Excire Search 2026

Supercharge Your Lightroom Classic Experience With AI-Powered Search, Culling & Organization

Excire Search 2026 – The Best Lightroom Classic Plugin for Faster, Smarter Photo Management

Thousands of photos. Hundreds of clips. Your precious moments. Finding the right one shouldn’t be a struggle.

Excire Search 2026 brings powerful AI directly into Lightroom Classic so you can search smarter, organize faster, and select your best shots with ease.

For photo enthusiasts and working professionals. For filmmakers and memory keepers. For everyone who sees stories in pictures—and never wants to lose them.

What's new in Excire Search 2026?

  • AI-assisted photo culling – group by scenes, people, and more, plus smart selection of your best photos
  • The all-new Excire Search Panel – your favorite tools, always at your fingertips
  • Automatic focus checking – zoom in and evaluate face sharpness in seconds
  • Video support – analyze your clips for fast, content-based search
  • Streamlined workflow – save hours on culling, tagging, and searching
  • Full control & data protection – everything runs locally on your computer, no cloud, fully GDPR-compliant

Find


The right moment.
In seconds.

Looking for that photo of the sunset by the sea? The image of your child laughing? The video of your visit to the Colosseum?

Excire Search 2026 recognizes what's in your photos and clips—automatically, locally, and at lightning speed.

Excire’s AI understands your content:

  • Faces – recognizes people, even without names or keywords
  • Objects & scenes – from mountains and beaches to fireworks and city streets
  • Colors & lighting – blue skies, golden light, night scenes, and more
  • Emotions & movement – laughter, hugs, dancing, running, driving

Organize

Finally, order. No effort needed.

Countless photos, chaotic folder structures, cryptic file names? With Excire Search 2026, you regain control—without spending hours assigning keywords.

Here’s how Excire Search streamlines the organization process:

  • Automatic tagging – photos and videos are labeled with clear, meaningful terms
  • Keyword transfer – Excire writes tags directly into your Lightroom catalog fields
  • Duplicate finder – identify duplicates and near-duplicates to free up space and ensure order
  • Theme & people filtering – experience intuitive, content-based navigation through your archive
  • Content + metadata filtering – view files by combining content recognition and metadata filters
  • Ideal for large catalogs – save time and keep even massive libraries organized

Select

Highlight your best work.

Rapidly identify your strongest shots, group similar images, and review entire photoshoots with ease. Make the right choice, every time.

With AI-powered tools for streamlined selection, Excire Search 2026 helps you focus on the images that matter.

AI-assisted photo selection

New and powerful

Do you have hundreds (or thousands) of files from a portrait photoshoot, a vacation, or a landscape photo adventure? Excire Search helps you find your best shots in an instant:
  • Face sharpness detection – for quick technical checks
  • Intelligent photo grouping – group by scene, content, date/time of capture, people, or bursts/sequences
  • Best-shot detection – Instant AI analysis of sharpness, facial expressions, and/or aesthetics
  • Smart (pre)selection – save hours on client deliveries, personal projects, and more

Whether you’re creating a photo book, a social-media post, a wall display, or a client gallery—with Excire Search, you’ll select your final photos faster and better than ever before.

The Excire Search Panel

Our UI innovation

Every click matters—especially when speed is key. The new Excire Search Panel gives you instant access to your most-used tools with no detours, no wasted time.

Everyday benefits:

  • One-click access to essential search and culling functions
  • Flexible placement anywhere in your workspace
  • Focus checks at a glance
  • Adjustable for single- and dual-monitor setups


Fewer clicks, more efficiency—a true workflow boost.

How Excire Search makes your Lightroom Classic smarter

Icon Ja Icon Nein
Automatic tagging Yes No
Prompt and similarity search Yes No
People and face search Yes Limited
Duplicate finder Yes No
Aesthetic ratings Yes No
AI-assisted photo culling Yes No
Automatic focus checking Yes No

Why Excire Search 2026?

  • The best Lightroom Classic plugin for intelligent photo and video management
  • Complete privacy thanks to 100% local processing—no cloud, no data transfer
  • Save hours across your workflow for maximum productivity
  • Smoothly manage even the largest Lightroom catalogs
  • Developed in Germany—GDPR-compliant and reliable

Get started with Excire Search 2026 now

Install, analyze, find.
Excire Search is ready to use right away—for your Lightroom catalog, your memories, your projects.

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

1.1.1

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

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

4.1.1

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

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.