I have so many photos of my family and friends and a bit of landscapes of places I visited over the years and I am looking for guidance building a local server that can organize my photos, the idea is that I have tons of photos that are not organized and the server should look at the images exif data (and potentially faces) and organize the photos for me

Something like plex server would be the optimum solution

I went through this forum post but it looks very outdated
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1338797

these are the criteria that should help me decide

  • Easy to install and update
  • Web server to be used locally
  • Able to parse images exif based on
    • location
    • date
    • and if possible faces

  • Mobile client availability


This what I checked (but have not yet installed or tried yet)
but when I searched I found those options

https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos-backend
which looks great and modern but is a hassle to install and maintain.

and then the rest like
https://lychee.electerious.com/ and many more than drop to the state of just a webbased photo gallery

first did I miss any projects that I should be looking at
and any information from someone that has used those?