# LycheeOrg/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/LycheeOrg/Lychee
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lycheeorg-lychee
Homepage: https://lycheeorg.dev
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: photos, photo-management, gallery, hacktoberfest, photo-gallery, photo-gallery-application, php, typescript, vuejs
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:47:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2947, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 4, "n_releases_24m": 78}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4265, forks 376 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:40.686687+00:00)

## What it is
Lychee is a free, open-source, self-hosted photo management system with a web interface for uploading, organizing, and sharing photos. It runs on your own server via Docker or manual PHP installation, supports EXIF/IPTC metadata, password-protected albums, and stores photos without compression or limits.

## Use cases
- self-host a personal photo gallery on my own server
- manage and share photo albums with password protection
- replace Google Photos with a private photo library
- upload and organize photos with EXIF metadata preserved
- run a web-based photo gallery with docker compose
- share photos publicly with one click from my server

## When to choose
- you want full control and ownership of your photo data on your own server
- you need a polished web gallery with albums, sharing, and metadata support
- you want a Docker-first deployment with no storage limits or compression
- privacy matters - no analytics or tracking out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need cloud-native AI features like automatic face recognition or object tagging
- you want a mobile-first native app experience rather than a web app
- you need multi-user enterprise DAM workflows with heavy integrations
- you cannot run a PHP server or Docker container

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, self-hosted, web-framework, search-engine, file-upload
- domain: photography, media, self-hosted, web-development, privacy
- platform: self-hosted, php, cross-platform
- tags: photo-gallery, photo-management, self-hosted, exif, album-sharing, laravel, vuejs, docker-compose, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- LycheeOrg/Lychee (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.686687+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 2026-08-29T18:22:03.447151+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.686687+00:00, sha f39f6d2fcb74)
  - homepage: https://lycheeorg.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.968922+00:00, sha 9c96e846a848)
  - site_page: https://lycheeorg.dev/2025-08-13-opensource-processes-documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.978249+00:00, sha 3a48b2ef2cc1)
  - site_page: https://lycheeorg.dev/docs/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.982218+00:00, sha 9f71dc36a85b)
  - site_page: https://lycheeorg.dev/docs/getting-started/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.984157+00:00, sha 210efe0be5a1)
  - site_page: https://lycheeorg.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.990601+00:00, sha c43723d7111f)
  - site_page: https://lycheeorg.dev/support (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:33.980448+00:00, sha fb75ad4dffac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.