Photoview
Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers [Moved to: https://github.com/photoview/photoview] (by viktorstrate)
immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. (by immich-app)
| Photoview | immich | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 363 | |
| 385 | 102,612 | |
| - | 3.2% | |
| 9.1 | 10.0 | |
| over 5 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Photoview
Posts with mentions or reviews of Photoview.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-12.
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I am working on an Open Source google photos alternative
Photoview - 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. (Demo)
immich
Posts with mentions or reviews of immich.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-10.
- Leave Me Behind
- Local AI needs to be the norm
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How to Update Immich in Docker: Step-by-Step Guide (2026)
curl -o docker-compose.yml.new https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml diff docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml.new The Full Update in 4 Commands cd /path/to/immich/ docker compose pull docker compose up -d docker image prune -f 💡 Tip: Subscribe to Immich GitHub releases to get notified of new versions. Always read the release notes before major version updates — they sometimes include important migration steps.
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Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
Regarding your request for 1, have you looked into Immich [1]? If that's too much, I may recommend bewCloud [2] (I've created it almost 3 years ago, still going well), though it's really just serving the files, so search would have to match the file name.
[1]: https://immich.app
[2]: https://bewcloud.com
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How I Digitized Years of Home Videos and Photos with Immich
The answer for the primary library turned out to be Immich, a self-hosted Google Photos alternative, running on a Synology NAS. I chose a two-bay Synology with 6TB of usable storage (two drives configured as a mirror, so a single drive failure doesn't cost me anything) and bumped the RAM to 16GB, which left plenty of headroom for Immich's machine-learning and thumbnail-generation workloads.
- 25 Trending Self-Hosted Projects on GitHub
- r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming
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Immich on Android/Termux without Docker, root, or glibc (aarch64 port)
A few weeks ago I set myself a challenge: run Immich — a full self-hosted photo management platform — natively on my Android phone, without Docker, without root, and without any cloud dependency.
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The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat
https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
> There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.
> https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/10690
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Photo Management
Immich is the best self-hosted photo management app for most people. It is the closest thing to a self-hosted Google Photos that exists. Native iOS and Android apps with automatic background upload, CLIP-based smart search (search "dog on beach" and it works), facial recognition with person grouping, a map view, shared albums, partner sharing, and a fast, polished web UI. With 90,000+ GitHub stars, it is one of the most popular self-hosted projects on the internet.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Photoview and immich you can also consider the following projects:
PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
PiGallery 2 - A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service.
ente - 💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.