Your family's photos and videos, backed up from your phones to your own server.
PhotoPrism
Browse, search and share a lifetime of family photos, privately on your own computer.
Family
AGPL-3.0-only
What it does
PhotoPrism turns a folder of family photos and videos into a private photo library you open in the browser. It sorts pictures by date and place, recognises faces and things like "beach" or "dog", and shows your trips on a world map. Share albums with relatives by link, and back up phones with a sync app. It runs on your own computer or NAS, so your pictures never go to a big tech company.
- Works with the photo folders you already have, including RAW and video
- Recognises faces, objects and places, all on your own hardware
- World map, calendar, albums and share links for relatives
- Phone backup through WebDAV sync apps
Great for: Families with years of photos on hard drives who want them organised, searchable and private.
Tell my AI: make it mine
Try the demo
View on GitHub
Official public demo. Don't upload anything private.
- LicenceAGPL-3.0-only
- Where it runsOnline (from $7.50/month) · Your computer (free)
- Built withgo, javascript, vue
- Your dataStays in your own copy
- Sourcephotoprism/photoprism
Ways to use it
Choose one when you tell your AI. It sets everything up with you, in plain words.
- Online with PikaPods from $7.50/monthA small, friendly host just for open-source apps. Pay by the hour, cancel any time, and new accounts get $5 of free credit. Third-party host.
- Online with Elestio from $16/monthFully managed hosting on your own private server, with automatic backups, updates and monitoring. Third-party host.
- On my own computerFreeYour AI installs what it needs and explains each step. It works while your computer is on.
Hosts are independent companies, not BespokeAI. You sign up and pay them directly. We may earn a referral fee, which never changes your price.
How people are using this project
Examples of what people ask their AI to do with PhotoPrism. Start from one, or just tell your AI and it will ask what you'd like.
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“Help me name the faces of my children, my parents and my partner in PhotoPrism, so I can click a name and see all their photos.”
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“Make an album of this summer's holiday and give me a link my parents can open on their iPad without signing up. It should stop working after three months.”
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“I want every photo from my iPhone and my husband's Android phone to go into PhotoPrism at home every night, without us doing anything.”
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“Can PhotoPrism describe each photo in a sentence so I can search 'birthday cake' or 'snow', using an AI that runs on my own computer?”
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“Make a full-screen page for the old tablet in our kitchen that slowly shows random favourite photos, with no buttons, and starts again by itself.”
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Can I trust it?
- AGPL-3.0-only. Free to use and change. If you run a changed version that other people use over the internet (not just your own household), you must offer them your source code under the same licence. "PhotoPrism" and its logo are registered trademarks: a changed copy you share must not use the brand. Some extras are only for paying members.
- Your data: stores personal data, on your own device or server. Your original photos stay in your own folder (originals volume). Thumbnails, sidecar files, settings and the SQLite option live in the storage volume; the index of albums, people and labels is in MariaDB (database volume).
- Other services: PhotoPrism places service (geocoding) (optional, free); Ollama (local) or OpenAI (optional, free with your own hardware, or pay-per-use with OpenAI); Phone sync app (PhotoSync or another WebDAV app) (optional, varies); PhotoPrism membership (Essentials, Plus) (optional, paid subscription)
- Pinned version
1c515fd. Every handover uses exactly this code, which we've reviewed. - Change PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD and the database passwords from 'insecure' before the first start, and never set PHOTOPRISM_AUTH_MODE to public on an internet-facing server.
- Photos often show children, homes and locations. Use HTTPS and a reverse proxy before opening it to the internet; share links work for anyone who has them.
- GPS coordinates are sent to PhotoPrism's places service unless you disable it. AI captions with OpenAI send your photos to OpenAI; Ollama keeps them local.
- The MCP endpoint is on by default for signed-in users. Disable it with PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_MCP if you don't use AI assistants.
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