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CLUSTER PHOTO-HOSTED-MANAGEMENT · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-04-13

Self-hosted photo management apps

This cluster comprises apps for browsing, organizing, searching, and backing up photos and videos stored on self-hosted servers, with features like timelines, albums, sharing, and admin controls. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only four dated entries exist before the index start, so no trend can be discerned. Traction leadership is minimal: Lumen holds 1 star, while iOS-SelfPhotos and imora-ios have none.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2015: 1DEC 2020: 2APR 2023: 1AUG 2025: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 4
JUL 2015OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 9 hobby · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Kino2★1 day—hobbySelf-hosted photo assistant that monitors WhatsApp group photos, recognizes children's faces locally, saves photos to per-child folders, and forwards them.
  2. 02DeepPhotos4★12 days—hobbySelf-hosted photo management app that lets users upload, organize into albums, browse a timeline, and search personal photos and documents on their own server.
  3. 03pocket-album1★14 dayslivehobbyiOS photo gallery app that browses albums from a self-hosted photo server, supports offline albums, and searches photos by people, places, and years.
  4. 04locallery1★5 days—hobbySelf-hosted photo gallery app that searches local photos and videos using natural language, finds similar images, and keeps media on the user's machine.
  5. 05lumen-ios0★6 days—hobbyiOS client for a self-hosted media library that organizes photos, videos, albums, tags, faces, and files across a home server.
  6. 06plunk0★9 days—hobbyWeb app that captures named photos from an iPhone and files them into chosen folders on a self-hosted server.
  7. 07local-photo-vault0★20 days—hobbySelf-hosted photo management app that stores original photos losslessly, supports LAN upload from phones, albums, tags, ratings, and local backups.
  8. 08imora-ios0★10 days—hobbyiOS photo-management app for self-hosted photo servers with timeline, albums, search, backups, sharing, and admin tools.
  9. 09Lumen1★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted photo backup and viewing app that keeps original images in browsable folders and syncs them to web and mobile clients.
  10. 10iOS-SelfPhotos0★26 dayslivePhoto management app for self-hosted photo servers that lets users browse, organize, search, and back up photos and videos.
  11. 11Gallery for PhotoPrism0★16 daysliveopen sourceMobile gallery app for browsing, searching, and sharing photos and videos stored in a self-hosted photo management server.
  12. 12amphi-photos0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceCross-platform photo management application that syncs images across devices through self-hosted infrastructure.
  13. 13Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile photo gallery app that organizes photos and videos into albums and syncs them privately with a personal cloud server.
  14. 14Nextcloud Yaga0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceGallery app for Nextcloud that lets users browse and manage photos and videos stored on their private Nextcloud server.
  15. 15Goblim0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app for sharing photos on a self-hosted server to maintain privacy and control.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.