memories

Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.

⭐ 3,758 stars on GitHub · 🍴 148 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Vue

What is memories?

A self-hosted notes & knowledge management tool. Your data lives on your server — no vendor lock-in, no risk of provider shutdown.

Main components

• 📸 Timeline: Sort photos and videos by date taken, parsed from Exif data.
• ⏪ Rewind: Jump to any time in the past instantly and relive your memories.
• 🤖 AI Tagging: Group photos by people and objects, powered by recognize and facerecognition.
• 🖼️ Albums: Create albums to group photos and videos together. Then share these albums with others.
• 🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 External Sharing: Share photos and videos with people outside of your Nextcloud instance.
• 📱 Mobile Support: Work from any device, of any shape and size through the web app.
• ✏️ Edit Metadata: Edit dates and other metadata on photos quickly and in bulk.
• 📦 Archive: Store photos you don't want to see in your timeline in a separate folder.

The biggest strength is no vendor lock-in — markdown/JSON data, easy to migrate between tools.

Best for researchers, devs, product people — anyone wanting a portable second brain across devices.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ backup-tool
• 🏷️ gallery
• 🏷️ nextcloud
• 🏷️ photo-gallery
• 🏷️ photos
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ videos

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/pulsejet/memories.git
cd memories
docker build -t memories .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 memories

Minimum system requirements

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• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
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• Daily snapshot backup
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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: pulsejet/memories
• 🌐 Homepage: https://memories.gallery
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.