IMatch is one of the leading Digital Asset Management Systems (DAM) for Windows.
Manage, catalog and organize all your RAW files, digital images, videos, audio files, PDF and Office documents etc. in one software.
By managing your images and other assets within a dedicated Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, you gain the flexibility to switch tools and select the one that best suits your current needs. Switching to a different RAW processor will no longer invalidate the work you’ve invested in organizing your images in the proprietary catalog/DAM component of your previous RAW processor.
This approach allows for greater adaptability and efficiency, ensuring that your valuable image management efforts remain intact regardless of any changes in software preferences.
Start Managing Your Digital Assets Today
Drag folders from Windows Explorer into IMatch to add them to your database. IMatch automatically indexes the folders and files, imports metadata, runs image analytics, face recognition etc. The files are not moved, IMatch manages your files where they are!
When indexing is complete, your files are ready for viewing, culling, tagging, rating and metadata editing. IMatch has automatically organized your files into categories and placed them on the IMatch timeline.
The user-friendly but powerful Match DAM system is designed for enthusiast, professional photographers and all other creators who need to manage large collections of digital images, scanned photos and other assets efficiently on Windows.
No registration required. We provide support for trial versions.
Some Facts
- IMatch is available since 2001 and used in over 70 countries
- It uses a perpetual license model, no subscription
- IMatch easily manages one million assets per database1
- Powerful and comfortable file management functions
- IMatch works seamlessly with your other applications
- Unparalleled features for organizing, finding and managing images, RAW files, videos and other digital assets
- Integrated AI for face-recognition and more
- Smart versioning with metadata propagation and buddy file handling
- Flexible Batch Renaming
- Top-notch support by the user community and the developers
1on suitable computers.
- IMatch supports all relevant metadata standards like XMP, IPTC, EXIF, GPS, QuickTime, ID3, PDF, Office and more
- Excellent conformity with the latest IPTC metadata standards
- Metadata created by IMatch is compatible with all standard image editors, RAW processors, photo software, video editors, …
- The IMatch DAM system knows over 10,000 metadata fields, including thousands of camera-specific maker notes
- Advanced features for GPS coordinates, reverse geocoding, track log import and mapping
- Automatic keywording (tagging) with the IMatch AutoTagger
- Unique IMatch Events and IMatch Categories technology set it aside from simpler photo management software
- Advanced import, export, conversion and printing features
Known Concepts. Much Improved
The IMatch Media & Folders View works similar to Windows Explorer. It shows all the folders and files you manage in IMatch.
Clicking on a folder reveals its contents. For each file IMatch displays metadata like titles or keywords, camera information, location data, face annotations and more.
The user interface is very customizable. IMatch comes with many presets to get you started quickly. And it offers almost limitless customization options if you want to make it your own.
Find Any File in Seconds
The IMatch search engine offers very powerful search and filter features.
Search for file and folder name, date & time, title, description, keywords, persons, events, attributes and in over 10,000 metadata fields.
Tell IMatch to:
- show all images from June 2025
- show all images with the keywords ‘Mountain’ AND ‘Montana’ in landscape orientation
- show all photos of aunt Mary from this year
- show all family photos from our London city trip last year
- show all images with Peter and Susan but not Frank
- show all images with a group of persons
- show all photos from camera model X with an ISO setting above 1,000
- show all videos taken in the area I have drawn on the map
- show all images visually similar to the selected images
- show all images matching the sketch you’ve just drawn
- find duplicate images and copies
Filtering
The Filter Panel offers a wide variety of specialized filter modules.
Filter files based on rating, label, collections, date & time ranges, metadata values, events, persons, locations, file properties, Attributes, categories and much more.
The filter panel supports you when you have to find files using complex search criteria or combinations of multiple criteria.
Filters can be saved and later re-applied, which makes reoccurring searches quick to execute.
IMatch assigns known persons to faces and manages all persons in a dedicated view. Find images of persons or combination of persons with just a few mouse clicks.
IMatch analyzes how many faces are in an image and how they are arranged. This makes it possible to perform searches like “All images showing a group of persons created in 2022.” or “All images showing Susan only”.
Integrated Face Recognition
No Cloud!
The custom IMatch AI provides excellent face-recognition capabilities.
Very Smart Keywords
IMatch’s Universal Thesaurus enables you to create a controlled vocabulary of keywords, including synonyms and IMatch’s unique keyword links.
Add individual keywords or entire sets of keywords with a few keystrokes. IMatch suggests keywords from your thesaurus while you type and you can select them directly with a click.
These features save you a lot of typing and improve keywording quality (the same keyword for the same thing).
Color-coding keywords from different ‘groups’ provides a visual indication of keyword completeness.
Automatically Add Keywords and Descriptions with AI
AutoTagger enables you to automatically add keywords and descriptions to your images (‘tagging’) through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) services, which can be run locally on your PC, or leveraged from one of the supported service providers, like OpenAI, Mistral AI or Google’s Gemini.
IMatch supports the free and open source projects LM Studio, and Ollama, which enable you to run powerful AI models on your PC, without cost or privacy issues.
With the innovative IMatch Traits concept, you can empower AI to automatically categorize and organize your images based on specific criteria such as mood, lighting, or detailed subjects like animals, vehicles, buildings, weddings, and more ‐ giving you unparalleled control over how your images are organized.
The AutoTagger is fully integrated with keywording features, including the IMatch Thesaurus.
You can easily map the keywords delivered by the AI services into hierarchical keywords, translate them, produce multiple keywords and synonyms from delivered keywords, ignore keywords and much more. Of course IMatch stores all keywords in standard-compliant XMP and IPTC formats in your images, making them accessible for other applications.
IMatch allows to enrich AI prompts with existing metadata like persons or location information. This often results in much better descriptions and keywords.
This combination of features and capabilities sets IMatch AutoTagger apart from AI keywording offered by other software.
Organize With @Keywords
IMatch automatically organizes your files by their keywords into hierarchical categories. Clicking on one of these categories reveals all files with that keyword.
By selecting multiple categories you can easily find images with specific combinations of keywords. If you need more advanced searches, use the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT to combine keywords as needed.
You can create dynamic categories from search expressions. IMatch automatically keeps them up-to-date.
Save Tons of Time with IMatch AutoFill
Define sets of metadata and contents once, then recall them anytime in the Metadata Panel quickly.
AutoFill makes it super-easy and efficient to add repeating data like author information, copyright and legals, locations (including GPS coordinates), taxonomy data and more.
Viewing and Culling
All image displays in IMatch are fully color-managed and hardware-accelerated.
The Viewer is the main feature for viewing, culling and rating images. It supports instant zoom and displays up to 8 images side-by-side, with synchronized zoom and pan.
Various information overlays like a histogram or grid help with selecting your best shots in no time.
IMatch’s Unique Events
The Events feature organizes your files in a very intuitive and visual way.
An event can be anything: A birthday party, a photo shooting, a city trip or your families’ annual vacation.
Events can be created from date ranges, folders, categories and arbitrary selections of files.
Events have a start date and duration and are arranged on an infinite timeline.
GPS and Mapping
IMatch uses existing GPS coordinates in your images to perform reverse geocoding. This fills metadata location fields like country, city and location and optionally produces matching keywords. Files with location data are automatically categorized (see below).
You can add GPS coordinates to your files and import track logs in the Map Panel. IMatch supports maps provided by OpenStreetMap, Google, Bing and HERE.
Automatic Categorization
IMatch automatically categorizes your files based on technical data like camera model, lens, aperture, ISO and more.
If location data is available, files are placed into categories based on country, city and location.
If IMatch’s face recognition is activated, files are automatically categorized by persons shown and the number and arrangement of faces.
Workflow Categories organize files based on criteria like “Files Added This Week”, “No Headline”, “No Rating” or “No Keywords”. This helps you to quickly identify files which need work.
Versions and Buddy Files
The buddy file (sidecar) management in IMatch automatically keeps related files together when you move, copy, rename or delete the master file.
IMatch’s unique and powerful file versioning enables you to automatically propagate (copy) metadata like ratings, labels, headlines, keywords, collections and IMatch Attributes from the master file to its versions.
The animation on the right shows how IMatch automatically propagates changes the user does to rating, label, headline and keywords from the master file to the three versions linked to that master.
Printing and Batch Processing
One of the advanced export features in IMatch is Design & Print. This module is used to produce prints, photo books and other media. Design & Print outputs directly to your printer, to PDF files or saves pages as images so you can print elsewhere.
The Batch Processor converts images and exports them into multiple formats. It can add text and image overlays, watermarks, borders and QR-codes. The user has full control over the metadata included in the output images.
Easily Integrate Other Applications
IMatch offers several ways to integrate your applications and tools:
- Keyboard shortcuts for opening files in the associated application
- Integrated Windows Explorer context menu
- IMatch Favorites
- User-defined toolbar with quick launch buttons for your favorite applications
- Drag and drop from IMatch to Windows Explorer and other applications
Everything That’s Important
The IMatch Dashboard collects all the important information about your asset collection in one place.
Recently updated and added images. Recently viewed or created events, persons and more.
The user-configurable Quality Panel shows you files which need your attention. If there are recommended actions, they are listed in the Actions Panel. The Statistics and Location panels present useful statistics about the files and folders in your database, like keyword usage, the largest folders, file statistics, countries and more.
IMatch Overview
Watch this video for an overview of all major features in IMatch.