How Bibbit works
From connecting your gallery to a runner finding every photo of themselves — the whole workflow in six steps.
Connect your gallery account
Link SmugMug in one click of OAuth or sign in with Zenfolio. Multiple accounts per host are fine — every connection shows up in one picker.
Create an event and add galleries
Group the day's albums under one event and upload a bib,name roster CSV if you have one. The roster is what turns detected numbers into runner names.
Bibbit scans in the background
Every photo is fetched, scanned for bib plates and faces, then discarded — Bibbit keeps results, never your files. Come back to detected bibs matched against your roster and faces grouped by runner.
Review and approve
Walk the results photo by photo: approve correct bibs, fix or reject wrong ones, resolve the face groups the AI couldn't. You stay the editor; the AI is just fast.
Detected bibs
1247
Maya Ruiz
882
Jon Okafor
Sync keywords to your gallery
Push approved results to SmugMug or Zenfolio as searchable keywords — one click, or automatically as you review. Existing keywords are never overwritten, and CSV/JSON export is always there.
Runners find themselves
Participants search your gallery by their bib number, exactly where you sent them. Every photo they appear in — bib visible or face-matched — is one search away.
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Built to keep your photos yours
- ✓Photos never leave your gallery host — they're processed transiently and discarded.
- ✓Gallery credentials are stored encrypted and can be disconnected at any time.
- ✓Face data is used only to group photos within your own galleries, and is deleted with the scan.
The details live in our privacy policy.