Photoview
★ 6.5kA self-hosted alternative to Icloud
GNU General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall4 Containers — 4 containers — moderate hosting footprintDocker · Compose · Package +1Needs MariaDB
About
Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery designed for people who keep their media on a local filesystem and want a fast way to browse it. It is aimed especially at photographers, with support for...
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Features
- filesystem-based albums
- user management
- public sharing links
- password-protected links
- RAW support
- EXIF parsing
- video support
- automatic video optimization
- face recognition
- thumbnail generation
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 3, 2026
- Created
- Jul 7, 2019
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composepackage-managersource
- Requirements
- Dockerdocker-composePostgreSQL 18 or 17MariaDB LTSSQLitemake (optional)7zz (optional)
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- database-dumpfile-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓4 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 4 containers
Docker Compose
4 services · database: mariadb · infra: mariadb · 1 unclassified (watchtower)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (14 volumes)
docker-compose example/docker-compose.example.yml · @ 4d25eb6 · scanned Sep 23, 2026
services:
## Makes sure that the media cache folder is created with the correct permissions
photoview-prepare:
image: photoview/photoview:2
hostname: photoview-prepare
container_name: photoview-prepare
network_mode: "none"
user: root
entrypoint: []
command: /bin/bash -c "sleep 1 && chown -R photoview:photoview /home/photoview/media-cache"
cap_add:
- CHOWN
volumes:
- "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro" ## use local time from host
- "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro" ## use timezone from host
- "${HOST_PHOTOVIEW_LOCATION}/storage:/home/photoview/media-cache"
photoview:
image: photoview/photoview:2
labels:
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