Piwigo
Open-source photo library and digital asset management software, self-hosted or used as a hosted service.
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About Piwigo
Piwigo manages, organizes and shares photos and videos. It can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure or used as Piwigo Cloud, which is hosted in France with updates, backups and support included.
Both versions share the same open-source core and API, so data can be exported and moved between them. Self-hosting allows modifying the code and writing custom plugins, with documentation and a community forum available. It suits families, organizations and photographers sharing large collections.
Strengths
- Same open-source core for self-hosted and cloud versions
- Plugin system and API
- Data exportable with no lock-in
- Actively maintained
Limitations
- Self-hosting requires your own web server
- Paid support is separate from the free version
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumSelf-hosted Piwigo is free; Piwigo Cloud is a paid service with a free trial.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Piwigo
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Sharing and organizing a large photo collection on your own server
- Categories
- Photo libraries
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Piwigo
Compare allSoftware that can replace Piwigo for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Lychee
Open-source, self-hosted photo management server for uploading, organizing and sharing photo albums.
Lychee is also an open-source self-hosted album server with password-protected sharing, but it has no hosted service option or plugin system listed.
PhotoPrism
A self-hosted photo library that tags pictures and recognises faces on your own hardware, not a company's.
PhotoPrism adds automatic labelling and face recognition on your own hardware, but it is installed through Docker and has no hosted version.
Zenphoto
A self-hosted CMS for gallery-focused websites with images, audio, video, a blog and pages.
Zenphoto is an open-source self-hosted gallery CMS with a blog, pages, multi-user rights and 52 themes, aimed more at portfolio websites.
Photoview
A self-hosted photo gallery that turns existing folders into albums, with maps and shared links.
Photoview is an open-source GPL-3.0 gallery that uses your existing folder structure as albums and adds a map view, with no hosted option.
Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile apps, aimed at replacing Google Photos.
Immich adds automatic phone backup and face search, but it needs a Docker server with at least 6 GB RAM and has no hosted service.
Chevereto
Self-hosted image and video hosting software for running your own media sharing site.
Chevereto is a self-hosted image and video hosting site with multi-user public and private albums, but it is not open source.
Daminion
Digital asset management software for cataloging and sharing photos and files on your own server or cloud.
Daminion is a commercial self-hosted asset catalog with version history and granular team permissions, and its pricing requires contacting the company.
HomeGallery
A self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing your own photo and video folders.
HomeGallery is an open-source self-hosted gallery over existing folders with similar-image search and face recognition, but it has no plugin system or hosted option.
Piwigo as an alternative
Listings that name Piwigo as an alternative.
Flickr
A long-running photo hosting and sharing service with a community of photographers.
Piwigo is open source and can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service, with plugins and exportable data, but without Flickr's photographer community.
Photofield
A self-hosted single-binary photo gallery built for speed and for leaving your files untouched.
Piwigo is open source photo library and asset management software with plugins and an API, offering more organizing features but needing a web server.
PiGallery2
A fast directory-first photo gallery website designed for low-resource servers such as a Raspberry Pi.
Piwigo is open source with plugins and an API, and it offers a paid hosted option alongside self-hosting on your own web server.
SmugMug
A paid photo hosting service for storing, sharing and selling photos, aimed at photographers.
Piwigo is open source and can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service, with plugins and an API but no print selling listed.
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