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hooram / ownphotos

ownphotos

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

9Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-06-13 03:20:04 UTC to 2021-05-31 03:01:01 UTC.

0123452018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You can take a look at this repo [1] Self-hosted - Photoprism [2] - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google Photos. - Photoview [3] - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers with Facial Recognition. - Photostructure [4] - Self-hosted photo library that makes browsing and sharing a lifetime of memories delightful. - LibrePhotos [5] - Active OwnPhotos [6] fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos. - Nextcloud [7] - The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a Photos plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos. Third-party - Stingle Photos [8] - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos. - Crypt.ee [9] - A private and encrypted place
Read the rest
for all your photos, documents, notes and more. - Ente [10] - Encrypted backups for your photos, videos and memories. Local - DigiKam [11] - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source. [1] https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#photo-storage [2] https://photoprism.app/ [3] https://photoview.github.io/ [4] https://photostructure.com/ [5] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos [6] https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos [7] https://nextcloud.com/ [8] https://stingle.org/ [9] https://crypt.ee/ [10] https://ente.io/ [11] https://www.digikam.org/
In Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
Cloudron is missing apps for most use cases I actually care about. Can you add a google photos type app? Maybe Piwigo (it has a good mobile app) or OwnPhotos[1] (it has face/object recognition). Lychee doesn't have a mobile app or face/object recognition. Can you add some communication apps like Matrix Synapse or Ejabberd? Mattermost is walled off from the outside world. Can you add some social apps like Pleroma or Mastodon? [1]: https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
In The importance of decentralisation
I have my photos and videos on a ZFS personal NAS at home, backed up independently to two external hard drives(secondary backup). The plan was to use recline to backup the ZFS NAS to Backblaze B2, but that bit is not setup yet. I have also been eyeing a project called photoprism to serve as a front end for my media, and perhaps Filebrowser as well as a secondary interface to view them as "files". https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism https://filebrowser.github.io Another project in the same "Google photos alternative" space that I have bookmarked is Ownphotos. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos Some day, I will find time to set it all up ;-)
In Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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