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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.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • KDE Plasma
  • Flathub
  • Qt
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Tag based
  2.  Geotagged Photos
  3.  Facial Recognition
  4.  Tagging
  5.  File Tagging
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Image stacking
  9.  No registration required
  10.  No Tracking
  11.  Photo Recovery
  12.  Built-in Photo editor
  13.  Duplicate File Finder
  14.  Workflow
  15.  Geotagging
  16.  Dark Mode
  17.  Non Destructive Editing
  18.  Batch Editing
  19.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  20.  Hardware Accelerated
  21.  Built-in viewer
  22.  WYSIWYG Support
  23.  Support RAW file formats
  24.  Multiplatform Export

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Comment summary: digiKam is widely praised as a free, open-source photo manager with powerful tagging, metadata support, RAW processing, batch tools, search, face recognition, customizable albums, and broad format compatibility. Users value its cross-platform support and integration with upload services, though Windows reliability, database stability, format rendering, hardware acceleration, and confusing workflows draw criticism. The learning curve is steeper than simpler alternatives, but many find it capable and rewarding once mastered.
Top Positive Comment
Nick
3

Pretty good both in usability and interface. It has the same UI features and organisation ways that you can see in other very popular open source software (Blender, Krita, and so on...), many options in making your personal workflow and layout, pretty good performance and some extra sweets for those who is interesting in advance organisation features (face search, similar images and even more). I think you certainly should give this program a chance and make your very own opinion because UI is kinda unusual for a newcomers that never used Open Source software.

Digispire Academy
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okay

Top Negative Comment
BJ
-1

There must be some advantages to this app but I simply can't find any in this muddled mass of windows that don't make much sense individually or collectively. Spent a day with it and then jettisoned it from my drive and washed my hands thoroughly. If this was my only alternative to LR, I'd gladly pay my annual fee to Adobe.

Yerba_29
0

Is very interesting

8ptugsx7
0

I have been using Digikam as my main photo management software for years on both Linux and Windows. It has proven a reliable tool for the casual enthusiast. Handy features like tag labeling and photo upload integration work well.

Still has ways to go to be in the same league as Adobe and the big guys, but I appreciate that this is a community driven project and more than fulfills my needs.

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DirkF3
0

Capabilities: plenty Support for modern formats: plenty Great metadata handling: absolutely

However. The user-experience has a (too) steep learning curve. Where (for example) XNview is extremely easy to use and has a very nice and customizable user interface, I found Digikam to be very difficult to use. (or even find simple features).

I do appreciate the work though and I may look into it in the future.

TBayAreaPat
0

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."

GarlicBread24
0

Wonky UI. Broken facial recognition and duplicate checker. Hardware acceleration does not work on Intel Arc GPUs. Overall waste of time.

Cubium
Replying to @GarlicBread24

I'd say that facial recognition is half-baked. At least it is improving in updates.

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What is digiKam?

digiKam is a digital photo management application that efficiently organizes photos into albums. It supports multiple collections on various media types and can handle libraries of over 100,000 images. As an open-source platform, digiKam offers tools for organizing, editing, and sharing photos and videos. It features AI-driven tagging and rating for easier organization and advanced search features. Its editing tools include color correction, cropping, retouching, filters, and effects. It also has a facial recognition tool and allows batch processing. Users can share photos directly to social media, create slideshows, and web galleries. It also supports AI metadata enrichment and provides tools for viewing and editing metadata.

digiKam information

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    DE flagKDE

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (22 ratings)

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • 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

Our users have written 26 comments and reviews about digiKam, and it has gotten 368 likes

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