Turn Your NAS into a Memory Vault: HomeGallery Lets You Explore Photos Like Never Before
HomeGallery: Create a Beautiful Gallery for Your Photos and Videos, Totally free and open-source
HomeGallery is a self-hosted, open-source web gallery built for real people, your personal photo and video archive stops being a forgotten digital graveyard. Instead, it becomes a living, breathing memory vault, fast, private, and powered by smart AI discovery.
No cloud. No tracking. Just your memories, instantly accessible on any device, from your phone to your desktop.
It is built for users who value privacy, control, and speed, one person, one library, zero hassle. Serve your entire media collection from multiple sources, all in one sleek, responsive web gallery.
Hazem Abbas
Why HomeGallery Is Different
You’ve taken thousands of photos. But how many have you actually seen lately?
Most galleries make you search manually, but HomeGallery helps you rediscover what you’ve already forgotten.
How? With two powerful browsing modes:
- Timeline View, See your life unfold in chronological order.
- Similarity View, Find images like your current one, sunset photos, beaches, flowers, faces, even across years.
Try the live demo : Start with a flower image and explore all similar blooms across your life. Or jump from a Greek beach to a 2015 holiday, just by following the inspiration.
Hazem Abbas
Features
- Endless photo stream via virtual scrolling
- Video transcoding
- Reverse image lookup (similar image search). If you have one sunset image, you can easily find other sunset photos in your archive without manual tagging
- Face detection and search by similar faces
- Expressive query language with and, or, not operands
- GEO location reverse lookups
- Simple mobile app through PWA support
- Tagging, single and multi selection
- Support of read only and offline media sources. Once the preview files are generated and their meta data are extracted, the original sources are not touched and required any more. So media from offline disk need to be extracted only once and the disk can stay offline on next runs
- Media are identified by their content. Duplicated media (identical files byte-by-byte) are only processed once. Renaming is supported without recalculating previews etc.
- Fast file changes detection such as add, removes, renames or moves
- Static web gallery site export such as the demo gallery
- Meta data export to XMP sidecar files
- Stream photos and videos to Chromcast enabled TV devices
- Runs on SoC such Raspberry PI
Hazem Abbas
Platforms
While you can download and install it from scratch, you can download the binary directly for Linux, macOS and Windows!
you can also install it using Docker.
License
HomeGallery is released under the open-source MIT License.
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