Pic-O

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. Pic-O focuses on doing one thing exceptionally well: Make your photo archives effortlessly viewable and shareable.

It’s designed for photographers, families, and self-hosters who want an easy way to organize and share their photo collections without the complexity or overhead of full-fledged photo management suites. Unlike heavy solutions that try to automate everything, Pic-O keeps things simple: you create albums, fill them with your favorite photos, and publish them beautifully.

It’s built for simplicity, privacy, and performance, and designed to look great on any screen:

• Lightweight -- built on Laravel: fast to deploy, simple to maintain
• Organized your way -- easily create and managed dynamic albums
• Share securely -- login-based access and private, tokenized share links
• Beautiful viewing -- animated masonry grid with slideshow and photo details on demand
• Mobile friendly -- smooth navigation and management from any device
• Easy to host -- ships with a ready-to-use Docker container for quick setup

Pic-O is built on a few core principles:

• Your photos are yours -- we just help you show them off
• Open source and community-driven -- licensed under MIT for everyone to use and improve
• Performance, usability, and privacy -- should be defaults, not options

If you value clarity over clutter, ownership over cloud dependency, and beautiful simplicity, Pic-O might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.