Flickr

Photo hosting and sharing community with albums, groups and a paid Pro tier. A closed product from SmugMug.

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3 open source alternatives to Flickr
Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Lychee	Partial	4.3k	MIT	Open source	Yes	PHP	v7.10.0	2026-10-05
Piwigo	Partial	3.9k	GPL-2.0	Open source	Yes	PHP	16.4.0	2026-10-03
Chevereto	Partial	998	AGPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	PHP	4.5.7	2026-09-22

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3 alternatives

Lychee Partial

A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.

Self-hosted photo albums with sharing and EXIF data, without the community features.

Language: PHP
Licence: MIT
Stars: 4.3k
Latest: v7.10.0
Last push: 2026-10-05

Piwigo Partial

Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

Self-hosted photo gallery with albums, permissions, plugins and themes, without the community features.

Language: PHP
Licence: GPL-2.0
Stars: 3.9k
Latest: 16.4.0
Last push: 2026-10-03

Chevereto Partial

The mature, battle-tested, high-end, OG self-hosted image and video hosting solution trusted since 2007. Build your own Flickr / Imgur media sharing platform with complete control over your content, data, and platform rules.

Self-hosted image hosting with albums, users and embeddable links.

Language: PHP
Licence: AGPL-3.0
Stars: 998
Latest: 4.5.7
Last push: 2026-09-22

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