Self-hosted Photo Galleries software
A gallery is software that helps the user publish or share photos, pictures, videos or other digital media.
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25 projects, sorted by GitHub stars (as recorded in the dataset). Star counts and dates come from the dataset snapshot, not live.
| Name | Description | License | Stars | Updated | Platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immich | Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos). | AGPL-3.0 | 116,780 | 2026-10-20 | Docker | Source |
| PhotoPrism | Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures. | AGPL-3.0 | 40,332 | 2026-10-20 | Go, Docker | Source |
| Ente | An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos). | AGPL-3.0 | 29,495 | 2026-10-20 | Docker, Nodejs, Go | Source |
| Thumbor | A smart imaging service and enables on-demand cropping, resizing, applying filters and optimizing images. | MIT | 10,526 | 2026-10-18 | Python, Docker | Source |
| LibrePhotos | Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos). | MIT | 8,112 | 2026-10-21 | Python, Docker | Source |
| Photoview | Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos. | GPL-3.0 | 6,554 | 2026-10-16 | Go, Docker | Source |
| Lychee | Grid and album based photo-management-system. | MIT | 4,312 | 2026-10-20 | PHP, Docker | Source |
| Piwigo | Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. | GPL-2.0 | 3,869 | 2026-10-20 | PHP | Source |
| Nextcloud Memories | Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app. | AGPL-3.0 | 3,858 | 2026-10-20 | PHP | Source |
| PiGallery 2 | Directory-first photo gallery website, with a rich UI, optimised for running on low resource servers. | MIT | 2,301 | 2026-10-18 | Docker, Nodejs | Source |
| ChronoFrame | Personal gallery application with online photo management, supporting Live/Motion Photos, and explore map. | MIT | 1,949 | 2026-10-19 | Nodejs, Docker | Source |
| Damselfly | Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. | GPL-3.0 | 1,792 | 2026-01-14 | Docker, C#, .NET | Source |
| Immich Kiosk | Lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source. | GPL-3.0 | 1,727 | 2026-10-19 | Docker, Go | Source |
| bewCloud | File sharing + sync, notes, and photos (alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud's RSS reader). | AGPL-3.0 | 1,242 | 2026-10-18 | Docker | Source |
| HomeGallery | Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery. | MIT | 1,201 | 2026-10-13 | Nodejs, Docker | Source |
| Chevereto | Ultimate image sharing software. Create your very own personal image hosting website in just minutes. | AGPL-3.0 | 997 | 2026-09-22 | PHP, Docker | Source |
| Photofield | Experimental fast photo viewer. | MIT | 612 | 2026-10-11 | Docker, Go | Source |
| Zenphoto | Gallery and CMS project. | GPL-2.0 | 317 | 2026-10-02 | PHP | Source |
| Memtly | Event photo sharing platform and gallery with slideshow that allows guests to view and share memories via a QR code. | GPL-3.0 | 298 | 2026-09-26 | C#, Docker | Source |
| SPIS | A simple, lightweight and fast media server with decent mobile support. | GPL-3.0 | 211 | 2026-10-20 | Docker, Rust | Source |
| This week in past | Aggregates images taken this week, from previous years and presents them on a web page with a simple slideshow. | MIT | 103 | 2026-10-20 | Docker, Rust | Source |
| Mediagoblin | Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud). | AGPL-3.0 | — | — | Python | Source |
| PhotoStructure | All your family's photos and videos automatically organized into a fun and beautiful website. Runs via Docker, NodeJS, or native desktop installers. | ⊘ Proprietary (non-free) | — | — | Nodejs | Source |
| Reservo | Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account upgrades, advertising spots and drag & drop upload. | ⊘ Proprietary (non-free) | — | — | PHP | Source |
| Single File PHP Gallery | Web gallery in one single PHP file. | ⊘ Proprietary (non-free) | — | — | PHP | Source |