5 Self Hosted Photo Gallery Apps

• Browse all your photos and videos without worrying about RAW conversion, duplicates or video formats.
• Easily find specific pictures using powerful search filters.
• Recognizes the faces of your family and friends.
• Automatic classification of pictures based on their content and location.
• Play Live Photos by hovering over them in albums and search results.
• Since the User Interface is a Progressive Web App, it provides a native app-like experience, and you can conveniently install it on the home screen of all major operating systems and mobile devices.
• Includes four high-resolution World Maps to bring back the memories of your favorite trips.
• Metadata is extracted and merged from Exif, XMP, and other sources such as Google Photos.
• Many more image properties like Colors, Chroma, and Quality can be searched as well.
• Use PhotoSync to securely backup iOS and Android phones in the background.
• WebDAV clients such as Microsoft's Windows Explorer and Apple's Finder can connect directly to PhotoPrism, allowing you to open, edit, and delete files from your computer as if they were local.

• Bulk Upload (Using the CLI)
• Reverse Geocoding
• Upload and view videos and photos
• Selective album(s) for backup
• Multi-user support
• Album and Shared albums
• Support for RAW (HEIC, HEIF, DNG, Apple ProRaw)
• OAuth support
• LivePhoto backup and playback
• Public Sharing

• Support for all types of photos including raw photos
• Support for videos
• Timeline view
• Scans pictures on the file system
• Multiuser support
• Generate albums based on events like "Thursday in Berlin"
• Face recognition / Face classification
• Reverse geocoding
• Object / Scene detection
• Semantic image search
• Search by metadata

• Easy installation and upgrades.
• Add photos with the web form, any FTP client or a desktop application such as digiKam, Lightroom, Shotwell, iPhoto, Aperture. iPhone/Android applications.
• Distribute your photos among your own albums with no limit in depth. Each photo can belong to several albums.
• Multiple sizes – each photo is available in 9 sizes.
• Supports multiple formats – provide several versions of the same photo. For example a RAW file, a TIFF, a CMYK profile and a zip.
• Tags to describe photos.
• Themes and plugins – more than 350 extensions are available to customize and enhance the feature set.
• Make your photos private and decide who can see each of them.
• Visitors can post comments, give ratings, mark photos as favorite, perform searches and get notified of news by email or RSS feed.
• Automatic slideshow.
• Use of EXIF/IPTC metadata to fill photo properties such as title and tags.
• Browse photos in a map with Google Maps and or OpenStreetMap plugins.
• With the Fotorama plugin, or specific themes such as Bootstrap Darkroom, you can experience the full screen slideshow.
• Web API to perform actions from other applications, such as display thumbnails in a WordPress blog with PiwigoPress.
• Meaningful URLs including tag/category/photo names for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
• Predefined photo sets such as best rated, most seen, random or most recent.
• Combine browsing methods.
• Add HTML pages with Additional Pages plugin.
• Advanced techniques to filter spam.
• Automatically add a watermark on all photos, to protect photos against unwanted copy with the ability to repeat the watermark on several lines.
• Good access control.
• Search features.
• Identify orphan photos.
• Notifications.
• Administrators can create users, groups, manage permissions and send notifications. Several administrators can work at the same time.
• Multilingual – 54 languages supported.

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Dropbox import

In order to use the Dropbox import from your server, you need a valid drop-ins app key from their website. Lychee will ask you for this key, the first time you try to use the import. Want to change your code? Take a look at the settings of Lychee.

Twitter Cards

Lychee supports Twitter Cards and Open Graph for shared images (not albums). In order to use Twitter Cards you need to request an approval for your domain. Simply share an image with Lychee, copy its link and paste it in Twitter's Card Validator.

Imagick

Lychee uses Imagick when installed on your server. In this case you will benefit from a faster processing of your uploads, better looking thumbnails and intermediate sized images for small screen devices. You can disable the usage of Imagick in the settings.

New Photos Email Notification

In order to use the new photos email notification you will need to have configured the MAIL_ variables in your .env to your mail provider & setup cron. Once that is complete you then toggle Send new photos notification emails in the settings. Your users will be able to opt-in to the email notifications by entering their email address in the Notifications setting in the sidebar. Photo notifications will be grouped and sent out once a week to the site admin, album owner & anyone who the album is shared with, if their email has been added. The admin or user who added the photo to an album, will not receive a email notification for the photos they added.