11 self-hosted Lychee Cloud alternatives

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

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

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 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

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 2 Jul 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

Minimal, fast image and video gallery server with PWA support, thumbnail generation, slideshows, filtering, and simple filesystem-based operation for self-hosting.

208 stars12 forksGPL-3.0last commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained