# Piwigo/Piwigo

Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

Repository: https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/piwigo
Homepage: https://piwigo.org
Language: PHP
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: piwigo, photo-gallery, open-source, php, privacy, photography, web-application, cms, image-gallery, self-hosting
Last push: 2026-08-25T04:34:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 70, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4057, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 122, "gap_med": 36.5, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3844, forks 480 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:24.054151+00:00)

## What it is
Piwigo is an open source photo gallery and digital asset management (DAM) web application written in PHP, for organizing, sharing and controlling access to photo and video collections. It runs self-hosted on any PHP/MySQL web server or as a hosted cloud service, with 200+ plugins and themes and mobile apps.

## Use cases
- self-host a private photo gallery for family or friends
- manage a team or organization media library with user permissions
- share photo albums with clients as a freelance photographer
- let field teams upload photos from mobile phones
- synchronize a local photo directory to a web gallery
- replace proprietary photo cloud services with a self-hosted DAM

## When to choose
- you want a mature (since 2002), actively maintained open source photo gallery
- you need fine-grained user rights, private/public albums and contributor uploads
- you want extensibility via plugins and themes and multi-language support
- you need both self-hosted and managed hosting options with no lock-in

## When to avoid
- you need a modern JavaScript/SPA stack or headless-first architecture
- you only want a simple static image viewer without user management
- you cannot run PHP and MySQL/MariaDB on your hosting

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, self-hosted, web-framework, plugin-system, search-engine
- domain: photography, media, cms, self-hosted, web-development, privacy
- platform: self-hosted, php, windows
- tags: photo-gallery, digital-asset-management, dam, albums, photo-sharing, mysql, themes, web-server, linux, macos, android, ios

## Member repositories
- Piwigo/Piwigo (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:24.054151+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 2026-08-29T18:26:12.418737+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:24.054151+00:00, sha 70a287a5ec57)
  - homepage: https://piwigo.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.721582+00:00, sha 4562e0f9c550)
  - site_page: https://piwigo.org/features (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.726747+00:00, sha b1838ec1206a)
  - site_page: https://piwigo.org/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.732231+00:00, sha 84747f61a6ce)
  - site_page: https://piwigo.org/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.724279+00:00, sha c7f3f8184a19)
  - site_page: https://doc.piwigo.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.729109+00:00, sha 6bb8e5b2b6b3)
  - site_page: https://doc.piwigo.org/self-hosting-piwigo (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:26.730716+00:00, sha f9a25c815aeb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.