Excire Foto vs FolioSort
Excire Foto is excellent at what it does — on-device AI that tags your photos and lets you search them by content and face inside its own catalog. But it leaves your actual files exactly where they were. FolioSort does the part Excire skips: it physically reorganizes your photos and videos into clean folders by EXIF date, GPS and camera, finds a person, removes duplicates — and costs €14.99 once, not ~€99 per version.
Excire tags and searches inside a catalog — FolioSort organizes the files themselves
| Feature | Excire Foto | FolioSort |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | macOS & Windows | macOS 14+ & Windows 10+ |
| On-device AI (no cloud upload) | ||
| AI keyword & content tagging | Its core strength | Not a tagging tool |
| Find a person (face search) | ||
| Find duplicates | Photos & video | |
| Physically sort files into EXIF/GPS folders | Catalog only | {YYYY}/{MM}/{City} on disk |
| Batch rename (regex / EXIF tokens) | With live preview | |
| Merge scattered drives into one library | Guided Merge Sources | |
| Google Photos Takeout repair | Restores dates & GPS from JSON | |
| Checksum-verified moves + undo | XXHash64/SHA-256 + 50-step undo | |
| Pricing | ≈€99 one-time, paid major upgrades | Free tier + €14.99 Pro (lifetime) |
Two different jobs — use them together, or let FolioSort handle the structure
Excire builds a searchable database but leaves your files scattered. FolioSort moves the actual files into a clean {YYYY}/{MM}/{City} structure you can open in any Finder or Explorer window — no app required to browse them later.
Add a few reference photos and FolioSort finds everyone matching across your library — using the Apple Neural Engine on macOS and local ONNX on Windows. Nothing ever leaves your computer, just like Excire.
Perceptual fingerprinting catches resized and re-edited copies across both photos and video, then keeps the best version automatically — RAW over JPEG, higher resolution, originals over edits.
Excire is a premium catalog with paid major-version upgrades. FolioSort Pro is a one-time €14.99 lifetime license, and the free tier already organizes up to 100 files per run.
Importing a Takeout export? FolioSort reads the JSON sidecars and restores the real capture dates and GPS into your files' EXIF before sorting — something a tagging catalog simply doesn't do.
Because FolioSort touches the real files, every transfer is checksum-verified and reversible with up to 50 steps of persistent undo. Reorganize thousands of files without fear of losing one.
Find people, remove duplicates, and sort every file into clean folders — on Mac and Windows. Download FolioSort free.