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Best Single-User Photo Management for self-hosting

The 5 best Single-User photo management you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Photoview

Photo Management

Simple photo gallery for personal servers

Replaces Google Photos

★ 6.5k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Lychee

Photo Management

Self-hosted photo management made easy

Replaces Google Photos, Flickr

★ 4.3k Easy setup MIT

ExifCleaner

Photo Management

Cross-platform tool to remove metadata from images

Replaces Online metadata removers

★ 2.6k Easy setup MIT

Damselfly

Photo Management

Server-based photo management for large libraries

Replaces Google Photos

★ 1.8k Medium setup GPL-3.0

Shotwell Server

Photo Management

Digital photo organizer with tagging and event grouping

Replaces Google Photos, Apple Photos

★ 400 Easy setup LGPL-2.1

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