Photoview
Photoview 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 and ships a Docker image. It has 6,558 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 6,558
- Forks
- 491
- Open issues
- 151
- Commits, last 12 months
- 99
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.4.0Jun 23, 2024
- Created
- Jul 7, 2019
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 99 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors85 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 99 |
| Latest release | v2.4.0 (Jun 23, 2024) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 28 |
| Open issues | 151 |
| Open pull requests | 42 |
| Good first issues | 23 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jul 7, 2019 |
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About Photoview
Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/photoview/photoview.
Topics
- photography
- raw
- docker
- nas
- selfhosted
- photo
- gallery
- photo-gallery
- photographers
- exif
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Is Photoview free and open source?
Yes. Photoview 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 Photoview with Docker?
Yes. Photoview 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 Photoview?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Photoview include Immich, PhotoPrism and Ente. Photoview itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.
Is Photoview actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Photoview was on Oct 24, 2026 with 99 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.4.0, published Jun 23, 2024. It had 151 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.