Piwigo
Photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.
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Still maintained? Yes: 10 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 16.4.0 (May 2026).
Also an alternative to Google Photos.
At a glance
Piwigo quick facts
- Health score
- 61/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 3,875
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 16.4.0, May 2026
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to Piwigo
Full rankings: Google Photos alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Manage your photo library. Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Piwigo scores 61/100, #19 of 25 in Photo Galleries: 10 commits in the last 90 days earn 11.7 of 35 points, the latest release (16.4.0, 6 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,875 stars add 14.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 23.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 11.7 / 35
10 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
16.4.0 released 6 months ago
- Stars 14.4 / 20
3.9k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 10
- Last 90 days
- 129
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 25 tools in Photo Galleries by health , between Zenphoto (#18) and Damselfly (#20) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 16.4.0 · 6 months ago |
| Stars | 3,875 |
| Open issues | 657 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Piwigo/Piwigo ↗ |
Piwigo vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Piwigo (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 |
| Lychee | 95 | 4.3k | MIT | yesterday |
| Piwigo (this tool) | 61 | 3.9k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
Piwigo: common questions
What does Piwigo replace?
Repoly lists Piwigo as an open-source alternative to Google Photos. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Piwigo stands against the others.
Is Piwigo still maintained?
Piwigo had 10 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 16.4.0, is from 6 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.