Immich
Photo Galleries
Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).
Actively maintained
Real momentum
AGPL-3.0
Every open-source photo galleries project we track, scored on maintenance, momentum and licence — so you can tell the live competitors from the abandoned repositories.
Photo Galleries has 25 open-source implementations in this dataset, of which 15 show real momentum and 1 are dormant or abandoned. The leader is Immich with 111k stars against a category median of 1.9k — roughly 58x the typical project. Saturation score 61/100: Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
The practical test in this category: Immich is the reference implementation at 111k stars, and 15 of 25 projects are still shipping. A buyer evaluating you will find at least one maintained free option, so your pricing and positioning have to answer "why not self-host Immich?" in the first minute.
Photo Galleries
Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).
Photo Galleries
Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow. Browse, organize, and share your personal photo collection, using the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures.
Photo Galleries
An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos).
Photo Galleries
A smart imaging service and enables on-demand cropping, resizing, applying filters and optimizing images.
Photo Galleries
Photo management service with a slight focus on cool graphs (alternative to Google Photos).
Photo Galleries
Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos.
Photo Galleries
Grid and album based photo-management-system.
Photo Galleries
Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.
Photo Galleries
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
Photo Galleries
Directory-first photo gallery website, with a rich UI, optimised for running on low resource servers.
Photo Galleries
Personal gallery application with online photo management, supporting Live/Motion Photos, and explore map.
Photo Galleries
Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windo
Photo Galleries
Lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source.
Photo Galleries
Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.
Photo Galleries
Ultimate image sharing software. Create your very own personal image hosting website in just minutes.
Photo Galleries
Yet another simple static gallery generator.
Photo Galleries
Experimental fast photo viewer.
Photo Galleries
Open-source gallery and CMS project.
Photo Galleries
A simple, lightweight and fast media server with decent mobile support.
Photo Galleries
Event photo sharing platform and gallery with slideshow that allows guests to view and share memories via a QR code.
Photo Galleries
Aggregates images taken this week, from previous years and presents them on a web page with a simple slideshow.
Photo Galleries
Media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud).
Photo Galleries
All your family's photos and videos automatically organized into a fun and beautiful website. Runs via Docker, NodeJS, or native desktop installers.
Photo Galleries
Scalable image hosting script with support for CDNs, paid account upgrades, advertising spots and drag & drop upload.
Photo Galleries
Web gallery in one single PHP file.
Existence is not competition. A project competes with you only if it is maintained, findable, deployable by your buyer and licensed for their use. Most projects fail at least one of those tests. Run all four before you shelve an idea — or before you assume you have a clear run.
Stars are a lifetime counter with no decay, so a project abandoned in 2022 still looks like a leader in 2026. In this dataset 149 projects are dormant, abandoned or archived, and several of them sit in the top decile by stars. Sort by momentum and commit activity instead — popularity tells you the project was once interesting, maintenance tells you whether it will still be there when your customer needs a bug fixed.
When a prospect says 'we could just self-host the free one', they are usually comparing your price against zero. The real comparison is your price against hosting, upgrades, backups, security patching, integration work and the engineer hours behind all of it. Quantifying that number is the single most effective response to a free-alternative objection — and it is more persuasive coming with a spreadsheet than with a feature list.
Founders treat licensing as a legal footnote and then discover it dictates strategy. Permissive licences allow closed commercial forks, which is why so many managed services exist around MIT and Apache projects — and also why your differentiation cannot be the code itself. Copyleft licences, especially AGPL, remove the closed-wrapper option entirely, which reduces competition but restricts you too. Source-available licences exist precisely to stop the wrapper business.
Search this database by category and by the commercial product you would replace. It covers 1665 projects across 130 categories, each mapped to the paid tool it substitutes. If your category shows a "Crowded" verdict, a maintained free version almost certainly exists and your positioning has to account for it.
No. It means free is your price anchor. Plenty of large companies were built next to a good open-source project — the ones that failed were the ones selling the same job at a price the free tool made indefensible. Find the part of the job the project deliberately does not do, and sell that.
Each category gets a 0–100 score built from three inputs: how many implementations exist, what share of them are still actively maintained, and how far ahead the leading project is compared with the category median. 62+ is Crowded, 38–61 Contested, under 38 Open. 11 categories are Crowded and 88 are Open.
A project has momentum when it committed code in most of the last twelve months, shipped a release recently and is not archived. 736 of 1665 projects qualify. This is the single most useful filter here — it strips out the popular-but-dead repositories that make a category look more competitive than it is.
It depends entirely on the licence. MIT, Apache and BSD let you build and sell closed products on top. GPL and AGPL require derivative work to stay open, and AGPL extends that to network use, which blocks most SaaS wrappers. BSL, SSPL and Commons Clause are source-available, not open source, and usually restrict competing commercial use outright.
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