Features
What Facevault does for your Dropbox library — and what it deliberately doesn't.
Automatic face indexing
Every new photo in a folder you choose is scanned for faces on the next sync. Detections are stored with a robust digital fingerprint (an embedding), so photos can be compared and grouped without re-scanning.
People, not albums
Similar faces are clustered into candidate identities. You look at the suggestions, confirm or split them, and give the confirmed ones a name. From then on, other unlabeled faces suggested to be the same person appear right next to your labeled ones.
Tagging means: labels on the photos themselves
When you confirm a person, their name is written onto the matching photos in Dropbox as real file tags — visible in your Dropbox account, not locked inside Facevault. That's what we call tagging: the photo itself is labeled with who's in it.
What that gets you in Dropbox
The tags live on your files, so they keep working wherever Dropbox does:
- Search by name — type a person's name in Dropbox search and every tagged photo of them shows up, without opening Facevault.
- Spot-check a result — open any photo in Dropbox and its tags are right there on the file, so you can see at a glance who was detected in it.
- Take your library with you — tools and scripts that read Dropbox tags see the same names, so automation downstream (timelines, albums, exports) can build on them.
And because the tagging is two-way-checked: Facevault periodically verifies that its own labels still match the tags on your files, so the two never drift apart silently.
Search that answers real questions
Which photos contain Julian? Search by name. Which clusters are still unlabeled? One click. Tag accuracy for each person is tracked, so you know which labels you can trust.
Review queue for low-quality detections
Blurry, tiny, or extreme-angle faces are flagged and quarantined instead of silently joining a person. Verification runs show if tags would survive a Dropbox label check.
Works with your Dropbox
Facevault connects to Dropbox over its official API. You pick exactly which folders are synced; deleted folders and photos are reconciled on the next sync, and nothing in your Dropbox is ever moved or renamed behind your back.
Designed for privacy
Each account is strictly isolated: Dropbox photos, face crops, and people belong to one account only. Quality metrics run locally where the app is hosted; your Dropbox is read in place, not mirrored to third parties.