PhotoPrism
PhotoPrism is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Photo Galleries category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom and ships a Docker image. It has 40,362 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 40,362
- Forks
- 2,335
- Open issues
- 447
- Commits, last 12 months
- 3,582
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 261007-65faaae5dOct 7, 2026
- Created
- Jan 27, 2018
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 3,582 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors39 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 3,582 |
| Latest release | 261007-65faaae5d (Oct 7, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 85 |
| Open issues | 447 |
| Open pull requests | 22 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jan 27, 2018 |
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About PhotoPrism
Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/photoprism/photoprism.
Topics
- golang
- tensorflow
- photography
- private-cloud
- google-photos
- ai
- machine-learning
- self-hosted
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Is PhotoPrism free and open source?
Yes. PhotoPrism is open-source software released under the AGPL-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 PhotoPrism with Docker?
Yes. PhotoPrism provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to PhotoPrism?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to PhotoPrism include Immich, Ente and Thumbor. PhotoPrism itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
Is PhotoPrism actively maintained?
The most recent commit to PhotoPrism was on Oct 26, 2026 with 3,582 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 261007-65faaae5d, published Oct 7, 2026. It had 447 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.