Self-Hosted Photo Backup and Galleries
Cloud photo services charge by storage and hold your family's photos on someone else's servers. Self-hosted photo apps back up your phone automatically, organise pictures by timeline, place and face, and keep everything on your own disks or NAS.
How to choose
- Check for iOS and Android apps with background auto-backup — that is what makes a real cloud-photo replacement
- Find out whether face recognition and smart search run locally, and what CPU or GPU they need
- Look for multi-user support and shared albums so each family member can back up and share
Recommended software
29 in total, ranked by community recommendations, ratings and likes
An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos).
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.
Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos).
Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.
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.
FerrumPix is a desktop photo management and editing application for Linux, Windows and macOS.
A 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.
Self-hosted personal gallery application with online photo management and albums, supporting Live/Motion Photos, EXIF parsing, geolocation recognition, and an explore map.
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
A simple, lightweight and fast media server with decent mobile support.
Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account upgrades, advertising spots and drag & drop upload.
A smart imaging service and enables on-demand cropping, resizing, applying filters and optimizing images.
Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.
Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc).
A directory-first photo gallery website, with a rich UI, optimised for running on low resource servers.
Other use cases
- Self-Hosted Media Servers
- Open-Source Note-Taking Apps
- Self-Hosted Password Managers
- Self-Hosted Cloud Storage and File Sync
- Open-Source Project Management and Kanban Boards
- Self-Hosted Wikis and Knowledge Bases
- Self-Hosted Web and Product Analytics
- Self-Hosted CMS and Blogging Platforms
- Self-Hosted RSS Readers
- Self-Hosted Bookmark Managers and Read-It-Later
- Self-Hosted Start Pages and Homelab Dashboards
- Self-Hosted Recipe Managers and Meal Planners
- Open-Source E-commerce Platforms
- Self-Hosted Pastebins and Secret Sharing