Chat with your photo library: an AI assistant for your body of work

An AI photo assistant is a chat interface on top of your own photo library. In Photoreka it is called ChatLab: you ask a question in plain language and it answers with text plus a ranked, intentionally ordered set of your photos. It can search, review a portfolio, describe how your style has changed and build sequences, working on a body of work of up to 50,000 photos.

Yes. Ask it to review a shoot or your whole portfolio and it gives evidence-based feedback grounded in your actual catalog—composition patterns, aesthetic scores, lighting consistency, and stylistic evolution. It is honest, not flattering, and it is not generic advice. Art is subjective, so the assistant is clear about what it is measuring and how.

Search finds photos that match a description. The assistant reasons about your catalog as a whole: it can evaluate your work, spot patterns across thousands of images, build curated sequences, and give you personalized feedback—answers that no search bar can provide.

They share the idea of chatting with a photo library, but they answer different questions. Ask Photos is Google's Gemini-powered conversational search inside the Google Photos app: it finds moments in your backed-up camera roll, chats about one photo and can edit it on request. ChatLab works on a photographer's curated catalog of up to 50,000 photos, each already scored on eight artistic criteria and indexed by meaning, and it answers editorial questions: which frames are strongest, what you keep repeating, how your style has changed and in what order a sequence should go. Many photographers use both: Google Photos for the camera roll, Photoreka for the body of work.

Both. For most questions it combines metadata with visual embeddings (AI representations of each photo's content and style). When you ask about specific images, it also processes the actual photos directly, enabling true visual understanding of composition, mood, and lighting.

Absolutely. Beyond chat, Photoreka uses AI to understand and organize your catalog so you can group, filter, and curate by subject, style, lighting, or quality—without manual tagging. The assistant works on top of that organized library to answer your questions.

You'll start seeing useful insights from around 50–100 photos. Catalog-level questions (evolution, statistics, portfolio review) become richer as your body of work grows, up to 50,000 photos. It works best on a coherent body of work rather than an unculled dump: questions about style and evolution need intention, not noise.

Yes, that's one of its strongest use cases. You can ask for a ranked selection of your best work, a thematically coherent sequence, or a specific number of images that tell a story—the assistant will select and order them with curatorial intent.

Yes. Just ask it to find your best photos and it ranks your strongest shots across your catalog—by aesthetics, composition, storytelling, and originality—then explains why each one stands out. It is one of the fastest ways to surface portfolio-worthy images you may have overlooked.

The assistant responds in the language you write in. Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, and most major languages are fully supported. Just write naturally.

Within a session, the assistant remembers the recent conversation so you can ask follow-up questions naturally. Long-term memory across sessions is on the roadmap.

Yes. The assistant only accesses your own catalog—it has no visibility into other users' libraries. Your photos are processed under Photoreka's privacy policy, and your full-resolution originals are never uploaded unless you explicitly share them.