Immich Alternatives

Immich is described as 'Self-hosted solution enabling photo and video backup, privacy-driven local AI search, facial recognition, map-based tagging, and multi-user sharing' and is a very popular Photo Manager in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Immich for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, iPhone, Android and iPad apps. The best Immich alternative is Ente Photos, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Immich are Proton Drive, Google Photos, PhotoPrism and Tuta Drive.

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Immich alternatives are mainly Photo Managers, but if you're looking for Photo Sharing Apps or Cloud Storage Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Self-Hosted and Open Source. 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 Immich.
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  1. MemoBloom lets you pick a set of photos, write your own narrative or let the AI write one for you, and plays it back as an animated slideshow. Everything runs on-device — no server, no cloud, no account. Works offline after first setup.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. Lychee icon
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    Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Installing is a matter of seconds. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.

    45 Lychee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Docker
    • SQLite
    • PostgreSQL
    • Cloudron
     
  3. Iphotron icon
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    A macOS Photos–style photo manager for Windows — folder-native, non-destructive, with HEIC/MOV Live Photo, map view, and GPU-accelerated browsing.

    23 Iphotron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PhotoCHAT icon
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    Privacy-first Windows photo manager with AI-powered natural language search and face recognition that runs 100% offline on your PC.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, feature-rich, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. Photoview icon
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    Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that can easily be installed on personal servers. It's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. CloudGallery is an Android app that lets you instantly back up all your images to Telegram using Bot API — simple, Secure, and infinite.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Android media-backup client: Kotlin, Compose, Room, WorkManager, and the Telegram Bot API—folder sync, streaming uploads, rate limits, and optional Google Photos (Picker) import.

    5 Ulap (Backup client) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. novaGallery icon
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    Free PHP image gallery solution with mobile-friendly design, flat file storage requiring no database, instant thumbnail generation, sub-album sorting, simple caching, password-protected mode for privacy, customizable themes, and FTP image upload support.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Pic-O icon
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    Pic-O is a simple, elegant, and self-hosted photo publishing platform built with Laravel 12 and Bootstrap 5.x. Modern gallery tools often aim to do too much: commenting, device syncing, editing, and even AI retouching.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  11. AlbumForge icon
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    A multilingual, privacy-first photo album creator that works 100% offline — generate emotional PDF albums in 3 clicks, with maps, memories and meaning. Free solidarity version for NGOs and therapists.

    57 AlbumForge alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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