Open Source Flickr AlternativesTop Photo Sharing Apps & Photo Managers like Flickr

The best open source alternative to Flickr is Ente Photos. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Flickr and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Flickr are PhotoPrism, PixelUnion, Piwigo and LibrePhotos.

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Flickr alternatives are mainly Photo Sharing Apps, but if you're looking for Photo Managers or Image Hosting Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, EU and Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Flickr.
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  1. Ente Photos icon
     196 likes

    Open-source, end-to-end encrypted backup and sharing for photos and videos, multi-platform sync, original quality preservation, privacy-first design, collaborative albums, family sharing, secure external sharing, robust data replication, and device imports.

    155 Ente Photos alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Flatpak
    • Cloudron
     
  2. PhotoPrism icon
     127 likes

    AI-powered, privacy-centered platform for managing, searching, and organizing photos with automatic tagging, face recognition, RAW support, advanced filters, geocoding, secure backups, Live Photo playback, and private server or cloud hosting options.

    139 PhotoPrism alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • DigitalOcean
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Docker
     
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  3. PixelUnion icon
     34 likes

    PixelUnion is a privacy-focused, EU-based photo storage service alternative to Google Photos. It offers lossless uploads, free 16 GB starter storage, AI-powered face recognition, and more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Piwigo icon
     71 likes

    Manage your photo collection with Piwigo Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.

    142 Piwigo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  5. LibrePhotos icon
     22 likes

    Unlike commercial service that store your photos in the cloud and scan/index them to train their machine learning models and collect ad targeting data on you, LibrePhotos keeps all your photos and metadata on your local machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Stingle Photos icon
     27 likes

    Stingle Photos is a secure photo/video encryption and backup application that provides strong security, privacy, encryption and safely saves your media on cloud storage keeping you safe from data breaches and leaks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  7. Photobox icon
     5 likes

    Photo library and interactive editor built with Next.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. ShotsShare icon
     7 likes

    ShotShare is an open source, self hosted, bare bones image posting/sharing platform, it was built to allow friends to upload screenshots and send links to their friends without the constant barrage of ads/extraneous features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  9. Recall Photos icon
     9 likes

    Recall is an open-source and decentralized alternative to Google Photos built on top of Blockstack. Photos are stored encrypted with the user's private key and therefore not accessible to anyone else.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Blockstack
     
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