PicApport

PicApport is a self-hosted photo server for families and businesses that want to organize and search a shared media archive on their own hardware. Its browser gallery handles photos, videos and PDFs, with plugins for camera RAW files and other formats.

• Automatic tagging: The AI tagging add-on recognizes photo content without sending images to a cloud service and writes tags into photo metadata; location tagging uses GPS coordinates and OpenStreetMap to add place names and points of interest.
• Search and maps: Find images by tags, ratings, dates or camera details, save searches as dynamic collections, and select photos from an area on the map.
• Metadata editing: Update titles, descriptions, keywords, people and GPS coordinates across multiple photos, while each user can keep private tags.
• Access and sharing: Assign roles to control which content and editing functions users can access, and share photo selections through links with optional expiration dates.
• Mobile transfers: The PicApport PhotoSync apps for Android and iOS send photos directly to your server, with optional automatic transfers and event-based titles and tags.

The server runs on Windows, Linux or macOS, and a Docker image is available. It's free for private users. Photos can stay on your own server; sharing links outside your network requires an internet-accessible server. Collections saved in a browser remain viewable without a server connection. WebDAV and a web API let other clients and custom applications access photos and metadata.