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OwnPhotos

Self-hosted Google Photos clone with face recognition

Photo Management ★ 2.8k stars Medium setup MIT

OwnPhotos is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos with automatic face recognition and object detection. It builds albums based on people, places, and things found in your library.

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Key features

  • Face recognition
  • Object detection
  • Auto-generated albums
  • Self-hosted Google Photos clone

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.8k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Jupyter Notebook

Trade-offs

  • Project is now inactive
  • Predecessor to LibrePhotos

Is OwnPhotos secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for OwnPhotos's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

OwnPhotos replaces

Self-hosted Google Photos alternatives

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