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Lychee is a free, self-hosted photo-management tool for uploading, organizing, and sharing photos through web, Linux, API, and self-hosted deployments.
Free planOpen sourceAndroidiOSWeb
Alternatives to Ente Photos
Ente Photos is built around private photo libraries: its apps encrypt new photos on the device before background backup, and on-device AI helps find faces and photo details with natural-language search. It also curates memories, supports shared albums and browser links with password or expiry settings, and runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. The free plan includes 10 GB, with paid plans starting at $2.49 a month. Some readers may prefer broader file…
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Google Photos provides tools to edit, organize, search, back up and share photos and videos on Android, iOS and the web.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
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iCloud Backup is Apple’s iOS service for backing up and syncing files and data across devices.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
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Flickr
Flickr is an online photography community for storing, organizing, sharing, and discovering photos.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.2From $82 a year - 5
Tonfotos
Tonfotos organizes photo and video collections, removes duplicates and helps users document family histories.
Free planAndroidiOSLinuxmacOS8.0$59 one-time - 6
Synology Photos
Synology Photos is a photo and video management service that runs in DSM and requires a Synology NAS for private storage.
Free planAndroidiOSWebExtension7.7Free plan - 7
Amazon Photos
Amazon Photos stores, searches, shares, displays, and prints photos and videos from compatible devices.
Free planAndroidiOSWebmacOS7.6From $0.99 a month - 8
PhotoPrism
PhotoPrism is an AI-powered app for browsing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.6Free plan - 9
jAlbum
jAlbum is desktop software for making photo and video gallery websites from local media.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.5Free plan - 10
Piwigo
Piwigo is open-source photo management software for organizing and sharing photo and video collections.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.5From €32 a month - 11
PhotoStructure
PhotoStructure is a personal digital asset manager for organizing, browsing, and sharing photos and videos on hardware users control.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.1From $42 a year - 12
Mylio Photos
AndroidiOSmacOSWindows7.0From $240 a year - 13
LibrePhotos
LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo library manager that scans existing folders, identifies faces, places, and events, and makes the collection searchable.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI6.9Free plan - 14
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer is a Windows image browser, converter, and editor for working with photos and image collections.
Free planWindows6.8Free plan - 15
Immich
Immich is a free, open-source app for backing up photos and videos from Android and iOS devices to a server users run themselves.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI6.8Free plan - 16
Lomorage
Lomorage backs up and organizes phone photos and videos on a computer, NAS, or Raspberry Pi controlled by the user.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux6.7Free plan - 17
Photonix
Photonix is an open-source photo manager for organizing collections to store, present, search, and rediscover photos through a web browser.
Free planAndroidiOSWebSelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 18
PiGallery2
PiGallery2 is a free, MIT-licensed photo gallery website for self-hosting on low-resource servers, including Raspberry Pi.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 19
Photo Mechanic
Photo Mechanic is a media browser for viewing, organizing, managing, and exporting digital photos on macOS and Windows.
macOSWindows6.5From $149 a year - 20
Photoview
Photoview is a free, self-hosted photo gallery for browsing directories of high-resolution photos.
Free planiOSWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 21
Showfoto
Showfoto is a stand-alone version of the digiKam Image Editor for editing image files stored on a device.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 22
Damselfly
Damselfly is free, self-hosted photo management software for indexing large, folder-based image collections.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 23
6.3From $59 a year - 24
Imagely
WebmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.2From $69.50 a year - 25
IMatch
Windows6.1$145 one-time - 26
Lap Photo Manager
Lap Photo Manager is a free photo manager for family albums, photographers, and large local libraries.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.1Free plan - 27
Pixiple
Pixiple is a free Windows desktop application for locating images that resemble one another and reviewing the results as sorted pairs.
Free planWindows5.9Free plan - 28
Photo Supreme
LinuxmacOSWindows5.8 - 29
Excire Foto
macOSWindows5.7 - 30
KPhotoAlbum
Free planLinux5.7Free plan