Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)
I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free. So I built DD Photos. You export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders, run `photogen` (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes, then deploy the SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files. Apache, S3, whatever. No server-side code, no database. Built over…
DD Photos is an open-source photo album generator built with Go and SvelteKit that creates fast, static websites for sharing images. Users export photos from applications like Lightroom or Apple Photos, run a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin). Website: https://memories.gallery/ GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm) Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time! Some features to…
2024 · memories.gallery · its alternatives →
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OgHero▲138Generate social share images for your blogs automagically
2019 · previewlinks.io · its alternatives →
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AI Photo▲201Run Stable Diffusion offline on macOS and iOS
2023 · appahead.studio · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! My friend and I love taking pictures on our phones, and we were looking for a super simple way to share them with the world. Google Photos albums are nice, but the result isn't slick enough and lacks customization options (embed, custom domain). That's why we built myphotos.site - a micro SaaS that allows anyone to create a slick, minimal gallery website from Google Photos. Galleries can be iframe-embedded for those looking for full customization. One thing we haven't solved yet - many Google Photos users (myself included) do not have images pre-organized in albums, so the fact that…
2024 · myphotos.site · its alternatives →
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Yogile▲75I've been running Yogile for years because I got tired of sharing photo albums where half the family never managed to log in. With Yogile, anyone can open an album, upload photos or videos, and view everything directly from the link. Even grandma usually manages. A few things people seem to like: - No accounts required for viewing or uploading. - Unlimited photo storage for a low yearly subscription. - Hosted and operated entirely in the EU. - Original files are kept and can be downloaded at full quality. Most people use it for family albums, weddings, sports clubs, photographers, and other…
2021 · yogile.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built this free and open-source tool out of frustration with how difficult it is to share vacation photos and pictures of our kids with friends and family. There is no tool that lets me create a shareable web gallery with a great mobile experience, the ability to add detailed descriptions, and no login required. The CLI tool scans a folder and all sub-folders for photos and videos, generates thumbnails optimized for speed and finally creates a static web site to showcase the photos and tell their story. As the gallery is static, you can easily self-host it on any static hosting…
2025 · simple.photo · its alternatives →
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Create lovely web galleries directly from macOS Photos app.
2018 · photos2webgallery.com · its alternatives →
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minimal file sharing site - self hosted. Contribute to nikosch86/file-upload development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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3D-to-photo is an open source tool for Generative AI product photography, that uses 3D models to allow fine camera angle control in generated images. If you have 3D models created using the iOS 3D scanner you can upload them directly on to 3D-to-photo and describe the scene you want to create. For example: "on a city side walk" "near a lake, overlooking the water" Then click "generate" to get the final images. The tech stack behind 3D-to-photo: Handling 3d models on the web: @threejs Hosting the diffusion model: @replicate 3D scanning apps: shopify,Polycam3D or LumaLabsAI
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ProGram▲118CLI based, self-hosted Instagram-esque gallery
2019 · sarthology.github.io · its alternatives →
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Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.
2014 · lychee.electerious.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc. So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos. It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people. It's called SimpleNeat…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Dropshare 5▲95The flexible file sharing solution for macOS & iOS
2022 · dropshare.app · its alternatives →
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Made a small tool to publish albums from Apple Photos online. The goal is to: 1) view photos in different ways: timeline, grid etc 2) allow people to bring their own domain 3) allow people to embed those photos in other places online Basically I'm trying to make apple photos web friendly. It works in a very simple way. Your photos are in your iCloud, but you share specific albums that you want to make public.
2023 · public.photos · its alternatives →
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Free OG Image generator for link sharing
2025 · readytools.co · its alternatives →
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Hi, friends in the HN community, I developed ChronoFrame, a self-hosted photo gallery for sharing photos with others. It is built with Nuxtjs + Nitro and can be easily run on Docker. Repository: https://github.com/HoshinoSuzumi/chronoframe We are very much looking forward to feedback from self-hosting enthusiasts!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Memorees▲25The candid album your photographer can't capture.
Jul 2026 · memorees.click · its alternatives →
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I made an image sharing application to compete with Imgur. Chances are it's not going to take over Imgur any time soon, so I figured I'd open source it. Stack: * Symfony w/ PHP 5.5 * Postgres 9.2 * Redis 2.8 * Ruby 2.0 (Capistrano) * Vagrant It's a fairly basic Symfony application but also makes use of a lot of Symfony components. It's sufficiently complex enough that you can probably learn a decent amount from it if you want to start playing around with Symfony. It has a few tests, uses Resque, uses the Symfony service container, and integrates with Amazon S3. Check it out, would love…
2013 · its alternatives →
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ThumbAPI▲8Thumbnail API to generate thumbnails from any title via a single REST API call. Built for n8n, Make.com, Zapier, YouTube, Instagram, X, blogs, and automation workflows.
May 2026 · thumbapi.dev · its alternatives →
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Upload → Pan → Zoom → Crop → Download. That’s it.
2025 · ogimagegenerator.net · its alternatives →
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So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and give me control over how many times the private link can be shared and how long the image will be accessible for. There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something. picburn is small, safe, and has no interest (nor the code or the server space) for storing your uploads. give it a try if it fits your usecase and let me know what you think. Note: there was a typo in the url
Aug 2026 · picburn.xyz · its alternatives →
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