Open source alternatives to Google Photos

4 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what Google Photos does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Google Photos does

Automatic photo and video backupcore
Gallery across devicescore
Search photos by people, places and thingscore
Face grouping
Shared albums
Photo editing
Memories and auto-made collections

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
immichSelf-hosted photo and video backup and gallery app	Replaces it90%	119k+687	743	3 days ago	98%	Install like an app	AGPL-3.0
Covers all 3 core jobs. Not shown: Photo editing.See the evidence Automatic photo and video backupcoreYesAuto backup when the app is opened Gallery across devicescoreYesUpload and view videos and photos Search photos by people, places and thingscoreYesSearch by metadata, objects, faces, and CLIP Face groupingYesFacial recognition and clustering Shared albumsYesAlbum and Shared albums Photo editingNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Memories and auto-made collectionsYesMemories (x years ago)
librephotosSelf-hosted photo gallery with machine learning tagging and search	Replaces it80%	8.2k+27	664	5 days ago	100%	Needs a server	MIT
Covers 2 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Automatic photo and video backup. Not shown: Photo editing.See the evidence Automatic photo and video backupcorePartlyaccepts uploads from the web and mobile apps Gallery across devicescoreYesExpo mobile app for Android and iOS Search photos by people, places and thingscoreYesSemantic search ("dog on a beach") and search by metadata Face groupingYesFace detection and clustering Shared albumsYesMultiple users, shared albums and public links Photo editingNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Memories and auto-made collectionsYesAlbums generated from events
lapOffline photo manager with face recognition and image search for large libraries	Same job, different way45%	4.3k+85	265	33 days ago	79%	Install like an app	GPL-3.0
Covers 1 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Memories and auto-made collections. Not shown: Automatic photo and video backup; Gallery across devices; Shared albums.See the evidence Automatic photo and video backupcoreNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Gallery across devicescoreNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Search photos by people, places and thingscoreYestext prompts, visual similarity, subjects, face clustering Face groupingYesName people, browse their photos Shared albumsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Photo editingYescrop, arbitrary-angle straighten, rotate, flip, resize Memories and auto-made collectionsPartlyRediscover photos by where and when they were taken.
enteEnd-to-end encrypted photo storage and authenticator apps	Not checked yet	30k+36	5,032	yesterday	100%	Install like an app	AGPL-3.0

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