Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web that comes with powerful features to publish and manage your collection of pictures.
Piwigo is a free and open-source web-based system, built by an active community of users and developers. Freely available extensions make Piwigo easily customizable. It is notable as a system with many features.
Main Features
- Add Photos
Photos can be added via a web form, with an FTP client software, with digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom, iPhoto (Mac users), Aperture (Mac users) or mobile applications for iPhone/iPad and Android
- Multiple size
Each photo is available in 9 sizes, from XXS to XXL, for improved compatibility with various screen resolutions (from smartphones to HDTVs)
- Watermark
Piwigo can automatically add a watermark on all photos, to protect photos against unwanted copy.
- Albums
Each image is bound to one or more albums. Albums are hierarchical and there is no limit in depth.
- Tags
An administrator describes photos with tags, then visitors can browse photos by tags or multiple related tags, for example "night + Paris + John".
- Calendar
Extracted from EXIF metadata, Piwigo knows the date of each photo and is able to display photos for a given day, month or year.
- Themes
The appearance of the photo gallery is defined by the theme. There are various themes provided by the project community.
- Plugins
Plugins expand capabilities of Piwigo. Example of plugins: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Google Maps or displaying photos in a Lightbox.
- Access control
Access control is handled by the user manager, restricting and granting varying levels of access to photos and albums.
- Notification system
Users can be alerted of changes and updates through RSS feeds, E-mail or sharing on social networks Twitter, Facebook or Google+.
- Videos
With the use of freely available extensions, Piwigo may also be used to handle videos.
CIAvash added Piwigo as alternative to Lavender Photos
muhammadfarag added Piwigo as alternative to Hash Photos
muhammadfarag added Piwigo as alternative to Google Gallery
Comments and Reviews
Fairly easy to get started with it. Still actively being developed and it has a lot of features for displaying photographs online, including watermarking your images.
Piwigo is not free. He only has 14 days of testing
Piwigo is free if you host it yourself. Cloud-hosted version costs
Installation unclear, and lots and lots of little files.
Self hosting etc are all great options, but you cant upload all of your images and keep your folder structure too, which is bit of a bummer. You need to do it folder by folder
Hi tomara, actually you can use Piwigo Remote Sync which will read your local folder structure and synchronize it with your albums in Piwigo. You can also use FTP (not available on Piwigo.com, only if you host Piwigo on your own hosting) to upload your folder structure and then use the "sync" feature in Piwigo administration.