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.
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.
A UI/UX framework for creating beautiful applications.
Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.
Private photo vault for Android
A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
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!
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
Custom iOS camera and photo picker with editing capabilities
A customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery plugin.
Simple PhotoBrowser/Viewer inspired by facebook, twitter photo browsers written by swift
A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol
A Snapchat Inspired iOS Camera Framework written in Swift
Your memories under your control
A self-hosted non-invasive single-binary photo gallery with a focus on speed and simplicity.
Self hosted alternative to Google Photos
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 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.