# xemle/home-gallery

Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery

Repository: https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/home-gallery
Homepage: https://home-gallery.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gallery, videos, open-source, web-gallery, mobile, geo-reverse-lookups, photo-gallery, reverse-image-search, tagging, photos, calculate-previews, mobile-phones, exif, face-detection, face-recognition, linux, macos, photography, self-hosted, windows
Last push: 2026-06-25T21:41:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2080, "days_push": 69, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1174, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:52.009100+00:00)

## What it is
HomeGallery is a self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing personal photos and videos with a mobile-friendly interface. It offers AI-powered similar image search, face recognition, tagging, reverse geolocation, and flexible search over local media files served from a NAS or local directories.

## Use cases
- self-host my photo and video gallery without cloud services
- find similar images like sunsets or food without manual tagging
- recognize and group faces of family members in my photos
- browse my photo library on my mobile phone
- view photos on a map with reverse geocoded locations
- serve a gallery on top of my existing folder structure on a NAS

## When to choose
- you want full privacy and keep media files local instead of a cloud service
- you need fast mobile browsing of a large personal media archive
- you want AI-powered similar image discovery and face recognition without manual tagging
- you prefer a single-user gallery over multiple source directories

## When to avoid
- you need multi-user access control or sharing with other users
- you want a fully GUI-driven setup without CLI/terminal interaction
- you need a polished, commercially supported product with warranty
- you primarily use macOS or Windows, which are barely tested compared to Linux

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, search-engine, web-framework, cli, self-hosted
- domain: photography, media, self-hosted, web-development, computer-vision
- platform: windows, self-hosted
- tags: photo-gallery, face-recognition, similar-image-search, exif, reverse-geocoding, tagging, videos, mobile-friendly, pwa, linux, macos, docker, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- xemle/home-gallery (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.009100+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:28:19.638946+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.009100+00:00, sha b4a8aca12738)
  - homepage: https://home-gallery.org (fetched 2026-08-29T12:33:34.558022+00:00, sha 0793d5732557)
  - site_page: https://home-gallery.org/docs/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:33:34.566808+00:00, sha b6ac888c1969)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.