Photoview
Simple and user-friendly photo gallery for personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos.
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Still maintained? Yes: 29 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.4.0 (Jun 2024).
Comparisons in Photo Galleries: Google Photos alternatives.
At a glance
Photoview quick facts
- Health score
- 69/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 6,559
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.4.0, Jun 2024
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Photoview scores 69/100, #16 of 25 in Photo Galleries: 29 commits in the last 90 days earn 33.8 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.4.0, 2.4 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 6,559 stars add 15.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 33.8 / 35
29 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
v2.4.0 released 2.4 years ago
- Stars 15.3 / 20
6.6k 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
- 29
- Last 90 days
- 99
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 25 tools in Photo Galleries by health , between Photofield (#15) and Chevereto (#17) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v2.4.0 · 2.4 years ago |
| Stars | 6,559 |
| Open issues | 151 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | photoview/photoview ↗ |
Photoview vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Photoview (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 |
| LibrePhotos | 96 | 8.1k | MIT | today |
| ChronoFrame | 93 | 2k | MIT | today |
| Memtly | 90 | 300 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Photoview (this tool) | 69 | 6.6k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Photoview: common questions
Is Photoview still maintained?
Photoview had 29 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v2.4.0, is from 2.4 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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