Futura Photo vs imagic

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.

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.