MetaMagic Faces · Lightroom Classic plugin

Lightroom Classic face recognition
that finally finds your family.

People View keeps missing faces? MetaMagic Faces learns who your children, partner and parents are from a few photos, finds them across your whole catalog and builds a smart collection for every person. Simple, private and affordable.

Try it free for 14 daysSee how it works
$24 one-time · no subscriptionRuns on your computer · nothing uploadedWindows available nowmacOS coming soon
MetaMagic Faces app: choose a person, search the whole Lightroom catalog, add keywords and smart collectionsMetaMagic Faces app in light mode
Sound familiar?

You just wanted an album
with all the photos of your kids.

Lightroom Classic has face detection built in, the People View. On many family catalogs it turns into a chore that never ends.

Hundreds of unnamed faces

The “Unnamed People” pile keeps growing. You confirm faces for an evening, import a new folder and start again.

The same child, many stacks

Babies, toddlers, school kids: the same person ends up split into stacks that look like different people.

Faces it simply misses

Profiles, sunglasses, a face turned to the cake: photos you love never show up under the right name.

Hard to turn into albums

Even when names are right, building a clean album per child, per year, takes manual work in the Library.

How it works

Show it a few faces.
It finds the rest.

01
🙂
Teach a person
Select a few photos of Emma in Lightroom, click the right face. Add photos from different ages and the results get even better.
02
🔎
Find and confirm
MetaMagic Faces searches the selected photos or the whole catalog. Sure matches go straight through, for the unsure ones it simply asks: is this Emma? Yes or no.
03
✦
Your album is ready
It adds the keyword People › Emma, a smart collection for each person and, if you like, a color label. Every answer makes the next search better.
Smart collections

A family album
that fills itself.

Every person gets a smart collection inside a “MetaMagic Faces” set. It is a normal Lightroom smart collection based on the keyword, so it updates on its own when you tag new photos.

Because names are real Lightroom keywords, you can combine them with everything Lightroom already does: “Emma and Leo”, “Grandma, 2025”, “Leo, five stars” for the printed photo book, or export straight to your phone.

Collections
▾ ▦ MetaMagic Faces
⚙ Emma412
⚙ Leo387
⚙ Grandma96
Keyword List
▾ People
Emma412
Grandma96
Leo387
MetaMagic Faces result: 412 photos with Emma, keyword, smart collections and color label addedMetaMagic Faces result in light mode
Private by design

Your family photos
never leave your computer.

Recognition runs locally with modern open face-recognition models. No upload, no cloud album, no face data on our servers. MetaMagic Faces stores only small numeric descriptions of the faces you choose, in your Documents folder.

  • Works on JPG, RAW and DNG through Lightroom previews
  • Everything happens inside your normal Lightroom catalog
  • Undo any change with Edit › Undo
  • The licence check sends only your Customer Code
Price

Fair and simple.
Pay once.

14 days free
Every feature, your whole catalog. Enter your MetaMagic Customer Code in the plugin and the trial starts. No card needed.
Free trial
$24 · lifetime licence
One payment, no subscription and no credits. Use it on up to 3 of your computers. Have a discount code? Enter it on the payment page.
One-time
Windows download

MetaMagic Faces
for Lightroom Classic.

Unzip, then in Lightroom Classic choose File › Plug-in Manager › Add. Open it from Library › Plug-in Extras › MetaMagic Faces… and enter your Customer Code.

Download for WindowsGet your free Customer Code

Already a MetaMagic user? Use the Customer Code you already have. · macOS: coming soon

FAQ

Face recognition
questions.

Why not just use Lightroom's People View? +
If People View works well on your catalog, keep using it. MetaMagic Faces is for when it doesn't: it learns a person from the faces you pick, shows you only the photos it is unsure about, and writes normal keywords and smart collections you can use everywhere in Lightroom.
Are my photos uploaded to the cloud? +
No. Face detection and recognition run on your computer. Only the licence check goes online, with your Customer Code and a random id of the installation.
What does it change in my catalog? +
You decide: a keyword under a parent keyword (for example People › Emma), a smart collection per person in the “MetaMagic Faces” set, and optional color labels for photos with or without the person. It does not move, rename or edit your photos.
My kids change every year. Does it still work? +
Yes. Add reference faces from different ages (baby, toddler, today) to the same person. Every “yes” you confirm can also be learned, so the person is recognised better over time.
Do I need MetaMagic credits? +
No. MetaMagic Faces is a separate plugin and uses no AI credits. The free MetaMagic Customer Code is only used for the trial and the licence.
What happens after the 14 days? +
The plugin asks you to buy the lifetime licence for $24. Keywords and smart collections it already created stay in your catalog either way.
Does it work offline? +
Yes. Recognition is offline. A bought licence checks in online about once a month.
Does it work on Mac? +
Not yet. The Windows version is available now, a Mac version is planned.
Is MetaMagic affiliated with Adobe? +
No. MetaMagic is an independent product. Adobe and Lightroom are trademarks of Adobe Inc.