Best self-hosted photo galleries
A [gallery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Software) is software that helps the user publish or share photos, pictures, videos or other digital media.
We track 25 self-hosted photo galleries projects. The median health score in this category is 56, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and 3 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.
| # | Project | Health | Activity | Stars | Built with | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ente An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos). | Thriving · 98 | 29k | Docker, Nodejs | 24 Sept 2026 | |
| 2 | PhotoPrism Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collecti | Thriving · 96 | 40k | Go, Docker | 19 Sept 2026 | |
| 3 | Immich Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos). | Thriving · 94 | 115k | Docker | 15 Sept 2026 | |
| 4 | Lychee Grid and album based photo-management-system. | Thriving · 82 | 4.3k | PHP, Docker | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 5 | Immich Kiosk Lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source. | Healthy · 78 | 1.7k | Docker, Go | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 6 | Nextcloud Memories Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app. | Healthy · 74 | 3.8k | PHP | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 7 | LibrePhotos Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos). | Healthy · 73 | 8.1k | Python, Docker | 16 Sept 2026 | |
| 8 | Photofield Experimental fast photo viewer. | Steady · 66 | 608 | Docker, Go | 17 Aug 2026 | |
| 9 | Thumbor A smart imaging service and enables on-demand cropping, resizing, applying filters and optimizing images. | Steady · 62 | 11k | Python, Docker | 30 May 2026 | |
| 10 | bewCloud File sharing + sync, notes, and photos (alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud's RSS reader). | Steady · 58 | 1.2k | Docker | 13 Aug 2026 | |
| 11 | This week in past Aggregates images taken this week, from previous years and presents them on a web page with a simple slideshow. | Steady · 56 | 103 | Docker, Rust | 27 Sept 2026 | |
| 12 | SPIS A simple, lightweight and fast media server with decent mobile support. | Steady · 53 | 212 | Docker, Rust | 29 Aug 2026 | |
| 13 | PiGallery 2 Directory-first photo gallery website, with a rich UI, optimised for running on low resource servers. | Steady · 52 | 2.3k | Docker, Nodejs | 24 Jan 2026 | |
| 14 | ChronoFrame Personal gallery application with online photo management, supporting Live/Motion Photos, and explore map. | Steady · 52 | 1.9k | Nodejs, Docker | 6 Aug 2026 | |
| 15 | Memtly Event photo sharing platform and gallery with slideshow that allows guests to view and share memories via a QR code. | Slowing · 51 | 212 | C#, Docker | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 16 | Chevereto Ultimate image sharing software. Create your very own personal image hosting website in just minutes. | Slowing · 50 | 998 | PHP, Docker | 20 Aug 2026 | |
| 17 | Piwigo Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. | Slowing · 47 | 3.9k | PHP | 3 May 2026 | |
| 18 | Zenphoto Gallery and CMS project. | Slowing · 36 | 318 | PHP | 27 May 2025 | |
| 19 | Damselfly Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recogn | At risk · 34 | 1.8k | Docker, C# | 14 Jan 2026 | |
| 20 | HomeGallery Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery. | At risk · 34 | 1.2k | Nodejs, Docker | — | |
| 21 | Photoview Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy an | At risk · 33 | 6.5k | Go, Docker | 23 Jun 2024 | |
| 22 | Mediagoblin Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud). | Unrated | — | Python | — | |
| 23 | PhotoStructure All your family's photos and videos automatically organized into a fun and beautiful website. Runs via Docker, NodeJS, o | Unrated | — | Nodejs | — | |
| 24 | Reservo Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account upgrades, advertising spots and drag & drop upload. | Unrated | — | PHP | — | |
| 25 | Single File PHP Gallery Web gallery in one single PHP file. | Unrated | — | PHP | — |
Which one should you run?
If you want the safest bet on longevity, Ente is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 98/100. PhotoPrism is the closest runner-up (96/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.
A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.