Amazon Photos vs LibrePhotos
Amazon Photos and LibrePhotos are both photo management software. Amazon Photos is a commercial product from Amazon. LibrePhotos is open source under MIT, with 8.1k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Amazon Photos when
- You already pay for Prime and want a free backup of your photo library alongside another service.
- Pick LibrePhotos when
- You want a private Google Photos alternative and have hardware for the machine learning jobs.
Side by side
Photo backup with unlimited full-resolution photo storage for Amazon Prime members and 5 GB for video.
A self-hosted photo management service with face recognition, object and scene detection, maps and timelines.
Video storage is limited, search and editing lag behind Google Photos, and the benefit ends if Prime ends.
Smaller community than Immich, and indexing large libraries is resource-hungry.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server
Not published
Python, Django, TypeScript, React and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Amazon
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
8.1k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release 1.5.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.