LrGeniusAI
The Free & Open Source AI Workflow Suite for Lightroom Classic
LrGeniusAI is a powerful Lightroom Classic plugin that goes far beyond keyword tagging. Cull your shoots with AI, apply your own editing style automatically, search your entire library with plain English, identify the wildlife in your frames down to the species, and get context-aware AI analysis — all without leaving Lightroom. It runs vision models on your own machine out of the box — pick one in the Plug-in Manager and click download, no Ollama, no LM Studio, nothing else to install. Prefer a different setup? Connect an existing Ollama or LM Studio server, or cloud models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Your photos, your hardware, your choice.
🏠 Built-In Local AI
The backend runs vision models itself — MLX on Apple silicon Macs and llama.cpp on Windows. Choose a model, click download, and everything happens on your machine. No Ollama, no LM Studio, no second app to keep running.
🦉 On-Device Species ID New
Identify animals, plants, and fungi with BioCLIP 2, running entirely on your own hardware — no API key, no upload, no internet. Every checked photo gets a scientific name, a common name, the full Linnean taxonomy, and a confidence value in searchable metadata fields, plus an optional Species keyword branch.
When the model is not certain, it reports the deepest rank it is sure of — Aves rather than a confidently wrong binomial. See Analyze & Index.
🎯 AI-Powered Culling Beta
Let the AI pre-select your best shots. Face-aware culling evaluates subject sharpness, expression, and composition, groups bursts and near-duplicates, and builds Lightroom collections for picks, alternates, and rejects.
This feature is currently in beta — results may vary and we recommend verifying picks before applying to client work.
🎨 AI Edit — Your Own Style Beta
Save your own Lightroom edits as training examples, and AI Edit builds a develop recipe for each new photo from the closest matches. No language model, no prompt, no preset marketplace — just your edits, and a frame-aware budget that pulls back contrast or clarity a given scene cannot take.
This feature is currently in beta. It needs at least five saved training examples before it will run, and we recommend keeping "Review each proposed edit" on.
🔍 Semantic Free-Text Search
Find any photo by describing it in plain language. No more hunting through keyword trees — just type what you remember and let AI find the shot.
📝 Contextual AI Analysis
Give the AI context before it analyzes — names, locations, project details. The model incorporates your hints for perfectly tailored keywords, captions, and metadata.
Everything you need in one plugin
Advanced vision-language models deliver unmatched precision for keywords, captions, and titles, while dedicated on-device models handle semantic search, faces, and species identification. Beyond metadata, LrGeniusAI brings a full AI-powered editing and search workflow directly into Lightroom Classic. See real-world examples below.
🔒 Complete Privacy
Run a local model for 100% local image analysis — built in, or via Ollama and LM Studio. Your photos never leave your computer.
🚀 5+ AI Providers
Switch between built-in local engines (MLX, llama.cpp), external local servers (Ollama, LM Studio), and cloud services (ChatGPT, Gemini) anytime.
👥 Face Recognition
Automatically cluster faces and find specific people across your entire catalog with the advanced People dialog.
🦋 Species Taxonomy
Scientific name, common name, rank, confidence, and the full taxonomy written into searchable fields — build a Smart Collection on a family, or export the leaf as an IPTC keyword.
🎛️ Full Creative Control
Review every AI edit before it is applied, or send it to a virtual copy. Customize prompts and temperature to make analysis precise or creative.