Everything you need.Nothing you don't.

Two ways to put a name on a frame.

MatchID finds the athlete. CaptionID names them. CaptionID writes the athlete name and the full caption line from the roster bound to that folder or gallery, at one press or from a shortcode, with no headshots indexed at all. MatchID is the accelerator on top of it: facial recognition matched against headshots you indexed, plus jersey number reading for the frames where the face is not legible. The bound roster narrows who a face could be, and the result is a confidence-scored match per detected face.

You set the confidence threshold. Matches above it write without you. Anything below it waits in the review queue, so you decide what ships. In GalleryID Desktop all of this runs on your own machine. In GalleryID Cloud it runs against the gallery you uploaded.

Names are confirmed. Never guessed.

Names write to the file.

Approved names write to the file in XMP, with the legacy IPTC-IIM mirror alongside, across the fields you mapped including Persons Shown and Personality. Those are the fields Photo Mechanic, Lightroom, Capture One and Photoshop already read. Open a delivered file and the names are there. No plugin, no integration, no re-tagging.

That is the difference between a tag in somebody's database and a portable file. Send the photo to a client, a wire service or a newsroom and the names go wherever the file goes, rather than staying behind in a row somebody else owns. GalleryID Desktop writes as you tag; GalleryID Cloud writes on download.

Your roster, your data.

Load rosters by team and by season. GalleryID Desktop indexes the headshots locally; GalleryID Cloud holds them in your account. Each athlete's headshot becomes the baseline MatchID matches against. Update mid-season as athletes transfer, change numbers or join the roster, and the next run uses the new list.

You supply the headshots and you keep them. There is no global headshot database, nothing is pooled across customers, and your images are not training data. GalleryID is the data processor. On GalleryID Desktop the headshots never leave your computer at all.

Confirm what is uncertain. Skip what is not.

Matches above your threshold write on their own. Everything below it lands in a queue that shows the photo, the face crop, the suggested athlete and the score, for a one-click confirm or reject. You stay on the uncertain calls instead of paging through the ones MatchID already got right.

Naming one by hand takes the same three routes as anywhere else: pick the athlete from the bound roster, type a CaptionID shortcode that expands into the name and the full caption line, or start typing a name and choose the match. The roster is the source in all three.

A rejected match never reaches the file. You ship what you confirmed.

Push anywhere, names already in the file.

Both products deliver over FTP. GalleryID Desktop sends over FTP and FTPS with watermarking and output sharpening chosen per destination, or exports a ZIP with sidecars. GalleryID Cloud pushes to FTP and PhotoShelter destinations you configure once and reuse across galleries. Either way the names are already written to the file, so downstream caption tools and editorial systems have what they need.

No re-tagging at the destination. No caption assembly downstream. The file ships caption-ready.

Off the card and into the cull.

Card ingest with token rename, folder patterns, per-folder numbering, and metadata written during the copy rather than in a second pass. About 15 seconds per 1,000 photos copied, 21 to 27 with the metadata written to all of them, across four runs on two Macs. Nothing analyses the photos while the card is copying, so ingest time is copy time.

The cull then runs from previews that already exist: star ratings, colour labels, filters, and Focus check flagging blur and soft focus at four sensitivity levels. RAW is supported throughout, browsing through the JPEG preview the camera embeds in each file. Cull to the keepers, then run MatchID on what survived. The Edit tab handles the deadline pass: histogram, tone curve, white balance eyedropper, clarity and texture, all non-destructive, with edits that copy and paste between frames. Camera voice memos transcribe on your machine and resolve against the roster into suggestions you confirm.

Your drives, searchable with nothing plugged in.

The Catalog indexes whole drives into an archive you can browse offline. Search by name, keyword or filename with the drives unplugged, and export HD previews or originals with people, keywords and capture date already written to them. It reads the names written to your files, including years of tagging done in other software, so the archive is searchable the day you index it.

Removing an item from the Catalog never touches the source file. Companion apps for iPhone and Android browse the Catalog over your own wifi only, so the archive rides along without going near a server.

Your brand. Your URL. Your gallery.

Public, private or password-protected galleries, with custom domains, custom branding and custom expiry dates. On all Cloud plans, not held back for an enterprise tier. Send a link to a client, to the media, or to one athlete.

Permissions are scoped per gallery, so comms gets one view, creative gets another, and alumni get the public one.

Fans and alumni buy direct. Zero commission.

Per-photo or per-gallery pricing, set once per gallery. Fans, alumni and media buy and download files with the athlete names already in the metadata. GalleryID takes no commission. The proceeds are yours.

Stripe-backed payments and download tokens that expire. A buyer takes one photo or the whole gallery as a single download. Digital only, no prints.

One athlete. Their full archive. One search.

Once the names are in the metadata the hosted archive is searchable by them. Pull one athlete's photos across games, photographers, sports and seasons: a senior's highlight set for the awards banquet, a multi-year run for the alumni magazine, an athlete's full gallery to send them. One search.

Filter by sport, season, photographer or event, and combine the filters. Export the result as a shared gallery or push it to FTP.

Staff see what they need.

Five roles: viewer, photographer, editor, client admin and site admin. Photographers see what they uploaded. Comms sees the approved galleries. Creative gets athlete-scoped views. Admins see the whole account with an audit log behind it.

Multi-photographer teams without per-seat charges. For a one-time or occasional contributor you do not want as a user, create a gallery-specific upload link instead. Bring people in as users when that makes sense, and send a link when it does not.