exiftool VS darktable

Compare exiftool vs darktable and see what are their differences.

exiftool

ExifTool meta information reader/writer (by exiftool)

darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer (by darktable-org)
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exiftool darktable
249 389
2,762 8,673
4.9% 1.4%
6.8 10.0
9 days ago 6 days ago
Perl C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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exiftool

Posts with mentions or reviews of exiftool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

darktable

Posts with mentions or reviews of darktable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing exiftool and darktable you can also consider the following projects:

RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program

exiv2 - Image metadata library and tools

ansel - A darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision.

jExifToolGUI - jExifToolGUI is a multi-platform java/Swing graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey

exifcleaner - Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

davinci-resolve-linux - Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

DiffusionToolkit - Metadata-indexer and Viewer for AI-generated images

google-photos-merge-metadata - Merge your metadata back to your photos exported with Google Takeout.

czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

exifr - πŸ“· The fastest and most versatile JS EXIF reading library.