# photoview/photoview

Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

Repository: https://github.com/photoview/photoview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/photoview-photoview
Homepage: https://photoview.github.io/
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: photography, raw, docker, nas, selfhosted, photo, gallery, photo-gallery, photographers, exif, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-20T09:32:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2614, "days_push": 13, "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 6515, forks 478 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:44.830294+00:00)

## What it is
Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery web application for personal servers, written in Go. It scans directories of photos and videos, generates thumbnails, extracts EXIF metadata, and organizes media into albums mirroring the filesystem.

## Use cases
- self-host a personal photo gallery on my NAS
- browse thousands of high-resolution RAW photos quickly
- view my photos on a map using EXIF GPS data
- share photo albums with password-protected links
- organize photos by filesystem folders with automatic scanning
- host a private multi-user photo library with Docker

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, fast self-hosted gallery that mirrors your filesystem structure
- you shoot RAW photos and need Darktable-based conversion support
- you want EXIF metadata display and automatic map grouping of photos
- you prefer Docker deployment with PostgreSQL and multi-user sharing

## When to avoid
- you need AI-based face recognition or automatic tagging like PhotoPrism or Immich
- you want a maintained official mobile app (the iOS app is no longer maintained)
- you need cloud-sync features beyond Nextcloud/Samba/FTP media sources
- you want a gallery that manages uploads rather than scanning existing files

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, http-server, search-engine, file-system
- domain: photography, self-hosted, media, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, go
- tags: photo-gallery, exif-metadata, raw-photos, face-recognition, media-server, nas, video-thumbnails, maps, docker, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- photoview/photoview (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:44.830294+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 2026-08-29T17:44:26.562641+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/photoview/photoview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:44.830294+00:00, sha a6319658312e)
  - homepage: https://photoview.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:38.403391+00:00, sha f1a7bdc1debc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.