pictures and its database grew to whatever size, assuming it wouldn't have tried to copy everything if it was on on the same drive.)
Absolutely ridiculous. This kind of thing is what gives OSS a terrible reputation.
To add locations from diffirent drives to the library, you add "Collections" in settings. Collections are the root directories, and Albums are just sub-directories on drive. It is not so confusing if you read what digiKam is saying when you're setting up digiKam for the first time. Apparentely you created "default" Collection at User\Pictures, and then you chose to import your Screenshots folder to existing Collection, rather than create a new Collection.
Almost perfect. Does everything, what a photo organizer has to do. And it's free.
It has a steep learning curve at the beginning, though there is a lot of documentation around to start and easy ramp up.