Zenphoto
A self-hosted CMS for gallery-focused websites with images, audio, video, a blog and pages.
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About Zenphoto
ZenphotoCMS is a content management system for self-hosted websites built around media galleries. It handles images, audio and video, and includes an integrated blog and custom pages, multiple users with user rights and multilingual content.
It is aimed at personal sites for illustrators, artists, designers, photographers, film makers and musicians, with 52 themes available. Version 1.6.8 was released in May 2025, and bugs are tracked on GitHub.
Strengths
- Gallery-first CMS with a blog and pages
- Multi-user with user rights
- Multilingual support
- 52 themes available
Limitations
- Requires your own web hosting
- Publishing tool rather than a phone photo backup
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source, funded by donations.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The Zenphoto contributors
- Platforms
- Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- Photographers and artists running their own portfolio website
- Categories
- Photo libraries
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Zenphoto
Compare allSoftware that can replace Zenphoto for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Piwigo
Open-source photo library and digital asset management software, self-hosted or used as a hosted service.
Piwigo is an open-source photo library with plugins and an API that can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service, focusing on galleries rather than blog pages.
Lychee
Open-source, self-hosted photo management server for uploading, organizing and sharing photo albums.
Lychee is an open-source self-hosted photo server focused on albums with public and password-protected sharing, without Zenphoto's blog, pages and theme-based website features.
Chevereto
Self-hosted image and video hosting software for running your own media sharing site.
Chevereto runs a multi-user image and video sharing site with public and private albums and Docker hosting, but it is freemium and not open source.
Sigal
A Python command-line tool that turns folders of images and videos into a static web photo gallery.
Sigal generates a static gallery website from folders on the command line, so no web hosting with a CMS is needed, but it has no graphical interface or blog.
thumbsup
A command-line static gallery generator that turns a folder of photos and videos into a website.
thumbsup builds a static photo and video gallery site with one command and incremental rebuilds, removing the need for a server but offering no blog, pages or users.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
SmugMug
A paid photo hosting service for storing, sharing and selling photos, aimed at photographers.
Pixieset
An online platform for photographers to deliver client galleries, build websites and manage bookings.
Flickr
A long-running photo hosting and sharing service with a community of photographers.
Photoview
A self-hosted photo gallery that turns existing folders into albums, with maps and shared links.
PiGallery2
A fast directory-first photo gallery website designed for low-resource servers such as a Raspberry Pi.
HomeGallery
A self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing your own photo and video folders.
