Photoview

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.

Maintained

At a glance

GitHub stars
6.6k
Last activity
2026-10-29
Latest release
v2.4.0
2024-06-23
Commits (12 mo)
89
License
GPL-3.0
Language / platform
Go, Docker

Maintenance health: Maintained — Activity within the last 12 months.

Run Photoview yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
  • machine-learning features (faces, search) need 2–4 GB RAM

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

Prefer managed hosting? Check PikaPods or Elestio.

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