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Smart Photo Asset Management for Churches

Find every moment across your congregation, instantly.

The simplest, fastest way for churches to store, organize, and access photos. Drag in Sunday service folders, let AI recognize faces and tag events automatically, and link directly to your Planning Center directory.

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Workspace ActiveCollections • Workspace • Deliveries
Sunday Service✕Youth✕★ 5✕
✓ 3 Selected
Youth camp horseback trail riding
5
Sarah Jenkins
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YouthOutdoor
Sunday worship acoustic team
5
David Miller (PCO Sync)
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Sunday ServiceWorship
Youth small group fellowship
5
Marcus Davis
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YouthFellowship
COMPLETE MEDIA LIFECYCLE

Built for Church Photo Libraries

From SD card import to private face indexing and community deliveries—a logical, end-to-end workflow designed for church media teams.

FLAGSHIP ENGINE • BIOMETRIC PRIVACY100% Local Models • Never Transferred or Sold

Private On-Device Face Recognition

Instantly group and find photos by congregation member across years of events, retreats, and Sunday services.

Unlike conventional tools that send photos to external cloud AI vendors, AlbumSteward runs biometric models 100% locally on your infrastructure. Face vectors and crops remain strictly private—your data is never transferred or sold to 3rd parties.

✓Private on-device face recognition engine
✓Biometric data is never transferred, shared, or sold
✓Instant congregation search across thousands of photos
Face Recognition: Active🔒 On-Device
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Marcus Davis

99.2% Match

Linked to 142 photos

Youth PastorEaster 2026Baptisms
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SJ
JC
TL
+310
Indexed Locally
Models run 100% locally. Biometric data is never transferred or sold to 3rd parties.
01 • IMPORT & INGESTIONAuto-Tagging

Folder Ingest & Watch Sync

Drag and drop nested folders into your browser—folder names automatically turn into searchable tags. Or use the Desktop Companion to sync camera SD cards in the background.

📁/Church Media
└─/2026 Events
├─/Youth Retreat (Auto-Tag)
└─/Easter Sunday (Auto-Tag)
Desktop CompanionSD Card Watching
02 • CURATION & ACCURACYHuman-in-the-Loop

Smart Review Queue

Confirm suggested face matches and AI tags with a single click. Low-confidence matches never poison profiles without your explicit review.

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Suggest "Sarah J."?92% Match Score
ConfirmIgnore
✓Assigned: Marcus Davis
Confirmed
03 • CATALOG HYGIENESave Photo Quota

Duplicate & Burst Cleanup

Identify burst shots, file copies, and duplicate photos. Compare near-duplicates side by side to keep only your sharpest shots and free up photo asset quota.

IMG_2041KEEP
24MP SharpBest Shot
IMG_2042BURST
Motion BlurDiscard
98.6% Visual MatchReclaim 1 Photo Asset
04 • AUTOMATION & VISIONCustom Rules

Visual References & Rules

Teach AlbumSteward your church's specific ministries by selecting visual reference photos, or create smart rules based on folder paths and tag exclusions.

Folder "/youth" ➔ "Youth"
Exemplar: Baptistery ➔ "Baptism"AI
Exclude "Sermon" if "Baptism"
05 • DISTRIBUTION & DELIVERYLossless Full-Res

Curated Collections & Full-Resolution Deliveries

Group photos into custom collections for weekly newsletters, social media volunteers, or sermon presentations. Download full-quality, uncompressed ZIP archives in seconds to hand off to staff.

easter_highlights_2026.zipLossless ZIP Ready
124 original photos compiled482.5 MB
KEY INTEGRATION

Direct Planning Center
Roster Synchronization

Connect your media archives directly to your congregation directory. Automatically match detected face groups to your Planning Center People roster to make search seamless. Note: AlbumSteward operates as a read-only integration—we import names and avatars to build your roster, but we never upload or sync photos back to Planning Center.

Custom Roster Integration

Customize your AlbumSteward Roster by syncing your PCO Community based on membership type.

Smart Profile Matching

Jumpstart face matching in AlbumSteward by syncing the names and profile photos directly from your Planning Center account.

Auto-Sync Included

AlbumSteward searches for changes to your PCO Membership data automatically through daily auto-sync.

Unidentified Person

Unknown Person

Linked to 24 photos

96% Confidence Match
PCO
Planning Center Profile

Marcus Davis

Synced with Roster & Profiles

INTELLIGENT WORKFLOWS

A system that learns
from your choices

AlbumSteward adapts to your workflow. By simply accepting or rejecting suggested tags and face names, you train the underlying model to match your church's unique vocabulary, saving hours of sorting with every single click.

✓

Feedback-Based Learning

Quickly approve or reject tags suggested by the engine. Every feedback loop trains the model to recognize your church's activities and members automatically.

✓

Activity-Based Rule Suggestions

AlbumSteward tracks your edits. If you repeatedly reject a tag under certain conditions, it will automatically suggest new mutually exclusive rules to refine future imports.

✓

Custom Tag Management

Create, rename, merge, or delete tags across your entire library in one place. Your custom tags feed directly back into the engine to speed up auto-tagging.

AI Suggestion Feedback85% Match
Suggest tag "Worship"

Found in photo IMG_4210.jpg based on guitar detection

Suggested Tag Exclusion Rule

We noticed you rejected the tag "Sermon" on photos containing "Baptism" 3 times. Exclude "Sermon" whenever a photo is tagged with "Baptism"?

Four Simple Steps

Setup takes less than 5 minutes. Let AI handle the heavy lifting while you keep control.

Step 01

Add Your Photos

Drag and drop folders directly into your browser, or let our lightweight Desktop Companion sync camera imports automatically.

Step 02

100% Local Face & Tag Discovery

AlbumSteward runs models locally to detect faces and auto-tag folders. Biometric data is private and never transferred or sold to 3rd parties.

Step 03

Sync Church Directory

Connect Planning Center to pair detected faces with your church roster, importing member names and profile photos seamlessly.

Step 04

Search, Curate & Share

Instantly find photos by member, tag, or event. Build custom collections and download high-resolution ZIP archives in seconds.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Full-featured digital asset stewardship tailored to church communities. Pick the plan that scales with your photo library asset count.

Free Evaluation
$0/month

Up to 100 photo assets

  • ✓ High-Speed Cloud Photo Storage
  • ✓ Drag-and-Drop & Folder Upload
  • ✓ Desktop Companion Watch Folders
  • ✓ 100% Local & Private Face AI
  • ✕ Planning Center Sync
  • ✓ Smart Rules & Hierarchy Tags
  • ✓ Unlimited Full-Res Downloads
  • Inactive free accounts deleted after 90 days
Start Free
Starter Plan
$19/month

Up to 10,000 photo assets

  • ✓ Planning Center Roster Sync
  • ✓ High-Speed Cloud Photo Storage
  • ✓ Drag-and-Drop & Folder Upload
  • ✓ Desktop Companion Watch Folders
  • ✓ 100% Local & Private Face AI
  • ✓ Smart Rules & Hierarchy Tags
  • ✓ Unlimited Full-Res Downloads
Choose Starter
Most Popular
Pro Plan
$49/month

Up to 40,000 photo assets

  • ✓ Planning Center Roster Sync
  • ✓ High-Speed Cloud Photo Storage
  • ✓ Drag-and-Drop & Folder Upload
  • ✓ Desktop Companion Watch Folders
  • ✓ 100% Local & Private Face AI
  • ✓ Smart Rules & Hierarchy Tags
  • ✓ Unlimited Full-Res Downloads
Choose Pro
Campus Plus
$99/month

Up to 120,000 photo assets

  • ✓ Planning Center Roster Sync
  • ✓ High-Speed Cloud Photo Storage
  • ✓ Drag-and-Drop & Folder Upload
  • ✓ Desktop Companion Watch Folders
  • ✓ 100% Local & Private Face AI
  • ✓ Smart Rules & Hierarchy Tags
  • ✓ Unlimited Full-Res Downloads
Choose Campus Plus
Enterprise
$199/month

Up to 250,000 photo assets

  • ✓ Planning Center Roster Sync
  • ✓ High-Speed Cloud Photo Storage
  • ✓ Drag-and-Drop & Folder Upload
  • ✓ Desktop Companion Watch Folders
  • ✓ 100% Local & Private Face AI
  • ✓ High-Capacity Cloud Archive
  • ✓ Unlimited Full-Res Downloads
Choose Enterprise

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about the product and billing.

How do I add and sync photos in AlbumSteward?
You can add photos in two effortless ways: (1) Drag and drop photos or entire folder hierarchies directly into your web browser—AlbumSteward automatically converts subfolder names into searchable tags. (2) For ongoing media workflows, use our lightweight Desktop Companion app (macOS & Windows); it quietly monitors camera import folders on your computer and syncs new photos in the background. All photos are stored securely in high-speed cloud storage.
Is my face recognition data secure?
Yes, absolutely. All face recognition models run 100% locally on your private infrastructure without sending biometric data to external cloud AI services. Facial vector embeddings and photos are stored strictly inside your dedicated tenant—data is never transferred or sold to 3rd parties, and never used to train public AI models.
How does the Planning Center integration work?
Once you authenticate with Planning Center, AlbumSteward fetches your active People Roster. When we detect a face in your photo library, we show directory suggestion matches. With a single click, you can approve the match, automatically linking all photos of that person to their directory profile. Note that this is a read-only integration: AlbumSteward imports names and profile pictures from Planning Center to help build your roster, but it never uploads or syncs photos back to Planning Center.
What happens when I reach my plan's asset limit?
When you hit your tier's asset cap, scanning and indexing of newly discovered photos will be temporarily paused. You can still access, search, and download your existing library normally. To resume scanning, you can upgrade your plan at any time through the billing dashboard portal.
Do I need to have Planning Center to use AlbumSteward?
Not at all. Planning Center integration speeds up the training process by using your church's roster data, but all profiles, names, and visual tags are fully customizable and can be managed manually directly within the app.
Do I need any external cloud subscriptions or complex software?
No external cloud accounts or third-party storage subscriptions are required. AlbumSteward includes secure, high-speed cloud storage for your entire library. You access everything through any modern web browser on your computer, tablet, or phone, with an optional Desktop Companion app available for automated background folder watching.
Can I download original, full-resolution photos?
Yes! AlbumSteward always preserves your original, uncompressed photos. You can download individual high-resolution files or compile multi-photo collections into a single ZIP archive anytime to share with your communications team, social media managers, or volunteers.
Can multiple church staff members or volunteers collaborate?
Yes! AlbumSteward includes built-in team workspace support. Pastors, communications directors, ministry coordinators, and volunteer photographers can access the same centralized catalog to upload photos, search for moments, and curate collections with ease.