Everything in Immich,
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Gallery is built on top of Immich — the best self-hosted photo platform. We keep every core feature and add the ones we've been waiting for.

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Shared SpacesGallery Exclusive

Collaborative photo libraries where everyone contributes. Create a shared timeline for your family, friends, or team.

collaborationfamiliesweb + mobile

Create shared photo collections that multiple users can contribute to. Perfect for family events, trips with friends, or team projects. Each space has its own timeline, and contributors can add, remove, and organize photos independently.

Multiple contributors per space
Independent photo management
Works across web and mobile

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Smart Search & Contextual FiltersGallery Exclusive

Search inside Spaces with full-text and CLIP, and filter suggestions that adapt to what you've already selected.

searchfilteringspacesAI

Type natural language queries and get instant results. Filters adapt to show only relevant options based on your current search context.

Natural language queries
Adaptive contextual filters
Results ranked by relevance

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Interdependent FilteringGallery Exclusive

Every filter narrows every other filter. Select a country and only see cameras, people, tags, and ratings that exist in those photos.

filteringfaceted searchUX

Every filter you apply updates all other filter options to show only what's still relevant. No dead-end combinations.

Filters update in real-time
No dead-end combinations
Intuitive guided browsing

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Spaces FilteringGallery Exclusive

Filter your Space timeline by date range, people, locations, cameras, and tags. Find exactly what you're looking for.

discoveryfilteringspaces

All the powerful filtering capabilities of your main library, available inside shared spaces.

Full filter suite in spaces
Date, location, people filters
Consistent UX everywhere

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Map FilteringGallery Exclusive

Filter your map view by people, camera, tags, rating, favorites, and date — the same powerful filters, now on the map.

mapfilteringdiscovery

The full filter panel from Photos and Spaces now works on the Map view. Filter by people, camera, tags, star rating, favorites, media type, and date range — markers update in real time. Works on both the global map and space-scoped maps with space-aware suggestions.

Real-time marker filtering by people, camera, tags, and more
Works on global and space-scoped maps
Space-aware suggestions show only relevant people and cameras

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Video TrimmingGallery Exclusive

Trim your videos directly in the browser. Lossless stream copy means instant results with zero quality loss.

non-destructiveFFmpegstream copy

Cut videos to the perfect length without re-encoding. Stream copy means zero quality loss and near-instant processing.

Zero quality loss
Near-instant processing
Works with 4K and larger

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Image EditingGallery Exclusive

Quick-rotate, crop, and adjust your photos without leaving the gallery. Non-destructive edits with automatic thumbnail refresh.

non-destructivebatch

Edit one photo or hundreds at once. All edits are non-destructive — your originals are always preserved.

Batch editing support
Originals always preserved
Crop, rotate, adjust

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Auto-ClassificationGallery Exclusive

Define what clutter looks like — screenshots, memes, receipts — and Gallery tags and archives them automatically using AI.

AICLIPtaggingarchiving

Photos are automatically tagged and categorized on upload. CLIP-powered AI understands image content.

Automatic on upload
CLIP-powered understanding
Zero manual tagging

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Video Duplicate DetectionGallery Exclusive

Find duplicate videos even when they've been re-encoded, resized, or converted to a different format.

AIvideosCLIPdeduplication

Find duplicate and near-duplicate videos using visual similarity, not just file hashes.

Visual similarity matching
Catches re-encodes
Resolution-independent

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Pet DetectionGallery Exclusive

Your pets deserve their own page too. AI-powered detection recognizes cats, dogs, birds, and more — right alongside people.

AIYOLO11

Your pets deserve their own albums too. YOLO11 detects dogs, cats, and other animals automatically.

Dogs, cats, and more
Automatic grouping
Browse by individual pet

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Connected LibrariesGallery Exclusive

Link external photo libraries to Shared Spaces so thousands of photos appear instantly — no manual selection needed.

librariesspacesadmin

Point Gallery at existing photo directories. Photos are indexed and searchable without being moved.

No file duplication
Full search indexing
Original files untouched

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User GroupsGallery Exclusive

Create named, color-coded groups for one-click sharing. Select an entire group when inviting to Spaces or sharing albums.

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Create groups like "Family" or "Photography Club" and share spaces with the entire group at once.

Named groups
Group-level permissions
One-click sharing

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S3-Compatible StorageGallery Exclusive

Store your photos on any S3-compatible provider — AWS, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi.

AWS S3MinIOR2Backblaze

Use any S3-compatible object storage as your media backend. Scale storage independently.

Any S3-compatible backend
Independent scaling
Cost-optimized storage

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Bulk Add to SpacesGallery Exclusive

Add your entire photo library to a Shared Space with one click. A background job handles hundreds of thousands of photos.

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Select hundreds of photos and add them to any shared space in one click. Background processing.

Thousands at once
Background processing
Non-blocking UX

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Google Photos ImportGallery Exclusive

A guided wizard to import your Google Takeout archive directly from the browser. No CLI needed.

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Import your entire Google Photos library with all metadata intact — dates, locations, favorites.

Full metadata preservation
Google Takeout compatible
Dates, locations, favorites

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Mobile App

Native iOS & Android app with automatic camera backup and full library browsing.

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Full-featured native app for iOS and Android. Automatic camera backup runs in the background.

Native iOS & Android
Background camera backup
Full library on mobile

Automatic Backup

Set-and-forget camera backup from your phone with background sync.

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Photos and videos from your phone are automatically backed up in the background.

Background sync
Set and forget
Photos and videos

Face Recognition

Automatic face detection and clustering to browse photos by the people in them.

AIfacespeople

Automatically detects faces and groups them by person. Name once, recognize everywhere.

Automatic clustering
Name once, recognize everywhere
Merge similar faces

AI Smart Search

Natural-language search powered by CLIP — find photos by describing them.

AICLIPsearch

Type "sunset at the beach" and CLIP-powered search finds matching photos.

Natural language
CLIP-powered
No tagging needed

Timeline View

Browse your entire library chronologically with smooth infinite scroll.

browsingUX

Scroll through your entire photo history with a smooth, performant timeline.

Smooth infinite scroll
Date scrubber for jumping
Performant at any scale

Albums & Sharing

Create albums, share them via link, and collaborate with other users.

collaborationalbums

Organize photos into albums and share them with anyone via link.

Share via link
Collaborative albums
Public or private

Partner Sharing

Share your entire library with a partner for seamless family photo access.

familiessharing

Share your complete library with a partner so both have access to all family photos.

Full library sharing
Seamless family access
No duplicates needed

Live Photos & Videos

Full support for live photos, motion photos, and all major video formats.

mediaformats

iOS Live Photos, Android Motion Photos, and all major video codecs fully supported.

Live & Motion Photos
All major codecs
Cross-platform playback

RAW File Support

Import and preview RAW files from all major camera manufacturers.

photographyRAW

Full support for RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and more.

All major manufacturers
Browser preview
No download needed

EXIF / Metadata

View and edit EXIF metadata including camera settings, location, and timestamps.

metadataEXIF

See all EXIF data — camera model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, GPS, and more.

Full EXIF display
Editable timestamps
GPS coordinates

Reverse Geocoding

Automatic location names from GPS coordinates — see where every photo was taken.

locationmaps

GPS coordinates are automatically converted to human-readable place names.

Automatic place names
City, country, neighborhood
Works on upload

Hardware Transcoding

GPU-accelerated video transcoding for fast playback on any device.

videoperformance

Videos are transcoded using GPU acceleration for instant playback on any device.

GPU-accelerated
Instant playback
Any device support

OAuth / SSO

Enterprise-ready single sign-on with any OAuth or OIDC provider.

authenterprise

Connect Gallery to your existing identity provider. Supports any OAuth 2.0 or OIDC service.

Any OIDC provider
Google, Microsoft, Keycloak
Enterprise-ready

Multi-User Support

Full multi-user with per-user storage quotas and isolated libraries.

adminusers

Each user gets their own isolated library with configurable storage quotas.

Isolated libraries
Storage quotas
Admin dashboard

External Libraries

Mount existing photo directories as read-only libraries without re-importing.

librariesfilesystem

Mount directories as read-only libraries. Photos indexed and searchable but remain untouched.

Read-only mounting
Full indexing
Zero file duplication

CLI & API

Scriptable CLI and REST API for automation, bulk operations, and integrations.

developerAPICLI

Full REST API and CLI for scripting uploads, managing users, and integrations.

REST API
CLI tool
Full automation

Everything in Immich,plus more

Shared SpacesGallery Exclusive

Smart Search & Contextual FiltersGallery Exclusive

Interdependent FilteringGallery Exclusive

Spaces FilteringGallery Exclusive

Map FilteringGallery Exclusive

Video TrimmingGallery Exclusive

Image EditingGallery Exclusive

Auto-ClassificationGallery Exclusive

Video Duplicate DetectionGallery Exclusive

Pet DetectionGallery Exclusive

Connected LibrariesGallery Exclusive

User GroupsGallery Exclusive

S3-Compatible StorageGallery Exclusive

Bulk Add to SpacesGallery Exclusive

Google Photos ImportGallery Exclusive

Mobile App

Automatic Backup

Face Recognition

AI Smart Search

Timeline View

Albums & Sharing

Partner Sharing

Live Photos & Videos

RAW File Support

EXIF / Metadata

Reverse Geocoding

Hardware Transcoding

OAuth / SSO

Multi-User Support

External Libraries

CLI & API

Everything in Immich,
plus more