ZoRa Photo Director

Welcome to the ZoRa Photo Director
ZoRa Photo Director is a powerful digital asset management system for photographers

Overview

ZoRa Photo Director can manage large sets of digital images and videos. It helps you organizing photos by queries over image, EXIF and IPTC properties, to find images by similarity, to geotag and geoname images, and much more...

ZoRa Photo Director comes free of charge and can be used without any restrictions. The source code is published on Github.

Latest News

September 1, 2025

ZoRa Photo Director v5.1.0 released

New HSL multi axis filter.
Coice of expert and beginner operation mode.
Import from MTP devices such as Smartphones now on Linux Gnome, too.

July 1, 2025

ZoRa Photo Director v5.0.0 released

Conversion of the application to current versions of Eclipse, Java and Lucene.

Integrated AI-based face detection and recognition. Native support for AVIF and HEIF image formats. Support for the Kodak Photo CD image format. Various other improvements and bug fixes.

November 3, 2024

ZoRa Photo Director v4.2.0 released

Better support for Linux including cross-platform operation on dual-boot systems. Support for heterogeneous networks. Better Wine support on Linux and Mac. Voice commands for Linux. Support for the JPeG XL image format. Better support for web images. Name search. Custom design themes. Translucent dialog boxes. Various other improvements and bug fixes.

Features

Acquire

Acquire images and movies from digital and analog sources
Import RAW images (DCRAW/RawTherapee) and convert to DNG.
Manage relationships between images.
Extract and edit EXIF and IPTC data.
Extract face data from camera and recognize faces using built-in AI.
Geotag/geoname images using camera data, GPX or NMEA files or manual pinpointing.
Record and play voice notes.
Import foreign catalogs (Lightroom, Bibble).

Organize

Define collections based on query expressions.
Enjoy automatic timeline, location tree, color coding, and creation of custom collections.
Define albums and Bookmarks.
Split, merge, and migrate catalogs
Edit and manage keywords.
Categorize images using artificial intelligence.
Create reports.
Optional peer-to-peer, multi-catalog, and dual-boot support.
Navigate and Rate images using voice commands.
Customizable user interface.

Find

Search for keywords, proximity, or time span.
Search for visual and semantic similarity.
Search for dublettes, series, or orphans.
Search for any text in EXIF or IPTC data.
Find by persons, timeline, directory tree, category tree, location tree, or albums.
Map view with selectable map engines.

Exchange

Export as image, PDF, or HTML.
Export to folder, FTP, or e-mail.
Design slideshows, exhibitions, or web galleries.
Batch image transformations when exporting to a folder.
Generate 3D walk-through virtual exhibitions.
Generate reports.
Integrate external viewers and editors.
Show images on small devices via integrated web server.

Screenshots

Catalog, Lightbox, Preview, Properties, EXIF, and IPTC.
The Adhoc dialog was opened to enter a query.

Similarity search. It is possible to modify the example image.

Catalog, Map, Preview, Properties, EXIF, and IPTC.
Image location can be set manually by dragging the pin.

Catalog, Slideshow Designer, Preview, and Horizontal Strip.
New slides are added by dragging an image to the design area.