Image and video
Mylio Photos Plus alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
immich-app/immich★109,892 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceSelf-hosted, high-performance photo and video management with mobile clients and automatic backups.Open on GitHub ↗LibrePhotos/librephotos★8,019 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted photo management service with local face detection, search, and organization features.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polished cross-platform native apps and platform-specific UX polish
- Built-in encrypted peer-to-peer sync tuned for unreliable networks
- Concierge onboarding, family/team plan management, and commercial support SLAs
- Hosted encrypted SecureCloud offering (if you want cloud vaults backed by vendor)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Mylio Photos Plus, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.