Excire Foto 2025 is the best if:
You are looking for a powerful and reliable photo management software: manage your photos with Excire Foto 2025 and use your favorite app for editing. Keywords can be stored in the photo- or XMP files, so that they can be used in the Windows or Mac Spotlight search. Metadata can also be transferred to apps such as Capture One and Lightroom Classic. Further workflows are described in the Excire Foto tutorials.
Excire Search 2024 is the right choice if:
Adobe Lightroom Classic is your standard photo management software. Our Lightroom Classic Plugin “Excire Search 2024” is fully integrated in Lightroom Classic providing all the information you need to manage your photos and save metadata in photos or XMP files if desired.
Excire Foto Office Edition is the best if:
You want to use the Excire Foto 2024 functionalities in a team on a consolidated image stock.
The functionalities of Excire Foto and Excire Search are almost identical. Please note, however, that the databases of both products are independent of each other and the images must be initialized for both. Many customers opt for the convenient bundle that provides more flexibility
Features | Excire Foto 2024 | Excire Foto Office Edition | Excire Foto 2025 |
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Installation and Initialization | |||
Automatic AI-based keyword assignment for photos | X | X | X |
Automatic AI-based keyword assignment for videos | X | ||
Extended progress bar when importing/analyzing photos | X | ||
AI-powered search functions | |||
Unrestricted free-text search | X | X | X |
Search with keywords | X | X | X |
Automatic keywording: AI tags your photos for easy categorization and retrieval | X | X | X |
Find similar photos with external photo | X | X | X |
Search for faces | X | X | X |
Search for people | X | X | X |
Find people with external photo | X | X | X |
GPS Search | X | X | X |
Person-centered workflow | |||
Close-up display and easy navigation for fast assessment of faces | X | ||
Bestimmung der Fokuswerte von Gesichtern | X | ||
Visualization of facial focus and other attributes in preview mode | X | ||
AI-powered culling | |||
Selection project concept | X | ||
Automatic grouping and sorting options | X | ||
Filtering of bad and good shots based on different criteria | X | ||
AI aesthetic evaluations | X | X | X |
Smart photo selection with predefined or individual profiles | X | ||
Display and presentation | |||
Preview mode | X | X | X |
Automatic loading of 1:1 resolution into preview mode | X | ||
Comparison view in preview mode | X | ||
Professional slideshow | X | X | X |
Built-in video player | X | ||
Show GPS position of a photo in Google Maps | X | X | X |
Statistical analysis of photo habits (Analytics) | X | X | X |
Supported formats | |||
JPG, PNG and BMP formats | X | X | X |
RAW formats | X | X | X |
Support of PSD files | X | X | X |
Support of webp files | X | ||
Filter options | |||
Filter by IPTC Metadata | X | X | X |
Filter by media type (raw, photo&video) | X | ||
Filter by aspect ratio | X | ||
Filter by video length | X | ||
Manage and organize | |||
Support of Windows network paths | X | X | X |
Multiple databases | X | X | X |
Read EXIF data | X | X | X |
Read IPTC metadata | X | X | X |
IPTC Manager & Editor | X | X | X |
Save metadata | X | X | X |
Import stars, ratings, labels | X | X | X |
Read keywords | X | X | X |
Assign manual keywords | X | X | X |
Add GPS coordinates | X | X | X |
Batch renaming and moving of files | X | X | X |
Duplicate finder with numerous setting options | X | X | X |
Delete photos | X | X | X |
Create collections | X | X | X |
Status for folders and collections | X | X | X |
Assign and search for stars, flags & color labels | X | X | X |
Export and share | |||
Export photos (with and without metadata) | X | X | X |
Share via Dropbox | X | X | X |
Share via Google Drive | X | X | X |
Additional feature Office Edition | |||
Team solution with a two-tier role concept and user-defined access rights | X | ||
On-premises use for easy integration into the company’s own infrastructure | X | ||
Unlimited number of local and network databases | X | ||
FTP sharing | X | ||
Option to adopt folder names as keywords | X | ||
Option to hide irrelevant keywords | X | ||
An option to adopt folder names as keywords | X | ||
Convenient license and subscrition management | X |
Aimed at photographers with the highest standards, the latest version of Excire Foto offers photo (and video!) search and organization like you’ve never experienced. Groundbreaking AI features—from free-text search to aesthetic evaluation—help you rapidly find and select the best photos from large image collections. And in Excire Foto 2025, the focus is on workflow optimization to make finding, organizing, and culling photos & videos easy, fast, and efficient.
Here are just a few of Excire Foto 2025’s features:
4.0.0
Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support. Older AMD processors like the AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom™ II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
macOS 11 (or newer); Windows 10 (64 bit) or Windows 11 (64 bit)
Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
Excire databases require about 250 MB for 100,000 photos. Preview storage will reach around 25 GB for the highest quality, for RAW formats, and when a preview is generated for every photo.
Excire Search is the perfect solution for all Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The smart Lightroom plugin analyzes and tags photos automatically and extends Lightroom with powerful AI search functions. With just a few clicks, Excire Search finds exactly the photos you are looking for. This makes image management fun again and hours of image searching a thing of the past.
Available for Windows and macOS and now brand new in the 2024 version with integrated duplicate finder!
4.0.0
The Excire Photo Office Edition is a special solution for companies and team use. In addition to the usual AI power for simple and intuitive photo management, it has the following additional features:
German & English
1.0.0
Mehrkernprozessor mit 64-bit und AVX Unterstützung
Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support. Older AMD processors like the AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom™ II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
macOS 11 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit)
Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
The Excire databases require about 250 MB for 100,000 photos.
The preview storage will then be about 25 GB
at the highest quality, including raw formats,
and when a preview is generated for each photo.
Excire’s flagship program boasts dazzling new features and enhanced AI technology. All-new tools offer AI-powered free-text search, GPS-search, and intelligent aesthetics assessment of individual photos. Additionally, AI upgrades ensure better results in facial recognition, similarity search, and automatic keywording.
Excire Foto 2024 retains all core features from Excire Foto 2022, and the Excire Analytics extension is now fully integrated into the new program.
Highlights of the 2024 version include:
3.2.0
Excire Search is the perfect solution for all Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The smart Lightroom plugin analyzes and tags photos automatically and extends Lightroom with powerful AI search functions. With just a few clicks, Excire Search finds exactly the photos you are looking for. This makes image management fun again and hours of image searching a thing of the past.
Available for Windows and macOS and now brand new in the 2022 version with integrated duplicate finder!
4.0.0
Excire Search is the perfect solution for all Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The smart Lightroom plugin analyzes and tags photos automatically and extends Lightroom with powerful AI search functions. With just a few clicks, Excire Search finds exactly the photos you are looking for. This makes image management fun again and hours of image searching a thing of the past.
Available for Windows and macOS and now brand new in the 2024 version with integrated duplicate finder!
4.0.0
Note for existing Excire Foto customers: Excire Foto users have to keep in mind for testing that the previous Excire database will be modified when the program is started for the first time. Thus a switch back to older versions is not possible without a backup. We therefore recommend creating a backup before using Excire Foto 2024. How to do this is described here.
3.2.0
Excire Foto 2022 is a powerful and innovative software designed for easy photo management and quick content-based browsing. Numerous smart features help you get organized and find the photos you are looking for.
These are the highlights of the new 2022 version:
We recommend Windows users to install the Microsoft Raw image extension: Download
2.2.4