Facet vs Futura Photo

Facet is a free, local tool for scoring, culling, organizing, and serving a web gallery for photo libraries. It runs on the user's machine without cloud services, accounts, or API keys. Its scoring evaluates nine dimensions, including aesthetic quality, composition, sharpness, color, exposure, face quality, subject saliency, and dynamic range. It detects bursts, similar photos, blinks, and duplicates, with a dry-run preview for automatic culling. The gallery includes natural-language semantic search, filters, timeline and map views, albums, and themed slideshows. Face tools group people and support searching, renaming, merging, and organizing clusters. XMP sidecars provide metadata interoperability with Lightroom, Capture One, digiKam, and darktable. Users can send photos to a WebDAV inbox, or share revocable album links that need no recipient login; proofing supports hearts and comments, with an optional PIN. Core functions work on CPU, while an NVIDIA GPU unlocks additional models and features. Facet can be installed with Docker or natively on Linux and macOS, requires Python, and does not provide RAW editing or development.

Futura Photo automates early photo workflow steps before metadata, tagging, and image editing. It can flag images with exposure errors, low sharpness, duplicates, or closed eyes for archiving or deletion. It also groups burst shots, RAW-plus-JPG pairs, panoramas, and time-lapse images, and can align time-lapse frames. For video, it can identify short clips and move other videos into a dedicated directory. Photographers can tailor quality checks by enabling or disabling custom rules. Listed formats include JPG, CR2, CR3, NEF, RAF, RW2, ARW, ORF, DNG, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, and MTS. The free Community plan allows unlimited analyses of up to 100 images per analysis, with one concurrent installation and no support. Enthusiast costs $29 a year and allows up to 500 images per analysis; Professional costs $69 a year and allows up to 2,000, with two concurrent installations. Enterprise has custom pricing. The listed requirements for version 2.8 or earlier include Windows 10 64-bit or Windows 11, at least 4 GB RAM, and a monitor resolution of at least 1920 × 1080.