Excire Foto 2027

Award-winning photo and video management software. Driven by a passion for photography.

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Rediscover your photos

Every photo is more than just a file. It captures a moment, tells a story, and holds lasting emotional value. With Excire Foto 2027 you can access your images quickly and effortlessly, no matter the size of your photo collection.

For photography enthusiasts
& professional photographers

Everything runs locally, your photos stay on your computer 

One-time purchase,
no subscription

Find faces & people
by searching for specific individuals, age groups, expressions, and more
Recognize objects & scenes
including architecture, wildlife, landscapes, sports, and more
Find text in photos
including signs, car decals, and product names
Search for emotions & activities
such as laughter, hugs, cycling, dancing, and relaxation
Check sharpness at a glance
with intelligent detection and focus peaking
Group photos automatically
by people, scene, sequence, content, or capture date
Quickly identify your best shots
by analyzing aesthetics, sharpness, and facial expressions
Cull faster with Smart selection
to save time and speed up your client and personal projects
Excire Foto has earned its place in my workflow as a professional photographer. It saves me lots of time and even adds a little pop of joy to my day by turning my archive into something I actively use rather than avoid digging into.

Wesley Verhoeve, photographer and publisher of Process

We’ve been using Excire since day one and can no longer imagine working without it. For us, Excire is by far the most powerful solution for virtually all photographic genres; it has not only eliminated the traditional process of browsing and searching but also provides important insights and insights into our own photographic behavior.

Miho Birimisa, KREATIVSTUDIO PAVEL KAPLUN

Discover all features of Excire Foto 2027:

Discover the newest features in Excire Foto 2027, including powerful search tools, intuitive catalog exploration, and major workflow enhancements—so you can manage even the largest photo libraries with ease.

Intelligent Text Recognition: Search the Words Inside Your Photos

Intelligent Text Recognition: Search the Words Inside Your Photos

Find your photos with visible text, from street signs and athletes’ numbers to store names, product labels, and car decals. Text is automatically recognized and instantly searchable!

Interactive Map View

Interactive Map View

Explore your photo library by location and quickly find images based on where they were taken.

Smart filter bar & timeline

Smart filter bar & timeline

Access your photos even faster with AI-powered filtering and a visual timeline that makes it easy to browse by date.

Survey View for photo selection

Survey View for photo selection

View, rate, and select your best photos without distractions (just like in the days of the analog light table).

Focus peaking & 3x3 grid

Focus peaking & 3x3 grid

Assess sharpness and composition at a glance for more precise image evaluation!

More cloud sharing options

More cloud sharing options

Share photos via Microsoft OneDrive and Nextcloud in addition to Dropbox and Google Drive.

Keywords from folder names

Keywords from folder names

Save time when tagging by automatically converting folder names into keywords.

Hide AI-generated keywords

Hide AI-generated keywords

Ignore keywords you don’t need and keep your keyword list clean and focused.

Additional interface upgrades

Additional interface upgrades

Experience a streamlined layout, flexible side panels, and convenient clipboard support for a smoother workflow.
One outstanding feature of Excire is its image recognition capability. It is amazing how accurately the software can recognize objects, faces, and even moods in photos.

Conny Müller, a multi-award-winning photographer from Essen, Germany

This powerful photo management tool has transformed the way I organize and find my photos. Its AI-driven features are incredibly accurate and efficient. I can now quickly locate any image I need.

Sam Sciarrino, wedding photographer and Sony ambassador

Get started with Excire Foto 2027 today

Just install it, import your photos, and start exploring. Quickly find images, organize your photo library, and identify your best shots with powerful AI-driven tools. Whether you're managing your personal image collection, family memories, or professional projects, Excire Foto helps you save time and stay in control.

Excire Foto 2027 FAQs

Excire Foto 2027 is a standalone photo and video management program for enthusiast and professional photographers. Excire offers AI-powered tools—such as free-text content search, automatic keywording, people search, Smart selection, and duplicate search—to help you find, organize, and cull your images more efficiently. Excire also includes the features photographers expect from a modern photo-management application. You can organize images with collections, ratings, color labels, and flags; edit metadata; add GPS information; and explore your library using tools such as Map View and the Timeline Graph. Everything runs locally on your computer for complete privacy.

Once you have downloaded the software, you will need to install Excire Foto 2027 on your  computer. 

For Mac users: Under macOS, please unzip the appropriate ZIP file and mount the appropriate  disk image (DMG file). Then start the installation program, which will guide you through the  installation step by step. 

For Windows users: Open the downloaded executable file (*.exe) and follow the installation instructions.

Yes, there is a user manual which you can find here. Furthermore, we provide numerous tutorials and give in our help center tips for use. Visit also our YouTube channel.

Excire Foto 2025 supports the following image formats:

.3fr, .arw, .cr2, .cr3, .crw, .dcr, .dng, .erf, .heic, .heif, .iiq, .kdc, .mef, .mos, .  mrw, .nef, .nrw, .orf, .pef, .ppm, .raf, .raw, .rw2, .rwl, .sr2, .srf, .srw, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfi f, .png, .pgm, .tif, .tiff, .psd, .webp, .hif

Please note that some compressed variants of these formats are not supported by Excire or the libraries Excire uses. We therefore recommend you test Excire Foto with your own photos before buying.  

For Windows users, we recommend installing the Microsoft Raw image extension: Download

Files with the extension .heic or .heif have been supported since version 1.1.1. For macOs users, the HEIC format is processed automatically. In Windows environments, the HEIC format is not natively supported. In order to display .heic files, the system must support HEVC compression. To do this, you can install, for example, both of the following extensions from the Microsoft Store, which are offered by Microsoft Corporation:

HEIF image extensions (free) and HEVC Video Extensions (paid)

To use Excire Foto 2027, an Excire user account is required and the software must initially be activated via the activation code. The exact details can be found in the following article in our Help Center:  

https://support.excire.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-do-i-activate-my-excire-software-afterpurchase#With_activation_code

You will receive regular updates, such as bug fixes and/or minor improvements, for free. Only  upgrades, which include major improvements and significant new features, are paid.  However, existing customers always receive a substantial discount for such upgrades.

Unfortunately, this isn’t possible. This is not due to Excire, but rather the methods currently used for image analysis. These methods were trained with millions of photos on specialized hardware.  

The entire process takes place in an elaborate offline procedure that lasts several days. It’s the only way to achieve maximum recognition performance. (Note that our solution is a compromise between the best recognition performance and minimal runtime, as our software runs on customer computers, not in the cloud.)  

Such AI models cannot be trained with just a few examples, and if they are, the recognition  performance is often unacceptable.

If you need help, just have a look at our Help center.  You can also use Excire Foto 2027 to send us a bug report.

No. Privacy is important to us, so our AI analyzes your photos on your computer. We do not use a cloud solution.

Excire is available for macOS and Windows and supports the latest processor generations  (Apple ARM, Intel Silverlake, and other modern processors) and their hardware support for  artificial intelligence on both platforms.

Excire Foto does not send any data to external parties. Privacy is very important to us!  Therefore, our AI analyzes your photos on your computer.

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

Language & version

Supported languages

German & English

Current version

1.2.5

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

Windows 11 (x86 & 64-bit). Note: The Windows version is not optimized for Snapdragon or ARM processors.

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

Language & version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian & 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!

Language & version

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

4.1.3

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

Language & version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian & 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.

Language & 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!

Language & version

Supported languages
German, English, French, Italian & 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

Language & 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

Language & 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.