Self-Hosted Photo Libraries and Local AI Search

Organize your photo collection with self-hosted libraries and local AI search. Compare face grouping, mobile backup and sharing for your personal archive.

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Immich

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A self-hosted photo and video manager with iOS, Android and web access, automatic mobile backup and AI search, licensed under AGPL-3.0.

119.1KUpdated 2 days agoAGPL-3.0

iOS · Android · Web#Multi-user access#Semantic search

Photo organizing software combines local AI search, offline access and syncing across macOS, Windows, iOS and Android without required cloud uploads.

mylio.comAI Photo Libraries

macOS · Windows · iOS · Android#Works offline

A self-hosted photo manager with face recognition and semantic image search that supports RAW photos and videos and runs through Docker.

8.2KUpdated 1 day agoMIT

Windows · Linux · iOS · Android · Docker · Web#Multi-user access#ONNX#Semantic search

A self-hosted photo gallery organizes existing folders into albums, supports RAW images and face recognition, and keeps media on your server.

6.6KUpdated 1 week agoAGPL-3.0

Linux · Docker · Web#Multi-user access

A self-hosted photo manager that finds images by faces, objects, color and location, with browser access and image analysis on your server.

2KUpdated 2 weeks agoAGPL-3.0

iOS · Android · Docker · Web#Multi-user access#Role-based access

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digiKam

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An open-source photo manager and editor with AI tagging, face recognition and support for collections on local drives or network storage.

digikam.orgAI Photo Libraries

macOS · Windows · Linux#Batch processing

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PhotoPrism

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A self-hosted AI photo organizer recognizes faces, labels images and searches personal media through a browser, with Docker support on Mac, Linux and Windows.

40.4KUpdated 2 days ago

macOS · Windows · Linux · Docker · Web

Local AI image manager that searches, tags and scores photos, with desktop and self-hosted options and two-way ComfyUI integration.

99Updated 3 days agoGPL-3.0

macOS · Windows · Linux · Docker · Web#Batch processing#Hugging Face integration#ONNX

A self-hosted photo server with local AI tagging, metadata search and a browser gallery that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS or Docker.

picapport.deAI Photo Libraries

macOS · Windows · Linux · Docker · Web#Batch processing#Multi-user access#Role-based access

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Ente Photos

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A self-hostable photo backup app with end-to-end encryption, on-device face detection and natural-language search, open source under AGPL-3.0.

30.1KUpdated 1 day agoAGPL-3.0

macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · Android · Web#Multi-user access#Role-based access#Semantic search

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Choose a home for your photo library

A self-hosted photo library runs on your own computer, NAS or server. Some apps import files into their storage, while others browse an existing folder structure. Compare that behavior alongside mobile uploads, sharing, face grouping and search before committing a large archive.

Initial scanning and face analysis can be more demanding than everyday browsing. Check which AI components run locally and how remote phone access works. A photo library is also different from a complete backup plan: preserve your original files and the app's database, and test how you would restore them.