Rank 1
immich-app/immichOpen immich-app/immich on GitHub (opens in new tab)
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
117k stars total +2.4k this month Score 95
Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Google Photos
Google Photos is convenient until the free storage runs out or you want your family archive off someone else’s cloud. These projects back up photos and videos from your phone automatically and keep the originals on hardware you own.
Look at the mobile apps and the backup flow first: that is what you will use every day. Face recognition, map views and shared albums vary a lot between projects, and some need a machine with more memory to index a large library.
Updated 8 min ago
- Repos tracked
- 10
- New this week
- 0
- none added yet
- Stars gained in 30 days
- +4.8k
- across 10 ranked repos
- Updated
- Oct 20, 2026
How this list is ranked
70% health, 30% momentum. Projects younger than 12 months, or too new to assess, are listed under Rising newcomers while they gain stars.
How the score is computed
- Health (0–100) reflects release cadence, recent commit activity and the number of active contributors.
- Momentum (0–100) is stars gained in 30 days ÷ √(stars before), scaled within this collection, so a small project growing fast can outrank a large one.
- A project under 12 months old (or too new to assess) appears among the newcomers as long as it is gaining stars.
- Members come from matching rules (GitHub topics, keywords in the description and README) plus a short hand-kept include and exclude list. The ranking is recomputed every hour from public GitHub activity.
Ranking
10 reposRanked by health, then momentum
- Rank 2
julyx10/lapOpen julyx10/lap on GitHub (opens in new tab)
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
4k stars total +1.5k this month Score 92 - Rank 3
ente/enteOpen ente/ente on GitHub (opens in new tab)
💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
29.5k stars total +593 this month Score 88 - Rank 4
photoprism/photoprismOpen photoprism/photoprism on GitHub (opens in new tab)
AI-Powered Photos App 🌈💎✨
40.3k stars total +192 this month Score 81 - Rank 5
LibrePhotos/librephotosOpen LibrePhotos/librephotos on GitHub (opens in new tab)
A self-hosted open source photo management service.
8.1k stars total +50 this month Score 80 - Rank 6
LycheeOrg/LycheeOpen LycheeOrg/Lychee on GitHub (opens in new tab)
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
4.3k stars total +24 this month Score 68 - Rank 7
pulsejet/memoriesOpen pulsejet/memories on GitHub (opens in new tab)
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
3.9k stars total +27 this month Score 63 - Rank 8
photoview/photoviewOpen photoview/photoview on GitHub (opens in new tab)
Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers
6.6k stars total +36 this month Score 49 - Rank 9
bpatrik/pigallery2Open bpatrik/pigallery2 on GitHub (opens in new tab)
A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
2.3k stars total +22 this month Score 41 - Rank 10
Piwigo/PiwigoOpen Piwigo/Piwigo on GitHub (opens in new tab)
Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!
3.9k stars total +15 this month Score 30
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Rising newcomers
Under 12 months old, or too new to assess, and gaining stars.
No newcomers this week
No young project in this collection is gaining stars right now. The ranking is refreshed every hour.