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Best No-Database Photo Management for self-hosting

The 11 best No-Database photo management you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

gallery-dl

Photo Management

Command-line tool to download image galleries from websites

Replaces Manual downloads

★ 19.1k Easy setup GPL-2.0

Color Thief

Photo Management

Library to extract color palettes from photos

Replaces Commercial color analysis APIs

★ 13.6k Easy setup MIT

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

exifr

Photo Management

Fast JavaScript EXIF and metadata reader for photos

Replaces Commercial metadata APIs

★ 1.2k Easy setup MIT

PictShare

Photo Management

Self-hosted image and media sharing with resizing

Replaces Imgur

★ 945 Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Sigal

Photo Management

Simple static photo gallery generator written in Python

Replaces Flickr

★ 942 Easy setup MIT

thumbsup

Photo Management

Static photo and video gallery generator

Replaces Google Photos, Flickr

★ 860 Easy setup MIT

nanogallery2

Photo Management

JavaScript photo and video gallery library you host yourself

Replaces Flickr, SmugMug

★ 791 Easy setup GPL-3.0

Lutim

Photo Management

Privacy-focused image hosting with auto-expiration

Replaces Imgur

★ 300 Easy setup AGPL-3.0

fgallery

Photo Management

Minimalist static photo gallery generator

Replaces Flickr, Google Photos

★ 251 Easy setup MIT

MyPhotoShare

Photo Management

Static web photo gallery generator from a folder of media

Replaces Google Photos, Flickr

★ 15 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged No-Database within the photo management category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.