AI Photo Search and Auto-Tagging Tools

Ente Photos is a Google Photos alternative for people who want encrypted photo backups and AI search without giving a storage provider access to their library. You can use its hosted service or self-host the server. Face detection, grouping and natural-language search run on your device; the hosted service stores your encrypted backups.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists, researchers and people who want to generate and edit images or videos on their own hardware. It builds on Automatic1111 WebUI's original codebase and supports Stable Diffusion alongside other diffusion models. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video library for people who want their pictures on their own server. Its mobile apps for iOS and Android back up photos and videos, while the web interface gives each user a place to browse and manage their collection. The project is open source under the GNU AGPL v3 license.

PicApport is a self-hosted photo server for families and businesses that want a searchable media archive on their own hardware. Its AI tagging add-on recognizes image content without sending photos to a cloud service and saves the resulting tags in image metadata. The server runs on Windows, Linux or macOS, with a Docker image available, and you access the gallery through a browser.

digiKam is a local photo manager and image editor for photographers who need to organize large collections of photos, RAW files and videos. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS and is open-source software under GPL-2.0. Its archived GitHub mirror points contributors to the maintained KDE repository.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo manager for people who want to organize a photo library on their own server, with AI tools for finding images and grouping faces. It scans files already on your storage and supports RAW photos as well as videos. The project is open source under the MIT license.

JoyCaption is an open-weight image captioning model for people preparing datasets to train or fine-tune diffusion models. It runs on your own GPU and covers both SFW and NSFW images, including photography, anime, digital art and furry artwork. Automated captions reduce the need to write descriptions by hand or find images that already have usable text.

Nextcloud Recognize automatically categorizes media on your self-hosted Nextcloud server. It's for people who want to organize photo, video and music collections without sending sensitive data to a cloud recognition service. Image processing runs on your Nextcloud machine.

Meme Search is a free, self-hosted web app for people who want to find memes in their own collection by image content or text. It runs locally through Docker and uses AI descriptions to make images searchable, even when their filenames aren't useful. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license.

TagGUI is a desktop app for people preparing image datasets for generative AI training. It combines local AI captioning with manual tag editing, so you can generate descriptions and correct them in the same workspace. It's open source under GPL-3.0 and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, though macOS doesn't have a packaged release.

HomeGallery is a self-hosted web gallery for people who want to browse their personal photos and videos while keeping their existing files and folders. It brings multiple media directories into one gallery, with a mobile-friendly browser interface and PWA support. It's open source under MIT.

rclip searches image folders by their visual content, so you can find photos without adding tags or importing them into a photo library. It's a local AI tool for people who keep image collections on their own computers or servers and prefer working in the terminal. It runs on Linux, Windows and Apple Silicon macOS, and it's open source under the MIT license.

DeepFace is a Python library for developers building face recognition into their own applications. It runs locally or as a self-hosted API, including through Docker. A separate managed API at deepface.dev handles processing on hosted infrastructure. The library is open source under the MIT license.

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted photo and video library for people who want to organize personal media on their own hardware or server. Its AI recognizes faces and labels pictures by content and location, so finding a photo doesn't depend entirely on folders or tags you've added yourself. You browse and share the library through a web app.

PixlStash is an open-source image manager for photographers, AI creators and people curating image datasets. It combines library search with tools for reviewing tags, ranking images and sending selected work through ComfyUI. You can use a desktop app or a self-hosted server with a browser interface.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for notes, documents, photos, bookmarks and tasks. You can ask questions about saved material, inspect the sources behind an answer and ask the assistant to create notes or update tasks. Scheduled automations handle recurring requests such as a weekly task summary.