OwnPhotos
Self-hosted Google Photos clone with face recognition
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.
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
OwnPhotos replaces
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