PhotoLife

PhotoLife, formerly Phototheca, is a paid photo and video manager for people organizing large collections on a PC. Its AI face recognition runs locally using the computer's CPU and GPU, without sending photos to the cloud for recognition. It groups photos of the same person into named albums, so you can browse a collection by who's in it.

The library supports albums, nested folders and life events. Smart Albums collect photos that match your chosen criteria, while Live Albums update automatically. You can tag photos and videos with keywords, people and places, then search by names, locations, dates, ratings or camera metadata. Batch metadata editing handles changes across many images, including keyword updates and timestamp corrections. Password-protected safe boxes hold photos you want to restrict access to.

PhotoLife imports media from drives, NAS devices, network shares, memory cards and smartphones, including iPhones. It supports RAW, HEIC and AVIF images alongside video organization. For people moving from Picasa, it preserves tags, captions, people names and face tags during import. Duplicate detection shows where copies reside and lets you remove them.

The built-in editor covers exposure, white balance, sharpening, noise reduction and dehaze, with filters for other visual effects. Batch conversion and export help prepare images for use elsewhere. Sharing features include uploads to Google Photos and social media.