150+ features across eight categories. No subscriptions. No "Pro" tier. No upsells. Everything below ships in the base $99 license.
Index existing folders in place — no copying, no duplication. RAW, JPEG, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, BMP, WebP, GIF, video, Live Photos: all auto-detected and organized.
Personal, work, archive — keep separate libraries with separate indexes. Switch with one click. Each lives in its own folder.
Drop a photo into any watched folder. PhotoSphere imports it, computes thumbnails, runs AI — all without you opening the app.
Scroll 50,000 photos at 60 FPS. Renders only what's on screen. Day, month, year zoom levels.
Rule-based: "all RAW from 2024 with rating ≥ 4". Albums update automatically when new photos match.
Select 5,000 photos. Rate them. Tag them. Move them. Re-encode them. Everything is a batch operation.
30-day soft delete. Permanently gone only if you confirm. Restores keep original timestamps and album membership.
Lightroom-class adjustments. Photoshop-class healing. Every edit is a sidecar — your original is never touched. Undo, redo, revert at any point in history.
RGB and per-channel curves. Histogram with shadow/highlight clipping warnings. Levels, contrast, exposure, blacks, whites.
Hue / saturation / luminance per color channel. Split toning. Color balance for shadows, midtones, highlights.
Free crop, aspect ratio presets, straighten by horizon line, perspective correction with 4-point warp.
Auto-detect lens from EXIF. Corrects distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration. Profiles for 200+ lenses.
Radial filter, gradient mask, brush mask. Adjust exposure, color, sharpness only inside the mask.
Demosaic CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/DNG/RW2/ORF/RAF. White balance, profile, noise reduction, sharpening.
EXIF, IPTC, XMP, geolocation, ratings, flags, color labels, keywords, captions. Search any field. Bulk-edit any field.
Every geotagged photo on a world map. Cluster by location. Reverse-geocode to city/country. Add or remove GPS data manually.
5-star rating. Pick / reject flags. Color labels (red, yellow, green, blue, purple). Keyboard shortcuts for everything.
Nature → Landscape → Mountains. Apply parent, get all children searchable. Auto-tagging from AI.
SQLite FTS5 full-text. Boolean operators. "rating ≥ 4 AND Canon AND 2024". Saved searches as smart albums.
Per-photo title, caption, copyright, creator. IPTC-compliant. Read/written to embedded metadata or sidecar.
Every EXIF/MakerNote field, formatted. Camera, lens, ISO, shutter, aperture, focal length. Search by any value.
Apple and Google have giant data centers running their AI. PhotoSphere has your CPU. Same features. Zero privacy cost. Explore AI in detail →
RetinaFace + ArcFace. 512-dim embeddings. Cosine clustering. Pet detection included.
YOLOv8 with COCO 80 classes. Cars, food, animals, sports, indoor objects.
Beach, mountain, urban, forest, indoor. Auto-tags every photo. Searchable by scene.
PaddleOCR DBNet + CRNN. 6,000-char dictionary. Find text in receipts, signs, screenshots.
512-dim embeddings, HNSW index, cosine query. Type meaning, not keywords.
LaMa inpainting. Brush over an object, it disappears. Background remover (U2Net) included.
NIMA model + heuristic Laplacian. Auto-pick the best shot from a burst.
DeblurGAN-v2. Recover detail from motion blur. Run on the photos you almost deleted.
Apply a painting style to any photo. Each style is a small ONNX model — pick from a library.
Photo books to PDF. Wall calendars. Print layouts. Slideshows. Memory videos. Everything you'd use a separate app for.
Drag photos into a layout grid. Multiple page templates. Export to print-ready PDF (A4, letter, square 8x8, 12x12).
Generate a 12-month wall calendar from a photo album. Pick one photo per month. Export to PDF.
4×6, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14. Multiple photos per page. Borderless or with margins. Color-managed.
Pan/zoom Ken-Burns. Music sync. Duration per slide. Export to MP4 with one click.
"This day, 5 years ago." Auto-generated FFmpeg reels with music. Tap a Memory, watch it play.
Trim, speed, stabilize, convert. FFmpeg under the hood. H.264, HEVC, ProRes, AV1.
PIN-locked Hidden album. Encrypted vault. Screen-capture blocking. All optional. All free. Privacy guarantees →
Argon2-hashed PIN. Hidden photos never appear in Memories, Search, or thumbnails until you authenticate.
AES-256-GCM container for ultra-sensitive shots. Mounted at runtime, sealed when locked. Optional, off by default.
WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE on Windows. App window is invisible to screenshots and screen-recording, even via OBS.
Quick-import, recent activity, jump to Memories. Right-click in the tray, never open the full app.
"Open with PhotoSphere" in Finder/Explorer. Drag a folder onto the dock icon to import.
AI throttles when on battery. Indexing pauses below 20%. Resumes on AC. You decide the threshold.
Pair laptop, desktop, phone, tablet over your home Wi-Fi. End-to-end encrypted. Photos move device-to-device, never via a server. How sync works →
Scan the QR or type the 6-digit code. Devices generate per-pair keys. No accounts. No servers.
Browse your library. Pair, backup, sync. Works on the same network as your laptop. App Store + Play Store.
All photos / favorites only / last year only / tagged-only. Each device decides what it pulls.
Family album you all edit. Automerge CRDTs. Edit offline, everything reconciles cleanly when you're back online.
Designate one always-on machine as the family hub. Phones back up to it. No NAS, no cloud, no recurring fees.
Pauses on metered Wi-Fi. Throttle upload/download speeds. Schedule sync windows.
No subscriptions, no Pro tier, no upsells. Every feature on this page ships in the base license.