Monbooru is a private, tag-based gallery for your own image, video, and manga collection, searchable the way booru sites are, but hosted entirely on your server. Drop files into watched folders and they appear within seconds, with browser uploads, SHA-256 deduplication, and an inbox where new arrivals wait until you have reviewed and tagged them. Local auto-tagging runs ONNX models such as WD14, JoyTag, Camie, and PixAI on CPU or GPU, so a collection gets searchable labels without sending a single image to a cloud service. Tag management covers merges, aliases, implications, and custom categories, while rating tags with an SFW ceiling keep sensitive material hidden until you choose otherwise. Search combines wildcards, OR terms, and exclusions with filters for folder, date, size, dimensions, and AI generation settings, and saved searches keep favorite queries one click away. Batch actions retag, move, delete, or auto-tag whole selections at once, and the built-in manga reader opens CBZ and ZIP archives as single items. Image pages record sources, artist commentary, and your own notes, and near-duplicate detection lines up lookalikes side by side for cleanup. Multiple galleries can live in one instance, each with its own folders and database, and an optional password plus scoped REST API tokens control who and what can connect. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

PiGallery2 turns any mounted folder of images and home videos into a high-speed web gallery without modifying your raw files or forcing migration into a database silo. The server scans directories in read-only mode, keeping folder structures intact while generating responsive previews with hardware-accelerated Sharp processing. Users can inspect detailed camera EXIF metadata, toggle custom full-screen lightboxes with swipe gesture navigation, and stream high-definition MP4 or WebM video clips. Embedded GPS coordinates automatically pin photos onto interactive OpenStreetMap or Mapbox views, allowing travel albums to display alongside synchronized GPX track routes. Powerful boolean search expressions filter across dates, keywords, camera models, and Adobe XMP face regions without requiring expensive background machine learning models. Built-in link sharing creates password-protected access links with custom expiration dates for friends and family. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

HomeGallery turns the photo and video folders on your server into a mobile-friendly web gallery. Your files and folder structure stay exactly as they are. Point it at camera files, phone files, or offline drives, and previews and metadata are extracted once. Scroll one endless stream, newest first. Open any image for its file name, dimensions, capture date, source paths, camera settings, street address, tags, and detected objects. Swipe between photos, then pinch or double-tap to zoom. The Map view clusters photos by place, with counts. The plant button lists similar images, so one sunset finds every other sunset. Face search finds the same person in other photos. A search box accepts expressions like tags in (vacation, family), type:video year in [2015:2020] order by duration, or not exists(geo). In Edit mode, select many photos at once and type comma-separated tags; a minus prefix removes one. Videos are transcoded for playback. Renamed or moved files keep their previews. An archive disk can stay unplugged once indexing is done. Optional logins limit each user to a query filter. Install it as a PWA for a lightweight mobile app. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Instead of paging through albums, Photofield lays a whole photo library out on one zoomable canvas, where thousands of thumbnails sharpen into full-resolution pictures as you zoom. Collections come straight from directories named in a configuration file. One setting turns every subfolder into its own collection. Pick a layout per collection: album grouped by date, timeline with month markers, wall, map, highlights with dates and place names, or flex. Sort oldest first, newest first, or shuffled hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Tiles load progressively, and an info drawer shows the date, file name, and dimensions. A right-click menu opens or copies an image, copies its link, or finds similar images. Originals are never modified, so a read-only mount is safe. Indexing runs at up to 10,000 files per second on a fast SSD with a warm cache. JPEG, PNG, AVIF, HEIC, DNG, GIF, MP4, and MOV files are recognized. Place names resolve from an embedded database, with no external lookups. The optional photofield-ai companion adds search by words like beach sunset or cat eyes, plus a Faces layout of detected faces. Alpha tagging lets you label photos. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Damselfly puts a searchable brain over a folder-based photo archive, so a library of hundreds of thousands of images stays browsable from any browser. Point it at your existing folders and it indexes everything in the background, generating thumbnails and reading IPTC keywords, EXIF camera data, and file names into one catalogue. Search returns results in under a second even across 500,000 photographs, and advanced filters narrow by date range, camera or lens model, file size, orientation, detected objects, or recognized faces. Face detection and recognition run locally and offline, so you tag a person once and Damselfly finds them in other shots without sending family photos to a cloud service. Keyword tagging writes metadata with ExifTool without re-encoding JPEGs, keeping originals byte-identical while tags travel with the files into DigiKam, Photoshop, or other tools. The Picasa-style basket collects picks from search results for download, watermarked export for social media or email, or upload to WordPress, and baskets can be personal or shared between users. Photos with location metadata appear on a map, visually similar images can be found from a single example, and untagged shots can be listed so nothing stays unlabelled. Accounts with role-based permissions let everyone browse while only editors tag or reorganize, and an optional desktop client syncs basket selections to a laptop for editing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

With over 8,000 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2020, LibrePhotos delivers the core intelligence of Google Photos — face recognition, object detection, semantic search, and automatic album generation — entirely on your own hardware without sending a single photo to a third-party server. The Django 5 backend processes uploaded media through a machine learning pipeline that runs face detection via the face_recognition library, clusters identified faces using scikit-learn and HDBSCAN, generates image captions through BLIP and Moondream 2, and classifies scenes using Places365 or Google's SigLIP 2 vision-language model with zero-shot classification against 900+ real-world tags. Semantic search lets you find photos by natural language queries like "sunset at the beach" without manual tagging, while metadata search filters by person, camera, lens, file type, and filesystem path. The React 18 frontend built with Vite presents a timeline view, fullscreen lightbox with slideshow mode, photo detail sidebar showing location and people, and a folder navigation view with breadcrumb paths. RAW files from any camera are converted via ImageMagick, videos processed through FFmpeg, and Live Photos paired with their RAW+JPEG counterparts as unified entries. Public album sharing via link provides fine-grained privacy controls, and duplicate detection uses perceptual hashing to identify near-identical images. Deployment runs as a single unified Docker container or via Docker Compose with Kubernetes manifests also available. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Urocissa is a self-hosted photo and video gallery engineered to browse, search, and filter a million-image library in under a second on modest hardware. Its photo stream scrolls endlessly without pagination or lazy loading, flying past the browser DOM height limit that breaks other galleries long before a million items. Search understands boolean operators, so a query mixing and, or, and not narrows a lifetime of photos in milliseconds, and select-all is equally instant across the whole collection. Point it at folders and it watches them for new arrivals, importing photos and videos automatically while duplicate detection keeps redundant copies out. EXIF data is extracted for every image, and your own tags layer manual organization on top, with timeline navigation and rotation built in. Albums share collections with family or clients, a read-only mode publishes a public gallery safely, and videos play inline without leaving the page. The index that makes this fast lives in memory at roughly half a gigabyte per million photos, and the whole application ships as a binary of about 25 megabytes, optionally protected by a password. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 3,800 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2002 spanning 24 years of active maintenance through version 16.4.0 released in May 2026, Piwigo has proven itself as one of the most battle-tested self-hosted photo gallery platforms available, trusted by professional photographers managing 150,000+ high-resolution images alongside small teams sharing event photos. The PHP backend with MySQL or MariaDB storage serves a responsive web interface that organizes photos into hierarchical albums with nested sub-albums, tag-based categorization, and smart albums generated dynamically from search criteria. Batch management tools handle bulk uploads, metadata editing, tag assignment, and album moves across thousands of images simultaneously. User permission controls define access at the album level with configurable public, private, and group-restricted visibility, while guest access allows public galleries without authentication. Image processing via ImageMagick or PHP GD generates multiple thumbnail sizes, watermarks, and responsive derivatives automatically. The plugin ecosystem with over 200 community-built extensions adds functionality from EXIF metadata display and GPS mapping to social sharing, download controls, and Lightroom synchronization for desktop workflow integration. The REST Web API with personal API key authentication enables programmatic album creation, photo uploads, and metadata queries from external applications. Mobile apps for iOS and Android provide on-the-go upload and browsing capability. Docker deployment via the official container or traditional LAMP installation on any hosting provider. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Afilmory turns a storage bucket full of originals into a polished photography portfolio, complete with EXIF panels, a GPS map, and a GPU-accelerated viewer that makes full-resolution images feel instant. Point the builder at Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, a GitHub repository, an Eagle library, or a plain local folder, and it syncs your photos, converts HEIC and TIFF files for the web, generates multi-size thumbnails with ThumbHash placeholders, and extracts complete metadata into a manifest the gallery reads at runtime. Visitors browse a responsive masonry grid that loads progressively, open any shot in a WebGPU viewer (WebGL fallback included) with smooth zoom and pan, and inspect camera body, lens, focal length, aperture, ISO, and GPS coordinates for every frame. Geotagged work appears on an interactive MapLibre map, iPhone Live Photos play back as motion, HDR gain-map images render properly on HDR displays, and Fujifilm shooters get their film simulation recipes displayed alongside the shot. Photographers can organize by the folders they already keep, since directory structure becomes tags automatically, and backend-powered galleries add visitor comments and reactions. Deploy it as a static site on any CDN or as a server-rendered Node.js application with per-photo Open Graph previews for sharing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Turn any server into a high-speed media vault and file-sharing hub with Chibisafe, a self-hosted upload platform built for chunked large-file transfers, organized albums, and instant desktop screenshot workflows. Users drag and drop photos, videos, archives, or documents into the browser uploader, where multi-gigabyte files are automatically split into chunks to prevent network drops from ruining an active transfer. Uploaded media renders inside a responsive masonry or list gallery with in-browser video and audio previews, custom file tags, search filtering, and one-click shareable links. Organizers group related uploads into folders and public albums, mark sensitive collections with content warnings before loading, and publish syntax-highlighted text snippets or code gists alongside shortened URLs. Desktop and mobile power users connect ShareX, iOS Shortcuts, macOS quick actions, fswatch folder monitors, or the companion browser extension using personal API keys that route captures straight into designated albums. Instance administrators toggle between public, open-registration, and invite-only modes, enforce per-user storage quotas, offload storage to AWS S3, Backblaze B2, MinIO, or Wasabi via signed URLs, and customize rate limits or allowed extensions directly from the web settings panel. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 110,000 GitHub stars and one of the fastest-growing open-source communities in the self-hosted space, Immich delivers a Google Photos-grade experience entirely on your own hardware. The platform handles automatic background backup from Android and iOS devices, deduplication, and support for RAW formats, LivePhotos, and MotionPhotos. Its machine learning pipeline runs facial recognition and clustering locally on your server, enabling you to group photos by person without sending a single image to the cloud. CLIP-based semantic search lets you find images by describing their content in natural language, while metadata-driven search covers EXIF data, dates, and locations. The web interface built with SvelteKit provides a responsive timeline view, albums, shared albums with configurable permissions, public sharing links with optional passwords and expiry dates, partner sharing for family libraries, and a global map plotting photos by GPS coordinates. Administrative features include multi-user support with per-user storage quotas, OAuth integration, API key management, and a user-defined storage structure for organizing files on disk. The architecture uses PostgreSQL for metadata, Redis with BullMQ for background job queues handling thumbnail generation, video transcoding, and smart search indexing, and exposes over 400 REST API endpoints documented via OpenAPI with auto-generated SDKs for web, mobile, and CLI clients. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.