A software to easily and quickly manage a huge number of photos. Why? Just because those past 123 years 😉 we have to deal with almost 140,000 photos through 2,000 family events. My two favorite features are the diaporama and the ability to enrich photo descriptions, adjust locations with family members or friends from anywhere.

Once again this project has first started as just a "small" script, first published on Dec 19, 2021!

• The photo referential is always your photos directories as you organize them,
  • Continue to use your favorite file manager for that task,
  • Keep your directory tree unchanged
  • Add new directories and new files
  • Use, for convenience, such a pattern for your storage 2025/2025-10-11 event label/photo.jpg
• Your photos directories are left unchanged, only read operations are done,
• Cache is used for pre-computed photos, miniatures, people's faces, detected objects, ...
• A database is used to manage all your added metadata such as description, keywords, fixed location, fixed dates, stars, ... and also to keep track of all people detected faces, detected objects, image classifications, ...

• will be released soon as a standalone docker application,
• comes with a REST API and a web user interface providing:
  • fast visualization,
  • photos diaporama,
  • timeline mosaic browsing,
  • customizing locations, dates, keywords, descriptions, ...
  • managing events,
  • managing owners and storage directories,
  • synchronize originals from multiple storage directories,
  • ...

The web user interface is quite fast, user-friendly and feature-rich, with behind the scene a REST API:

User configuration is done through environment variables, the main ones are: