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8 self-hosted Format alternatives

Format is a hosted portfolio website builder for photographers, designers and artists. It offers templates and a drag-and-drop design editor, custom domains, client galleries and proofing, hosted video, SEO tools, e-commerce for digital/physical sales, and basic client management.

Alternatives to Format

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.

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

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

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4.2k stars374 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

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

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3.8k stars480 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source no-code website builder to visually create fast static websites, with optional HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing and integrations for CMS and APIs.

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2.9k stars662 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

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

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1.9k stars135 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Sigal is a lightweight Python static gallery generator that builds responsive image galleries with themes, thumbnails, EXIF and video support, plus CLI tools to build and preview sites.

943 stars172 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

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318 stars129 forkslast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Format actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 7 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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