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ZenphotoWordPress
Free

Free and open source, funded by donations.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL; you pay only for your own hosting.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Gallery-first CMS with a blog and pages
  • Multi-user with user rights
  • Very large library of themes and plugins
  • Visual block editor with live preview
  • Requires your own web hosting
  • Publishing tool rather than a phone photo backup
  • Needs a PHP and database server to self-host
  • Plugins and themes vary widely in quality and need updating
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License not stated License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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