Damselfly

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.