Piwigo by Piwigo
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!
About Piwigo
From the project's README at github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
Manage your photo library. Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
The piwigo.org website introduces you to Piwigo. You'll find a demo, forums, wiki and news. Requirements
A webserver (Apache or nginx recommended) PHP 7.4+. Piwigo can run with PHP 7.0+ but these end-of-life versions are no longer maintained and may expose your site to security vulnerabilities. MySQL 5 or greater or MariaDB equivalent ImageMagick (recommended) or PHP GD Quick start install NetInstall
Download the NetInstall script Transfer the script to your web space with any FTP client Open the script in you web browser (for example http://example.com/piwigo-netinstall.php) and follow the steps
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 | 3.8k | github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo |
| GitHub forks | 483 | github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo |
| Docker Hub pulls | 75k | hub.docker.com / piwigo |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 10.8 years | since Jul 2015 |
| Last commit | 3 days ago | May 4, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 83 | last: 4 days ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | 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 → |
What people say on Hacker News
Ready to self-host Piwigo?
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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