Immich vs PhotoPrism

Both are self-hosted photo galleries projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Immich and PhotoPrism are closely matched on maintenance health (94 vs 96). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
ImmichPhotoPrism
Health score 94/100 96/100
Commits (11 mo) 2654 2496
Commits (last 3 mo) 784 937
Stars 115k 40k
Latest release 15 Sept 2026 19 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Go, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

Immich

Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 93% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 260 commits 2025-11: 205 commits 2025-12: 131 commits 2026-01: 265 commits 2026-02: 300 commits 2026-03: 258 commits 2026-04: 236 commits 2026-05: 215 commits 2026-06: 270 commits 2026-07: 262 commits 2026-08: 252 commits

PhotoPrism

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.

96/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 419 commits 2025-11: 297 commits 2025-12: 45 commits 2026-01: 32 commits 2026-02: 150 commits 2026-03: 110 commits 2026-04: 103 commits 2026-05: 403 commits 2026-06: 287 commits 2026-07: 213 commits 2026-08: 437 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted photo galleries.