LrGenius vs. Peakto
Free open-source Lightroom plugin vs. Mac universal photo organiser.
Quick verdict
Choose Peakto if you work across Lightroom, Capture One, Apple Photos, or other apps on a Mac and want a single unified library with AI search and culling across all of them.
Choose LrGeniusAI if you are committed to Lightroom Classic, need Windows support, and want AI keywording, captions, semantic search, culling, and editing in one free, open-source plugin — with the option to run everything 100% locally via Ollama or LM Studio.
Feature comparison
| Aspect | LrGeniusAI beta | Peakto |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Lightroom Classic plugin | Standalone Mac app + LR plugin bridge |
| Platform | macOS + Windows | macOS only |
| Works with | Lightroom Classic | Lightroom, Capture One, Apple Photos, Luminar, and more |
| AI keywording | Yes — open-vocabulary, prompt-tunable | Yes — local AI tags |
| Captions / descriptions / alt-text | Yes | Limited |
| Semantic / natural-language search | Yes | Yes |
| Face recognition | Yes — clustering and People dialog (beta) | Yes |
| AI culling | Yes, face-aware (beta) | Yes |
| Learns personal editing style | "Looks" — experimental | No |
| Runs locally / offline | Yes (Ollama, LM Studio) | Yes (local AI) |
| Open source | Yes (AGPL-3.0) | No |
| Pricing | Free | Subscription (macOS only) |
Where each tool excels
Peakto: the cross-app universal organiser
Peakto's strongest selling point is breadth: it ingests catalogs from Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Capture One, Apple Photos, Luminar, and several other apps, giving Mac photographers a single unified library with AI search across all of them. If you have years of photos spread across multiple apps, Peakto saves significant manual migration effort.
LrGeniusAI: deep Lightroom integration, free, cross-platform
LrGeniusAI lives inside Lightroom Classic as a first-class plugin. It writes AI-generated keywords, captions, titles, and alt-text directly into your catalog via the Lightroom SDK, and its semantic search shows results in a standard Lightroom collection so you never leave the app. It is also the only free, open-source option in this comparison, and the only one that runs on both macOS and Windows.
Because LrGeniusAI is in beta, results vary by model and feature maturity — check the FAQ and latest release notes before committing it to a production workflow.