For Sports Photographers
Caption from your roster with one press or a shortcode, that's CaptionID, and accelerate with MatchID, our facial recognition built for sports. Run it all on your own computer with GalleryID Desktop, or keep a hosted archive in GalleryID Cloud. Names write to the file. You drive home.
Try 14 Days Free →The slow part
Saturday afternoon football. Hundreds of photos. Helmets the whole game. You finish on the field. The actual delivery starts there.
Then comes tagging. Match each face to a roster. Catch jersey numbers through motion blur. Type names into Photo Mechanic for hours. Whether you bill for the time or eat it, tagging is hours of work after the game.
That's what CaptionID and MatchID are for. CaptionID names the athlete from your roster in one press. MatchID finds them for you.
Two products, one engine
Same CaptionID. Same MatchID. Same names in the same metadata fields. Independent subscriptions — run either, or both.
The deadline side. Ingest, cull, caption and deliver on your own Mac or PC, RAW and JPEG, with identification running locally. Nothing is uploaded, and it sits alongside Photo Mechanic — your code replacement values keep working. The Catalog indexes your drives into an offline-searchable library when the season is over.
$20/mo or $200/yr per computer · identification unmetered
The archive side. Upload the finals and the library answers by athlete name across games and seasons. Share links, upload links for a second camera, white-label galleries, and a download store that pays your own Stripe account. Names embed in the file on download.
From $20/mo for 200 GB · storage is the only line item
The deadline workflow · GalleryID Desktop
Three steps on your own machine. One drive home.
Fast ingest with metadata written during the copy — 4,664 files measured at 1:19. Focus check flags the soft frames, and you cull from previews that already exist.
One press writes the name and the full caption line from the folder's roster. Index headshots and MatchID starts making those presses for you, with uncertain matches waiting in review.
FTP and FTPS with watermarking, or ZIP with sidecars. IPTC and XMP travel with the JPEG, so the wire, the school and the archive all read the same names.
Working hosted instead? GalleryID Cloud runs the same engine on the gallery you upload: Upload. Identified. Deliver. A photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud.
What we don't charge for
Identification is unmetered in both products — Desktop because it runs on your machine, Cloud because MatchID is unlimited on all plans. Seats and the 0% store are GalleryID Cloud.
Fits the workflow
Desktop writes the names into IPTC and XMP before the file leaves your machine; Cloud embeds them on download. Either way, your existing software reads them on import. Nothing in the workflow has to change.
Photographer pricing
No credits, no per-image fees, no add-ons to unlock — in either product.
Stop tagging at midnight. Photos ready before the locker room clears.
Common questions
No. Load a roster and tag with the press of a button or a shortcode — that's CaptionID — and the name and the full caption line write into the metadata together. Headshots are the accelerator: index them and MatchID starts finding the athletes for you.
MatchID is our 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. Because it was built for the hardest conditions in photography, the easier ones come along for the ride.
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's a full side-by-side comparison 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. GalleryID Cloud is the hosted archive for your delivered JPEGs; keep the RAWs on your drives and let Desktop's Catalog index them.
In Desktop, no. Identification runs on your own machine, nothing is uploaded, and nothing is stored on our servers. In Cloud, uploading is the point — it's the hosted, searchable archive. They're independent subscriptions, and a photo named in Desktop carries its names into Cloud.
In Cloud, faces and jerseys process in parallel, and a Saturday college football game is usually ready before you finish the drive home. In Desktop it runs on your own machine whenever you trigger it — the usual pattern is to cull first and run MatchID on the keepers.
You catch it during review. The interface shows pending matches with confidence scores. Reject the wrong one. Approve the right one. Review takes minutes, not hours.
They stay. MatchID adds names without overwriting existing keywords. If you've been tagging by hand, your data carries forward.
Not directly. GalleryID is for identification and delivery. Print orders run through whichever print service you use today. The names are written to the JPEG when you export, so the print shop has them.