The image management apparatus, image management program, and image management method are provided for obtaining image and sending it to a communication device or recording it in a recording medium if the image to be obtained has a larger amount of information than a prerecorded image and is closer to the original image. There are provided a recording device for associating and recording an image with the identification and image properties of the image, a sending and receiving device for obtaining an image, the identification and image properties of the image from a communication apparatus through a communication device, an information processing device for reading image properties stored in the recording device based on the identification of the image obtained by the sending and receiving device and comparing them with the obtained image properties, and a sending and receiving device for outputting the obtained image to the communication apparatus if the comparison by the information processing device shows that the obtained image properties have a larger amount of information than that of the recorded image properties.