Photo & video library

Immich

Phone photo backup that feels like the big apps — on your server.

open source self-hostable FUTO · US

Automatic upload from phones, face and object search, albums and sharing; the most complete self-hosted photo library today.

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How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	FUTO (US) — Funds Immich
Licence	AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting footprint	2048 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 20 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	Google Photos, iCloud
Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data)	113,365 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Docker
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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