Apps / Photos

PhotoPrism

Your photos, indexed where they lie

Browses and searches a folder of photos you already have, rather than asking you to import them into its own store. Face and object recognition run locally, and it reads the originals read-only — so it can sit alongside Immich on the same library without either one owning it.

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