Self-Hosted AI for Photos, Cameras, Smart Home

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video manager for people who want to keep their collection on their own server. Its mobile apps and web interface provide access to the same library.

HomeGallery is a self-hosted photo and video gallery for people browsing a personal media archive without reorganizing their files. It's designed for a single user with some technical knowledge. By default, AI discovery sends preview images to a public analysis API; you can host that API locally instead.

Excire Search is a Lightroom Classic plugin for photographers who need to find material in large catalogs and choose between similar shots. Its AI analyzes photos and video clips locally without transferring them to a cloud service.

Mylio Photos organizes photos, videos and documents scattered across devices and drives into one library. It's for personal collections, family archives and business media libraries whose owners want to choose where their files live.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo manager for people who want to organize and search a photo library on their own server. It scans photos already on your file system and uses AI to help find images without manually tagging each one.

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate is a paid Windows desktop photo editor for photographers who want to manage large collections and edit their photos in one application. It combines non-destructive RAW adjustments with layered editing and AI tools for finding related images, retouching portraits and generating content. It works directly with existing photo folders, without requiring a collection import.

OpenVoiceOS is a voice assistant platform for people building smart speakers or adding voice control to their own devices. Its core is a fork of MycroftAI/mycroft-core, and most classic Mycroft skills remain compatible.

Tonfotos organizes family photos and videos for people whose collections span a computer, external drives and a NAS. It helps you find pictures of relatives and keep family history alongside the archive.

LLMII labels image collections with AI-generated captions and keywords for people who want searchable photos without uploading them to a cloud service. It processes folders on your computer and saves descriptions that other photo tools can read.

py-xiaozhi is a Python AI voice client for people who want to try Xiaozhi conversations on a computer or build voice interaction into hardware projects. It builds on the xiaozhi-esp32 project and lets you use a desktop microphone and speakers without dedicated Xiaozhi hardware.

LLM Vision is a Home Assistant integration for people who want camera footage to inform smart home alerts and automations. It uses multimodal models to describe what cameras capture and extract data from images.

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery for photographers and families with media on a personal server or NAS. It lets you browse that collection in a web browser while keeping your existing folder organization.

AI File Sorter helps people clear crowded Downloads folders, photo collections and stored archives. It proposes folders and filenames for you to review before it moves or renames files.

Photonix is a self-hosted photo manager for photographers who want to find images across a large collection without relying on folder names. It combines camera metadata, your own tags and automatic image analysis to make photos searchable.

Nextcloud Recognize is an AI media tagging app for people organizing photo, video and music collections on a self-hosted Nextcloud server. It processes images on that server and doesn't send sensitive data to cloud recognition services.

MirrorMate puts a voice assistant in a physical mirror for people who want to ask questions, check daily information or chat without reaching for a phone. It remembers details from conversations to personalize later responses.

Lap is a desktop photo manager for family albums, photographers, and large personal libraries. It works with photos in your existing folders and uses local AI to help you find images without uploading them to a cloud photo service.

EverShelf helps households keep track of food and choose meals that use what's already in the kitchen. It covers the pantry, fridge and freezer, with optional AI assistance.

DeepFace is a Python library for developers adding face recognition and facial analysis to applications. It brings several recognition models behind a shared interface and handles the image preparation needed to compare faces.

JoyCaption generates image descriptions for people preparing datasets to train or fine-tune diffusion models. It can caption images on your own GPU, reducing the work of writing training descriptions by hand.

Facet combines photo culling with a self-hosted gallery for photographers choosing keepers from a shoot or organizing a personal library. Its AI analysis runs on your own machine without cloud services, accounts or API keys.

digiKam is a free, open-source photo manager and image editor for photographers managing large collections of photos and videos. It combines library organization with editing and tools for finding images by their content or metadata.

Blue Iris is paid video security software for people managing cameras at home or on business premises. It runs on a Windows PC and combines recording, built-in AI services and remote viewing.

Pictaria Server helps Immich users explore their photo library, choose photos to keep and organize albums through a browser dashboard on their own hardware.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists and researchers who want to create and edit AI images and videos on their own hardware. It supports Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models.

TagGUI is a desktop app for creators preparing image datasets for generative AI models. It brings automatic captioning and manual tag editing into one workspace so you can review and correct generated descriptions.

Home Assistant Assist lets you control your smart home through natural language. It's built into Home Assistant and can process voice entirely on your own hardware, keeping those voice commands local.

ZoneMinder is a self-hosted CCTV system for people who want to manage security cameras on their own Linux machine. It handles camera video capture, analysis, recording and monitoring.

Scrypted connects home cameras to smart home apps and displays with low latency video streams. It's for people who want to use their cameras across different home systems or add recording through its NVR plugin.

Wyoming Faster Whisper converts speech to text on your own hardware for Home Assistant and other Wyoming-compatible clients. It's for home voice systems that need local transcription and better recognition of household names.

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted photo and video organizer for people who want to browse, search and share a personal media collection on their own hardware or server.

Viseron is a self-hosted network video recorder for people monitoring a home, office or other property. It combines camera recording with AI analysis that runs on your own hardware.

rclip searches folders by what their images contain, without requiring tags or a separate photo library. It's for people who keep image collections on their own computers or servers and want to search them from a terminal.

PixlStash is an image manager for photographers culling shoots, creators reviewing AI images and people preparing datasets. It helps you find relevant pictures and review which ones to keep in large collections.