Lychee

A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.

Why it is included

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.

Best for

Users exploring vetted FOSS alternatives in this space (media management).

Strengths

~4,121 GitHub stars (per upstream list)
Open source

Limitations

Verify license, platform support, and security posture for your environment.

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