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Open source alternatives to Google Photos

We track 8 open-source Google Photos alternatives, of which 5 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 7 ship a Docker image. Immich leads on health at 100/100 with 671 commits in the last 90 days; across all 8 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0 and 1 other licences.

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All 8 Google Photos alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Immich

    100 GOOD

    Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).

    ★ 114k · ⟳ 3 days ago · v3.2.0 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • PhotoPrism

    98 GOOD

    Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures.

    ★ 40k · ⟳ 3 days ago · 260728-bbde8f452 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerGo
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Ente

    98 GOOD

    An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos).

    ★ 29k · ⟳ 3 days ago · photos-v1.3.63 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerNodejsGo
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • LibrePhotos

    96 GOOD

    Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos).

    ★ 8.1k · ⟳ 9 days ago · 1.1.0 · MIT

    DockerPython
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Lychee

    95 GOOD

    Grid and album based photo-management-system.

    ★ 4.3k · ⟳ 4 days ago · v7.8.3 · MIT

    DockerPHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Piwigo

    56 SLOWING

    Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.

    ★ 3.9k · ⟳ 13 days ago · 16.4.0 · GPL-2.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Damselfly

    55 SLOWING

    Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

    ★ 1.8k · ⟳ 12 days ago · 4.5.3 · GPL-3.0

    DockerC#.NET
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • HomeGallery

    36 STALE

    Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.

    ★ 1.2k · ⟳ 3 months ago · MIT

    DockerNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Google Photos alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Google Photos?

Immich scores highest at 100/100, with 671 commits in the last 90 days, 114k GitHub stars and its latest release (v3.2.0) published 4 days ago. Ente has the most raw commit activity at 4866 commits in 90 days.

Which Google Photos alternatives use a permissive licence?

3 of 8 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): LibrePhotos (MIT), Lychee (MIT), HomeGallery (MIT). 5 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Google Photos alternatives run in Docker?

7 of 8 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Immich, PhotoPrism, Ente, LibrePhotos, Lychee, Damselfly and 1 more. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.