Local-First AI Photo Management
LumiLab is a local-first AI photo manager for photographers and families with real libraries. It indexes photos where they already live — nothing moves, nothing uploads — then diagnoses, recognizes people, and safely edits and saves photo information.
Add a library — or several, across different drives — and LumiLab scans it in the background with live progress. You get a full diagnostic report: total photos and storage, time span, format distribution, camera and lens statistics, duplicate groups with reclaimable space, quality defects, incomplete information, and people counts. One click routes you to the right tool.
Face detection, recognition, and clustering turn your library into a people wall. Name and rename people, merge duplicate entries in one click, and work through a confirmation inbox where LumiLab asks: 'Are these two the same person?' Exclude false positives such as animals or statues with one click. Cluster parameters adjust live — no model re-runs. Face analysis runs only on this device; face data is never uploaded or shared.
Read and edit the information embedded in your photos: title, description, creator, copyright, city, country, tags, capture time, camera, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter, focal length. Batch-edit multiple photos at once while keeping each photo's original values intact. Preview your changes before saving, with optional automatic backup of the original file. Full edit history lets you undo to any previous version and see exactly what changed.
Grid, list, timeline, and loupe views; folder tree; virtual collections that never touch your originals. Facet filters for rating, Pick/Reject flags, color labels, camera, tags, people, date, folder, and collection. Search by filename, title, caption, or camera — keyboard-first throughout.
Absolutely not. Every AI capability — face recognition, similarity clustering, aesthetic scoring — runs locally on your device with on-device inference. Photos and feature vectors never leave your machine; storage is SQLite plus a local vector store.
No. LumiLab indexes photos in place: files stay where they are, and only a local index is created. You can manage several libraries across different drives.
Yes. By default, rejected photos move to an in-library trash folder or the system Trash, and scans skip those locations. You choose the delete method in Settings; permanent deletion is available but never the default.
Only if you run People analysis, and only on this device. LumiLab stores face locations, numeric similarity features, grouping IDs, and optional names you type in the local app data folder. Face data is never uploaded or shared with any third party. Uninstalling the app or removing related photos deletes it. Original photos are not modified. Full details are in the Privacy Policy, Section 4. Face Data.