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digiKam

Name: digiKam 8.8.0
Rating: 10 (2 reviews)
Author: digiKam Team

October, 21st 2025 - 247 MB - Open Source

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digiKam 8.8.0 LATEST
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Sophia Jones
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Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11
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Filename

digiKam-8.8.0-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

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What's new in this version:

New features:
Bundles component versions:
- Updated compared to previous digiKam release
- General: Coode ported to last Qt 6.10.0
- General: English string review with codespell static analyzer
- Windows: Support for long file paths in Windows 10/11 when enabled
- RawEngine: Update internal Libraw to last 20250727 upstream
- Video: Update internal QtAVPlayer to last 20250913 upstream (Qt5 only)
- Plugins: G'MIC-Qt updated to last v3.6.0
- TagsManager: Add options to import or export tag-hierarchies to text files
- Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalogue format is supported (https://www.controlledvocabulary.com/products/index.html)
- Preview: Add support to the FujiFilm camera focus points
- Preview: Add support to the Olympus/OM Systems camera focus points
- ColorManagement: Use monitor color profile set under Windows, macOS, and Wayland
- ProgressManager: Use native desktop notifier under Linux, macOS, and Windows
- Editor: New enhance tool to blur progressively the background of a subject from a photo
- Documentation: Add Brazilian translations

Fixed:
- digiKam 8.6 DLNA server freezes after "upnp devices created: 0" (regression from 8.5)
- The help window blocks digiKam at downloading AI models stage
- digiKam crashes after startup if database server is mysql 8
- Split single digikam database into core/thumb/faces/similarity dbs
- Two small note about the "New Advanced Search" menu
- digiKam crashes when trying to start scanning, if no album is selected
- Build failed with : error: ‘QString::QString(const char*)’
- Small fault in the Tooltip text
- Crash at start due to enabled video hardware acceleration
- In "digiKam Properties" sidebar, double quotes in caption are displayed as
- Portable archive for 8.7.0 (digiKam-8.7.0-Qt6-Win64.tar.xz) is missing as a download option
- Face recognition finds nothing
- OpenCV 4.12 exception and face classifier not working
- Face recognition does not identify faces even after scanning hundreds of faces
- Typo: Settings tab is named "Behaviour" even when the locale is en_US
- Small typos and grammatical errors in the English text
- System shows 607MB RAM allocation that is not returned to the OS without a physical end task (or restart of system)
- On Windows 11, digiKam background process remains running after app close
- digikam.exe process never closes after closing the window
- Tag but do not train
- Add delete button to People search filter field
- Automatic update doesn't work because no sha256 files on server
- Face detection and recognition
- Crashes with error: The Wayland connection broken. Did the Wayland compositor die
- Binary data seems gobbled by captions parsing
- Faces recognition stopped working
- Do not allow running multiple instances
- Switching from lazy synchronization mode aborts remaining lazy sync
- Deleted 'Behaviour' term causes problem in language translation
- Editing Advanced Search doesn't work
- digiKam User Comment Exif displaying incorrect characters for Nikon images
- digiKam process does not terminate when window is closed
- Small fault: superfluous dot at the end of the sentence
- Assign the same tag to people in the same photo
- Suggestion for improvement re positioning of small icons in Preview window
- Panorama Tool needs the Hugin pto2mk software
- Language cannot be chosen - only US_English available
- app/utils/digikam_globals_bundles.cpp build failed with error
- Prioritize user-added metadata over the ones in MakerNotes
- Incorrect sorting of picture names
- Portrait videos are displayed horizontally in presentation mode
- Sort Items by Name in Thumbnails View
- Request for Keyword Import in Database Capability
- Feature Request - Import Structured Keyword List Text File
- .digikam_ignore file fails to prevent scanning of subdirectories on Windows
- Tag manager does not support export the tags to a text file
- Gmic plugins using Category dropdown and Preset dropdown to select not working
- G'MIC-Qt plugin "Color Presets" not working properly - LUTs Pack cannot be changed
- Loading HEIC photos from SMB shares is very slow
- File import error when path > MAX_PATH(260)
- Change location of AI model files download
- Building CXX object core/.../digikam_version.cpp.o failed with Qt5
- Setting some ColorLabel does not work
- Reverse geocoding set number street twice into XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject
- No abort button while exporting to filesystem
- digiKam crashes on startup with remote Mariadb or Mysql database
- When adding a new collection, tags are not associated with images when using sidecars file and tags hierarchy
- Use native Color Management settings from Windows and MacOS
- Add Fujifilm focus-point extractor support to digiKam
- Crash while needing help about numerotation
- Race condition with XMP files causes confusing tagging behavior
- "Open in File Manager" opens a wrong folder
- Face Recognition does not produce any results
- Album marked as not available although it is available
- Wipe all tags from Database only results in "Cannot delete required face tag" message
- Duplicates freezes, cannot sort by Similarity, or resize
- Segments of digikam window are repeated on screen
- Right-Click & 'Open With...' shows apps multiple times
- HEIF/HEIC files not being displayed in Thumbnails
- Printing assistant keeps resetting page layout & no way to specify spacing between images
- "Update Fingerprints" updates all images instead of selected album
- Add new tool to generate blur background of a photo
- Rating an image is counter intuitive in some situations
- Wishlist - Recursive Folder's Option in Advanced Search
- OpenCL not recognized even if installed (Kubuntu 25.04, Nvidia, AppImage)
- Does not start in Windows
- digiKam crashes on launch
- Rebuild all training data results in crash
- digiKam icon is displayed twice in the taskbar
- Add support of OM System OM-5 Mark II focus point
- digiKam git freeze when trying to drag and drop/copy files/images inside albums (Wayland/Hyprland)
- Dragging tags to new location no longer has option to merge tags
- A merge of tags sometimes does not get triggered
- Add support of keywords merge using Drag and Drop
- digiKam generated XMP sidecars not updated by darktable
- digiKam closed unexpectedly (Qt5 based)
- PNG and HEIF not rotated correctly
- Slow first startup after installation
- Failure at initial launch of version 8.7
- digiKam stays as a background process after closing or quitting
- A DK background process remains after closing DK
- gui_digikamautotagassignment_obj.dir/all] Error 2 Build Error
- Moving folder causes recursive copy
- DK crashes with Face Training
- Build failed with : correlator_utest.cpp.o
- Failed to update the database schema from version 15 to version 16
- Duplicates found on Similarity Search but not displayed for review (no thumbnails)
- Extremely slow duplicate search. It takes literally days
- Integrated browser not working well to show image on map
- Bookmark without location saved when selecting multiple images (right click Bookmarks - Add Bookmark)
- Build failed on Qt5 with : gpsitemlistcontextmenu.cpp.o
- Writing something in Captions/Description --> Captions works incorrectly
- QMYSQL driver cannot be used
- Right click on map copy coordinates does not allow pasting in filelist
- Miscellaneous Settings > System > Use OpenCL Hardware Acceleration Issues
- OpenCL isn't working - despite OpenCL driver is loaded on GPU
- Thumbnail for .mov not showing properly
- Wrong country name for North Macedonia