IMatch 2025 – What’s New?

NOTE: IMatch 2025 is not yet available.
We will inform users as usual via the IMatch community and email when the new version becomes available.

See the IMatch 2025 Release Notes for detailed information.

The Major Enhancements in IMatch 2025:

Big Facelift – Modernized and adaptive user interface.

CAI – Support for the Content Authenticity Initiative and C2PA.

AutoTagger 2.0 – Support for modern cloud-based and local LLM AIs for high-quality automatic descriptions, keywords and IMatch Traits. Support for AIs from OpenAI, Mistral AI and Ollama (for running AI models on your own PC) included.

Quick Filter Ribbon – Easy and quick filtering in File Windows.

Peek View – Zoom images to screen size in File Windows with a click.

New Processing Engine – Much improved performance for common tasks like indexing, metadata reading, face recognition, face matching and AI.

Security – Updates for all 3rd party components with important security fixes.

Adobe DNG – IMatch now combines the official DNG SDK with LibRaw for improved compatibility with new DNG variants.

50+ new features, enhancements, changes and bug fixes.
Overall improvements in performance, stability and security.
Includes support for new RAW and other file formats.
See the IMatch 2025 Release Notes for detailed information.

We encourage all IMatch users to upgrade to IMatch 2025 as soon as possible.
It not only has awesome new features but also contains critical bug fixes, security enhancements and updated versions of 3rd party components.

How to Order

To purchase new licenses for IMatch 2025, visit our shop.

How to Upgrade

Upgrading to IMatch 2025 is quick and easy.
Just download and install the latest version and continue to work with IMatch.
See Upgrading to IMatch 2025 for important information and step-by-step instructions.

Claim Your Discount

1. Log into the photools.com customer portal using your email address and IMatch 2023 license key
2. At the top you’ll see your personal upgrade voucher ¹. Click on Upgrade Now and follow the instructions

If you have an IMatch version older than 2023, you can simply upgrade to the latest version by purchasing a regular license (no discount). Seamless database upgrades are supported for all databases created with IMatch 5 or later.

¹ Discounts available for users with a license for IMatch 2023 or higher.
See our fair update & upgrade policy for more information.

Minimal Hardware Requirements

Since version 2020, IMatch integrates complex AI technology and requires processors with AVX extensions. Virtually all processors manufactured since 2011 support this. If you plan to run IMatch on a very old or low-end computer, please check with our system information utility if the processor in your computer has AVX extensions and can run IMatch.
Microsoft currently does not provide support for AVX in their Windows on ARM Intel/AMD emulation layer and thus IMatch does not run on ARM-based computers at this time.
See hardware & software requirements for additional information.

Upgrade Fee

  • Users who have purchased IMatch within the six months grace period get a free upgrade automatically
  • Users with a license for IMatch 2023 can upgrade with a very fair discount
  • No discounts are available for users of legacy IMatch versions (IMatch 2021 or older)

End-of-Life Announcement for IMatch 2023

Support for IMatch version 2023 ends six months after the release of IMatch 2025.
Support for older IMatch versions has been discontinued.