Facet vs imagic

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.

imagic is a desktop application for AI photo culling and RAW editing. It scores photos for sharpness, exposure, noise, composition, and detail, and also shows subject focus; other listed tools include duplicate, blur, and closed-eye detection. Users can batch-edit and export photos, and the built-in RAW engine supports formats including CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2, DNG, PEF, TIF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Desktop culling, editing, and RAW processing happen locally, without uploading photos. The web editor instead sends an uploaded image to imagic's server for one edit, keeps it temporarily during the session, then deletes it. Edits are non-destructive, leaving original source files unchanged unless explicitly exported. The free trial includes full Max access and allows up to 500 photo exports. One-time licenses cost €19 for Lite, €49 for Plus, and €99 for Max. A license runs on one machine at a time; activating it on a new device deactivates the previous one. The app can send anonymous device, usage, and error data, which can be disabled in Settings.