Lychee
Open-source, self-hosted photo management server for uploading, organizing and sharing photo albums.
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About Lychee
Lychee runs on your own server or web space and gives you a browser interface for managing photos. You can upload, move, rename, describe, delete and search photos, select them in batches, and view them full screen with keyboard navigation.
Albums and photos can be made public with one click or protected with a password. A live demo and installation documentation are on the project site, and version 7.8.5 is the current release.
Strengths
- Your photos stay on your own server
- Public sharing and password-protected albums
- Desktop-like batch selection in the browser
- Active releases and documentation
Limitations
- You need a server or web space to run it
- Focused on albums and sharing rather than phone backup
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source, with optional GitHub sponsorship.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- LycheeOrg
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- People who want to host and share their own photo albums
- Categories
- Photo libraries
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Compare allSoftware that can replace Lychee for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Piwigo
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Photoview
A self-hosted photo gallery that turns existing folders into albums, with maps and shared links.
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Chevereto
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Zenphoto
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PiGallery2
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HomeGallery
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PhotoPrism
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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.
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.
Lychee as an alternative
Listings that name Lychee as an alternative.
Photofield
A self-hosted single-binary photo gallery built for speed and for leaving your files untouched.
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.
Lychee is a free open-source album server you host yourself, with public and password-protected sharing but no selling features listed.
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