Best Self-hosted Digital Asset Management (DAM) tools in 2026

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-co...

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Google Photos+14

Free open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile with timeline editing, multi-track support, real-time preview, and local-first privacy.

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CapCut+16

Minimalistic document management and archiving platform for long-term storage, full-text search, tagging, and automated ingestion via email or folders.

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M-Files+11

Pimcore is an open core data and experience management platform combining PIM/MDM, DAM, CMS/DXP, CDP and digital commerce with extensible APIs and modeling tools.

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Acquia DAM (Widen)+19

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

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Piwigo Cloud+19

Open-source, self-hosted social media manager for scheduling, publishing, analytics and team workflows; deploy via Docker or as a Laravel package.

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Hootsuite+13

Open-source DMS that OCRs, indexes, and manages scanned PDFs, TIFFs and images with tagging, versioning, metadata and full-text search support.

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DocuWare+7

Self-hosted, secure platform for file sharing, collaboration, and document management with no vendor lock-in.

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Dropbox+19

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

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Thingiverse+8

DSpace is an open source institutional repository and digital asset management system for preserving, managing, and providing access to digital content.

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DSPACE Direct+19

Gameyfin organizes your video game collection into a searchable web library with automatic scanning, metadata fetching, downloads, sharing, and optional SSO integration.

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LaunchBox Cloud+6

Open-source .NET-based ROM and title manager that organizes ROMs, fetches metadata from external sources, and provides in-browser emulation.

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LaunchBox Cloud+3

A web application that organizes and runs retro game ROMs in the browser with cloud saves, automatic box art, controller support and multi-platform emulation.

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Steam+2

Mydia is a Phoenix LiveView-based media manager for tracking, organizing, and automating downloads of movies and TV shows with TMDB/TVDB metadata.

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Simkl+2

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

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Omeka.net+11

Omeka S is a modular PHP CMS for cultural heritage institutions to publish exhibits, manage digital collections, and share metadata across sites.

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Omeka.net+11

Mobile-optimized Django web portal for storing and managing vouchers, coupons, gift cards and loyalty cards with QR/barcode support, expiry alerts and OIDC SSO.

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M-Files+8

A web-first music sheet library to upload, organize, and share sheet music with account management and tablet support.

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Music Stand by WorshipTools+3

Open-source archives information management application for accessioning, describing, preserving, and providing access to archival collections and digital objects.

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Omeka.net+19

Open-source, self-hosted toolbox for bookmarks, URL shortening, and encrypted image hosting, with optional hosted service and browser/mobile integrations.

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Bitly+19

Open-source platform to host, distribute and launch games on local networks with a dedicated launcher, game uploads/downloads, server management and basic chat.

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Steam+2

Providence is the backend of CollectiveAccess: a PHP-based collections management system for cataloging complex metadata and media with search, GraphQL API, import/export...

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CONTENTdm+19

Digital signage CMS with web and device players to manage content, schedules, and displays; built with TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis and S3-compatible storage.

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ScreenCloud+9

Java-based, modular digital repository for libraries and archives. Provides a RESTful HTTP API, Linked Data support, flexible storage backends and preservation features.

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DSPACE Direct+13

Open-source ECM for documents, web content, and team collaboration.

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Alfresco Content Services+9

Smart cleanup for Jellyfin that analyzes playback stats, integrates with Sonarr/Radarr and jellyseerr, and automatically tags or deletes old unwatched media with a web UI...

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Recyclarr Cloud

Open-source repository engine from the Samvera community for building institutional digital repositories with flexible metadata, workflows, and search integration.

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DSPACE Direct+19

Web-based app to organize, upload, and sync movie, TV and collection posters with Plex; supports TMDB/TVDB/Fanart, PWA, scheduled imports, and orphan detection.

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Plex

Self-contained PHP photo publishing app with per-album organization, EXIF data, and optional geolocation maps.

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SmugMug+7

A Python Flask RESTful API that exposes Gramps family tree databases for web-based genealogy management, media handling, and integrations.