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
12 self-hosted Piwigo Cloud alternatives
Hosted photo management and gallery SaaS for storing, organizing, tagging and sharing photo libraries. Provides user and group access controls, albums, search, metadata management, galleries and publishing tools for individuals and teams.
Alternatives to Piwigo Cloud
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
#3
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
#4
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 Actively maintained
#5
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
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
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 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
#9
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 stars171 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#10
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
#12
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
What replacing Piwigo Cloud 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. 12 of 12 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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