Self-hosted AI photos
PhotoPrism
Browse, organize, search, and share photos and videos on your own server.
PhotoPrism is an AGPL-3.0 self-hosted photo and video manager with indexing, metadata extraction, search, automatic classification, face recognition, maps, albums, and WebDAV access.
How it works
- Step 1
Deploy
Run PhotoPrism on a user-controlled server and configure separate originals and storage paths.
- Step 2
Index media
Scan permitted photo folders, extract metadata, generate thumbnails, and classify supported media.
- Step 3
Browse and search
Use timelines, albums, labels, people, places, and filters to explore the library.
- Step 4
Back up and operate
Protect originals, storage, database state, configuration, and upgrade rollback procedures.
Capabilities and scenarios
- Photo and video indexing
- Metadata and search filters
- Automatic labels and face recognition
- Albums, maps, sharing, and WebDAV
Good starting points
Private household media library
Self-hosted photo archive
Digital asset management research
Fit and limitations
Fit at a glance
- Project type
- Self-hosted AI photos
- Repository set
- 1 repository
- Runtime status
- Unverified
! Known limitations
- Collected from public repository information; no real runtime environment was verified for this release.
- Indexing and machine-learning workloads require target-specific resource testing.
- Membership-gated and external map or geocoding behavior is Unverified.
? Confirm before starting
- Docker or a repository-supported build environment.
- Persistent originals, storage, and database paths with a tested backup.
- Never publish private media, account credentials, database contents, or .env files.
Repository set
These repositories form the complete project workflow. Follow setup order and include optional services only when the confirmed goal needs them.
photoprism/photoprism
Primary Go backend, Vue frontend, CLI, media pipeline, and deployment repository
- Default branch
- develop
- Captured revision
- develop branch; exact current commit Unverified
- Author / maintainer
- PhotoPrism contributors
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Catalog updated 2026-07-29. Reconfirm licenses, revisions, environment requirements, and runtime behavior from each repository before starting.