GalleryID Desktop
SmartLink Basics, LLC Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
GalleryID Desktop is a free Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by SmartLink Basics, LLC. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 31, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 19 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 31
- 2026 · v2.1.1
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About GalleryID Desktop
Your whole photo library, on any drive and from any season, in your pocket. Offline. GalleryID Desktop iOS pairs with GalleryID Desktop on your Mac to put your complete photo archive on your iPhone. Desktop catalogs your drives; the app syncs lightweight previews over your own wifi. Your originals never move, never upload, and are never touched. SIDELINEID: CAPTION AT THE GAME Receive selects from the camera over your phone's Personal Hotspot CaptionID captions from your roster: a name, a number or a shortcode fills the template Names write to the file in XMP and IPTC metadata before it leaves the phone Send by FTP or SFTP, to GalleryID Desktop, or to Photos Folders, bursts, rename patterns, crop and tone, watermarks FIND ANY PHOTO IN SECONDS Search your whole archive by person or client name, keyword, or filename, instantly and offline Filter by person, keyword, drive, or year Tap a name on any photo to see each photo of that person BROWSE THE WAY YOU ORGANIZE Your exact drive folder structure, mirrored on the phone Favorite and recent folders one tap away Search inside any folder BUILT FOR HIGH-VOLUME PHOTOGRAPHERS Tested with archives of 250,000+ photos Thumbnails for the whole library, always available offline HD previews sync for recent work; pull any older photo in HD on demand over wifi RAW+JPEG pairs appear as one photo, the way you made it Share a client-ready preview by AirDrop or Messages, from anywhere YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS No cloud. Photos sync directly from your Mac over your local wifi Nothing you do on the phone touches the files on your drives Works fully offline once synced: at dinner, courtside, on a plane HOW IT WORKS Catalog your drives in GalleryID Desktop (Mac) Scan the pairing QR code with this app Sync over wifi, then browse, search and caption anywhere Companion app for GalleryID Desktop on macOS, which requires a subscription. Try the built-in sample catalog before pairing. MatchID (facial recognition) runs on the Mac, not on the phone. This app also includes the GalleryID Cloud features, so you don't need a separate Cloud app; GalleryID Cloud is a separate subscription from GalleryID Desktop. Privacy Policy: https://galleryid.ai/privacy Terms of Service: https://galleryid.ai/terms
What’s new
Version 2.1.1 · Updated October 31, 2026
Minor bug fix.
App privacy
The developer, SmartLink Basics, LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
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