7 alternatives to Google Photos: Immich and Ente Photos

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7 alternatives to Google Photos
Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Immich	Full replacement	116k	AGPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	TypeScript	v3.2.4	2026-10-06
Ente Photos	Full replacement	29k	AGPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	Dart	ensu-v0.1.21	2026-10-06
PhotoPrism	Partial	40k	Other	Not checked	Yes	Go	260919-28c46a116	2026-10-06
LibrePhotos	Partial	8.1k	MIT	Open source	Yes	Python	1.2.1	2026-10-06
Photoview	Partial	6.5k	AGPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	Go	v2.4.0	2026-10-05
Memories	Partial	3.9k	AGPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	PHP	v9.0.1	2026-10-06
HomeGallery	Partial	1.2k	MIT	Open source	Yes	JavaScript	v1.21.0	2026-06-25

7 alternatives

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

Mobile backup, timeline, albums, sharing, face recognition and search, on your own server.

💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.

End-to-end encrypted backup from phones and desktops, with albums, sharing and on-device face and object search.

AI-Powered Photos App 🌈💎✨

Browsing, tagging and face recognition over an existing folder of photos; uploads from phones through WebDAV or apps.

A self-hosted open source photo management service.

Face recognition, object detection and semantic search over photos on your server, without an official phone backup app.

Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

Browsing, face recognition and sharing links over photo folders already on the server; it does not upload from phones.

Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.

Timeline, albums and face and object recognition for photos stored in Nextcloud.

Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery

Browses a local photo and video collection with similarity and face search; reads your folders and does not back up phones.