KYkykeonaut·Jun 26, 2025Submission
Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right
2 points · Open discussionLycheeOrg
Lychee
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LycheeOrg / Lychee
Lychee
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
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What it is
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
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Observed mentions: 2019-04-29 09:53:42 UTC to 2025-06-26 11:28:43 UTC.
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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7 sourcesI've been using Lychee for many years - https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
Memories looks like a nice alternative, anyone using Lychee here with a comparison?
In Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performanceI've been self-hosting Lychee for a while and love it
https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
In Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement [audio]Oh, if I had read further into the README I would have seen this:
> https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee#build
> Lychee is ready to use, right out of the box. If you want to contribute and edit CSS or JS files, you need to rebuild https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee-front.
So their JavaScript source code is in a separate "Lychee-front" repository and they commit the build artifacts into the main "Lychee" repo. Not sure why they would do this.
In Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done rightAnd here it is the Github repo: https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee. This might be helpful to people when looking for Lychee alternatives.
In Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done rightI recently installed and started using this:
https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
It doesn't have a load of features, but I expect to be using this for my own pictures from now on. You can create albums and select which users have access to which albums.
In Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryptionI've been using Lychee [1] on a vps with good results.
It looks pretty good, has multi-user capability, metadata editing, etc. It would be nice if it had some geotagging integration and ability to group albums into sets.
I filed a bug report and the developers/maintainers fixed it very quickly.
[1] https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
In Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based