librephotos vs Lychee

librephotos

A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend. (by LibrePhotos)

Lychee

A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos. (by electerious)

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lychee.electerious.com

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librephotos		Lychee
	Project
127	Mentions	19
6,500	Stars	6,316
1.6%	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Python	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

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librephotos

Posts with mentions or reviews of librephotos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

Google Photos alternative
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Jul 2023

I found some other Solutions: Lomorage immich PicApport LibrePhotos Lomorage does directly mention the Feature I want, immich maybe does have it too.
How do you feel about subscriptions to "selfhosted" solutions like Photoprism?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 May 2023

Sticking with LibrePhotos. Freeeeee and opens source.
.jpg files won't import
1 project | /r/librephotos | 7 May 2023

Can you please add it to the librephotos issues at github! would be much appreciated!!
[Self Hosted] F * CK Google, voici quelques alternatives auto-hébergées.
9 projects | /r/enfrancais | 5 May 2023

* ~~ Ownphoto's ~~ * librephotos > Google Photo's
Privacy Friendly Local Face Recognition?
2 projects | /r/privacy | 20 Apr 2023
Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023

FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)
https://damselfly.info
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
https://photoview.github.io/
I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
LibrePhotos Development: 2023 - January / February
1 project | /r/librephotos | 4 Mar 2023

There is now an issue for it :) https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/768
Photoprism vs immich vs nextcloud memories
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 Feb 2023

You should try Librephotos
Photo importing & organization
1 project | /r/software | 20 Feb 2023

FOSS - LibrePhotos or DigiKam.
Remove non-faces and unmatch faces.
1 project | /r/librephotos | 15 Feb 2023

You may want to open a bug report for this, so that the developers will be aware: https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues

Lychee

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lychee. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

Need advice about running a photo server for family
11 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Apr 2023
Yet another "photo gallery/management" question
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 1 Nov 2022

Hi there! Check out lychee! Its simple, supports dropbox, and is really easy to setup. If your having problems, try our product easypanel. We got a template to get it setup for you, in a matter of seconds. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or reply here.
Bilder mit Familie sicher teilen
3 projects | /r/Eltern | 3 Aug 2022
YouTube alternatives to share home videos with friends family
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jul 2022
What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
Need application to display large photo archive for public sharing
1 project | /r/AskPhotography | 10 Mar 2022

Can check out options like lychee or various alternatives.
Google photos alternative
4 projects | /r/homelab | 2 Nov 2021

PhotoPrism is a good option something you've mentioned above in your OP, along with NextCloud Photos (I've never used this). Piwigo, Lychee, and of course Synology Photos is pretty popular.
Selfhosted (docker, etc) site/blog/gallery for a painter?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 12 Oct 2021

You might be able to repurpose a photo gallery like lychee or photoprism?
Simple media server with thumbs
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 26 Sep 2021

https://lychee.electerious.com/ seems to be working well for me
Synology Photos is utter bullcrap
6 projects | /r/synology | 11 Aug 2021

Lychee

What are some alternatives?

When comparing librephotos and Lychee you can also consider the following projects:

PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

Piwigo - Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

Zenphoto - The Zenphoto open-source gallery and CMS project

immich - High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

Chevereto Free - Community/Personal Image Hosting

Photoview - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers [Moved to: https://github.com/photoview/photoview]

PiGallery 2 - A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)

Photonix - A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.