Facet vs PhotoPicker

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.

PhotoPicker is a mobile photo-culling app for selecting strong shots, rejecting mistakes, comparing images, and writing decisions to XMP files. Its on-device AI analyzes photos for closed eyes, blur, missed focus, duplicates, weak expressions, and motion issues. You can review images directly from SD cards, CFexpress cards, external SSDs, and local folders without importing them. Controls include swipe gestures, star ratings, color labels, auto-advance, one-handed operation, and edge-tap navigation. On iPad and Android tablets, two photos can be compared side by side with synchronized zoom and pixel-level inspection. The app displays autofocus points, EXIF information, capture metadata, and zoomed details. Ratings, labels, and flags are saved as XMP sidecars for Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera Raw, Capture One, and other compatible software. PhotoPicker says processing stays on the device, photos are not uploaded to the cloud, and the app works without internet. A free plan is available; Pro options cost $9.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or 79.99 USD once.