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PhotoPrism

AI-Powered Photos App

PhotoPrism® is an AI-powered, privacy-first app for browsing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos. It helps tag, search, and rediscover media without getting in your way, whether self-hosted or in the cloud.

Installing it

Open the dashboard, go to Apps, press Add on it and apply the change. Or from a terminal on the box:

sudo homebox install photoprism

Where to open it

Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.

Good to know

• Originals are mounted READ-ONLY on purpose: this is an indexer, and it can run beside Immich on the same folder without the two fighting over the files
• MariaDB rather than SQLite — PhotoPrism supports both, but SQLite locks up on a large library during indexing, which is exactly when you notice
• The first index of a big library takes hours and pegs the CPU. Start it and leave it
• The admin password is generated at install: homebox secrets photoprism prints it

View this app's definition on GitHub