Photofield

Self-Hosted Personal Photo Gallery

A non-invasive local photo viewer with a focus on speed and simplicity.

Quick Start

Usage

Demo

Seamless zoomable interface

Every view is zoomable if you ever need to see just a little more detail.

Progressive multi-resolution loading

The whole layout is progressively loaded from a low-res preview to a full quality photo.

Simple to run

All the dependencies are packed into a single executable for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Just download and run. Docker images are also available.

Open Source (MIT)

The source code is available on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.

Non-destructive

Your files and directories are treated as an untouchable source of truth and are never modified. You can even use a read-only mount.

Fast indexing

Files are indexed practically at the speed of the file system at up to 10000 files/sec. Additional details are extracted as follow-up operations at up to 1000 files/sec.

Flexible media system

Reuse hundreds of gigabytes of existing thumbnails or just let optimized versions be generated automatically to speed up display.

Different views

Collections of photos can be displayed with different layouts, like an album, a timeline, or a map.

Reverse geolocation

Local, embedded reverse geolocation, negligible performance impact, no API calls needed. Supports ~50 thousand places powered by geoBoundaries.

Semantic search

You can search for photo contents using words like "beach sunset", "a couple kissing", or "cat eyes". Needs to be configured as it requires running a separate AI server.

Tags (alpha)

You can tag photos with arbitrary tags, which are only stored in the database and not in the photos themselves. Needs to be enabled in the configuration.

Basic video support

Videos are supported, however there are some usability quirks. Previously transcoded resolutions are supported, but there is no support for on-the-fly transcoding right now.