Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Simple Photo Gallery
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1
ProGram▲118CLI based, self-hosted Instagram-esque gallery
2019 · sarthology.github.io · its alternatives →
- 2MS
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 →
- 3
⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file - Y2Z/monolith
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4
Create lovely web galleries directly from macOS Photos app.
2018 · photos2webgallery.com · its alternatives →
- 5
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…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 6
A fast, helpful way to organize your photos offline
2019 · google.com · its alternatives →
- 7
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 →
- 8
- 9DS
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 →
- 10
- 11
- 12
Lifebox▲82The world's simplest way to create albums and share images
2015 · lifebox.mobi · its alternatives →
- 13
Create mobile or browser mockups from screenshots in seconds. Screenshot.rocks turns ordinary browser screenshots into beautiful mockups
2023 · screenshot.rocks · its alternatives →
- 14
- 15
Generate hostable static gallery from your photographs
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 16
- 17
A simple self-hosted photo gallery. Own your data. - davidbanham/photobomb
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18IB
Simply upload a photo of your wall, upload the artwork images, position them, and download the result. It's very lightweight and nothing is uploaded to a server - everything runs directly in your browser. Why I made this: Existing apps (like Artrooms) fell short for me because they only offered stock wall images and limited 3D positioning, especially if your wall isn't perfectly frontal. I wanted something more flexible that would allow me to experiment with more scenarios, even when the photo is taken at a weird angle. The objective is to get a feel of how'd it look like, without the result…
2024 · wallartlovers.com · its alternatives →
- 19
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 →
- 20
Open-source JavaScript image gallery and lightbox.
2014 · photoswipe.com · its alternatives →
- 21
📷 Bash Script to generate static responsive image web galleries. - Cyclenerd/gallery_shell
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 22
This is a simple tool I built after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130148 to maximize the usage of available space when viewing a folder of images
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23
Instantly create an image gallery from images on your server
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 24
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →