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PhotoPrism Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to PhotoPrism
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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Nginx Proxy Manager
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
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filemanager
Discontinued File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview and edit your files.
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Damselfly
Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection.
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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!
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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.
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PiGallery 2
A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
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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)
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self-hosted-docker-setups
A collection of my docker-compose files used to setup self-hosted services on Raspberry Pi 4 running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better PhotoPrism alternative or higher similarity.
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Photo Management
PhotoPrism is the most mature AI-powered photo management app in the self-hosted space. It indexes your existing library and applies TensorFlow-based classification, facial recognition, location mapping, and color analysis. Excellent RAW file support (including DNG, CR2, ARW), live photo playback, panorama viewing, and automatic album creation by subject, location, and date.
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
I use Nextcloud for files/contacts/calendar/etc. as well, but for photos I use PhotopPrism [1].
The reason is simple: photos require much more processing and focus on performance. In addition, photos take up much more space, so while my Nextcloud instance runs on an SSD, the photos reside on an HDD, mostly in sleep mode.
[1] https://www.photoprism.app
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Self-hosting my photos with Immich
This was why I was driven to use Photoprism. I use syncthing-fork to upload from phones, and a custom made thing to copy them to folders (this also works with Cameras that aren't phones).
https://www.photoprism.app/
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Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative
You might check out https://www.photoprism.app/
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Show HN: Memories, FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
I have been using https://www.photoprism.app for a couple of years, and it works better than expected, with the latest updates it's actually quite fast and the face tagging works reasonably well.
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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
For self-hosting, there's Photoprism[1] as well.
Ente's strength lies in end-to-end encryption[2] and its cloud[3] offering so you don't have to worry about reliability.
So if self-hosting is what you're after, Immich, Photoprism and Damselfly (TIL!) are perhaps better designed to serve your needs.
[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
[2]: https://ente.io/architecture
[3]: https://ente.io/reliability
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Switching to Android Was Easy
For quite a while I'm also in search for a solution which allows me to share galleries with my family, without having to ask them to jump through hoops in order to access them.
After some searching I'm now testing photoprism [1] which is a fantastic application, especially for self-hosting of photos. There's no mobile app for it (yet) and user-management is just starting to get implemented, but it shows alot of promise. Unfortunately not yet enough for putting it on the tablet of my granny but one can hope (and donate!)
Either way, I'm afraid that building a good mobile gallery app is an equally large task, after all the best solution would be to replace the users' native gallery-app with an equivalent that also supports custom Online-Galleries...
[1]: https://www.photoprism.app/
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I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years (Mat Ryer, 2024)
out of curiosity, why no sort-of-established pkg and internal dirs? What do you think of https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism structure?
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Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale
Thank you!
Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.
TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!
Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.
[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
[2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
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Google Photos alternative with OCR
Ive seen github issues like this one https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/907 in which it is implied that this is very very difficult.
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photoprism/photoprism is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
PhotoPrism is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of PhotoPrism is Go.
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