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.
40.1k stars2.3k forkslast commit Actively maintained
20 self-hosted iCloud Photos alternatives
Apple's cloud photo service that uploads, syncs, organizes and stores photos and videos across iPhone, iPad, Mac and iCloud.com. Provides optimized device storage, basic editing and sharing, and integrates with iCloud+ storage and privacy features.
Alternatives to iCloud Photos
#2
Open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for private photo backup, sharing, and authenticator (2FA) sync across devices, with optional self-hosting.
28.5k stars1.8k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively 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 stars386 forksMITlast commit Actively 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 stars478 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#5
Lychee is a self-hosted photo management system to upload, organize, view, and share photos and albums with a modern web interface.
4.3k stars376 forksMITlast commit Actively 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 stars166 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#7
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 stars166 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively 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.
2.3k stars260 forksMITlast 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.
1.9k stars137 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#10
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 stars94 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
#11
Immich Kiosk is a lightweight, highly configurable slideshow web app that displays assets from an Immich server on kiosk devices and browsers.
1.6k stars81 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#12
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 stars106 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#13
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.
879 stars62 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#14
Self-hosted meme search engine that indexes images with local AI captions and vector embeddings for fast semantic and keyword search, tagging, and filtering.
719 stars27 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
#15
Self-hosted personal photo gallery focused on speed, seamless zoom, and non-destructive filesystem-based collections with fast indexing and progressive loading.
602 stars14 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#16
Self-hosted photo & video manager that uses local AI (face recognition, OpenCLIP semantic search, duplicate detection) to organize and explore media.
270 stars13 forkslast commit Actively 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.
227 stars7 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#18
Minimal, fast image and video gallery server with PWA support, thumbnail generation, slideshows, filtering, and simple filesystem-based operation for self-hosting.
211 stars11 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#19
Community-focused server for private photo/video backup, albums, chat and audio/video calls with mobile app support and S3-compatible storage.
209 stars6 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
A self-hosted web app for couples to upload photos/videos, create galleries, track moments on a timeline, set countdowns, playlists, and receive event notifications.
105 stars17 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
What replacing iCloud Photos 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. 19 of 20 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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