Alternatives to Memories

A free, open-source photo management app for Nextcloud with a timeline, albums and automatic tagging. 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 Memories.

  • Immich

    A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile apps, aimed at replacing Google Photos.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedWebAndroidiOS

    Immich is a standalone AGPL-3.0 self-hosted platform with its own Android and iOS backup apps and built-in face and CLIP search, with no Nextcloud needed.

  • PhotoPrism

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

    FreemiumOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    PhotoPrism is a standalone AGPL-3.0 self-hosted library with built-in labelling and face recognition, offering a web app instead of a Nextcloud integration.

  • LibrePhotos

    A self-hosted photo service with face recognition and automatic event albums, all processed locally.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    LibrePhotos is an MIT-licensed standalone self-hosted service with built-in face recognition and event albums, though it is early stage and Docker only.

  • Google Photos

    Google's hosted photo and video service with automatic backup from Android and iOS and 15 GB of shared free storage.

    FreemiumProprietaryWebAndroidiOS

    Google Photos removes the need for your own server and adds AI search and editing, but photos are stored in Google's proprietary cloud.

  • Ente Photos

    End-to-end encrypted photo storage, hosted or self-hosted.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOSWebSelf-hosted

    Ente Photos is open source with end-to-end encryption and apps for all major platforms, available hosted or self-hosted without a Nextcloud server.

  • Synology Photos

    A photo library app for Synology NAS devices, with mobile apps that back up phone photos.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWebSelf-hosted

    Synology Photos offers phone backup and shared libraries on a Synology NAS, but it is closed source and requires Synology hardware instead of Nextcloud.

  • Photoview

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

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Photoview is GPL-3.0 and turns existing folders into albums with maps and share links, but lacks automatic phone upload and face tagging.

  • Lomorage

    A photo backup system that copies phone photos to your own computer, NAS or Raspberry Pi.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOSSelf-hosted

    Lomorage backs up phone photos to your own computer, NAS or Raspberry Pi with search by scene and person, but its license is not stated.

Also worth comparing

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

  • QuMagie

    A photo management app for QNAP NAS devices that organizes photos by people, things and places.

    FreeProprietaryWebSelf-hosted

    Memories is an open-source timeline and album app that requires a Nextcloud server instead of QNAP hardware, with face tagging through separate Nextcloud apps.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.