Publish high-resolution photography without social media compression using ChronoFrame, a self-hosted portfolio and gallery platform built around EXIF camera telemetry, live motion media, and interactive map exploration. Drop JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, or HEIC images alongside paired MOV clips into the browser uploader, and the background task queue automatically extracts camera bodies, lenses, focal lengths, shutter speeds, and RGB histograms while pairing Apple Live Photos and Motion Photos for hover playback. Visitors browse your work through a responsive masonry grid with instant ThumbHash placeholders, inspect fine details inside a hardware-accelerated WebGL tiled viewer, or explore shooting locations on an interactive MapLibre or Mapbox globe powered by reverse geocoding. Curators can group shots into reordered albums, protect private collections with passwords, edit ratings and metadata in bulk, and generate custom share preview cards. Storage scales across local disks, S3-compatible buckets, and OpenList backends with configurable CDN delivery. 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.

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.

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.

With nearly 7,000 GitHub stars and instances spanning hundreds of federated servers, Pixelfed has become the leading open-source alternative to Instagram — delivering ad-free, algorithm-free photo sharing across the Fediverse. Built on Laravel with a Vue.js frontend, Pixelfed provides a polished, mobile-responsive interface where users upload photos and videos, apply built-in filters, create multi-image posts with alt text, share ephemeral stories, organize content into curated collections, and exchange direct messages — all without tracking, algorithmic manipulation, or targeted advertising. Federation through the ActivityPub protocol means Mastodon, Pleroma, and other Fediverse users can follow Pixelfed accounts, view photo posts in their timelines, and interact through likes, boosts, and replies, while Pixelfed users can discover content through both local and federated timelines. Instance administrators control registration policies, content moderation rules, federation blocklists and allowlists, storage backends including local or S3-compatible options, and server-wide settings. The Mastodon-compatible API enables third-party mobile app support alongside the built-in Progressive Web App experience. Advanced features include blurhash image placeholders for smooth loading, federated groups for community building through FEP-400e and FEP-1b12 extensions, HTTP Signatures with Authorized Fetch for secure federation, and comprehensive data export for full portability. Deployment requires PHP 8.1+, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis, and a reverse proxy, with Docker Compose configurations available for streamlined setup. 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.

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.

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.

The moment after ShadowPlay saves a great clip is what Fireshare was built for: your friends see it now, not after a YouTube upload, processing queue, and platform terms review. Drop videos into a watched folder and this Flask/React application generates a unique shareable URL for each one, complete with Open Graph metadata - so pasting the link into Discord, Twitter, or Slack produces a proper embed with title, description, and video thumbnail instead of a raw URL. Viewers need no account and no app. Visibility is per-file: public (browseable on your feed), private (unlisted, reachable only by direct link), or password protected. For game clips specifically, Fireshare organizes automatically - clips sort by game with cover art pulled from SteamGridDB, no manual tagging - while tags and full-library search cover everything else. Optional transcoding (CPU or GPU) creates lower-quality renditions so viewers on weak connections get automatic quality adaptation, and video cropping trims clips in place. The extras round out a genuinely finished tool: view counters, timestamped share links, a shuffle button, restrictable uploads, Discord notifications for new videos, an RSS feed of the public feed, mobile support, and LDAP for multi-user setups. No storage limits, no watermarks, no platform deciding what stays up. GPL-licensed.

From the German "zusammen," together: Zusam is a private social space for a group of friends - a self-hosted alternative to the family WhatsApp group or the friends Facebook group, with no ads, algorithms, or data harvesting in between. The AGPLv3 project is deliberately modest in scope and stack: a Symfony PHP backend exposing a REST API over SQLite, with a lightweight Preact single-page frontend, designed for a low server footprint that runs comfortably on small hardware. Groups post messages into shared feeds that handle real life well: video and image uploads (with FFmpeg processing), photo albums for trips and events, and rich link previews with inline embeds for YouTube, Vimeo, Imgur, SoundCloud, Twitch, and Bandcamp - so sharing a song or a clip looks the way it should. When something needs to leave the circle, public link generation exposes a single message to non-members without opening the group. The interface is fully responsive and mobile-friendly, targeting Firefox ESR and recent Chrome. It is the small-web answer to a real question: where does a group chat's shared history live when you want it owned by the group instead of a platform?

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.

ProjectSend gives every client a private, signed-in page on your own server where only the files you assigned to them appear, so contracts, photo shoots, and quarterly reports skip the third-party file-sharing service. You upload once, then share a file or a whole folder with one client, a group, or anyone holding a public link, with an optional expiry date or download limit. Clients search, preview, and download files one by one or as a zip, whole folders included, comment on a document so questions stay beside it, and send files back within the quota you set. Uploads of up to 2 GB travel in resumable pieces, so a dropped connection pauses a transfer instead of ruining it. Folders, categories, custom client fields, and linked file versions keep a growing library tidy, while roles with granular permissions let staff work without becoming administrators. The activity log and download history record who received what and when, and the log exports to CSV. Sign-in works with email and password, LDAP, or Google and Microsoft accounts, with optional two-factor authentication. Your logo, watermark, themes, and editable email templates carry your brand, and the interface is translated into 16 languages. Optional virus scanning quarantines suspicious uploads, and a REST API with scoped tokens automates uploads, sharing, and account management. 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-or-later licensed.