Immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Immich is an open-source photo management project on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license (network copyleft), with 118k stars. It is built with TypeScript and SDK. Its last push was today.
- Stars
- 118k
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- v3.3.5
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- 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.
- Adopt it when
- You want Google Photos-style backup and search on your own server for a household or small group.
- Watch out
- Needs a reasonably capable server and your own backup plan; the project itself warns not to treat it as your only copy.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server and mobile app
- Built with
- TypeScript, NestJS, SvelteKit, Dart and PostgreSQL
- How established
- Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.3.5.
- What the license allows
- Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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