Piwigo | Lychee | PhotoPrism | librephotos | ... : your final evaluations, experiences and choices (while looking for google photo replacement)

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  • 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.

  • Hi u/Gaming4LifeDE. It's an interesting idea and I've not thought much about it to be honest. My concern is that it needs to be really clear what happens if you delete a photo (where you are deleting it from). Could be a neat so I've added the request as a ticket here: https://github.com/photonixapp/photonix/issues/271 . Thanks.

  • PiGallery 2

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

  • Personally I am using PiGallery 2 https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/ because I wish something really simple. I like it a lot.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Lychee

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

  • https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee: it has a proprietary file system organization... no app (have not understood if there a "general porpose" app to access to this server)

  • librephotos

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

  • https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos : seems very young and required powerful hardware (dont remember where I read it) ... no app (have not understood if there a "general porpose" app to access to this server)

  • PhotoPrism

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

  • https://photoprism.app/features have to test, have not understood if it has some sort of app

  • Nextcloud

    ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

  • https://nextcloud.com/: it has its own file organization, unless you would the "external folders" approach (seems strange to me to not use native data organization, seems to have it just as a passthrough). On my system, v20 (v21 promise to be faster) docker version reached via native app is not so performing

  • self-hosted-cookbook

    A cookbook, for docker-compose based recipes, for self-hosted applications and services.

  • After testing a lot of them I ended up with pigallery2. This works best for me.

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