Your photos. Your metadata.
Your pixels untouched.

Tag, search, comment on and manage your photos through their metadata — without re-encoding the original images

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Your photos contain more than pixels!

Your photographs already contain useful information: when they were taken, which camera was used, where they were taken, and other metadata.

But you may also want to insert your own information:

  • #family

  • #friends

  • #travel

  • #vacation

  • #events

You may want to add a comment, copyright information, or simply find all photographs carrying a particular tag.

fotodb lets you do that directly in your photo files.

fotodb menu
fotodb all photos screen
A wooden desk with a closed silver laptop, a pen, a small notebook, a glass vase with purple flowers, and a table lamp with a beige shade and cylindrical base in a cozy room.

What can you do with fotodb?

🏷️ Tag your photos

Add tags directly your photo metadata. For example: #rhodes #travel

Screenshot of a photo gallery app displaying various images including castles, famous paintings, historical figures, landscapes, flowers, animals, and a mountain, with some images selected or marked.
Mobile app screen showing tag insertion options with tags such as #family, #gaming, #movienight, #painting, #rhodes, #travel, #trekking; Rhodes and travel tags are selected for insertion.

🔎 Search photos by tags

Instead of scrolling through thousands of photographs, search your collection using the tags you have added.

Mobile app screen displaying a 'Search by Tags' page with options to filter tags such as #family, #gaming, #movienight, #painting, #rhodes, #travel, and #trekking. Selected tags '#family' and '#movienight' are shown below with a 'Clear All' button and a search button at the bottom.

💬 Add comments

Add comments directly to your photo metadata.

Mobile app screen showing photos of various subjects, with a comment window in the foreground that reads 'Palace of the Grand Master, Rhodes.'

© Add copyright information

Add copyright information to your photographs while tagging or commenting.

Screenshot of a mobile app settings page with options for copyright notice, editing rights, and app support. The screen shows a pro subscription prompt, toggle for inserting copyright notices, and a text box with copyright owner info for John Smith in 2026.

📷 Inspect your photo metadata

See useful information already stored in your photographs metadata, i.e. directly in photographs.

Photo of a stone tower against a clear blue sky, with the metadata indicating a photo taken at the Palace of the Grand Master in Rhodes, Greece.

The important difference

fotodb takes a different approach.

It updates supported EXIF metadata directly in the photo file rather than decoding and re-encoding the image.

The original image data is not re-encoded.

Your photograph

Image data

⬇️

EXIF metadata

⬇️

fotodb changes the metadata

⬇️

The original image data remains untouched

That's the idea behind fotodb.

Want to know more about the technology?

fotodb is powered by libfotodb, our native C library for working with photo metadata.

Learn more about libfotodb

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