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Photos projects on GitHub

Photo libraries, backups, and AI photo restoration.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Photos projects on GitHub are immich (116.4K stars), ente (29.4K stars) and PhotoSwipe (25.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Photos repositories with 273.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was lightcraft, with +249 stars in a day.

14Projects

273.5KStars in total

+380Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+249

lightcraft

storytold/lightcraft · ★ 13.2K

LightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.

+72

immich

immich-app/immich · ★ 116.4K

Immich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.

+26

ente

ente/ente · ★ 29.4K

Ente is a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted cloud: a place to keep photos, documents and 2FA codes without having to trust the provider. It ships three apps so far: Photos, Locker and Auth.

+10

rembrandt

thesnarkitecht/rembrandt · ★ 146

Rembrandt is a free, non-destructive RAW photo editor and library for macOS, Windows and Linux, built in the same family as Lightroom Classic, with on-device AI tools and no account, subscription or tracking required.

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14 projects · by stars

#1 · immich-app/immich
immich
Immich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.
116.4K
#2 · ente/ente
ente
Ente is a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted cloud: a place to keep photos, documents and 2FA codes without having to trust the provider. It ships three apps so far: Photos, Locker and Auth.
29.4K
#3 · dimsemenov/PhotoSwipe
PhotoSwipe
PhotoSwipe is a JavaScript image gallery and lightbox for mobile and desktop — modular, framework-independent code you add to your own web pages.
25.3K

4
Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life
15.7Kmicrosoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life · Python
It's an AI old-photo restoration tool from Microsoft Research and City University of Hong Kong: deep learning models that remove scratches, fix global degradation and enhance faces in damaged photos. It's the official PyTorch implementation of a CVPR 2020 oral paper, later extended in TPAMI 2022.
5
color-thief
13.7Klokesh/color-thief · TypeScript
Color Thief is a JavaScript library that extracts the dominant color or a full color palette from an image, working the same way in both the browser and Node.js.
6
darktable
13.3Kdarktable-org/darktable · C
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer: a virtual lighttable and darkroom that manages your photos in a database, lets you browse them, and develops/enhances/exports raw images.
7
lightcraft
13.2Kstorytold/lightcraft · Rust
LightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.
8
icloud_photos_downloader
12.3Kicloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader · Python
icloud_photos_downloader (icloudpd) is a command-line tool that downloads all your photos and videos from iCloud to your local system.
- aur
- pypi
- sync
- image
9
Material
12KCosmicMind/Material · Swift
Material is a UI/UX framework for building iOS applications with Google Material Design-inspired components like cards, text fields, navigation drawers, and snackbars.
10
dawarich
10.7KFreika/dawarich · Ruby
Dawarich is a self-hostable web app that replaces Google Timeline: it tracks your location history, shows it on an interactive map, and analyzes your travels.
11
thumbor
10.5Kthumbor/thumbor · Python
Thumbor is an open-source HTTP image service that crops, resizes, transforms and optimizes photos on-demand, using AI for smart face/feature-based cropping.
12
travel-memory-sticker-card
607carolinaaafy/travel-memory-sticker-card
This is a Codex skill that turns your travel photos into collectible memory sticker cards — themed digital cards that commemorate places you've visited.
13
pictaria-server
192pictaria-ai/pictaria-server · JavaScript
Pictaria Server is a self-hosted companion for Immich that adds photo insights, AI-based enrichment, human-reviewed curation, and auto-syncing Smart Albums, all managed through a private web dashboard running on your own hardware.
14
rembrandt
146thesnarkitecht/rembrandt · C++
Rembrandt is a free, non-destructive RAW photo editor and library for macOS, Windows and Linux, built in the same family as Lightroom Classic, with on-device AI tools and no account, subscription or tracking required.