Damselfly is a media management solution designed for organizing and viewing large libraries of digital photos and videos. With features focused on efficient cataloging, it offers advanced search capabilities, facial recognition, and a responsive interface that optimizes the user experience on various devices. Damselfly also supports tagging, file metadata, and user-defined collections, making it suitable for both casual and professional users seeking streamlined media organization.
Key Features:
- Support for most image formats including JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, Webp, BMP and DNG/CR2/ORF/NEF (RAW) files.
- AI / Computer vision image recognition
- Full-text search with multi-phrase partial-word searches
- Image re-organisation - move/copy images between folders, and delete images (via a trashcan folder)
- Advanced search
- Focus on extremely fast performance
- Fast keyword tagging workflow with non-destructive EXIF data updates (using ExifTool)
- Face detection and recognition, and object recognition in images
- Multi-user support with user accounts, and role-based entitlements
- Download/export processing to watermark images ready for social media, or sending via Email etc.
- GeoLocation with map display of photo locations where metadata exists
- Selection basket for saving images from search results
- Server-based deployment, with a web-based front-end UI
- Exclude images from Damselfly scanning by adding a
.nomedia
file in any folder.
- Themes
- Completely automated background indexing of images
- Background thumbnail generation
- Electron.Net Desktop Client for hosted site to allow closer native integration with client OS
- Runs on Windows, Linux and OSX, and in Docker.
- Built with Microsoft .Net 7, hosted Blazor WebAssembly and EFCore 7.