There are a lot of apps out there that can help you add face tags to photos, but Mylio Photos is hands down the best I’ve used.
Face recognition technology is getting better and better, and that means there are always new ways we can use it to add face tags to our images. Face tagging in Mylio Photos makes finding photos of the special people in my life incredibly easy.
What is face recognition?
Face recognition is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that mimics the human ability to recognize faces. When this tech is applied to organizing photographs, you can easily find photos of your friends and family.
Using face tagging in Mylio Photos
Face detection and tagging in Mylio Photos makes use of sophisticated face recognition technology. When you add images to the app, it starts scanning them for faces. Any photos with recognizable faces will be accessible from the Untagged album in the People view.
When you see a face you recognize, click on the ? below the photo and type in a new name, or pick a name from the list of names you’ve already identified.
Once you’ve identified a few people, Mylio Photos will look for those faces and group them together. You can quickly approve (or edit) these suggestions, working through large batches of photos in a short period of time.
Finding photos of your favorite people
One of my favorite things about Mylio Photos is being able to access all of my photos, on all of my devices, all the time. Not only can I view my tagged photos of friends and family on my iPhone, iPad and laptop, I can also continue to tag and organize my library on the go, on any device, and know that those changes will sync to all of my devices.
Organizing your photos may not be the most exciting project, but it is well worth the time. The ability to find a photo when you want it is priceless, especially when you’re looking for photos of loved ones and friends. Mylio Photos makes this task simple and attainable, and … maybe it is just me, but I think it is pretty fun!
Want to learn more? Check out this complete walk-through video from Rich Harrington.
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Good to see someone promoting Mylio. Honestly, the facial recognition is one of my biggest reasons to use it. One of my earliest evaluations of it, I gave it about 100 photos of my family. And after about 20 photos, it picked up a photo that is a classic of the six kids, taken with a crappy camera, not great focus, and about 25 feet away. Some of our heads are partially turned, one of is sitting on a bicycle sideways, and Mylio popped up and said, “Is this kid #1, this one kid #2, this one kid #3, etc.”… Read more »
Glad to hear that you’re enjoying Mylio, Paul! With regard to Vaults, if I understand correctly, you want to have multiple external drives as Mylio Devices, but not all of them would be Vaults (i.e. a complete copy of everything in your library). Correct? If so, there are solutions coming in the near future to help make this easier. In the meantime, I encourage you to reach out to Mylio’s customer success (support) team via the in-app Help menu and they’ll help you set up a custom configuration that works for you.
Neither you nor their web site mention pricing. This makes me dislike the company right away. And how does it compare to the face recognition in Lightroom?
The standard Mylio premium pricing is $9.99/mo or $99.99/year.
Hi Rene – Thanks for mentioning the pricing! I’ll be sure to include it in my next article. Bryan is correct that Mylio is $9.99/month or $99.99/year. As for comparing face recognition in Mylio Photos with Lightroom, I found that tagging thousands of photos in my personal collection was MUCH easier with Mylio Photos than it ever was with Lightroom. I’ve been a Lightroom user since it first came out and had added face tags to some of my photos in LR. Those tags, when saved to XMP from Lightroom were readable by Mylio so the work that I’d done… Read more »
Does this program allow saving of metadata directly to the file ? In its original folder ? Thanks
Hi Steve – You can save metadata to JPG files, and for other file types, it creates XMP files that are stored next to the original. Here is some additional info: https://manual.mylio.com/22/en/topic/understanding-xmp-files
Does this operate 100% offline or does it use web engine/cloud to tag faces? Have you tried tagthatphoto software?
Hi Wendy – Mylio Photos’ face recognition is 100% on your own computer/devices and does not use a web engine or the cloud. I haven’t heard of thatthatphoto, but I’ll take a look. Thanks!