Immich Kiosk vs Lychee

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 Kiosk and Lychee are closely matched on maintenance health (78 vs 82). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Immich KioskLychee
Health score 78/100 82/100
Commits (11 mo) 993 682
Commits (last 3 mo) 246 243
Stars 1.7k 4.3k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 25 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Docker, Go PHP, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Immich Kiosk

Lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source.

78/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 32/40
Releases 25/25
Community 9/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 79% of tracked projects; popularity more than 45%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 46 commits 2025-11: 121 commits 2025-12: 108 commits 2026-01: 82 commits 2026-02: 141 commits 2026-03: 70 commits 2026-04: 90 commits 2026-05: 89 commits 2026-06: 136 commits 2026-07: 70 commits 2026-08: 40 commits

Lychee

Grid and album based photo-management-system.

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 29/40
Releases 25/25
Community 13/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 72% of tracked projects; popularity more than 64%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 38 commits 2025-11: 40 commits 2025-12: 45 commits 2026-01: 108 commits 2026-02: 46 commits 2026-03: 73 commits 2026-04: 50 commits 2026-05: 39 commits 2026-06: 73 commits 2026-07: 78 commits 2026-08: 92 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.