idXpresso identifies people in your photos with private, on-device facial recognition and automatically writes their names and titles straight into your image metadata — built to drop seamlessly into a professional editorial and DAM workflow.
Purpose-built for photographers and metadata specialists who name people at scale.
All recognition runs locally. Face encodings and your identity database stay on your Mac — never uploaded to any server.
Names, titles, and keywords are written or prepended directly into industry-standard JPEG metadata fields as you go.
Build and maintain your own rapidly searchable database of people — the more it grows, the faster you caption.
Keyboard-centric navigation and low-friction interaction designed to sit naturally alongside your existing photo apps.
Recognition improves as you train it and as your identity library grows, getting sharper with every session.
Optimized for offline work, deadline production, and batch encoding — reduce the most time-consuming part of captioning.
Keep full editorial control while idXpresso handles the repetitive work.
Point idXpresso at a folder or watch folder and it scans for faces on-device.
Matches faces against your private identity database and surfaces likely names.
Approve, correct, or add identities with fast keyboard navigation. It learns from every choice.
Names, titles, and keywords are written into the photo's standard metadata, ready for delivery.
This isn't only about identifying people you don't know. You bring the what, where & when; idXpresso recognizes the faces and completes the caption with the who — then writes it everywhere it belongs.
Even if you know everyone — even with a macro or two up your sleeve — watch how the time to caption a group of 5 compares:
Estimates for illustration, and only for faces idXpresso auto-matches: name & title such as “John Doe, CEO of Any Company Global Inc.” (~40 characters) entered across the caption, keywords, and persons-shown fields. Typing based on a 40 WPM average; your mileage will vary. Recognition won't catch every face — misses drop to the quick picker — but macros can't identify a face at all, and idXpresso can.
Try idXpresso with no commitment, then unlock the full professional toolkit with Pro.
Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed through your Apple ID. See in-app pricing for current rates in your region. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.
Download idXpresso for Mac and let recognition do the repetitive work.