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.
- Photo Galleries
- Go
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Actively maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 40,272
- Forks
- 2,329
- Open issues
- 464
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,819
- Last commit
- Oct 6, 2026
- Latest release
- 260919-28c46a116Sep 19, 2026
- 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. PhotoPrism is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and written mainly in Go, so you can read the code, run it on your own hardware and keep full control of your data.
The project has 40,272 stars and 2,329 forks on GitHub, with 2,819 commits over the last year. It ships a Docker image, which makes it a good fit for a small VPS or a home server running Docker Compose.
Topics
- golang
- tensorflow
- photography
- private-cloud
- google-photos
- ai
- machine-learning
- self-hosted
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What is PhotoPrism?
PhotoPrism is a free, open-source app you can host on your own server, listed in our Photo Galleries category. 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. The source code lives at github.com/photoprism/photoprism, where it has 40,272 stars.
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 open-source 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 6, 2026 with 2,819 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 260919-28c46a116, published Sep 19, 2026. Check the open issues on GitHub to gauge how quickly maintainers respond.