# hooram/ownphotos

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

Repository: https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ownphotos
Language: Jupyter Notebook
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: backend, photos, docker, face-detection, face-recognition, gallery, selfhosted, django, django-rest-framework, object-detection, google-photos
Last push: 2022-12-07T23:36:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3334, "days_push": 1365, "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 2760, forks 224 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:18.428031+00:00)

## What it is
Ownphotos is a self-hosted Google Photos alternative built with a Django backend and React frontend, offering face recognition, object detection, automatic event albums, and location-based photo search. The project has been archived and its development has moved to LibrePhotos.

## Use cases
- self-host my photo library like google photos
- organize photos by people using face recognition
- search my photos by objects detected in them
- automatically create event albums from my pictures
- view my photos on a map by location
- run a private photo gallery on my own server with docker

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted Google Photos clone with face detection and object search
- you prefer owning your photo data on your own hardware instead of a cloud service
- you want to explore the original codebase that LibrePhotos evolved from

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained self-hosted photo manager - use LibrePhotos instead
- you need a stable production-ready photo solution, since this project was explicitly in early stages
- you require photo sharing or editing features that were never completed here

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, computer-vision, search-engine, auth, web-framework, api-framework, self-hosted
- domain: photography, media, self-hosted, computer-vision, machine-learning, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, python, cross-platform
- tags: photo-gallery, face-recognition, google-photos-alternative, django, react, object-detection, photo-management, archived-project, librephotos-predecessor, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- hooram/ownphotos (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.428031+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 2026-08-30T08:18:45.667043+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.428031+00:00, sha eef0fb812163)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.