# Photo management privacy ratings

Photo libraries and backups.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Aves](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/aves/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Gallery and metadata explorer for Android that handles images, videos and formats such as multi-page TIFF, SVG, motion photos and panoramas, with albums, tags, maps and search. |
| [digiKam](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/digikam/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Desktop photo management app from the KDE community for importing, organizing, tagging, searching and editing large photo libraries, including RAW files, face recognition and metadata editing. |
| [Fossify Gallery](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/fossify-gallery/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Offline photo and video gallery for Android with albums, a basic photo editor, EXIF metadata removal and hidden folders. It does not request internet access. |
| [LibrePhotos](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/librephotos/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Self-hosted photo and video management server with a web interface, timeline view, multiple users, face recognition, object and scene detection, semantic search and automatically generated event albums. |
| [Lychee](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/lychee/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Self-hosted photo management and sharing app with a web interface for uploading, organizing and sharing albums. An optional paid Supporter Edition adds extra features such as watermarking and statistics. |
| [Ente Photos](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/ente-photos/) | C (70/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | End-to-end encrypted photo and video backup and sharing, with apps for mobile, desktop and web. The server is open source and can be self-hosted. |
| [Immich](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/immich/) | C (65/100) | Unknown | Self-hosted photo and video backup and management server, with automatic mobile upload, timeline view, albums, search and facial recognition. |
| [Piwigo](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/piwigo/) | C (65/100) | France (Nine Eyes) | Photo gallery software for publishing and managing large photo collections on the web, with albums, tags, user permissions, plugins and mobile apps. It can be self-hosted or used as a paid hosted service from its developers. |
| [iCloud Photos](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/icloud-photos/) | C (60/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Apple's photo and video library sync built into the Photos app on Apple devices, with iCloud for Windows and web access. Photos are end-to-end encrypted only with the optional Advanced Data Protection setting, which is off by default. |
| [PhotoPrism](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/photoprism/) | D (50/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | Self-hosted photo management app with a web interface that indexes a photo library and adds automatic tagging, face recognition, maps and search. A free Community Edition is available, with paid memberships adding extra features. |
| [Google Photos](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/google-photos/) | F (20/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Google's photo and video backup and sharing service, with automatic phone upload, face grouping, search and editing tools. |
| [Amazon Photos](https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/amazon-photos/) | F (0/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Amazon's photo and video backup and sharing service, with automatic phone upload, image search and a shared Family Vault. Storage comes with an Amazon Prime membership or a paid storage plan. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/photo-management/