Piwigo
★ 3.9kA self-hosted alternative to Icloud
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Piwigo is an open source photo gallery application for the web, intended for organizations, teams, and individuals who want to manage a photo library online. It is positioned as a self-hosted...
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Features
- photo library management
- web photo gallery
- community-driven contributions
- documentation and demos on piwigo.org
Details
- Last Updated
- Nov 12, 2026
- Created
- Jul 25, 2015
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- A webserver (Apache or nginx recommended)PHP 7.4+MySQL 5+ or MariaDB equivalentImageMagick (recommended) or PHP GD
- Runtime / Stack
- PHP
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: no container deployment found
Run Piwigo yourself
Pick how much you want to manage.
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A small server, then Docker Compose.
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A small server, then Docker Compose.
About 20 minutes with Docker
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A small server, then Docker Compose.
About 20 minutes with Docker
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