Notes 
Cloud-hosted and self-hosted versions available. Comes with user management. Demo.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Piwigo
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Piwigo is the veteran photo-gallery platform, and its flexibility is the draw: run it self-hosted for full control or use the managed hosting if you would rather not, with proper user management built in. It shows its age next to slicker modern apps, and the mobile experience is more functional than delightful. Worth it for people who want a mature, self-hostable gallery with fine-grained sharing controls and do not mind an older-school interface.
GitHub at a glance
Piwigo/Piwigo GPL-2.0 cmsimage-galleryopen-sourcephoto-galleryphotographyphppiwigoprivacyself-hostingweb-application
Stars
3,881
+10 this week
Forks
487
77 watching
Last commit
today
healthy
Latest release
16.4.0
6mo ago, 83 total
Star history
Issues
71% closed
657
open
1,588
closed
+11 / -10
opened / closed, last 4 weeks
Opened vs closed, last 12 weeks
Commits, last 26 weeks
21 commits, active 13 of 26 weeks
74 contributors since Jul 2015
Languages
- PHP 74.3%
- HTML 9.6%
- JavaScript 7.3%
- Other 8.8%
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Website at a glance
piwigo.org
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Weak website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 1d ago
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Piwigo license, in plain English
GPL-2.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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