Immich vs LibrePhotos
Immich and LibrePhotos are both photo management software. Immich is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 118k GitHub stars. LibrePhotos is open source under MIT, with 8.1k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Immich when
- You want Google Photos-style backup and search on your own server for a household or small group.
- Pick LibrePhotos when
- You want a private Google Photos alternative and have hardware for the machine learning jobs.
Side by side
A self-hosted photo and video library with automatic phone backup, timeline, albums, sharing, face recognition and AI search, positioned as a Google Photos replacement.
A self-hosted photo management service with face recognition, object and scene detection, maps and timelines.
Needs a reasonably capable server and your own backup plan; the project itself warns not to treat it as your only copy.
Smaller community than Immich, and indexing large libraries is resource-hungry.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Self-hosted server
TypeScript, NestJS, SvelteKit, Dart and PostgreSQL
Python, Django, TypeScript, React and PostgreSQL
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
118k GitHub stars
8.1k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.3.5.
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release 1.5.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.