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photoprism/photoprism

A self-hostable application for browsing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos with automatic content labeling and face recognition. It runs locally via Docker on 64-bit AMD, Intel, and ARM processors, requiring only a web browser to access the interface.

Project overview

Project type: Image & Vision
Use cases: Knowledge Q&A
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: License pending

Best for

General users who want a self-hosted, privacy-first media management application that automatically organizes and labels local photos and videos.

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 is rated as easy; all you need is a Web browser and Docker to run the server. The first success path is to install Docker and then run the server image.

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

Reviewed at: 2026-07-17T07:56:48Z