Ownphotos by LibrePhotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service.
About Ownphotos
From the project's README at github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
What is it? Self hosted wannabe Google Photos clone, with a slight focus on cool graphs Django backend & React frontend. In development.
Currently the project is in very early stages, so run it only for the sake of checking it out. Features Currently implemented: Label some faces manually, and train a face classifier to label the rest. View photos by people in them. Automatically generate "event" albums with nice titles, like "Thursday in Berlin" See photos on the map Backend caching View photos grouped by date "Optimized" frontend (react virtualized... I tried my best.) Detect objects in photos, and make them searchable by objects Search photos by the location Authentication (using JWT) Create custom albums Docker ready Upcoming Short term: Share photos/albums Longer term, i.e. haven't thought much about them Basic photo editing, like rotation Tag undetected face Add cool graphs What does it use? Face detection: facerecognition Face classification/clusterization: scikit-learn Object detection: densecap, places365 Reverse geocoding:** Mapbox: You need to have an API key. First
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 8.0k | github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos |
| GitHub forks | 371 | github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 5.5 years | since Nov 2020 |
| Last commit | 3 days ago | May 4, 2026 |
| Funding links | 2 | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
Ready to self-host Ownphotos?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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