Photo management
PhotoPrism privacy rating
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.
Summary
PhotoPrism scores 50 out of 100 (grade D) on the photo management criteria. It meets 1 of 4 criteria: no ads or data sales. It partly meets open source and no trackers or telemetry. It does not meet independent audit. It is based in Germany: Fourteen Eyes member; EU member (GDPR).
Score 50 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Partial
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
The Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, but features in the paid editions are unpublished and under a separate commercial license.
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Partial
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party trackers, but the website and backend services record requests with self-hosted Plausible Analytics.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid memberships, with no ads. The privacy policy states data is never sold.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.