Lychee
Lychee is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Photo Galleries category, licensed MIT and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, Imgur and Adobe Photoshop and ships a Docker image. It has 4,314 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 4,314
- Forks
- 383
- Open issues
- 16
- Commits, last 12 months
- 837
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v7.12.0Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Aug 8, 2018
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 837 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 837 |
| Latest release | v7.12.0 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 158 |
| Open issues | 16 |
| Open pull requests | 1 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 8, 2018 |
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About Lychee
Grid and album based photo-management-system.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee.
Topics
- photos
- photo-management
- gallery
- hacktoberfest
- photo-gallery
- photo-gallery-application
- php
- typescript
- vuejs
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Is Lychee free and open source?
Yes. Lychee is open-source software released under the MIT 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 Lychee with Docker?
Yes. Lychee 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 Lychee?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Lychee include Immich, PhotoPrism and Ente. Lychee itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, Imgur, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
Is Lychee actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Lychee was on Oct 24, 2026 with 837 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v7.12.0, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 16 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.