HomeGallery
Browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 3 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Google Photos.
At a glance
HomeGallery quick facts
- Health score
- 36/100 STALE
- Stars
- 1,209
- Last commit
- 17 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to HomeGallery
Full rankings: Google Photos alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image and face discovery. Try the demo gallery or enjoy the food images!"
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
HomeGallery scores 36/100, #21 of 25 in Photo Galleries: 3 commits in the last 90 days earn 3.5 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 1,209 stars add 12.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 31.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 3.5 / 35
3 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 12.3 / 20
1.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 3
- Last 90 days
- 51
- Last 12 months
- 17 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #21 of 25 tools in Photo Galleries by health , between Damselfly (#20) and PhotoStructure (#22) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 1,209 |
| Open issues | 41 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | xemle/home-gallery ↗ |
HomeGallery vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with HomeGallery (Photo Galleries), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immich | 100 | 118k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Ente | 98 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| PhotoPrism | 98 | 40k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| LibrePhotos | 96 | 8.1k | MIT | today |
| Damselfly | 53 | 1.8k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| HomeGallery (this tool) | 36 | 1.2k | MIT | 17 days ago |
HomeGallery: common questions
What does HomeGallery replace?
Repoly lists HomeGallery as an open-source alternative to Google Photos. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where HomeGallery stands against the others.
Is HomeGallery still maintained?
HomeGallery had 3 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 17 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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