Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source

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digiKam

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  • Latest Version

    digiKam 9.1.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    digiKam Team / External Link

  • Filename

    digiKam-9.1.0-Qt6-Win64.exe

digiKam is a free photo manager with built-in controls for in-depth sorting and organization, managing, enhancing, tagging, and sharing photos. It has full support for separating photos into distinct albums, and a wide array of sorting tools that can especially satisfy users who have amassed large libraries of photo and image content on their local drives.

In addition to the management suite of tools, digiKam also has basic support for image editing, enabling users to perform lightweight customization of their pictures.

Built from the ground in an open-source environment to satisfy the needs of professional photographers, digiKam represents one of the best photo management apps on the market. And best yet, it’s 100% FREE!

The app is a long-term project of the digiKam Team and the open-source community, which has made sure that almost any feature imaginable has eventually found its way into this impressive app.

Users have the ability to easily import the pictures from their local PC storage or a digital device and easily organize them into collections. The amount of tagging and sorting tools is incredible.

For example, pictures can be even labeled using three distinct tools – “Rating” (with zero to five stars), “Pick label” (no pick, rejected, pending, and accepted), and “Color” (10 different colors).

Pictures can be previewed in several ways (end even opened with popular external image viewers and editors), and even sorted and viewed depending on their geolocation tags. In fact, digiKam has built-in support for previewing the location the pictures have been taken using the built-in map viewer that is powered by the cloud OpenStreetMap service.

digiKam user interface is crowded, with almost every corner of the dashboard being filled to the brim with tools, dropdown menus, and diagnostic readings.

At the first glance, it may seem daunting to novices in the world of photography management, but seasoned professionals praise it for its versatility, customizability, and easy access to an incredible variety of tools. The app can easily handle photo collections of all sizes, has an efficient editing workflow, and can successfully manage all types of metadata.

Features and Highlights
  • Over 1,200 digital camera devices supported
  • Serial connection
  • USB connection
  • USB/IEEE Mass storage connection
  • Connecting autodetection of camera using HAL/KDE service
  • Deleting images
  • Uploading images
  • Lock images
  • Auto-rename pictures during import
  • Auto-rotate pictures during import
  • Auto-creation of albums during import
  • LossLess conversion during import
  • Advanced camera information
  • Export to HTML, Export to Flash, 23, Flickr, PicasaWeb, SmugMug, Piwigo
  • Import From/Export to FaceBook, Shwup
  • Export to Zooomr, Gallery powered websites, KML, local directory, or remote computer using KIO protocols (ftp, ssh, smb, fish, svn, tar)
  • Send pictures by email
  • 16 bits image color depth support.
  • RAW camera image support.
  • Histogram viewer
  • Color Management support.
  • ICC profiles tool to perform advanced color corrections into images
  • ICC profile viewer
  • Exporting to another image format
  • Removing images from the current Album
  • Image comments editing
  • Image file properties
  • EXIF/MakerNote/IPTC/GPS viewer
  • Zooming
  • Printing images
  • Red eyes correction
  • Brightness / Contrast / Gamma correction
  • Hue / Saturation / Luminosity correction
  • Color balance
  • Invert colors
  • Color auto-correction tools: Normalize / Equalize / Auto levels / Stretch Contrast
  • Blur / Sharpen
  • Ratio-cropping with proportion aids and composing tools based on Fibonacci rules
  • Free cropping
  • Black and White and tonality converter using curves adjustments
  • Rotation
  • Adjust levels: a tool to adjust the photograph histogram levels manually
  • Adjust curves: a tool to adjust the photograph colors using curves
  • Noise Reduction: noise filter based on wavelet algorithm
  • Liquid Rescale: content-aware resizing to change the ratio of a picture while keeping the content intact
  • Local Contrast: a pseudo-HDR-tone mapping tool to recover highlights and shadows while keeping local contrast
  • Unsharp Mask: a photograph unsharp mask filter to unblur picture without increasing noise
  • Lens Distortion: a tool for correct lens spherical aberration on a photograph
  • Add Border: a tool to add a decorative frame around a photograph
  • Hot Pixels Correction: a tool to remove photograph hot pixels generated by a deficient camera
  • Channel Mixer: a tool to mix the photograph color channels
  • White Balance: a tool to adjust the white color temperature balance of a photograph
  • Photograph Inpainting: a tool to remove unwanted photograph areas using the CImg library
  • Photograph Refocus: a sharpness editor to refocus a photograph
  • Distortion FX: apply distortion special effects to photograph
  • Free Rotation: a plugin to rotate a photograph with a free angle in degrees
  • Shear Tool: a plugin to shear a photograph horizontally and vertically
  • Perspective Tool: a plugin to adjust the photograph perspective
  • Blowup Photograph: a plugin to blow up a photograph without less image quality using the CImg library
  • Photograph Restoration: a tool to reduce photograph artifacts using the CImg library
  • Template Superimpose: a tool to superimpose a template on a photograph
  • Insert Text: a tool to insert text under a photograph
  • Apply Texture: a tool to apply a decorative texture to a photograph
  • Solarize: a tool to solarize a photograph
  • Oil Paint: simulate oil painting on a photograph
  • Vignetting: a tool for removing or adding vignetting on a photograph
  • Emboss: an effect filter to emboss photograph
  • Charcoal: simulate charcoal drawing on a photograph
  • Film Grain: simulate film grain on a photograph
  • Infrared: simulate infrared film effect on a photograph
  • Blur FX: apply to blur special effects on a photograph
  • Rain Drops: adding the visual effect of raindrops on a photograph
digiKam is 100% FREE and can be used on all modern versions of Windows OS.

How to Use
  • Install the software on your Windows PC
  • Launch digiKam and configure the initial setup
  • Import photos from your device or folder
  • Organize photos using albums and tags
  • Use the editing tools to enhance images
  • Sort and search photos using metadata
  • Create collections and categorize your library
  • Export photos or share them online
  • Backup your photo library for safety
System Requirements
  • Operating System: Windows 11 or Windows 10 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
  • RAM: Minimum 4 GB (8 GB recommended)
  • Storage: At least 500 MB for installation
  • Display: 1024x768 resolution or higher
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
PROS
  • Powerful photo management tools
  • Advanced tagging and metadata support
  • Open-source and free to use
  • Built-in RAW image processing
  • Batch processing for bulk edits
CONS
  • Interface may feel overwhelming
  • Slower performance with large libraries
  • Limited cloud integration options
  • Occasional bugs or crashes on Windows


Download digiKam Latest Version
Why is this app published on FileHorse? (More info)

What's new in this version:

Notable Bug Fixes:
Database and Migration:
- MariaDB Migration
- Images seem to be gone when upgrading from 8.8.0 with MariaDB on NAS (but are still in DB)
- MariaDB/MySQL: missing index on Images.status causes full table scan on tag count, calendar, and People panel queries
- DB: ImageTagProperties.property should be VARCHAR, not TEXT
- UpdateSchemaFromV16ToV17 not implemented for QMYSQL / MariaDB
- Face Recognition engine fails to process Tag-only selections and ignores Tag constraints when Albums are selected
- Create index on ImageTagProperties.property
- Migration from a PC to another one

Survey Tool and Workflow:
- In the new “Survey” tool, the left and right overlay navigation arrows are not working
- Shortcuts not working in Survey module
- Short key for flags do not work in new survey screen
- Grouped Image in Survey is not deleted
- Grouping by Filename is behaving differently on macOS than on Linux Mint
- Changing rating filter does not result in immediate view update

Face Recognition and AI Tools:
- Unable to create a face region
- Qt assertion failure due to integer overflow in facepipeline
- Face detection fails on low-resolution (300x300px) images
- Faces menu when viewing an image preview is showing image_recognize_faces instead of the label
- Improve face tag query performance: CREATE INDEX idx_itp_tagid_property ON ImageTagProperties(tagid, property(50))
- OpenCL not detected on AMD RADEON RX 470 card
- Setting a people (e.g., “Mark”) through tag manager => htags = “People”, “People|Mark” instead of just “People|Mark”

Preview and Media:
- digiKam hangs after choosing WebDAVs network share (KDE)
- Modification date is not being edited
- Poor rendering of JXL thumbnails in general thumbnails view
- AssignCaption tool: caption/title disappear after restart
- Crash: std::system_error EINVAL in QReadWriteLock::lockForRead() during scanPAlbums on Linux kernel 6.17
- Cut and paste crash, jas_init_library: Assertion !jas_global.initialized failed
- Crash in QToolBar::widgetForAction during cleanupActions() on Fedora 43
- After opening digiKam and connecting Bluetooth headphones, you need to restart the application for it to recognize the headphones
- Improve performance of album’s cache
- Black screen during video playback
- “Write to XMP sidecar only” not honored for rotation data
- Navigating in thumbnails/preview uses 100% of main thread for 10-15 seconds on each selection change
- Date Format is inconsistent with settings
- Slideshow freezes and stops responding when encountering JPEG with 0xDEADBEEF marker in EXIF UserComment field

Geolocation and Maps:
- Error message during reverse geocoding
- Network error message while using reverse geocoding with OpenStreetMap
- GPS coordinate overwritten when writing tags to XMP sidecar
- Error 429 from OpenStreetMap: too many requests
- Use QuickTime CreationDate if Present Rather Than CreateDate in MOV files
- Error message during reverse geocoding
- GPS coordinates for video file is not updated in ImagePositions table
- The program closes suddenly when opening geotag dialog
- Opening Geolocation Editor crashes digiKam
- Show placeholders for other files in the album

Metadata:
- Finalizing Tags removes EXIF Copyright and Artist entries
- Filtering on rating (stars 0-5) not working correctly
- Rating filter does not work
- Bug after update libexiv2-27
- Time Adjust “EXIF: original” uses old XMP CreateDate/DateCreated instead of Xmp.exif.DateTimeOriginal
- Filter on star rating does not work
- The ratings/star filters have no effect
- ExifTool not found on first use
- Can’t assign number key without modifier as tag shortcut

File Management:
- Import from SD-card without being asked for an album
- Preserve item selection when resorting columns in Table View (Album tab)
- Unsynchronized panning control areas between left and right panes
- Batch queue-subtract time errors
- New album dialog is blocked and hidden when selected as part of move items workflow
- New Album dialog has its initial focus on the ‘Help’ button rather than on Title of New Album
- Flickr Export reports “Unable to Write”
- Album (sorted by folder)->Refresh does not include sub-folders in specified album
- File rename seems to be unable to detect existing files with name it wishes to assign, and that generates a conflict
- “Move To Album” default album

Packaging:
- Error when starting digiKam 9.0.0 - lensfun.dll
- Portable archive for 8.8.0 (digiKam-8.8.0-Qt6-Win64.tar.xz) is missing as a download option
- digiKam crashes immediately even after reinstall
- macOS: digiKam cannot switch application language to Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
- Build system and documentation issues on ARM64 Linux
- OS cursor is still visible when preview magnifier tool is active, obscuring the magnified content
- Crash on App startup
- Clicking on a “Help” button in a dialog causes digiKam to silently disappear
- Declutter sidebars
- Small fault in the “Selected Item Properties” caption

Image Editor:
- No plugins could be loaded in Windows 10
- Darktable raw import fails
- Image Editor Save Settings are incorrect

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