LibrePhotos
A photo management service
LibrePhotos
🖼️ LibrePhotos is a photo management application that helps users organize and browse their photo and video collections with ease. It provides features like face recognition that automatically detects and groups people in photos to make searching simpler. The app uses artificial intelligence to identify objects and scenes in images, enabling users to perform semantic searches based on the content of their photos.
It supports a wide variety of file formats including RAW and HEIC and allows for automatic album creation based on events, dates, and locations. Users can explore their media chronologically through a timeline view and search their photos by metadata such as GPS coordinates and EXIF information.
The application also supports multi-user access with customizable permissions, enabling different users to interact with the photo library according to their roles. Additional features include reverse geocoding to assign place names to photo locations and an integrated mobile app that facilitates offline access and synchronization.
Overall, LibrePhotos aims to provide a comprehensive, intelligent, and user-friendly way to manage large collections of photos and videos.
⚠️ Initial setup may take 5-10 minutes depending on your hardware. Please be patient while LibrePhotos gets ready in the background.
Some of the key highlights in this release include:
- Face recognition results can now be written back to XMP sidecar files, making face tagging data portable and compatible with other photo tools
- New services health monitoring panel in the admin page showing real-time status of all background services with start and stop controls
- New server logs card in the admin panel lets you inspect server logs directly from the UI
- New and updated translations: Danish, German, Korean, Tamil, Dutch, Ukrainian
- Fixed motion photo video serving
- Fixed duplicate face detection using more accurate overlap calculation
- Fixed photo captioning crash when the tag service returns an unexpected response
- Fixed login error notification to show proper error messages
- Security fix: Django updated to v5.2.12
- Security fix: Prevented non-admin users from creating superuser accounts via the registration API
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-docker/releases
Some of the key highlights in this release include:
- RAW+JPEG pairs and Live Photos are now grouped as a single photo with multiple file variants, with a new UI for managing stacks and duplicates
- Brand-new duplicate detection using perceptual hashing, supporting both exact and visual duplicate finding
- Public album sharing now supports per-album controls for location, camera info, timestamps, captions, and faces
- New slideshow mode in the lightbox with a configurable slide interval
- New dedicated explore page replacing the navigation dropdown for browsing albums, people, places, and events
- Redesigned album and statistics pages with a fresh new look
- New spotlight search with keyboard navigation replaces the old search bar
- You can now select all photos in a view for bulk operations
- Choose between two tagging models: Places365 (classic) and SigLIP 2 (Google's vision-language model)
- Switched to MapLibre GL with PhotoPrism tile server for all map views
- Fullscreen mode added to the lightbox
- Fixed scan progress getting stuck below 100% when files are skipped or invalid
- Fixed video playback issues in the lightbox
- Fixed photo list flickering and upload issues
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-docker/releases
Some of the key highlights in this release include:
- You can now edit GPS locations for your photos
- Public sharing via link for albums
- Folder navigation view with pagination and aggregated photo counts for subfolders
- Breadcrumb path in detail views and infinite scroll for subfolders
- Improved deletion dialog and centered login title
- Fixed scanning of videos and media from Nextcloud
- Fixed cache invalidation issues in face dashboard
- Fixed GIFs in viewer and no-timestamp errors
- Faster authentication for new and updated accounts
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-docker/releases
- Version2026w14
- CategoryFiles & Productivity
- Source codePublic
- Developed by
- Submitted by
- Compatible withumbrelOS 0.5 or later
