Open-source photo management apps in 2026
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 are listed separately.
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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
All open-source photo management apps, ranked
Complete systems you can adopt 12
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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 -
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LocalLens ashesbloom
Local Lens is a privacy-first, AI-powered photo organizer for your PC. Sort and group photos by faces, dates, and locations ...all locally, with no cloud upload and no Internet. ... Now on CLAUDE ☼ check below🔽
Complete system Usable You want to sort a messy local photo folder by person or place without uploading anything.
★ 172 AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 21 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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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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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
Developer tools 3
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Google-Photos-Delete-Tool SylphxAI
Google Photos duplicate finder and bulk delete tool: find and delete duplicate photos, bulk delete safely with dry run and empty trash. Chrome extension + userscript, runs in your browser.
Developer tool Usable You need to clean up duplicates or mass-delete from Google Photos, which has no bulk delete of its own.
★ 163 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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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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Album Assetizer SeanWong17
个人相册语义资产生成器：扫描照片 → 视觉大模型标注 → 结构化数据 | Semantic asset generator for personal photo albums
Developer tool Experimental You want to make a personal photo collection searchable by content and can use an OpenAI-compatible vision model.
★ 253 MIT Python Slowing, pushed 5 months 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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