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It’s Finally Here! Excire Foto 2025 Offers AI Culling, Face-Tagging, Video, and More

Excire Foto 2025 product box and main interface

We’re excited to release the latest version of our standalone photo-management program, Excire Foto 2025, which offers major new features for sorting, culling, and organizing files, in addition to our state-of-the-art search functions.

Excire Foto 2025 pushes the boundaries of AI-powered photography software yet again, allowing photographers and content creators to accelerate (and even bypass) tedious image-management tasks and save time like never before.

What’s New in Excire Photo 2025?

Our just-launched flagship program boasts an array of enhancements, including: 

Video Support

Screenshot of Excire Foto 2025 video player

While we designed Excire for photographers, we also recognize the overlap between photo and video creators; Many enthusiastic photographers love to record video footage, and professionals often offer photography and video services. 

Therefore, Excire Foto 2025 supports both photography and video files, allowing users to manage photo and video collections side by side. The program now offers a dedicated filter option for video files and an integrated media player with high-quality video playback. 

We’ve also expanded our trademark AI organizational capabilities to apply to video files. Excire Foto 2025 analyzes a representative frame from each video file and automatically applies keywords for easy search, organization, and retrieval, making it easy to handle even the largest video collections.

Smart Culling

Screenshot of Excire's culling projects interface

Excire Foto 2025 boasts a brand-new culling module, which allows users to select the best photos from hundreds or thousands of image files at unprecedented speeds. 

In line with our general approach to AI-powered photo management, our culling tools are powerful and flexible. Excire’s culling module offers automatic grouping and sorting based on visual similarity, people, subject type, aesthetic characteristics, sharpness, and more, and users can incorporate the culling module’s automatic grouping and sorting functions into a manual culling workflow.

However, users can also instruct Excire’s AI to automatically select the best photos and reject the worst photos from file batches by prioritizing a wide array of adjustable criteria, including exposure, global sharpness, face sharpness, eyes open/closed, and even eye sharpness. These features allow for truly automated culling—yet the adjustable settings ensure that the user always remains in control of the selection process. 

Intuitive Face Tagging

Excire Foto 2025 interface with a portrait and tagging options on the right-hand side

As Excire Foto 2024 users will know, Excire’s people-search features make it easy to search for specific people and faces, and the program even allows for searching and filtering based on characteristics such as age, gender, the number of faces, and whether the Subjects‘ eyes are open or closed.

Excire Foto 2025 includes those now-classic features, but we’ve added an intuitive face-tagging workflow to make people & portrait photos even easier to organize. Photographers can now apply name-tags to faces and create „people“ collections that are automatically populated as faces are named. 

To ensure rapid and accurate tagging, users can zoom in on faces, even when viewing thumbnails. And Excire adds sharpness markers to each preview, so photographers know at a glance which faces are in focus and which are blurry.

Additional Improvements

Thanks to these major new features, Excire Foto 2025 promises a faster, better, more enjoyable experience for photographers, videographers, and content creators. 

But we’ve also included plenty of smaller updates and enhancements, including: 

  • Automatic rendering of 1:1 previews
  • Shortcuts for fast navigation
  • New options to filter by file type, aspect ratio, and more
  • An improved interface
  • A brand-new comparison view

We’ve worked hard to ensure that our latest release is more powerful and more intuitive than ever before, making photos and videos easier to access, manage, and appreciate while  also  allowing users to spend less time behind the computer and more time behind the lens !

How Much Does Excire Photo 2025 Cost?

Normally, Excire Foto 2025 costs 199 USD for a lifetime license, but our limited-time launch discount reduces the price to 169 USD. 

(Note: Excire Foto 2024 and Excire Foto 2022 users can purchase the new program at an even steeper discount by applying their individual discount codes—which users will have received by email —during checkout.)

So if you’re looking to save time and keep your photos & videos accessible, head over to the Excire shop and purchase your Excire Foto 2025 license today. 

And if you’d like to try our cutting-edge software features, we do offer a 14-day trial, which you can download here (no strings attached and no credit card required!). 

We hope you enjoy the new features as much as we do!

Excire Foto Office Edition

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:

  • Hide option for irrelevant keywords
  • Function to adopt folder names as keywords
  • Sharing via SFTP
  • Two-stage role concept
  • Right-of-use period as a supplement to the metadata and corresponding filter option
  • Shared database on a network drive

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages

German & English

Current version

1.0.0

Minimum system requirements

Processor

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.

Operating system

macOS 11 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit)

Memory

Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.

Hard disk

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 Search 2024 - Trial

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
Current version

4.0.0

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Memory
8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
Hard disk
375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

Excire Search 2024

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!

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
Current version

4.1.1

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Lightroom (Classic)
Version 6 (or newer)
Memory
8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
Hard disk
375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

Excire Search 2022 - Trial

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
Current version
3.1.1

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Memory
8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
Hard disk
375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

Excire Foto 2024 - Trial

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.

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German & English
Current version

3.2.0

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Memory
Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
Hard disk
The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.

Excire Search 2022

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!

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
Current version
3.1.1

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Lightroom (Classic)
Version 6 (or newer)
Memory
8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
Hard disk
375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

Excire Foto 2024

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:

  • X-prompt AI for powerful free-text image search
  • X-tetics AI for instant evaluation of photos
  • GPS-based search and editable GPS coordinates
  • Intuitive slideshow maker for professional photo displays
  • New status labels for folders and collections
  • Improved AI-search performance thanks to revamped AI models

Excire Account Management and Activation

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German & English
Current version

3.2.0

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Memory
Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
Hard disk
The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.

Excire Foto 2022

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:

  • Duplicate finder with numerous setting options
  • Support of PSD files
  • match accuracy for similarity searches is now adjustable
  • the maximum number of search results has been increased to 50,000
  • Support of Windows network paths


We recommend Windows users to install the Microsoft Raw image extension: Download

Sprachen & Version

Supported languages
German & English
Current version

2.2.4

Minimum system requirements

Processor
Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
Operating system
macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
Memory
Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
Hard disk
The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.