PhotoPrism
Open-source, self-hosted photo library with on-device AI tagging and search. Keep your entire photo collection on your own server – a private alternative to Google Photos.
Quick facts
AI face and object tagging runs entirely on your own server, so your photo library gets searchable ('beach 2019') without anything ever leaving your hardware. No subscription ceiling on storage – just your own disk space.
You need somewhere to actually run it – a home server, NAS or VPS – so it's not a five-minute sign-up like Google Photos. Initial AI indexing of a large library can take a while.
Why does it score 100?
Incorporated in Berlin, Germany – a full EU member state.
Independently owned by PhotoPrism UG, funded by paid memberships rather than outside investors.
PhotoPrism runs on infrastructure you own yourself – your server, your hardware – so there's no third-party cloud involved at all.
Fully open source (AGPL) and GDPR-compliant, with all AI processing happening locally rather than on a remote server.
See how they compare
PhotoPrismWhat does it replace?
Google Photos 
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