Photofield

Experimental fast photo viewer.

Active Last commit · 226 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
617
Last commit
2026-10-11
Latest release
v0.25.0
2026-08-17
Commits (12 mo)
226
Releases (12 mo)
–
License
MIT
Language / platform
Docker, Go

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 226 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Photofield yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
  • machine-learning features (faces, search) need 2–4 GB RAM

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

Prefer managed hosting? Check PikaPods or Elestio.

Photofield is an alternative to

Google PhotosInstagramFlickrAmazon PhotosiCloud PhotosSmugMugImmich

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