hi. i’m looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software.
i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync’ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.
i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.
i don’t want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images (“work”, “computer”, …) but it’s not a necessity. and i don’t need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.
i’ve considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.
thanks!


I recommend Ente, they have a self-hosted option. https://ente.com/
Any reason to pick this over Immich?
I’ve never used Immich so I can’t speak for or against it. When I started down the selfhosting road, I found Ente first, that’s all.
That’s a bit odd considering how much more popular Immich is, but ok.
Looks like Ente supports end to end encryption and Immich doesn’t.
Does that matter if you’re self hosting and not exposing it to the internet?