Open-source Amazon Photos alternatives

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management server with companion mobile apps and a web interface. Your media stays on hardware you control while you still get automatic phone backup, a timeline view, albums and sharing, which is the role many people otherwise hand to Google Photos.

Search works on metadata, recognized objects, faces and CLIP-based natural language queries, and face recognition groups people into clusters. Other features include shared albums and partner sharing, a global map, memories, archive and favorites, RAW format support, LivePhoto and MotionPhoto handling, duplicate prevention, OAuth login, API keys and a user-defined storage structure. Background backup and selective album backup keep the mobile app flexible.

Immich is released under AGPL-3.0, and its documentation includes installation guides, a roadmap and a public demo. The maintainers stress following a 3-2-1 backup plan, since a self-hosted library is only as safe as the backups behind it. It suits households and small groups who want private, searchable photo storage.

PhotoPrism is a photo management application that uses machine learning to help you browse, organize and share photos and videos. It tags and classifies media automatically, so you can search and rediscover pictures without sorting them by hand. The project says it was built to run wherever you need it without compromising privacy, and its topics place it as a Google Photos alternative.

The web interface is a progressive web app that can be installed on a phone, tablet or desktop home screen and feels like a native app. It handles RAW images and many video formats, and offers search filters that can be combined across many properties. A public demo lets you try it first, with a warning not to upload private material. PhotoPrism is written in Go and uses TensorFlow for image analysis.

You can self-host PhotoPrism or use a cloud-hosted setup. Its license is listed as 'Other' on GitHub, so check the terms if you plan to redistribute it. It suits photographers and families who want a private, searchable photo library on hardware they own.

Ente is a service built on an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform that lets you keep data in the cloud without having to trust the provider. Three apps run on it: Ente Photos, an alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos; Ente Locker, for important documents and credentials; and Ente Auth, a two-factor authentication app positioned as a replacement for Authy. The monorepo contains the clients and the server.

Ente Photos includes triple data replication, face detection, semantic search, private sharing, collaborative albums, family plans, background uploads and straightforward import and export, all encrypted across platforms. Clients exist for iOS, Android, F-Droid, web, Linux, macOS and Windows, built with Flutter, Go and TypeScript. The README says the source code and cryptography have had external audits. The server can be self-hosted, and the code is under the AGPL-3.0 license.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo management service for people who want to organize a personal library on their own server. It scans pictures on the file system and adds machine-learning features such as automatic face recognition, object and scene detection and semantic image search.

It supports all kinds of photos, including raw files, as well as videos, and offers a timeline view, multiuser support, reverse geocoding and search by metadata. Albums can be generated automatically from events, for example a day spent in a particular city. The README warns that the machine-learning features use a lot of memory: it lists 4 GB of RAM as a minimum and recommends 8 GB or more.

The project is a monorepo containing a Django 5 backend, a React and Vite web client, an Expo mobile app for Android and iOS, a Docusaurus documentation site and deployment files for Docker Compose and Kubernetes. It is released under the MIT licence and runs on any Docker-compatible system, with Linux recommended.

Photoview is a photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers, made for photographers who need to navigate directories containing thousands of high-resolution images. You configure it to look for photos and videos in a folder on the file system, and it takes care of the rest.

A scanner picks up the media automatically and generates thumbnails so browsing stays fast. Once scanning finishes, the media appear on the website organized the same way they are on disk. Repository topics point to support for RAW files and EXIF metadata, and the project is distributed as a Docker image that is commonly deployed on NAS devices. The README gives migration notes about a new Docker registry and a move to PostgreSQL 18 on the master branch.

Photoview is written in Go and licensed under AGPL-3.0. It is meant to be run on your own hardware, there is a Discord server for setup and development questions, and its approach of mirroring the folder structure suits people who already keep photos neatly organized on disk.

Memories is a photo management app that runs inside Nextcloud. It sorts photos and videos on a timeline by the date taken from Exif data, and lets you jump to any point in the past instantly. It aims to be a batteries-included solution for self-hosted photo libraries.

Features include AI tagging that groups photos by people and objects using the recognize and facerecognition apps, albums that can be shared with others and with people outside your Nextcloud instance, bulk editing of dates and metadata, an archive folder, video transcoding with HLS, and a map view with reverse geocoding. It can migrate from Nextcloud Photos and Google Takeout and has been tested on instances with over a million photos.

Install it from the Nextcloud app store, follow the recommended configuration, run the occ memories:index command to build metadata indices, and select the directory containing your photos. An Android client is in early access, and automatic uploads can use the official Nextcloud mobile apps. Memories is written in PHP and licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Lynavo Drive is an open-source tool for keeping your phone's photos and videos on a computer you own instead of in a third-party cloud. A mobile app on iOS or Android syncs new media incrementally to a desktop app on macOS or Windows over the same local network, which makes it a private alternative to iCloud and Google Photos.

The repository covers the desktop and mobile application runtimes for the local-network core, with foreground sync between devices that share a LAN. Linux is supported only through local source builds and package verification. The project is written in TypeScript and published under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

The maintainers distinguish an open-source edition from an official commercial edition. The open-source repository provides source builds and unsigned verification files, while signed installers, official mobile builds, account services, remote access and billing are built and operated outside the repository and may follow different terms.

Photofield is a self-hosted photo gallery distributed as a single binary, built to display very large numbers of photos at once and to do so quickly. The project's goal is to be as fast as Google Photos on ordinary hardware while showing more pictures at the same time. It is non-invasive, meaning it can run on its own or alongside other photo gallery software without taking over your files.

The interface is seamlessly zoomable and loads progressively from low-resolution previews to full quality. Collections can be shown in different layouts. Optional features include semantic search through the photofield-ai companion, so you can search for photo contents with phrases like a beach sunset, plus alpha-stage tagging and face detection. Reverse geolocation uses an embedded local database, so no external service is needed.

Photofield is written in Go with a Vue 3 front end and is licensed under MIT. The documentation covers quick start, configuration, usage, maintenance and development setup, and a demo is available online. It is a good fit for people who keep large photo libraries on their own servers.