Ideal for sports photographers covering marathons, races, competitions, and athletic events. Athletes self-identify their photos instantly. No waiting for photographers to manually organize and deliver.
A race or tournament is photographed from many positions at once: the start, points along the course, the finish line, the podium. A big field produces tens of thousands of frames, and each athlete appears in only a handful of them, scattered across every shooter’s cards. Sorting that by hand takes days, so most of those frames never reach the athlete in them.
FotoMe AI indexes every face as the photos upload. An athlete opens the race link, takes a selfie, and gets every frame they appear in, from every position on the course, in one result. No account, no app and no number lookup: the face is the search.
For the photographer, that removes the sorting layer entirely. For the organiser, it means the photos reach the field while the race is still being talked about, instead of in a link that arrives a week later.
Mass-start frames hold hundreds of athletes, and course positions catch each runner or rider only for a moment. Matching surfaces every athlete from the crowded start and every course position they passed, without anyone keying in a single number.
The finish is the frame every athlete wants, and the one where faces are most often uncovered. Hundreds of finishers can cross within minutes; each one gets their own finish frames from a selfie, however packed the line was.
At matches, meets and tournaments, players appear in action shots, bench shots and team photos. Players find themselves by selfie, and you can name a squad and save it as an album: one link for the club with every photo of its players.
Keep every race category and day in one event, with folders for browsing. Matching runs across all of them, and athletes who opt in to new-photo emails are told when a later upload includes them.
Drag and drop all your event photos. Our AI processes them in the background.
Generate a private or public gallery link. Share with guests or attendees.
Guests upload a selfie. AI instantly finds every photo of them. They download in seconds.
Most race galleries are either one huge folder or a number search that depends on someone tagging every frame. Face matching needs no tagging and no visible number.
| Aspect | Traditional delivery | FotoMe AI delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Finding your photos | Scroll the whole race, or search a hand-tagged number | Selfie returns every frame you are in |
| Tagging work | Manual entry, frame by frame | None: faces are indexed on upload |
| Frames with a hidden number | Usually missed | Found when the face is visible |
| Several photographers | A gallery per shooter, or a manual merge | One event, every position searched at once |
| Time to delivery | Days after the race | As soon as photos are uploaded and indexed |
| Team photos | A folder sent to the club | One album link per team, no selfie needed |
Sports volume is what made personal delivery impractical. Matching by face takes the sorting out of it, for every athlete in the field.
No more keying numbers into thousands of frames. You shoot and upload, and every athlete is served from the same link. Several shooters upload into one event, so the course is delivered as one gallery rather than a folder per photographer.
Photos reach the field while the result is still fresh. The event analytics show how many athletes opened the gallery, how many searched, what they downloaded, and which channel brought them in: numbers you can put in front of a sponsor.
One selfie, every frame from start to finish, on any phone, without an account. Photos download at the size the photographer chose, one at a time or as a ZIP, and each one has a share link that previews in chat.
Upload every course position and race category into one event so an athlete finds every frame in one search. Use folders for start, course and finish if you want browsable sections; matching still runs across all of them.
Matching needs a face. Finish lines, transitions, podiums and the recovery area give the clearest frames, and head-on course positions beat side-on ones for helmeted sports.
Print the event’s QR poster for the finish area, race-pack pickup or the results board, and post the square version to the event’s socials. Tagged links show which of those brought athletes in.
Upload while the race is still running rather than at the end. Athletes who opted in to new-photo emails are told when a later batch includes them, so a search right after finishing is not their last.
After upload, the AI usually finishes indexing within minutes. Athletes then take a selfie and see every photo of themselves in seconds.
Yes. A single event can scale to tens of thousands of photos and thousands of athletes: ideal for marathons, triathlons, cycling, and obstacle races.
Matching works from the face, so changing kit, numbers and backgrounds across the course do not confuse it. It does need the face to be visible: frames where it is hidden, such as behind a full-face visor or a swim cap and goggles, cannot be matched. Finish lines, transitions and podiums are where athletes find the most of themselves.
Downloads are free to the athlete. You choose per event whether they receive 1600px, 2560px or the original file, one photo at a time or as a ZIP. FotoMe AI does not sell individual photos, so delivery is something you price into your fee to the organiser or club.
No. Matching is by face only; FotoMe AI does not read bib numbers. The upside is that a face match does not depend on the number being in the frame, so it also finds the shots where a bib is folded, covered by an arm, or out of the picture.
Open the race gallery link the organizer or photographer shared, take a quick selfie, and every photo of you across the course appears in seconds. Works for marathons, triathlons, cycling, and obstacle races, no account needed.
Yes. Invite each shooter to the event as an editor and everyone uploads into one gallery, so an athlete’s selfie searches every position on the course at once. With duplicate skipping on, a file that was already uploaded is skipped rather than counted twice.
Yes. Name the players from any of your photos and save them together as an album. The club gets one private link to every photo of its members, and nobody has to take a selfie to open it.
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