Librephotos

LibrePhotos is a self hosted, open source photo management service. It scans the folders a user already has, detects faces, places and events, and makes the whole library searchable. The vendor states that nothing is sent to a third party, neither photos nor metadata, and that the project has no trackers or phone home behavior. Its machine learning features run locally. The project lists InsightFace for face detection, OpenCLIP for tags and semantic search, LFM2 VL for captions, ONNX Runtime to run the models, and Nominatim for reverse geocoding, alongside libvips, FFmpeg and ExifTool for media handling. The interface offers a timeline, photo details, people sorted by face, a map of places, and automatically generated event albums. It suits households and individuals who want to keep a photo library on their own hardware. It can run in Docker, on Kubernetes or Unraid, or as a standalone Windows program that needs no Docker or Python and uses a SQLite database for a single person's library. An Android app is included. Model files are downloaded on the first scan, which needs an internet connection once. LibrePhotos is MIT licensed and free. It is built and maintained by volunteers, with no paid tier, and sponsorship through GitHub or PayPal funds the hardware and release work.