digiKam
Ranked 5 of 8 photo managers by recommenders
Recommended for organizing, cataloging and tagging photo collections; it is open source and works fully offline.
Recommended for organizing, cataloging and tagging photo collections; it is open source and works fully offline.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Organizes and catalogs photos well
“very impressed by digiKam for organization and catalog management”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Darktable” “it's quite flexible in terms of tagging and organization”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Darktable” “using DigiKam for downloading and organizing photos”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor” Pairs well with Darktable
“Digikam is really good and it would be perfect if was integrated with Darktable.”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Darktable” “For photos you can use digikam + darktable/rawtherapee.”
Comment from 12 Jan 2026 in “I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too” “I use Digikam and Darktable with great success”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating”
Other photo managers people recommend
The four most recommended other photo managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immich | 296 | 65 | 82% | 12 | 1 yr33 owners | Approved |
| Google Photos | 73 | 143 | 34% | 12 | — | — |
| Apple Photos | 66 | 87 | 43% | 12 | — | — |
| PhotoPrism | 10 | 4 | 71% | 4 | — | Approved |
| digiKamThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's quite flexible in terms of tagging and organization”
“Digikam is really good and it would be perfect if was integrated with Darktable.”
“very impressed by digiKam for organization and catalog management”
“seems to be very accurate in my experience. It is open source and works fully offline.”
“the interface is incredibly clunky”
“using DigiKam for downloading and organizing photos”
“I use Digikam and Darktable with great success”
“For photos you can use digikam + darktable/rawtherapee.”
“that's where digikam helps”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.