please recommend a simple selfhosted photo gallery (lemmy.today)

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hi. i'm looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software. i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync'ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.

i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.

i don't want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images ("work", "computer", ...) but it's not a necessity. and i don't need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.

i've considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.

thanks!

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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

no, it's more about that i don't want a separate linux installation on my freebsd server, all with its meaningless attack surfaces and such. i want something lightweight, and i specifically mentioned immich isn't what i want in the OP. yet you folks are all downvoting and trying to persuade me to try that. no, i'm not using that.

after hearing it a few times i've tried it before and it's not what i want. even ignoring the server part i hate that clunky google photos ripoff web interface.

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026

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