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A community fork of Immich for self-hosting photos and videos, adding Shared Spaces, smarter search, auto-classification and S3 storage.

Open-source alternative to:Google PhotosiCloud

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What is it?

Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video management server, built as a fork of Immich and rebased onto each new upstream Immich release. It runs as Docker containers and includes a web UI, a machine learning service for face and object recognition and CLIP search, and iPhone and Android apps that back up from the camera and connect to your own server.

The fork adds features on top of Immich. Shared Spaces are collaborative timelines with several owners and Owner, Editor and Viewer roles, where photos are linked by reference rather than copied. Global People merges face groups across a user's library and the spaces they can access. Auto-Classification tags categories such as screenshots or receipts, Video Duplicate Detection compares sampled video frames, and Pet Detection finds cats and dogs. Images can be rotated and cropped, videos can be trimmed with lossless stream copy, and media can be stored on S3-compatible backends.

Existing Immich users can switch by changing image names in docker-compose.yml and setting IMMICH_VERSION, keeping their database and library. A Google Photos Takeout import wizard is also included.

Key features

  • 01Shared Spaces with Owner, Editor and Viewer roles and reference-based photo linking
  • 02Global People that merges face recognition across libraries and accessible spaces
  • 03Auto-classification of screenshots, memes and receipts with per-category thresholds
  • 04Pet detection for cats and dogs alongside people
  • 05Image rotation and cropping, plus video trimming with lossless stream copy
  • 06S3-compatible storage backends with a migration tool
  • 07Google Photos Takeout import wizard in the browser

Use cases

  • Replacing Google Photos or iCloud Photos with a self-hosted library
  • Sharing a family photo timeline among several household members
  • Migrating an existing Immich installation to add shared spaces and extra AI features
  • Storing a large photo archive on S3-compatible object storage

In collections

Self-hosted photo librariesSelf-hosted apps

Topics

#photos#self-hosted#photo-management#video-management#immich#docker#machine-learning#s3#backup-tool#google-photos

FAQ

What is gallery?
A community fork of Immich for self-hosting photos and videos, adding Shared Spaces, smarter search, auto-classification and S3 storage. Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video management server, built as a fork of Immich and rebased onto each new upstream Immich release. It runs as Docker containers and includes a web UI, a machine learning service for face and object recognition and CLIP search, and iPhone and Android apps that back up from the camera and connect to your own server.
Is gallery free to use? What license does it have?
gallery is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.
Is gallery still maintained?
Actively maintained. The last commit to gallery was on Nov 5, 2026.
What can I use gallery for?
Replacing Google Photos or iCloud Photos with a self-hosted library Sharing a family photo timeline among several household members Migrating an existing Immich installation to add shared spaces and extra AI features Storing a large photo archive on S3-compatible object storage
Where can I get gallery?
The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/open-noodle/gallery

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