Piwigo
Piwigo is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Photo Galleries category, licensed GPL-2.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Adobe Lightroom. It has 3,868 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 3,868
- Forks
- 488
- Open issues
- 657
- Commits, last 12 months
- 136
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- 16.4.0May 3, 2026
- Created
- Jul 25, 2015
- License
- GPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 136 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases5 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 136 |
| Latest release | 16.4.0 (May 3, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 |
| Releases, all time | 83 |
| Open issues | 657 |
| Open pull requests | 97 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 25, 2015 |
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About Piwigo
Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo.
Topics
- piwigo
- photo-gallery
- open-source
- php
- privacy
- photography
- web-application
- cms
- image-gallery
- self-hosting
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Is Piwigo free and open source?
Yes. Piwigo is open-source software released under the GPL-2.0 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 Piwigo with Docker?
Piwigo does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Piwigo?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Piwigo include Immich, PhotoPrism and Ente. Piwigo itself is a self-hosted alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
Is Piwigo actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Piwigo was on Oct 23, 2026 with 136 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 16.4.0, published May 3, 2026. It had 657 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.