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PiGallery2 is a fast, directory-first photo gallery website optimized for low-resource servers such as Raspberry Pi, displaying your photo folder structure…

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PiGallery2 is a fast, directory-first photo gallery website optimized for low-resource servers such as Raspberry Pi, displaying your photo folder structure as-is without modifying any files.

Platform availability

Available on 2 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

73/100 Good

Maintained
91last commit 51 days ago
Popular
672,294 GitHub stars
Easy to install
452 install platforms, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 17 days ago

GitHub stars
2,294
Open issues
164
Last commit
2026-08-25
Latest release
3.5.2
License
MIT
Activity
stale

Checked 9 days ago - source: GitHub (bpatrik/pigallery2)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Install Node.js and build tools first For the release zip install, put Node.js 22 (the program PiGallery2 runs on) and the build tools (helpers that compile extra modules) on your machine before running `npm install`. Without them, PiGallery2 may not start or extra modules can fail to build. source
  • Run it and sign in with admin/admin After installation, start PiGallery2 by running `npm start` (the command that launches the app), then log in with the default `admin/admin` account. Without that login, you can't open the app to add photos or configure the gallery. source
  • Create PiGallery2 config folders If you use the advanced Docker/Nginx setup (a web-server setup for PiGallery2), create the config folders shown in the docs, especially `~/configs/pigallery2/config`, before starting PiGallery2. That folder keeps PiGallery2 settings, so you can back them up and avoid losing your gallery configuration. source

Fetched 7 days ago - each note links to its source

Alternatives (6)

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  • Immich - Self-hosted solution enabling photo and video backup, privacy-driven local AI search, facial recognition, map-based tagging, and multi-user…
  • PhotoPrism - PhotoPrism is a self-hosted, AI-powered photo and video manager.
  • Piwigo - Piwigo is a self-hosted, open-source photo gallery for the web that lets you publish, organise, and share your picture collection with powe…
  • mediagoblin - MediaGoblin is a free, open-source, self-hosted media publishing platform.

Checked 14 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Can I use a mobile interface with PiGallery2?

Community posts describe custom web apps that give a mobile browsing interface for an existing PiGallery2 server using its web APIs.

Is PiGallery2 suitable as a simple online photo display?

One community user describes it as simple, says it does the job, and notes that it displays photos nicely.

Does the PiGallery2 developer receive payment for maintaining the project?

The documentation states that PiGallery2 is a hobby project and the developer does not get paid for this work.

Where can self-hosters ask for help or discuss PiGallery2?

A Reddit thread describes the self-hosted subreddit as a place to share, discuss, and gain assistance with PiGallery2.

Answers sourced from bpatrik.github.io, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 16 days ago - public community threads