Photo gallery software for photographers and individuals

Organize, manage and share your photos in a gallery that you fully control, whether you're preserving memories, showcasing your work or documenting a lifelong passion.

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Popular ways people use Piwigo

From family albums to fan communities, Piwigo supports a wide variety of personal and professional photo projects.

Professional galleries

Deliver photos to clients through secure online galleries, create professional portfolios and control exactly who can view or download your work.

Family albums

Keep years of family memories organized in private albums and easily share them with relatives without relying on social media.

Travel journals

Turn every trip into a searchable travel journal with albums, maps, descriptions and geotagged photos that are easy to revisit over time.

Nature documentation

Organize wildlife, plant and landscape photography with tags, metadata and custom classifications to keep years of observations searchable.

Collections

Create visual archives for everything from postcards and stamps to vintage toys, historical archives and collectible items, all organized in one searchable library.

Fan communities

Build collaborative galleries dedicated to your favorite movies, TV series, vehicles, games, hobbies or other shared passions, and make them easy for your community to explore.

How photographers and individuals use Piwigo

Organize years of photos

Keep your photos organized with albums, tags, dates, locations and custom properties.

Whether your library contains hundreds of photos or hundreds of thousands, finding the right photo is always easy.

Access your photos from anywhere

Keep your photo library accessible from any device through a web browser or the Piwigo mobile app.

Upload, browse and manage your photos wherever you are.

Control who can access your galleries

Create public or private galleries and decide exactly who can view, download or contribute photos.

Share selected albums with clients, family, friends or your community while keeping the rest of your library private.

Showcase your best work

Create beautiful online galleries that reflect your own style and make your photos easy to browse.

Whether you're building a portfolio, a community gallery or a personal website, your gallery reflects your own style.

Describe every image

Store EXIF and IPTC metadata, keywords, locations, ratings and custom properties alongside your photos.

Perfect for documenting collections, nature observations or any archive that needs detailed information.

Search and find anything instantly

Quickly find photos using albums, tags, metadata, dates, locations or any custom criteria.

Spend less time browsing folders and more time enjoying your collection.

Explore the features behind these use cases

Discover how albums, tags, metadata, properties, privacy settings and search help you organize and share your photos.

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Why photographers love Piwigo

Built for growing photo libraries

Powerful, yet easy to use

Highly customizable

Your photos stay yours

Open source and built to last

Whether you manage a few hundred photos or several hundred thousand, Piwigo keeps your library organized, searchable and easy to browse.

Get advanced features like albums, tags, metadata and permissions without unnecessary complexity. Piwigo is easy to learn and comfortable to use every day.

Customize the appearance, structure and functionality of your gallery with themes, plugins and custom code to create a photo library that truly fits your needs.

No algorithms, no advertising and no vendor lock-in. Your photo library remains under your control, whether you choose Piwigo Cloud or self-hosting.

Developed openly since 2002, Piwigo is continuously improved by a global community of users and contributors, ensuring the project remains sustainable for years to come.

Why photographers love Piwigo

Built for growing photo libraries

Whether you manage a few hundred photos or several hundred thousand, Piwigo keeps your library organized, searchable and easy to browse.

Powerful, yet easy to use

Get advanced features like albums, tags, metadata and permissions without unnecessary complexity. Piwigo is easy to learn and comfortable to use every day.

Highly customizable

Customize the appearance, structure and functionality of your gallery with themes, plugins and custom code to create a photo library that truly fits your needs.

Your photos stay yours

No algorithms, no advertising and no vendor lock-in. Your photo library remains under your control, whether you choose Piwigo Cloud or self-hosting.

Open source and built to last

Developed openly since 2002, Piwigo is continuously improved by a global community of users and contributors, ensuring the project remains sustainable for years to come.

Host it your way

Choose the deployment model that fits your needs. Use Piwigo Cloud for a ready-to-use hosted gallery, or install the open-source version on your own server.

Piwigo Cloud

Fully managed by the Piwigo team.

Piwigo Self-hosted

Deploy Piwigo on your own infrastructure.

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See how photographers and individuals use Piwigo

Photographers & individuals

France

Universe Photo Archive

One of the most impressive collections of space photos, with nearly 3 million sublime images, patiently classified and put online by a space lover.

Photographers & individuals

Canada

Robert Miller

Robert Miller is a Canadian photographer and loyal Piwigo user. His gallery showcases his work, with a beautiful home page and tag search for easy browsing.

Photographers & individuals

France

Photolib

Photolib is a photo gallery created with Piwigo that presents photos under a Creative Commons license.

Photographers & individuals

Belgium

Galae, artiste peintre

This painter uses Piwigo to share her work on the Internet.

Photographers & individuals

Conophytum, Crassula & Adromischus

For enthusiasts, a visual encyclopedia of succulents, created by a specialist and author of numerous books on the subject.

Photographers & individuals

France

Instant Photos

Instant Photos is the gallery of Gérard Dubouloz, a photographer who loves nature and the great outdoors.

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What photographers say about Piwigo

Other solutions had no simple way to group and organize photographs. Piwigo is so much better here so I don't have to care about the technical stuff. It simply works. For years now.

Great. Fast, clear, huge range of functions and yet easy to use. And the incredible thing: it's free!

I run a small gallery with pictures from car races. I tried different platforms but thanks to Piwigo I found what I need. It is intuitive to use, I don't need IT knowledge to be able to use this gallery efficiently. The software efficiently uses my old IT equipment, working on it surprisingly well for several years.

I have been using Piwigo for my wife's website for many years. It's been quite reliable for me, easy to use for her, and receives regular updates which are easy to apply. I love that it supports multiple languages, mass uploads via command line and uploads via web.

I have been a long-time user. First installed Piwigo in 2013 and have been using it continuously since then. Flexible and reliable - never had any issues. No problems with software upgrades and even moving to a new server was easy. The IOS apps are a handy way to view photos.

Thanks to Piwigo I have been able to manage, organize and share my entire gallery of photo albums according to my needs. And all with just a few clicks. Brutal!

I've used Piwigo for my personal website on a Raspberry Pi for years. It is wonderful open source software. It allows family and friends to view our pictures and saves shipping them around by email. Keep up the good work team!

Since I've been using Piwigo on my site, I can see the difference: it saves me a lot of time and is so easy to use. I'm a genealogist and my site hosts almost 80,000 photos. It's great!

Having just returned from a wonderful family trip, we needed to find a way to share our photos while making it easy to distribute them to our friends. Being an open source promotor, unwilling to share photos with GAFAMs and having a web hosting, Piwigo was the perfect solution! Modular as you like, easy to use... Needless to say, for the next trip of this type I already know how we'll share the photos :-).

I've been using Piwigo since 2011 for my website: easy to set up and even customize yourself. My pages have been viewed over 265,000 times and over 190,000 images have been viewed.

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