What is FamilyVault?
FamilyVault is a desktop application that helps you organise and tag a large collection of family photos. It uses face recognition to automatically identify people in your photos — privately, on your own computer, with no data sent anywhere online.
It is especially useful if you have thousands of photos from a digital camera (including Nikon NEF RAW files) and want to be able to search by person.
What it does
- Scans your photo folders and detects every face in every photo
- Compares faces against people you have enrolled (trained it to recognise)
- Tags photos with the person's name and a confidence score
- Let's you review uncertain matches and confirm or correct them
- Stores everything in a local database — no cloud, no internet required
What it does NOT do
- It does not upload your photos anywhere
- It does not share any data with third parties
- It does not require a subscription or account
💡 FamilyVault is designed to run entirely on your own machine. Your photos and face data stay with you.