Everything in Immich,
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Gallery is built on top of Immich, the self-hosted photo app. Every core feature is here, plus the ones we have been waiting for.

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Edit members' photos in SpacesGallery exclusive

An Owner or Editor of a Shared Space can now fix the photos other members put there: rotate and crop, correct the date and location, add a description, a rating or a tag. The photo's owner sees who changed what.

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The Editor role in a Shared Space used to stop at the edge of somebody else's photo. Now an Owner or Editor can rotate, crop, trim and re-date what other members contributed, and fill in descriptions, locations, ratings and tags. Delete, archive, visibility and stacking stay with the photo's owner. The right comes from the owner having joined the space, and every edit to someone else's photo lands in the space activity feed.

Rotate, crop, trim, and edit description, date, location, rating and tags
Delete, archive, visibility and stacking stay owner-only
Edits to another member's photo appear in the space activity feed

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Edit members' photos in Spaces screenshot

Personal favoritesGallery exclusive

Favoriting is now yours. Anybody who can see a photo can heart it, Space viewers included, and nobody else sees your hearts or can change them.

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A favorite used to be a property of the photo, set only by its owner. Now it is a fact about you and a photo: heart anything you can see, in your own library, a partner's, or a Shared Space, even as a Viewer. Your favorites are invisible to everyone else, and the Favorites page, search and the map mix them across every library you can reach.

Heart any photo you can see, Space viewers included
Nobody else sees your favorites or can change them
One Favorites page across your library, partners and Spaces

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Personal favorites screenshot

Space album foldersGallery exclusive

Nest a Shared Space's albums inside folders. Group them by continent, trip or year, drag them where they belong, and give a space with twenty albums a shape every member can follow.

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A Shared Space fills up faster than a personal library, because several people fill it at once. Album folders give that pile a real tree: folders hold albums and other folders, as deep as you like, with cover mosaics, counts and a breadcrumb. Editors create, rename, drag and delete. Deleting a folder promotes its contents instead of taking them with it. Web and mobile browse the same structure.

Folders nest inside folders, with albums alongside them at every level
Editors create, rename, drag and delete. Viewers browse
Delete a folder and its albums and subfolders move up a level

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Space album folders screenshot

Pet recognitionGallery exclusive

Your two dogs stop being one shared "dog" entry and become Cocoa and Biscuit. The three pet re-identification models behind that are ours, trained here and published as open weights.

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We trained our own pet re-identification models rather than borrowing one: a frozen DINOv2 backbone plus a projection trained on openly-licensed dog and cat identities, published Apache-2.0 in three sizes and measured on 16,469 dog and 102 cat identities the models never saw. Dogs and cats become individual identities on the People page: name them, merge them, browse them like people, inside Shared Spaces too.

Three pet re-ID models trained in-house, published Apache-2.0 as open weights
Individual dogs and cats on the People page, merged like people
Scored on 16,469 dog and 102 cat identities the models never saw

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Pet recognition screenshot

Generated memoriesGallery exclusive

Nine new kinds of memory, each on its own day of the month: a month recap, a season, a place you were on this date, a person you have not seen in a while, the videos you forgot you shot.

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On This Day only ever asks one question: what happened on this date? Gallery now runs nine more rules beside it, each looking for a different shape of story. A calendar month years ago. A whole season, the city you kept coming back to, two people who show up together, a trip that has come round again. The nine are staggered across the month, so the row above your timeline keeps changing through the month. Every type has its own switch, for you and for the server.

Nine new types: month and season recaps, favourites, places, people together, video moments, trip anniversaries, themes and person throwbacks
Staggered across the month, one type per day
Switch a type off for yourself, or for the whole server

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Generated memories screenshot

Workflows for Shared SpacesGallery exclusive

Let a workflow file photos into a Shared Space for you: into the space itself, or straight into an album inside it, created on the spot if it does not exist yet.

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Workflows could already archive, favourite, lock and album your photos the moment they arrived. They stopped at the edge of a Shared Space, which is exactly where the photos other people are waiting for need to end up. Two new actions close that gap: add the photo to one or more spaces, or add it to a named album inside a space. If the album is not there yet, the workflow creates it and links it. Combine either with the filters you already have and the holiday photos file themselves into the family space while you are still unpacking.

Add to space: an arriving photo joins one or more Shared Spaces
Add to space album: it lands in a named album, created and linked if missing
Both chain with the triggers and filters workflows already had

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Workflows for Shared Spaces screenshot

Face suggestionsGallery exclusive

Face recognition plays it safe and skips the close calls. Gallery brings those near-misses back to you, one face at a time, on the person page where they belong.

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Recognition is deliberately cautious: a wrong assignment is far harder to untangle than one it never made, so the model leaves doubtful faces unassigned. Gallery collects those near-misses and puts them on the person they most likely belong to. Answer one face at a time: same person, different person, or ignore the face. Answers are durable, so a face you have ruled on is never raised again.

Near-miss faces surface as a banner on the person they probably belong to
Judge one face at a time against a known photo
Dismissing a suggestion never blocks normal recognition later

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Face suggestions screenshot

Face cleanupGallery exclusive

When recognition does get it wrong, a console finds the mixed-up clusters and lets you re-home every face, guided by a scan or by hand on anyone you pick.

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Automatic clustering occasionally fuses two people together, and untangling that by hand across thousands of faces is exactly the work nobody does. Face cleanup scans the library for clusters contaminated with someone else's photos, then sorts them into two lanes: the safe ones you approve in a single pass, and the ones that need a human look. Each face ends in one of six explicit states. Nothing is written until you apply.

A scan splits flagged clusters into an auto-fix lane and a needs-review lane
Six actions per face: move, keep, lock, unknown person, someone else, or not a face at all
Manual review works on any person without a scan, and later scans respect what you decided

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Face cleanup screenshot

Contextual filtersGallery exclusive

Click any metadata value in the photo viewer (camera, lens, place, date, tag, filename) and the surface you are already on filters down to match.

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The info panel stops being a read-only card. Every value in it becomes a way to ask for more of the same: tap the camera to see everything shot on it, the city to see everything taken there, the date to see that day. The filter applies to whatever surface you opened the photo from, whether that is your timeline, an album, a Shared Space or the map. It lands in the URL too, so the filtered view is shareable and back works the way you expect.

Camera, lens, contributor, place, date, tag, album and filename are each one click from a filter
Filtering happens on the surface you came from: timeline, album, Space or map
Every filter lands in the URL, so the view is shareable and the back button behaves

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Contextual filters screenshot

Space albumsGallery exclusive

Bring whole albums into a Shared Space. Link an existing album or create a new one inside the space, and every photo lands on a dedicated Albums tab for every member, on web and mobile.

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Shared Spaces gain a dedicated Albums tab. Owners and Editors link an existing album or create a new one right inside the space, and its photos appear for every member as named collections. Albums are linked by reference, so nothing is copied and unlinking is clean. Members can contribute across libraries without the originals ever leaving their owner.

An Albums tab in every Space, with the same search, sort, group and view controls as your personal Albums page
Link an existing album, or create one inside the space
Linked by reference: nothing is copied, and unlinking leaves both sides whole
Members add photos to a shared album while their originals stay in their own library

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Space albums screenshot

Timeline groupingGallery exclusive

Switch between a yearly overview, monthly snapshots or full day-by-day detail on every timeline. Tap a card to zoom in without losing your place.

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Every timeline in Gallery now has a Years / Months / All switcher: Photos, Spaces, Albums, People, Map and more. Switching compresses the grid into full-width cards, one per period, each with a cover photo and a count badge. Tapping a card zooms into that range without restricting the query, so months stay fully scrollable after a year zoom. Your scroll position survives the switch on web and mobile.

Years, Months and All views across Photos, Spaces, Albums, People, Map and more
Tapping a year or month card zooms in without restricting the query
Your scroll position is kept when you change granularity

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Timeline grouping screenshot

Global PeopleGallery exclusive

People now resolve across your personal library and timeline-enabled Shared Spaces, so the same person appears once wherever Gallery can prove it is the same identity.

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Underneath personal people and space people, Gallery builds an access-scoped face identity graph. The People page, filters, global search, metadata inheritance, representative thumbnails and optional face statistics all read that one permission-aware model. Names, counts and faces from spaces you cannot access stay out of it.

One entry per person across your library and timeline-enabled Spaces
Names, birthdays, thumbnails, filters and search stay permission-scoped
Representative face picking and optional face counts make repairing a person clearer

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Global People screenshot

Inline search filtersGallery exclusive

Type filters straight into the search bar (people, tags, dates, locations, ratings, media type, favorites, cameras, album gaps) with live suggestions before you press Enter.

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Gallery search takes structured filter tokens alongside ordinary search text. Type something like beach person:anna tag:travel country:Germany, pick live suggestions for people, tags, countries and cities, then commit once to update Photos or the current Space with shareable URL filters.

Filter tokens work inside the global search bar
Suggestions resolve people, tags, countries and cities while you edit
Committing syncs the filters into Photos and Spaces URLs, chips and filter panels

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Inline search filters screenshot

Noodle Gallery for AndroidGallery exclusive

The Noodle Gallery Android app is live on Google Play: background camera backup, on-device CLIP search, the map and Shared Spaces, from your Android phone.

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A native Android app with the full Noodle Gallery experience: timeline, map, on-device CLIP search and background camera backup straight to your own server. Sign in once with your Gallery server URL and the whole library is on the device. There is no Noodle-operated middle layer and no third-party photo bucket.

On Google Play today
Background camera backup, and CLIP search that runs on the phone
Shared Spaces, the map and the whole library on Android

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Noodle Gallery for Android screenshot

Memories archiveGallery exclusive

Browse every retained generated memory from the Memories page, and choose how long generated memories stay in your library.

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Gallery has a dedicated Memories page for retained generated memories, grouped by the date they were shown, with local search and an All/Saved filter. Admins keep generated memories for the default 365 days, set a custom window, or use 0 to preserve the records indefinitely while cleanup still removes invalid asset links.

A Memories sidebar page holds the generated memories that outlived today's carousel
Local search and an All/Saved filter for digging up older ones
Retention is 365 days, a window you choose, or forever

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Memories archive screenshot

Global searchGallery exclusive

Cmd/Ctrl+K is now the main search surface: one command palette searches your current page, photos, people, places, tags, albums, Spaces, commands and settings.

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The command palette is the search bar. Open it from anywhere, type a query, and the Top result routes the search to the page you are already on when that page has its own searchable timeline. Photos and Spaces keep their sort controls next to the trigger. The palette still searches every library entity, command and settings page in parallel.

Photos and Spaces search from the same Cmd/Ctrl+K entry point
The Top result routes a page search without leaving the surface you are on
Sort controls stay beside the trigger

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Global search screenshot

Smarter memoriesGallery exclusive

Recent trip and birthday memories come from server-side rules, with curated trip recaps and birthday sets that adapt to the photo history you have.

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Alongside On This Day, Gallery generates rule-based memories for recent trips and birthdays. Trips are detected from location clusters outside your normal baseline, then curated into a chronological recap. Birthday memories become multi-year recaps when the person has enough history, or a recent-photo set when the library is newer.

Trips come out of location clusters and read as chronological recaps
Birthdays get a multi-year recap, or a recent-photo set on a young library
Titles and subtitles come from the server, so new memory rules render on web and mobile

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Smarter memories screenshot

Photos filtering on mobileGallery exclusive

A three-snap bottom sheet on the Photos tab filters your timeline by people, places, tags, dates, rating and media type, without ever leaving the grid.

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A bottom sheet docks on the Photos tab with three snap positions: Peek shows the active filter chips, Browse shows the most-used facets, Deep opens the full picker. People appear as face grids, Places cascade from country to city, When aggregates by year with a month drill-down, and a debounced search field runs smart search and text-in-image lookups. The timeline re-queries as you filter, and the count, chips and grid stay in sync.

Peek, Browse and Deep snap positions filter the timeline in place
Face grids for People, country to city for Places, year then month for When
The search field covers smart search and text in images, next to tag, rating and media-type filters

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Photos filtering on mobile screenshot

Search paletteGallery exclusive

A keyboard-first command palette that searches photos, people, places and tags, jumps to any settings page, and fires context-aware verbs on the album or space you are viewing. All from Cmd/Ctrl+K.

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Press Cmd/Ctrl+K for a single input that searches your whole library in parallel (photos, people, places, tags) and fuzzy-matches every admin and settings page. Prefix shortcuts (@, #, /, >) scope it to one kind of thing. A Commands section fires verbs like upload, create album and the admin-only job-queue controls without leaving the page. On album and space pages the palette adds rename, share, leave, delete and add member, with a two-step inline confirm that arms destructive commands before firing. Recents bring you back where you were.

One palette across photos, people, places, tags, albums and spaces
Commands fire from anywhere: upload, create album, toggle theme, admin queue controls
Recent searches and entities persist across sessions

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Search palette screenshot

Prefix-scoped searchGallery exclusive

Type @ for people, # for tags, / for albums and spaces, or > for commands and pages. One prefix narrows the search palette to a single section, and a bare prefix opens the full index.

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Prefix scoping turns the global search palette into a lightweight faceted browser. Type @ to find a person by name, # to jump to a tag, / to reach an album or shared space, > to fire a command or open any settings page. Typing just the prefix with no query opens a suggestion list sorted by recent activity. Backspace out the prefix and the palette returns to the full multi-section view.

@ people, # tags, / albums and spaces, > commands and pages
A bare prefix lists that whole section, most recent activity first

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Prefix-scoped search screenshot

Page commandsGallery exclusive

On an album or space page the search palette grows context-aware verbs: rename, share, add member, delete. You see only what you can do there, and destructive ones take a second Enter.

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Open Ctrl+K on an album page and the Commands section adds Rename, Share, Download, Leave or Delete, limited to the verbs you are allowed on that album. On a space page it becomes Manage members, Add member, Add all my photos, Leave space or Delete space. Every verb is gated by the same permissions the rest of the UI uses. Destructive actions arm on the first Enter (the row turns red) and fire on the second, with a 3-second auto-cancel and an Esc bail-out at any point.

Album and space verbs appear only on the relevant page
Owners, editors and viewers each see a different set
Anything destructive arms on one Enter and fires on the next, or cancels itself after 3 seconds

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Page commands screenshot

Noodle Gallery for iPhoneGallery exclusive

The Noodle Gallery iPhone app is live on the App Store: background camera backup, on-device CLIP search, the map, and a working Shared Spaces preview.

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A native iPhone app with the full Noodle Gallery experience: timeline, map, on-device CLIP search and background camera backup straight to your own server. Shared Spaces ship today as a working preview. In-space search, faceted filtering and the activity log land in the next release.

On the App Store today
Background camera backup, and CLIP search that runs on the phone
Shared Spaces as a preview now, full parity next release

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Noodle Gallery for iPhone screenshot

Shared SpacesGallery exclusive

One timeline for photos that live across several people, phones and group chats, without forcing everyone into one account or one owner.

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Family trips, weddings, school events and team projects usually leave photos scattered across group chats, shared albums and private libraries. A Shared Space gives the group one chronological timeline: members contribute their own photos, search and filter the combined collection, and roles keep the permissions clear. Each contributor keeps their own library.

One chronological timeline for the whole group
Photos stay in the library of whoever took them
Roles decide who can add, who can manage and who only browses

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Shared Spaces screenshot

Search sorting and relevanceGallery exclusive

Order smart search results by date or relevance, and set a similarity threshold so filtered searches only return photos that actually look right.

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Sort CLIP search results by Relevance, Newest or Oldest on the main timeline and inside Shared Spaces, with date-grouped results and infinite scroll. An admin-level relevance threshold drops weak CLIP matches, so text plus filter searches stop returning noise.

Relevance, newest or oldest
Results grouped by date, with infinite scroll
A tunable similarity threshold (maxDistance)

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Search sorting and relevance screenshot

Smart search and contextual filtersGallery exclusive

Search inside a Space with full-text and CLIP, with filter suggestions that narrow as you select.

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Type a query in plain words and results come back as you type. The filter list adapts to it.

Plain-language queries, full-text and CLIP
Filter options follow your current search

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Smart search and contextual filters screenshot

Interdependent filteringGallery exclusive

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

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Apply one filter and the others update, so every combination on offer has photos behind it.

Options update as you filter
Every combination you can pick has photos behind it

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Interdependent filtering screenshot

Spaces filteringGallery exclusive

Filter a Space timeline by date range, people, location, camera and tags.

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The filters from your main library work inside a Shared Space, in the same panel with the same controls.

The full filter set, inside a Space
Date range, location, people, camera, tags

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Spaces filtering screenshot

Map filteringGallery exclusive

Filter the map by people, camera, tags, rating, favorites and date. The same filters you use on Photos, now on the map.

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The filter panel from Photos and Spaces works on the Map: people, camera, tags, star rating, favorites, media type and date range, with markers updating as you go. On a space-scoped map the suggestions cover that space only.

Markers update in real time as you filter
Works on the global map and inside a space

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Map filtering screenshot

Video trimmingGallery exclusive

Trim a video in the browser. Lossless stream copy makes it instant and leaves the quality alone.

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Cut a video to length without re-encoding it. Stream copy keeps the quality and finishes almost immediately, 4K included.

No re-encode, so no quality loss
Near-instant, even on 4K and larger

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Video trimming screenshot

Image editingGallery exclusive

Rotate, crop and adjust without leaving the gallery. Edits are non-destructive, and thumbnails refresh themselves.

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Edit one photo or hundreds at once: crop, rotate and adjust, all non-destructive, so your originals stay as they were. The editor travels too. The same crop, rotate and adjust tools are built into the mobile app, so you can straighten a shot on your phone exactly like on the web.

Crop, rotate and adjust, with the originals preserved
The same editor in the mobile app and on the web
Batch-edit hundreds of photos in one pass

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Image editing screenshot

Auto-classificationGallery exclusive

Define what clutter looks like (screenshots, memes, receipts) and Gallery tags and archives it for you.

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Photos are tagged and categorized as they upload, with CLIP reading the image.

Runs on upload
You decide what counts as clutter

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Auto-classification screenshot

Video duplicate detectionGallery exclusive

Find duplicate videos even after they have been re-encoded, resized or converted to another format.

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Videos are matched by visual similarity, so a copy with a new file hash still turns up.

A re-encode cannot hide a copy
Resolution makes no difference

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Video duplicate detection screenshot

Pet detectionGallery exclusive

Gallery finds the cats and dogs in your photos. That is the groundwork pet recognition uses to tell one from another.

AIRF-DETR

Detection scans your library for animals and marks where they are. Since v5.6.0 it runs on RF-DETR: species recall 84.8% to 98.1%, no-detection 10% down to 0.7%, at unchanged CPU cost. It records cats and dogs only, because the other species were write-only rows the People page never listed. Detection finds the animal. Pet recognition decides which one it is. Off by default.

Cats and dogs, found as the photos arrive
RF-DETR takes species recall to 98.1%, and stops reporting dogs as bears
Feeds pet recognition, which turns them into named individuals

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Pet detection screenshot

Connected librariesGallery exclusive

Link an external photo library to a Shared Space and thousands of photos appear at once.

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Point Gallery at a directory of photos. They are indexed and searchable where they sit; the files never move.

Nothing is copied
Indexed for search like the rest of your library

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Connected libraries screenshot

User groupsGallery exclusive

Make named, color-coded groups and invite a whole group to a Space or an album in one click.

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Create a group like Family or Photography Club and share a space with everyone in it at once.

Named, color-coded groups
One click invites all of them

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User groups screenshot

S3-compatible storageGallery exclusive

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

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Use any S3-compatible object storage as the media backend. Storage scales on its own.

Any S3-compatible backend
Storage scales separately from the server

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S3-compatible storage screenshot

Bulk add to SpacesGallery exclusive

Add your whole library to a Shared Space in one click. A background job handles hundreds of thousands of photos.

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Select hundreds of photos, or the lot, and add them to a space in one click. The work runs in the background.

Hundreds of thousands of photos per job
Nothing blocks while it runs

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Bulk add to Spaces screenshot

Google Photos importGallery exclusive

A guided wizard imports your Google Takeout archive straight from the browser. No CLI.

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Import a whole Google Photos library with the metadata intact: dates, locations and favorites.

Takes a Google Takeout archive, in the browser
Dates, locations and favorites survive the move

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Google Photos import screenshot

Mobile app

Native iOS and Android apps with automatic camera backup and the whole library.

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A native app for iOS and Android. Camera backup runs in the background.

Native on iOS and Android
Camera backup runs in the background

Automatic backup

Switch it on once and camera backup runs in the background.

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

Photos and videos both
Nothing to trigger by hand

Face recognition

Faces are detected and clustered, so you browse by the people in your photos.

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Gallery detects faces and groups them by person. Name someone once and they are named everywhere.

Name once, recognized everywhere
Merge clusters that turn out to be one person

AI smart search

Describe a photo in plain words and CLIP finds it.

AICLIPsearch

Type "sunset at the beach" and CLIP-powered search returns the photos that match.

Plain-language queries, matched by CLIP
Nothing to tag first

Timeline view

Browse your entire library in date order with infinite scroll.

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Scroll through your whole photo history in one timeline.

Infinite scroll in date order
A date scrubber to jump years

Albums and sharing

Make albums, share them by link, work on them with other users.

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Organize photos into albums and share an album with anyone by link.

Share by link, public or private
Albums other people can add to

Partner sharing

Share your entire library with a partner so you both reach the family photos.

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Give a partner access to your complete library, and you both reach every family photo.

The whole library, one partner
No second copy of anything

Live Photos and videos

Live photos, motion photos and the major video formats all play.

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

iOS Live Photos and Android Motion Photos
The major video codecs

RAW file support

Import and preview RAW files from the major camera makers.

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RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and others are imported and previewed.

Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and more
Preview in the browser

EXIF and metadata

View and edit EXIF: camera settings, location and timestamps.

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See the whole EXIF record: camera model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, GPS and the rest.

The full record, down to aperture and ISO
Timestamps you can correct

Reverse geocoding

GPS coordinates become place names, so you can see where a photo was taken.

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Coordinates are turned into readable place names as photos arrive.

City, country and neighborhood
Happens on upload

Hardware transcoding

GPU-accelerated video transcoding, so a clip plays on any device.

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Videos are transcoded on the GPU, so playback stays quick wherever you open them.

Transcoding runs on the GPU
Plays on any device

OAuth and SSO

Single sign-on with any OAuth or OIDC provider.

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Connect Gallery to the identity provider you already run. Any OAuth 2.0 or OIDC service works.

Any OIDC provider
Google, Microsoft, Keycloak and the rest

Multi-user support

Several users, each with an isolated library and a storage quota.

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Every user gets an isolated library, with a quota you set per user.

Isolated libraries, per-user quotas
One admin dashboard over the lot

External libraries

Mount an existing photo directory read-only, with no re-import.

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Mount a directory as a read-only library. Photos are indexed and searchable; the files stay put.

Mounted read-only and indexed for search
No second copy of anything

CLI and API

A scriptable CLI and a REST API for automation, bulk work and integrations.

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The REST API and the CLI cover uploads, user management and anything else you script.

REST API and CLI
Scripted uploads and user management

Recently added

See what just landed. This view sorts your library by when photos arrived instead of when they were taken, so a new import or a restored backup is easy to find.

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Most timelines sort by capture date, which buries a photo you added today among years-old memories. This one sorts by upload date, so a fresh import, an AirDrop from a friend or a just-restored backup shows up right at the top. Available on web and mobile.

Sorted by upload date rather than capture date
Useful right after a big import or a restore
Web and mobile

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Recently added screenshot

Instant video streaming

Videos start playing right away and adapt to your connection, with no download and no pre-transcode to wait for.

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Play any video the moment you tap it. Gallery streams it on the fly and matches quality to your connection, so a phone on cellular and a laptop on fibre both get smooth playback. Seeking and quality switches stay quick on large 4K clips.

Playback starts on the tap
Quality follows your connection
Seeking stays quick on large 4K clips

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Instant video streaming screenshot

Text in your photos

Read and copy the text inside your photos (signs, receipts, whiteboards, screenshots) straight from the viewer.

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Your photos are full of text you might want later: the total on a receipt, a wifi password on a whiteboard, a street sign, an address in a screenshot. Open a photo and Gallery recognizes the text inside it, so you can select and copy it the way you would on a web page. No retyping.

Select and copy text out of any photo
Receipts, signs and screenshots
One tap toggles it in the mobile viewer

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Text in your photos screenshot

Slideshow

Play an album or a day as a full-screen slideshow, straight from your phone.

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Hand the phone round the dinner table and let the memories play. Start a full-screen slideshow from any album or day and Gallery steps through the photos one at a time.

Full-screen playback, one photo at a time
Starts from any album or day
In the mobile app

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Slideshow screenshot

Workflows

Teach your library to file itself. Build rules that run the moment a photo arrives: archive the screenshots, album the drone shots, lock the scans.

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Every library collects chores. The screenshots that clutter the timeline, the drone footage that belongs in its own album, the scanned documents that should never show up at all. A workflow does that filing for you. Pick when it runs, narrow it down with filters, then chain the actions, and every photo that arrives from then on is handled the moment it lands.

Triggers on upload, or once metadata has been read
Filter by filename, server path, EXIF, date, type or location
Archive, favorite, lock, album, or call a webhook

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Workflows screenshot

Reversible Immich migration

Try Gallery on your existing Immich library.

Swap three config lines. Your database, uploads, photos and videos stay exactly where they are, and a switch-back script returns you to Immich if Gallery does not suit you.

Install in 5 minutes Try the demo