Built for your workflow, not the other way around.
Caption your sports photos with the press of a button or a shortcode from your roster, and accelerate with MatchID, our facial recognition built for the toughest environment in photography: sports. The names write into each file. Work hosted in the cloud or right on your own computer.
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“For too long, people have adjusted their workflow to the tool. Imagine a tool that was built for your workflow.”
GalleryID wasn't designed around a conference table. It came from years on the sidelines and years of working alongside teams, schools, and athletic departments, watching the same pain show up season after season:
So GalleryID captions the athletes, embeds the names in the file, and gets out of your way. Simple pricing. Less manual work. Your workflow, finally the starting point.
The same engine powers both products. Caption fast tonight, search the archive forever.
Press a button or type a shortcode, and the name and the full caption line land in the metadata fields. No headshots needed, just a roster.
MatchID is our facial recognition model, built for the toughest environment in photography: athletes in motion, turned away, in helmets, with jersey numbers read as a second signal. Built for sports, and it works beyond them.
Names are written into XMP and IPTC metadata before anything leaves GalleryID, so your archive becomes searchable by name and the names travel with the photo.
Pick the one that fits your workflow, or run both across a season.
Caption with shortcodes or the press of a button, and accelerate with MatchID. Everything runs local.
Upload the finals, MatchID names them, and galleries, share links, the athlete portal, and the store handle delivery.
GalleryID writes the names into the file's metadata, so they show up wherever you open next: any program that reads metadata, including Lightroom, Capture One, and Photo Mechanic. A photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud, and out again.
Your photos. Your names. Your files. Nothing is locked in the app.
Both caption athletes and embed names in the file. Here's where they differ.
| GalleryID Cloud | GalleryID Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Where photos live | Hosted on GalleryID | On your computer, nothing uploaded |
| Caption with buttons or shortcodes | Yes | Yes |
| Identify athletes (MatchID) | Yes | Yes |
| Per-image fees or credits | None | None |
| Names embedded in the file | Yes | Yes |
| Galleries, share links, athlete portal | Yes | Deliver with your own tools |
| Sell downloads (0% commission) | Yes | No |
| Works fully offline | No | Yes |
| Geared to | Photographers, teams, schools, athletic departments | Photographers |
Facial recognition reads what it can see, so a clean face matches best. Helmets are tougher. Jersey number reading steps in, and results vary with the lighting and how much of the face is obstructed. Uncertain matches go to a review queue where one click tags from the roster. We're photographers ourselves. We would rather tell you that here than have you find out on deadline.
Cloud scales with your storage. Desktop scales with your devices. Each includes a 14-day free trial.
Priced by storage. Pick a tier and scale up as your archive grows.
Unlimited MatchID on all plans. Add photographers at no extra cost.
See Cloud pricingThen $10/mo for each additional device you add.
One license per device. Cancel anytime before the trial bills.
See DesktopMatchID is GalleryID's facial recognition, tuned for sports action. Consumer facial recognition is trained on people looking at the camera; MatchID was trained on sports photography, where athletes are in motion, turned away, or wearing helmets, with jersey numbers read as a second signal. It accelerates the one-press tagging you can already do from a roster, and matches it isn't sure about wait in a review queue for your click. Because it was trained on the hardest conditions in photography, everything easier is covered too.
No. Load a roster and tag with the press of a button or a shortcode; the name and the full caption line write into the metadata together. Headshots are the accelerator: add them and MatchID starts finding the athletes for you.
Both caption athletes and write the names into each file. Desktop runs on your Mac or PC and is built to name your files locally and deliver them. Cloud is the hosted, searchable archive: upload the finals, search by athlete, and deliver through galleries, share links, and the store. Many photographers run both, and a photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud.
It can, but it doesn't have to. Names and captions are written into standard IPTC and XMP metadata, so they read wherever the file goes next, in any program that reads metadata, including Photo Mechanic, Lightroom, and Capture One. Your existing code sets keep working too. No forced switch.
Yes. MatchID reads the visible faces and reads the jersey numbers, so helmet sports are covered. Helmets can obstruct the face, and camera angles and lighting can reduce effectiveness, so uncertain matches wait in the review queue.
Because review is part of the job, and the queue is built to make it fast. Auto-tag applies only above the confidence threshold, and even a correct match deserves a look: you decide who belongs in the delivery. Most photographers caption in the same pass. The queue speeds up review and captioning; it doesn't replace the need for them.
Yes. Both Cloud and Desktop offer a 14-day free trial with a card on file. Cloud starts at $10/mo for 100 GB. Desktop starts at $20/mo for your first device and $10/mo for each additional device.