Photo management apps in 2026
3 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Google Photos has the most readers, about 32k a month. 16 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Immich leads with 118k stars, ahead of Ente. 15 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (8), AGPL-3.0 (4) and GPL-3.0 (4).
Commercial photo management apps
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Google Photos Google
Edit and enhance photos with AI-powered features like Magic Eraser and Unblur on Google Photos. Store, organize & search your memories.
Complete system Production-ready You want automatic phone backup with strong search, especially on Android.
32k readers a month Commercial -
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iCloud Photos Apple Inc.
View, organize, and share photos and videos with iCloud Photos on the web. Changes will sync across your devices with iCloud.
Complete system Production-ready Your household uses Apple devices and wants photos synced everywhere without extra apps.
19k readers a month Since 2011 Commercial -
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Amazon Photos Amazon
Amazon Photos offers free online photo storage to Prime members, who can save and share unlimited photos on desktop, mobile, and tablet.
Complete system Production-ready You already pay for Prime and want a free backup of your photo library alongside another service.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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Orchard-photos chaseleantj
Fully local photo browser with semantic & visual search
Complete system Experimental You want to search your local photos by describing them, without uploading them anywhere.
★ 111 MIT Python Active, pushed yesterday -
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Photoc ahmetomerv
Command-line tools for photographers.
Developer tool Experimental You cull and organise photo shoots and prefer working in the terminal.
★ 136 MIT C Active, pushed 5 days ago -
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PhotoMap bytwelve
用照片拼地图 · PhotoMap：完全离线的 Windows 照片地图桌面应用，把旅行照片拼进中国省市轮廓。
Complete system Usable You travel in China and want a visual map made from your own photos.
★ 167 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago -
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Pictaria Server pictaria-ai
Self-hosted photo intelligence, enrichment, curation, and automation for your Immich library. Pictaria Server helps you explore and understand your collection, optionally enrich it with AI, review your best photos, and build Smart Albums that stay up to date—all through a private web dashboard running on your hardware.
Integration Experimental You run Immich and want smarter curation and albums on top of it.
★ 197 AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 12 days ago -
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CalibRaw Duecki1
Free, open-source RAW editor for Linux, Android, Windows and macOS. GPU-accelerated, non-destructive, with masks, HDR merge and local AI.
Complete system Experimental You want a free RAW developer that also runs on Android.
★ 258 GPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed today
Open-source photo management apps
Complete systems you can adopt 9
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Immich immich-app
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Complete system Production-ready You want Google Photos-style backup and search on your own server for a household or small group.
★ 118k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Ente ente
💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
Complete system Production-ready You want a Google Photos alternative where the provider cannot see your photos.
★ 30k AGPL-3.0 Dart Active, pushed today -
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LibrePhotos LibrePhotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service.
Complete system Usable You want a private Google Photos alternative and have hardware for the machine learning jobs.
★ 8.1k MIT Python Active, pushed today -
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Lychee LycheeOrg
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
Complete system Production-ready You want a clean web gallery to share albums from your own hosting, such as a photographer's portfolio.
★ 4.3k MIT PHP Active, pushed today -
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Lap julyx10
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
Complete system Usable You keep a large photo library on disk and want private organisation without a server or cloud.
★ 4.2k GPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed today -
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Pho fregie
A serverless application for viewing and synchronizing photos to cloud storage
Complete system Usable You have a NAS and want simple phone photo backup without hosting Immich.
★ 1.2k GPL-3.0 Dart Active, pushed 14 days ago -
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FerrumPix Bitpainter75
FerrumPix is a desktop photo management and editing application for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Complete system Experimental You self-host photos on Immich or Nextcloud and want a desktop app to manage and edit them.
★ 745 GPL-3.0 Visual Basic .NET Active, pushed today -
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AfterFrame YIWANG3
Local-first photo library for Mac and Windows. Browse, cull and search thousands of photos and RAWs, find people and places on-device, and edit with LUTs, text, stickers, camera frames and collages. Agent-ready over MCP.
Complete system Experimental A photographer wants fast culling and light editing of large exports without a cloud service.
★ 260 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed today -
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CalibRaw Duecki1
Free, open-source RAW editor for Linux, Android, Windows and macOS. GPU-accelerated, non-destructive, with masks, HDR merge and local AI.
Complete system Experimental You want a free RAW developer that also runs on Android.
★ 258 GPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed today
Integrations 1
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Pictaria Server pictaria-ai
Self-hosted photo intelligence, enrichment, curation, and automation for your Immich library. Pictaria Server helps you explore and understand your collection, optionally enrich it with AI, review your best photos, and build Smart Albums that stay up to date—all through a private web dashboard running on your hardware.
Integration Experimental You run Immich and want smarter curation and albums on top of it.
★ 197 AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 12 days ago
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 8. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Network copyleft: 4. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Strong copyleft: 4. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
Languages
Python 4, TypeScript 3, Dart 2, Rust 2, JavaScript 2, PHP 1, Visual Basic .NET 1 and C 1.
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