Desktop applications
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| Name | License | Platform | Languages | Resizing | Upload | Output | IPTC Support | GeoTagging Support | Tags Categories Keywords |
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| jAlbum | Proprietary | Windows, Mac, Linux | Multilingual | Automatic | FTP | XHTML, HTML5, CSS | Yes | Yes |
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A photo gallery software is a computer software that let users to manage and display photos and pictures and, in some cases, videos and other multimedia content. Features could include classify, display, share, tagging, etc.
The following is a comparison of photo gallery publishing software. Some are desktop applications, others are server side applications.
For software that just allows you locally organize photos in your filesystem see image organizer.
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| Name | License | Platform | Languages | Resizing | Upload | Output | IPTC Support | GeoTagging Support | Tags Categories Keywords |
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| jAlbum | Proprietary | Windows, Mac, Linux | Multilingual | Automatic | FTP | XHTML, HTML5, CSS | Yes | Yes |
| Name | License | Platform | Languages | Resizing | Upload | Output | IPTC Support | GeoTagging Support | Tags Categories Keywords | Dynamic Image Processing | Access Control | Face Recognition | LDAP support | Version |
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| Gallery Project | GPL | PHP/MySQL, (PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server only in 2.x version) | Multilingual | Automatic (GD/ImageMagick) | Local filesystem, HTTP, Java applet, Gallery Remote, Picasa 2, Import from Gallery 1.x, Windows XP Publishing Wizard, Local server, GLoSS, WebDAV (as of 2.2) | XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS | Yes, in G2 | module | Yes, keywords in G2 | No | No, as of G3 | 3.1.3 (June 4, 2020) [±] | ||
| MediaGoblin | AGPLv3 | Python/PostgreSQL | Multilingual | Automatic | HTTP, Android (just under a discontinued client) | HTML5 | Yes | Yes, tags and collections | Yes, by controlling if registrations are allowed or not | 0.12.0 "Potions" [1] (September 18, 2021) [±] | ||||
| ownPhotos (ownCloud plugin) | MIT License [2] | Python/Django, React | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| picdrop | PHP/MySQL | Multilingual | Automatic | HTTP, FTP | HTML5 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No version numbers available | |||
| Piwigo | GPL | PHP/MySQL | Multilingual (56 languages) | Automatic (GD/ImageMagick), up to 9 sizes | HTTP, FTP, local filesystem, Flash, Picasa, iPhoto, Digikam, Shotwell, Lightroom, iPhone/iPad and Android | HTML 4.01 or HTML 5, CSS 2 (Complies with W3C specifications), theme for mobile devices | Yes | plugin for Google Maps or plugin for OpenStreetMap | Yes | Yes resize, sharpen, crop, rotate | Yes | plugin | 14.0.0 (December 11, 2023) [±] | |
| Chevereto | AGPLv3 | PHP/MySQL | Multilingual (35 languages) | Automatic | HTTP, API | HTML 5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | 4.0.7 (February 6, 2023) |
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