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Best Plugins Photo Management for self-hosting

The 6 best Plugins photo management you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

darktable

Photo Management

Open-source photography workflow and RAW developer

Replaces Adobe Lightroom

★ 12.9k Medium setup GPL-3.0

Piwigo

Photo Management

Open-source photo gallery for the web

Replaces Flickr, Google Photos

★ 3.8k Easy setup GPL-2.0

Sigal

Photo Management

Simple static photo gallery generator written in Python

Replaces Flickr

★ 942 Easy setup MIT

Damselfly Web

Photo Management

Server-based digital asset manager for large photo libraries

Replaces Flickr, YouTube

★ 700 Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Zenphoto

Photo Management

Open-source CMS for photo galleries and multimedia

Replaces SmugMug, Flickr

★ 319 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Coppermine

Photo Management

Multi-purpose, full-featured web picture gallery

Replaces Flickr

★ 73 Medium setup GPL-3.0

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