Photato

Photato aims to be a self-hosted photo gallery, accessible through a responsive WebUI.

Give to Photato a picture folder and it will index it, using the file system hierarchy.

Features

• Folders / pictures gallery
• Responsive design
• Realtime indexing (throught picture ExifMetadata)
  • Title of the picture
  • Keywords of the picture
  • Persons tagged in a picture
  • Location of the picture

Screenshots

Try it

On Windows

• Download and unzip latest version from https://github.com/trebonius0/Photato/releases
• Download the latest version of Java here.
• Edit the start.cmd file to select the picture folder you want to index
• Run the start.cmd file
  • At the first start, Photato will start by indexing the picture folder and generate thumbnails (which can take ~20min for 7000 pictures)
  • When it will have finished, you can access it on http://127.0.0.1:8186

On Ubuntu/Debian

• Download and unzip latest version from https://github.com/trebonius0/Photato/releases
• sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl openjdk-8-jre
• java -Xmx1g -jar Photato-Release.jar "[Path to your picture folder]"
  • At the first start, Photato will start by indexing the picture folder and generate thumbnails (which can take ~20min for 7000 pictures)
  • When it will have finished, you can access it on http://127.0.0.1:8186

With docker

docker run \
    -v /host/configfolder:/config \
    -v /host/cachefolder:/cache \
    -v /host/picturesfolder:/pictures \
    -p 8186:8186 -d trebonius0/photato

Roadmap

Here are the features we will implement in the future (you can contribute if you want to implement one yourself)

• XMP file support
• Authentication / Access restriction to some folders
• Upload of pictures to the filesystem directly through the gallery
• Edit picture metadata directly through the gallery
• File-based Logging
• Automated offline keywords annotations

Disclaimer

Photato will rename all pictures with 2+ spaces in a row to the same but with one space (otherwise it would make exiftool crash). For instance "my picture.jpg" will be renamed to "my picture.jpg"