Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- MySQL Community Edition
- Self-Hosted
- MariaDB
- PHP




Chevereto is the most popular commercial alternative to Lychee.
- Chevereto is Paid and Proprietary
Lychee is described as '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' and is a Photo Manager in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Lychee for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Linux apps. The best Lychee alternative is Ente Photos, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lychee are PixelUnion, Google Photos, PhotoPrism and Piwigo.




Chevereto is the most popular commercial alternative to Lychee.
Privacy-first photo organization software. Automatically sort 10,000 photos by date and location. Analyze 127 EXIF metadata fields. Generate heat maps and PDF reports. 100% local, no cloud.




JCDSee Web Photo Gallery is a separate project from the JCDSee desktop Java client. It is a web-based photo viewing / cataloging system written in Perl.
An open source web based photo album organizer. A fork/ revival of the original Gallery software project. http://galleryproject.org/ Now Gallery Revival, or Gallery 3. Updated on github.
fgallery is a static photo gallery generator with no frills that has a stylish, minimalist look. “fgallery” shows your photos, and nothing else.

Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.



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.




Phostow is a Google Photos alternative that magically keeps all of your photos backed up to wherever there's space on your devices, avoiding expensive cloud photo storage.


DragNDropz is a centralized online image gallery software platform that can stand alone or be used with existing websites. DragNDropz allows you to create and share unlimited image galleries using a simple drag and drop interface.
Zoph (Zoph Organizes Photos) is a web based digital image presentation and management system. In other words, a photo album. It is built with PHP, MySQL and Perl.




QuMagie is a QTS photo management application that uses AI to help you manage photos and videos stored on your QNAP NAS. QuMagie integrates facial recognition and object recognition to make browsing and organizing photos and videos easier than ever before.


