Self-Hosted Photo Libraries and Local AI Search

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.

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.

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery for photographers and households who keep their pictures on a personal server or NAS. It turns existing folders into browser-based albums and automatically scans for added photos and videos. Your folder structure determines how the library appears, so you can keep organizing files through Samba, FTP or Nextcloud. Your media stays on your server.

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.

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.