Immich
Photo Galleries
Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).
Actively maintained
Real momentum
AGPL-3.0
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
Damselfly is an open-source photo galleries project, with 1.8k GitHub stars and a health score of 23/100. It committed 60 times in the last twelve months across 2 of those months, and its status is dormant. Licence: GPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Dormant — No meaningful commits for months. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-01-14 |
| Days since last commit | 215 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 60 |
| Months with activity | 2 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-01-14 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Category | Photo Galleries |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Damselfly is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
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.
Dormant. Damselfly recorded 60 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 2 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-01-14. Last release: 2026-01-14. No meaningful commits for months.
Damselfly is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
25 open-source implementations, 15 of them actively maintained, led by Immich at 111k stars. Saturation score 61/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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