20 self-hosted Ente Photos alternatives

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

109k stars6.4k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Jellyfin is a free, self-hosted media server to organize, manage, and stream movies, TV, music, and photos to web, mobile, and TV clients.

55.1k stars5.2k forksGPL-2.0last commit 26 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo management app with automatic AI tagging, face recognition, maps, and powerful search to organize and find photos and videos in your library.

40k stars2.3k forkslast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for private photo backup, sharing, and authenticator (2FA) sync across devices, with optional self-hosting.

28k stars1.7k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 28 Jul 2026Actively maintained

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic image search.

8k stars382 forksMITlast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery that scans your filesystem into albums, generates fast thumbnails, supports RAW/EXIF, and enables multi-user sharing links.

6.5k stars471 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 20 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Lychee is a self-hosted photo management system to upload, organize, view, and share photos and albums with a modern web interface.

4.2k stars374 forksMITlast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo gallery for organizations and individuals; supports large libraries, albums, plugins, themes, permissions and a developer API.

3.8k stars480 forksGPL-2.0last commit 22 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Open-source Nextcloud app for managing photos and videos with timeline, AI-based tagging, albums, map view, metadata editing, and on-demand HLS transcoding.

3.8k stars163 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 25 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Fast, modern photo and video management for Nextcloud with timeline, albums, sharing, metadata editing, map view, and optional AI-based tagging integrations.

3.8k stars163 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 25 Jul 2026Actively maintained

PiGallery2 is a fast, read-only, directory-first web photo gallery with search, maps, sharing links, and optional video playback, optimized for Raspberry Pi-class hardware.

2.2k stars256 forksMITlast commit 5 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted personal photo gallery for uploading, organizing, and browsing photos with albums, EXIF parsing, geolocation map view, and Live/Motion Photo support.

1.9k stars135 forksMITlast commit 10 Jun 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo management system for large folder-based libraries with fast full-text search, metadata indexing, and on-device face/object detection.

1.8k stars91 forksGPL-3.0last commit 14 Jan 2026Slowing down

Open-source self-hosted image sharing app with multi-format uploads, nested tags, deduplication, ShareX support, and Docker deployment.

1.6k stars42 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 25 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted open-source web gallery for personal photos and videos with tagging, mobile-friendly UI, face detection, and reverse image search for discovery.

1.2k stars98 forksMITlast commit 22 Jun 2026Actively maintained

WeddingShare is a self-hosted web app for creating shareable wedding photo galleries where guests can view and upload pictures, including QR-code sharing and admin review.

882 stars62 forksGPL-3.0last commit 8 May 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted meme search engine that indexes images with local AI captions and vector embeddings for fast semantic and keyword search, tagging, and filtering.

700 stars27 forksApache-2.0last commit 15 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted personal photo gallery focused on speed, seamless zoom, and non-destructive filesystem-based collections with fast indexing and progressive loading.

599 stars15 forksMITlast commit 20 Jun 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo & video manager that uses local AI (face recognition, OpenCLIP semantic search, duplicate detection) to organize and explore media.

266 stars13 forkslast commit 7 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted image gallery and live editing app with virtual scrolling, non-destructive edits, instant URL-based transforms, S3/local storage support, and mobile-optimized UI.

225 stars6 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 1 Jul 2026Actively maintained