Alternatives to Lychee

Open-source, self-hosted photo management server for uploading, organizing and sharing photo albums. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Lychee.

  • Piwigo

    Open-source photo library and digital asset management software, self-hosted or used as a hosted service.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Piwigo is open source photo library software with a plugin system and API, usable self-hosted or as a hosted service with the same core.

  • Photoview

    A self-hosted photo gallery that turns existing folders into albums, with maps and shared links.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Photoview is a GPL-3.0 self-hosted gallery that uses existing folders as albums, with multiple users, password-protected links and a map view.

  • Chevereto

    Self-hosted image and video hosting software for running your own media sharing site.

    FreemiumProprietaryWebSelf-hosted

    Chevereto runs a multi-user image and video sharing site with public and private albums and configurable storage, but it is not open source and is freemium.

  • Zenphoto

    A self-hosted CMS for gallery-focused websites with images, audio, video, a blog and pages.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Zenphoto is an open source gallery CMS with a blog, pages, user rights and 52 themes, suited to running a full portfolio website.

  • PiGallery2

    A fast directory-first photo gallery website designed for low-resource servers such as a Raspberry Pi.

    FreeProprietaryWebSelf-hosted

    PiGallery2 is a directory-first gallery designed for low-resource servers such as a Raspberry Pi, following your folder layout instead of uploaded albums.

  • HomeGallery

    A self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing your own photo and video folders.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    HomeGallery is open source and browses existing folders with similar-image search, face recognition and a map view, running via Docker or natively.

  • PhotoPrism

    A self-hosted photo library that tags pictures and recognises faces on your own hardware, not a company's.

    FreemiumOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    PhotoPrism adds automatic labelling, face recognition and combined search on your server, but indexing is demanding and some features are reserved for sponsors.

  • Flickr

    A long-running photo hosting and sharing service with a community of photographers.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Flickr is a hosted service with a large photography community and unlimited Pro storage, so there is no server to run but no self-hosting option.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Lychee as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Photofield

    A self-hosted single-binary photo gallery built for speed and for leaving your files untouched.

    FreeProprietaryWebSelf-hosted

    Lychee is an open source self-hosted album server built around uploading and sharing albums, rather than browsing an existing folder untouched.

  • SmugMug

    A paid photo hosting service for storing, sharing and selling photos, aimed at photographers.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Lychee is a free open-source album server you host yourself, with public and password-protected sharing but no selling features listed.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.