# electerious/Lychee

A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.

Repository: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lychee
Homepage: https://lychee.electerious.com
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-01-08T15:56:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5083, "days_push": 1698, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6357, forks 654 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:42.807045+00:00)

## What it is
Lychee is a self-hosted, open-source photo-management web application written in PHP that lets users upload, organize, search, and share photos and albums from their own server. It features a polished browser-based UI, EXIF/IPTC metadata display, password-protected albums, Dropbox import, and optional Imagick-accelerated image processing.

## Use cases
- self-host a personal photo gallery on my own server
- upload and organize photos in albums from a browser
- share photo albums publicly or with password protection
- view EXIF metadata of my photos
- import photos from Dropbox to my own gallery
- replace cloud photo services with a private alternative

## When to choose
- you want full control over your photo storage on your own server or web-space
- you need a lightweight PHP/MySQL photo gallery that installs in minutes
- you want a beautiful, photographer-friendly UI with metadata support
- you prefer open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Google Photos

## When to avoid
- you need active development and recent features - this original repository has moved to the LycheeOrg organization
- you require mobile native apps or machine-learning-based photo search
- your hosting lacks PHP 5.5+ and MySQL
- you need multi-user role management out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, file-upload, web-framework, search-engine
- domain: photography, media, self-hosted, web-development, privacy
- platform: self-hosted, php, cross-platform
- tags: photo-management, photo-sharing, albums, exif, imagick, web-app, gallery, web-server, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- electerious/Lychee (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:42.807045+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 2026-08-29T17:46:05.550591+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:42.807045+00:00, sha 1a9730b73854)
  - homepage: https://lychee.electerious.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:18.603333+00:00, sha bacb36c0e114)
  - site_page: https://ackee.electerious.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:18.606360+00:00, sha ba374fdcd80a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.