Open-source Mylio 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.

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.