digiKam Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• How to tag and store pictures downloaded from the internet?

  Digikam seems ideal for this https://digikam.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• What are your favorite methodologies for organizing digital life

  I have all of my photos (with the exception of smartphone photos... ugh) in a nicely constructed set of folders \photos\yyyy\yyyymmmdd\ then the folder made by the camera, etc. I've got a small python script to generate the folders. I use Digikam[1] to do facial recognition and tagging on them. It's finally gotten to the point where it doesn't crash all the time writing metadata, and the facial recognition is... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• are there any free self-hosted DAMs like Adobe Experience Manager [AEM]?

  I use digikam for my own personal library. I’m not sure if it’s able to be run from a server, but I know you can hook up a NAS to it to manage it. Can tag photos, rank, organize, etc. Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking for a simple Photo manager/DAM for not photos advice?

  Check out digiKam. It has photo editing tools as well, but the main focus is photo management. Also it is free and open source. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Looking for a way to tag my photo collection with keywords

  But with that many photos, I'd suggest a more fully featured digital asset management (DAM) program. Lightroom (paid), DigiKam, or DarkTable (both free) are good choices. PhoTool's IMatch (paid) also uses exiftool and is extremely powerful with regards to metadata. Source: about 2 years ago

• Best AI Image Search (almost as good as google)?

  I'm not aware of a self hosted setup, but the open source software DigiKam has facial recognition. Source: about 2 years ago

• F**K You Adobe - I'm done with Lightroom, why did I even try this?

  Try https://digikam.org/ it's open-source and free. Source: over 2 years ago

• The digiKam development team is proud to release digiKam 7.3.0.

  For more details, see announcement on digikam.org:. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Google Pixel photos lifetime cloud promise

  This was just a bait and switch — Google showing that they care more about their profits than consumers. After all, you're giving up the right to ownership to everything that's uploaded to Google's cloud services and they scan and analyze all of your data. Digikam is an offline alternative or you could store your files in an encrypted folder in Nextcloud. PrivacyTools.io has some other good alternatives. Source: about 3 years ago