Open-source alternatives to Google Photos
Google Photos backs up photos and organizes them into albums and searches. The list below is every catalog tool tagged Photo Galleries, which is the closest the catalog gets to the same job; none of them has been checked feature by feature against Google Photos.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos). AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-04 | 113,612 |
Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-07-28 | 40,160 |
An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos). AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-07 | 28,706 |
A smart imaging service and enables on-demand cropping, resizing, applying filters and optimizing images. MIT · released 2026-05-30 | 10,517 |
Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos). MIT · released 2026-08-28 | 8,062 |
Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos. GPL-3.0 · released 2024-06-23 | 6,526 |
Grid and album based photo-management-system. MIT · released 2026-09-01 | 4,280 |
Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. GPL-2.0 · released 2026-05-03 | 3,850 |
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-07-03 | 3,835 |
Directory-first photo gallery website, with a rich UI, optimised for running on low resource servers. MIT · released 2026-01-24 | 2,272 |
Personal gallery application with online photo management, supporting Live/Motion Photos, and explore map. MIT · released 2026-08-06 | 1,913 |
Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-01-14 | 1,784 |
Lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-07 | 1,663 |
File sharing + sync, notes, and photos (alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud's RSS reader). AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-13 | 1,229 |
Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery. MIT · released unknown | 1,180 |
Ultimate image sharing software. Create your very own personal image hosting website in just minutes. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-20 | 987 |
Experimental fast photo viewer. MIT · released 2026-08-17 | 606 |
Gallery and CMS project. GPL-2.0 · released 2025-05-27 | 318 |
A simple, lightweight and fast media server with decent mobile support. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-29 | 212 |
Event photo sharing platform and gallery with slideshow that allows guests to view and share memories via a QR code. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-26 | 195 |
Aggregates images taken this week, from previous years and presents them on a web page with a simple slideshow. MIT · released 2026-09-06 | 102 |
Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud). AGPL-3.0 · released unknown | n/a |
All your family's photos and videos automatically organized into a fun and beautiful website. Runs via Docker, NodeJS, or native desktop installers. ⊘ Proprietary · released unknown | n/a |
Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account upgrades, advertising spots and drag & drop upload. ⊘ Proprietary · released unknown | n/a |
Web gallery in one single PHP file. ⊘ Proprietary · released unknown | n/a |
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