Design & Creative / Photo Editing & RAW Verified 26 Apr 2026

Excire

AI photo manager with auto-tagging, text search, face recognition and duplicate detection

Lübeck, Germany · Founded 2017 · Paid
A European alternative to Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom Affinity Photo Luminar Neo

About Excire

Excire is a brand of the Pattern Recognition Company GmbH (PRC), based in Lübeck, Germany, with roots in machine-learning research at the University of Lübeck. Its flagship product, Excire Foto, is an AI photo-management app for Mac and Windows that automatically tags images on import (X-tags), supports text-prompt search, aesthetic scoring, face recognition and similar/duplicate detection. Excire Analytics surfaces patterns in a photographer's gear and subjects. The software is sold as a perpetual licence and also offered as Excire Search, a Lightroom Classic plug-in, targeting enthusiast and pro photographers managing large libraries.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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