Damselfly
Damselfly is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Photo Galleries category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C#. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,794 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Sep 29, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,794
- Forks
- 94
- Open issues
- 182
- Commits, last 12 months
- 60
- Last commit
- Sep 29, 2026
- Latest release
- 4.5.3Jan 14, 2026
- Created
- Sep 29, 2019
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Sep 29, 2026, 60 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Sep 29, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 60 |
| Latest release | 4.5.3 (Jan 14, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 |
| Releases, all time | 55 |
| Open issues | 182 |
| Open pull requests | 2 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Sep 29, 2019 |
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About Damselfly
Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and….
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly.
Topics
- photography
- docker
- image
- image-processing
- exif
- iptc-metadata
- blazor
- efcore
- face-detection
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Is Damselfly free and open source?
Yes. Damselfly is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Damselfly with Docker?
Yes. Damselfly provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Damselfly?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Damselfly include Immich, PhotoPrism and Ente.
Is Damselfly actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Damselfly was on Sep 29, 2026 with 60 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 4.5.3, published Jan 14, 2026. It had 182 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.