Open Source Alternatives to SmugMug

A photo and video management platform designed for photographers and photography businesses to store, share, and sell their work. The software provides unlimited full resolution JPEG storage, drag and drop website templates for portfolios, and tools for digital delivery. It includes commercial capabilities such as integrated payment processing for credit cards and PayPal, automatic tax collection, and full service print lab integrations for order fulfillment. The platform is used by individual photographers, volume studios, and organizations to manage client galleries and protect images with watermarks. It integrates with Adobe Lightroom, Flickr, and Dropbox to streamline the upload process. Users can also store and organize RAW files as an additional service. The system is deployed as a cloud based service that scales from individual portfolios to enterprise level institutional needs.

Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to SmugMug give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 5 open source alternatives to SmugMug. The most popular are Photoview, Lychee and Piwigo. Most use the MIT or AGPL-3.0 license, and 3 offer an official Docker image.