Facet vs RawPicker
Facet
ncoevoet.github.ioRawPicker
rawpicker.comSide by side
| Figure | Facet | RawPicker |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · AI Photo Culling Software | 8.9 (#3) | 7.4 (#22) |
| Audience | The maker describes Facet as a fit for people with large local libraries who want to find top shots and cull bursts and near-duplicates. | The homepage describes RawPicker as AI-powered photo culling for professional photographers, including wedding, event, and portrait photographers. |
| Integrations | XMP sidecars connect Facet with Lightroom, darktable, digiKam, Capture One, and Immich workflows. | The desktop app may integrate with Adobe DNG Converter, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Lightroom Classic; the policy says these integrations do not transmit user data to Adobe or another third party. |
| Privacy | Facet runs on the user's machine and says it uses no cloud, accounts, or API keys. | The maker says it does not sell users’ personal data; uploaded photos and EXIF metadata are among the data the policy says it processes. |
| Product | Facet scores, culls, organizes, and serves a web gallery for local photo libraries. | RawPicker is a cloud-based tool for culling and managing RAW/JPEG photographs, including photo storage, rating, sharing, AI processing, and RAW-file backup. |
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In their own words
Facet
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.
RawPicker
RawPicker is an AI photo culling and selection app for professional wedding, event and portrait photographers. It supports RAW formats including CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2 and DNG, as well as JPEG, PNG and TIFF. Its scoring considers sharpness, exposure, duplicate images, noise and face quality; results are advisory, leaving the final selection to the photographer. In desktop and mobile apps, photo, face and duplicate analysis runs locally, and the policy says photos and results are not sent to RawPicker's servers or third parties for machine-learning processing. Images can be grouped by capture time, GPS, camera, ISO and white balance. Selections can be opened in Lightroom, Capture One or Photoshop with ratings, flags and color labels preserved. Projects offer Owner, Editor and Viewer permissions, while password-protected client galleries let visitors mark favorites without an account. Browsing, culling, rating, comparing and exporting can work offline for up to 72 hours. RawPicker is currently closed beta by invitation, and paid subscriptions are not publicly offered during beta.