# pulsejet/memories

Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.

Repository: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/memories
Homepage: https://memories.gallery
Language: Vue
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: nextcloud, photos, gallery, backup-tool, photo-gallery, self-hosted, videos
Last push: 2026-08-26T03:57:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 91, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1482, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 61, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3829, forks 166 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:23.200673+00:00)

## What it is
Memories is a fast, batteries-included photo and video management suite that runs as a Nextcloud app. It provides a timeline gallery, albums, sharing, AI tagging, map view, metadata editing, and on-demand video transcoding for self-hosted photo libraries.

## Use cases
- self-host a Google Photos alternative on my own server
- browse my photo library in a fast timeline view
- automatically tag and group photos by faces and objects
- transcode videos for smooth streaming in the browser
- migrate photos from Google Takeout to Nextcloud
- share photo albums with people outside my Nextcloud instance
- edit EXIF metadata like dates and GPS locations in bulk
- view my photos on a map with reverse geocoding

## When to choose
- you already run Nextcloud and want a modern, fast photo gallery
- you want a privacy-first, self-hosted replacement for commercial cloud photo services
- you need timeline browsing, albums, sharing, and AI tagging in one package
- you have large libraries (hundreds of thousands of photos) and need performance
- you want video transcoding with optional hardware acceleration (VA-API/NVENC)

## When to avoid
- you don't use Nextcloud and don't want the overhead of running it
- you need advanced photographer-oriented features like XMP tag editing
- you want a standalone photo app independent of a PHP/Nextcloud stack
- you need a native desktop photo editor rather than a web gallery

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, video-processing, search-engine, file-upload, backup, self-hosted
- domain: photography, media, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, php, cross-platform
- tags: nextcloud-app, photo-gallery, timeline, exif-metadata, video-transcoding, face-recognition, google-photos-alternative, vue, web-server, docker, android, ios

## Member repositories
- pulsejet/memories (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:23.200673+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 2026-08-29T18:26:20.435185+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:23.200673+00:00, sha 7d63fd228e24)
  - homepage: https://memories.gallery (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:15.419541+00:00, sha 4038b57d0fc9)
  - site_page: https://memories.gallery/install (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:15.428442+00:00, sha 743249168859)
  - site_page: https://memories.gallery/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:15.430139+00:00, sha 914ccf477b2b)
  - site_page: https://memories.gallery/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:15.431893+00:00, sha 950f0d81d319)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.