Alternatives to Photofield
A self-hosted single-binary photo gallery built for speed and for leaving your files untouched. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Photofield
A self-hosted single-binary photo gallery built for speed and for leaving your files untouched.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Photofield.
PiGallery2
A fast directory-first photo gallery website designed for low-resource servers such as a Raspberry Pi.
PiGallery2 is a directory-first gallery website that follows your folder layout and runs well on a Raspberry Pi, with Docker deployment available.
Photoview
A self-hosted photo gallery that turns existing folders into albums, with maps and shared links.
Photoview is a GPL-3.0 self-hosted gallery that turns existing folders into albums, adding multiple users, sharing links and a map view.
HomeGallery
A self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing your own photo and video folders.
HomeGallery is open source and keeps your folder structure while adding 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.
PhotoPrism is a fuller self-hosted library with automatic labelling, face recognition and search, but indexing is demanding and Docker is the supported install route.
Lychee
Open-source, self-hosted photo management server for uploading, organizing and sharing photo albums.
Lychee is an open source self-hosted album server built around uploading and sharing albums, rather than browsing an existing folder untouched.
Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile apps, aimed at replacing Google Photos.
Immich is an AGPL-3.0 backup platform with mobile apps, face and CLIP search, but its server needs at least 6 GB of RAM rather than a single binary.
Damselfly
A server-based photo management system for large folder-based collections, with fast search and keyword tagging.
Damselfly works on existing folder collections and adds keyword tagging, face and object detection, though full facial recognition depends on an Azure account.
Piwigo
Open-source photo library and digital asset management software, self-hosted or used as a hosted service.
Piwigo is open source photo library and asset management software with plugins and an API, offering more organizing features but needing a web server.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sigal
A Python command-line tool that turns folders of images and videos into a static web photo gallery.
thumbsup
A command-line static gallery generator that turns a folder of photos and videos into a website.
qView
A minimal image viewer that opens instantly and gets out of the way, with no interface beyond the picture.
PhotoQt
An image viewer with an uncluttered interface and more than 140 supported formats, plus photo spheres, live photos and map views.
LibrePhotos
A self-hosted photo service with face recognition and automatic event albums, all processed locally.
PhotoStructure
A self-hosted photo and video library that organizes and deduplicates collections spread across drives and backups.
