Football to gymnastics. Staff photographers, freelancers, parent volunteers. MatchID identifies athletes against the rosters you uploaded, names get written into the photo files, and your communications, marketing, and recruiting teams can pull any athlete's photos in seconds. NIL distribution becomes trivial. Alumni magazine photo requests stop being a project.
How it works
Three steps from upload to delivery. Roster setup happens once per sport at the start of the season. Each athlete gets a headshot, you own the data, GalleryID processes. No plugins. No desktop software. Names follow the file.
Photos from staff photographers, freelancers, parents, and event-day contributors. Bring people in as users, or share gallery-specific upload URLs that don't require accounts.
Multi-layer AI combines face matching with team and event identification to name athletes against your roster. Confidence scoring flags uncertain matches.
Comms, marketing, recruiting, development search by athlete. Push to wire, conference media, or AthleteID. Names travel with the file.
What's included
MatchID, AthleteID, search, sharing, FTP, the store, flexible pricing. All included in paid plans.
Multi-layer AI combining face matching with team and event identification. Confidence scoring so your staff reviews what's uncertain, not what's already correct.
Pull any athlete's photos across games and seasons in one search. Recruiting, alumni magazine, NIL packets, year-end awards.
Add comms, marketing, recruiting, development, coaches, sports info. No per-seat charges. Role-based access controls who sees what.
XMP and IPTC PersonInImage embedded on download. Manually tag from your roster by name or number, no shortcodes. When staff turns over, the archive's captions don't.
All-Conference collections, season-best curation, recruiting one-pagers. Public, private, or password-protected. Branded with your athletic identity.
Gallery-specific upload URLs for freelancers, event-day photographers, and parent volunteers. They upload, no account needed, files route to the gallery the link is tied to.
Built-in FTP and SFTP. Push to wire, conference media, local outlets, or your own servers. Names travel in the metadata.
Athletic department branding applied across your galleries. Your colors, your URL, your brand.
Dedicated athlete portal. Push named photos directly to each athlete on your roster. They log in, view their gallery, comment on photos, and download with names embedded. Built for NIL distribution, season-end gifts, and giving athletes ready-to-post content under your department's branding.
Parents, fans, and media buy direct. Per-photo or per-gallery pricing. Zero commission. Proceeds support the program.
Pick the storage your department needs. Credits scale with it. Add MatchID credits a la carte during football season or championship runs.
Why MatchID exists
GalleryID started as a face recognition tool. It worked great for clean, face-visible photos and fell short on the conditions a multi-sport athletic department actually captures across a season. Football helmets, hockey gear, lacrosse facemasks, batting helmets, swim caps, goggles, sideline sunglasses, tough angles. Standard face recognition gives up on most of those.
So MatchID grew into something bigger. It reads the face plus the rest of the image, the team uniform, the event context, and matches against the rosters you uploaded. That additional context names a lot of photos that face recognition alone misses. Helmets and sunglasses still cut the match probability, but you'll see far more of those photos land with names than you would otherwise.
It's not magic. Tough lighting and low-resolution photos still pose a challenge, and uncertain matches go to the review queue so your staff stays in control of what gets named. Confidence scoring is honest, not aspirational.
Find photos in seconds
The Photos page is your department's command center. Search for an athlete by name and immediately see photos from all sports, all events, all photographers.
No more tracking down who covered what game or which folder it lives in. If the athlete is in the photo and the photo is in GalleryID, you'll find it.
Why switch
FAQ
Team plan is block-based. Each block is 500 GB plus 2,000 MatchID credits. Minimum 4 blocks (2 TB / 8,000 credits). Department-level pricing, no per-sport or per-seat charges. Add storage and credits as the archive grows.
Yes. Multiple roster databases per client. Conference-level imports plus your own department's headshots. Opposing-team matching works against your imported rosters when those are available.
AthleteID is the dedicated athlete portal. Your department creates AthleteID accounts for the roster and pushes galleries to each athlete. Athletes log in, view their photos, comment on individual photos, and download with names already embedded. Your athletic department branding wraps the whole experience.
GalleryID is a photo management platform. Compliance with NCAA rules around photo distribution and athlete likeness is your athletic department's responsibility, but role-based access, audit log, and per-athlete gallery scoping are designed to make that easier.
No. You own the data. GalleryID is the processor, not the owner. We don't maintain a global headshot database and we don't train models on client data.
The 14-day trial lets you pilot with one sport before committing. You can also onboard mid-season, start with the next sport's calendar and add backfill as needed.
Pilot with one sport. See the searchable archive. Roll out the rest.
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