Self-hosted photo libraries: open-source Google Photos alternatives
Google Photos quietly raised prices in 2021 and now charges $1.99-9.99/mo above 15GB. Self-hosted Immich and PhotoPrism give the same face recognition, geo-tagging, and mobile sync on a $5/mo VPS with terabytes of storage. These are the open-source picks ranked by health and cost.
The 20 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.
A UI/UX framework for creating beautiful applications.
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a powerful open-source social networking software developed in PHP. It enables you to create a fully functional social networking website that fosters community engagement and helps your members form meaningful social relationships.
Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!
A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
Private photo vault for Android
A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol
Custom iOS camera and photo picker with editing capabilities
Your memories under your control
A customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery plugin.
Simple PhotoBrowser/Viewer inspired by facebook, twitter photo browsers written by swift
A Snapchat Inspired iOS Camera Framework written in Swift
A self-hosted non-invasive single-binary photo gallery with a focus on speed and simplicity.
The mature, battle-tested, high-end, OG self-hosted image and video hosting solution trusted since 2007. Build your own Flickr or Imgur-style media sharing platform with complete control over your content, data, and platform rules.
Self hosted alternative to Google Photos
Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
Ready to self-host?
Most operators land on immich (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.