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Best Cross-Platform Photo Management for self-hosting

The 12 best Cross-Platform photo management you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

PhotoPrism

Photo Management

AI-powered photo app for the decentralized web

Replaces Google Photos

★ 40k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Ente Photos

Photo Management

End-to-end encrypted photo storage and backup

Replaces Google Photos, iCloud Photos

★ 28.2k Hard setup AGPL-3.0

gallery-dl

Photo Management

Command-line tool to download image galleries from websites

Replaces Manual downloads

★ 19.1k Easy setup GPL-2.0

darktable

Photo Management

Open-source photography workflow and RAW developer

Replaces Adobe Lightroom

★ 12.9k Medium setup GPL-3.0

Google Photos Takeout Helper

Photo Management

Organizes Google Photos Takeout exports into a clean library

Replaces Google Photos

★ 5.8k Medium setup Apache-2.0

ExifCleaner

Photo Management

Cross-platform tool to remove metadata from images

Replaces Online metadata removers

★ 2.6k Easy setup MIT

digiKam

Photo Management

Professional photo management with advanced metadata tools

Replaces Adobe Lightroom, Google Photos

★ 1.2k Medium setup GPL-2.0

Mejiro

Photo Management

Easy-to-use instant photo publishing

★ 184 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Mediagoblin

Photo Management

Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr,

Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Single File PHP Gallery

Photo Management

Web gallery in one single PHP file

Medium setup ⊘ Proprietary

Reservo

Photo Management

Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account

Medium setup ⊘ Proprietary

PhotoStructure

Photo Management

All your family's photos and videos automatically organized into a fun

Medium setup ⊘ Proprietary

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Cross-Platform within the photo management category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.