A self-hostable application for browsing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos. It automatically labels media based on content and recognizes faces to enable search and rediscovery of personal libraries.
Project overview
Provides automatic image classification, face recognition, and metadata extraction for a self-hosted media library without requiring a paid service.
Project type
Image & Vision
Use cases
Knowledge Q&A
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
License pending
Best for
General users seeking to organize and search personal media libraries on self-hosted infrastructure.
Key capabilities
Automatically labels pictures based on content and location, and recognizes the faces of friends and family.
Provides search filters that can be combined for properties like labels, location, resolution, color, chroma, and quality.
Provides high-resolution world maps and a privacy-preserving geocoding service to explore photos by location.
Extracts and merges metadata from Exif, XMP, and other sources like Google Photos.
Allows direct connection from WebDAV clients like Microsoft's Windows Explorer and Apple's Finder to open, edit, and delete files as if they were local.
Enables Live Photos to start playing when hovered over and during slideshow viewing.
Provides a native app-like experience accessible from phone, tablet, or desktop, which can be installed on the home screen.
Limitations and risks
No exact release dates for new features are provided due to a high volume of requests.
Getting started
Setup involves installing Docker and running the server image using a Web browser.
Evidence and sources
README: PhotoPrism® is an AI-powered, privacy-first app for browsing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos.
README: **Our mission is to provide the most user- and privacy-friendly solution to keep your pictures organized and accessible.** That's why PhotoPrism was built from the ground up to ru…
README: all you need is a Web browser and [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) to run the server. It is available for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
README: **PhotoPrism is 100% self-funded and independent.**
README: Being self-funded and independent, we can personally promise you that we will never sell your data and that we will always be transparent about our software and services