For sports photographers
Two products, one identification engine, and the names end up in the file either way.
Caption from your roster with one press or a shortcode, which is CaptionID, and accelerate with MatchID, our facial recognition built for sports. Run the whole thing on your own computer with GalleryID Desktop, keep a hosted archive in GalleryID Cloud, or run both.
Both from $20/mo · 14-day free trial, card required · No credits, no per-image fees
The pictures were the easy half of the night.
Saturday afternoon football. Hundreds of photos. Helmets the whole game. You finish on the field, and the delivery starts there.
Then comes the tagging. Match each face to a roster. Catch jersey numbers through motion blur. Type the same names into the same fields for hours. Whether you bill for that time or eat it, it is the part of the job nobody scheduled.
That is what CaptionID and MatchID are for. CaptionID names the athlete from your roster in one press. MatchID starts making those presses for you.
Same CaptionID, same MatchID, same names in the same fields. Independent subscriptions, so run either or both.
Ingest, cull, caption and deliver on your own Mac or PC, RAW and JPEG, with identification running locally and nothing uploaded. It sits alongside Photo Mechanic, and your code replacement values keep working. When the season is over, the Catalog indexes your drives into an archive you can search with the drives unplugged.
$20/mo or $200/yrTwo computers included
Upload the finals and the library answers by athlete name, across games and across seasons. Share links with passwords and expiry dates, upload links for a second camera, white-label galleries on your own domain, and a download store that pays your own Stripe account.
From $20/moFor 200 GB
A 14-day free trial on each, with a card on file. There is no free plan on either. A photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud, and you can sign in to Cloud from inside Desktop to send named photos up or pull indexed headshots down.
Three steps on your own machine, and one drive home.
Fast ingest with token rename and folder patterns, metadata written to the file as the file is written, measured at about 15 seconds per 1,000 photos. Focus check flags the soft frames after the card ejects, and you cull from previews that already exist.
One press writes the athlete name and the full caption line from the folder’s roster, and codes still work if you prefer keystrokes. Index headshots and MatchID starts making those presses for you, with anything under your confidence threshold waiting in review.
FTP and FTPS with watermarking, or ZIP with sidecars. The names are written to the file in IPTC and XMP before it goes anywhere, so the wire, the school and your own archive all read the same names.
See the whole app →GalleryID Cloud runs the same engine on the gallery you upload: upload, identified, deliver. The metadata updates when the names change, on upload and on review, and the names are in the file whenever it leaves, whether that is a download, a share link or an FTP push.
Names write to the file in standard IPTC and XMP, so the software you already run reads them on import. Nothing in your workflow has to change.
XMP keywords read on import, and names show up in the Caption field if you map them there. Your code replacement values also run inside GalleryID Desktop as they are.
Keywords sync from XMP. Filter and search by athlete name across the catalog.
XMP metadata loads on import. Smart Albums by athlete name work without setup.
Push named JPEGs to a wire service or a client destination, with watermarking and output sharpening applied at delivery.
Export named JPEGs with sidecars to a laptop, a drive or a NAS. The names go wherever the file goes.
Send a coach or an athletic director a gallery link from GalleryID Cloud, with a password and an expiry date if you want one.
Not the identifications, not the people you work with, not the sales.
No credits and no per-image fee, in either product. In GalleryID Desktop identification is unmetered because your own machine does the work. In GalleryID Cloud MatchID is unlimited on all plans. Run it on the whole take, or run it again next week after you index more headshots.
GalleryID Cloud has no per-seat charge, so bringing in a second camera for one Saturday costs nothing, and neither does giving a coach or a comms office access to what they need. Desktop is one subscription across two computers, which is the laptop at the game and the machine at home.
The GalleryID Cloud download store runs at 0% commission, paid to your own Stripe account. You are the merchant of record and we take no cut of what you sell.
See pricing in full →No. Load a roster and tag with the press of a button or a shortcode, which is CaptionID, and the name and the full caption line write to the file together. Headshots are the accelerator: index them and MatchID starts finding the athletes for you.
MatchID is our facial recognition, trained on sports photography rather than on ordinary photos. Consumer facial recognition learns from people looking at the camera; action photography is the opposite, so MatchID was trained on motion, turned heads, distance and helmets, with jersey numbers read as a second signal. Because it was built for the hardest conditions in photography, the easier ones are covered too.
Yes. GalleryID Desktop sits alongside it rather than replacing it. Your existing code replacement values run in Desktop as they are, names write to the same XMP and IPTC fields Photo Mechanic reads, and plenty of photographers cull in Photo Mechanic and bring the folder into Desktop for identification and delivery. There is a full side-by-side at galleryid.ai/compare/galleryid-vs-photo-mechanic if you want the detail.
Yes. GalleryID Desktop works on RAW end to end: ingest, culling, tagging, captioning and delivery across 15 RAW formats, with browsing and identification running from the full-size JPEG previews your camera embeds in each file. Raw developing still belongs to Lightroom or Capture One. GalleryID Cloud is the hosted archive for your delivered JPEGs; keep the RAWs on your own drives and let the Desktop Catalog index them.
In GalleryID Desktop, no. Identification runs on your own machine, nothing is uploaded, and nothing is stored on our servers. In GalleryID Cloud, uploading is the point, because it is the hosted searchable archive. They are independent subscriptions, and a photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud.
It is a step you trigger rather than something running in the background, so it takes as long as the photos you point it at. In GalleryID Cloud photos process in parallel after upload. In GalleryID Desktop it runs on your own machine whenever you say so, and the usual pattern is to cull first and run MatchID only on the keepers, which is the fastest route to a named take. It is never part of ingest: nothing analyses the pictures while a card is copying.
You catch it in review. The queue shows pending matches with their confidence score and the crop it matched on, so you reject the wrong one and approve the right one. The auto-approve threshold is your setting, which is what makes the standard true on both paths: names are confirmed, never guessed.
They stay. Names are added without overwriting the keywords already in your files, so years of tagging by hand carry forward rather than being replaced.
None, in either product. Platforms that meter identification usually charge somewhere between one and three cents an image, which is cheap for one game and compounds across a season. MatchID is unlimited on all plans in Cloud and unmetered in Desktop, because in Desktop your own machine is doing the work.
Not directly. GalleryID is for identification and delivery, and print orders run through whichever print service you already use. The names are in the JPEG when you export it, so the print shop has them. GalleryID Cloud does include a download store at 0% commission, paid to your own Stripe account.
Stop tagging at midnight.
The names are already in the file.
GalleryID Desktop and GalleryID Cloud, both from $20/month