facet
Photo Management
v1.25.0
Facet is a self-hosted photo analysis and culling engine that scores images across nine quality dimensions including aesthetic quality, composition, face…todayDockerModerate
Self-hosted alternatives to Narrative
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Not listed as Narrative alternatives, but they cover the same ground and are worth a look.
librephotosSelf-hosted, open-source photo library that indexes the folders you already have with face clustering, places, captions and natural-language search.
PhotoviewPhotoview is a self-hosted, open-source photo gallery organizing photos from your filesystem with RAW support, EXIF metadata, face recognition, and multi-user sharing.
DamselflySelf-hosted, open-source photo management system for large collections with AI face/object detection, IPTC keyword tagging, and fast search.
PiGallery 2PiGallery2 is a self-hosted, open-source photo gallery that organizes images by your existing folder structure, optimized for low-end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
MonbooruSelf-hosted, open-source booru for organizing personal image collections with tag-based browsing, AI metadata extraction, local ONNX auto-tagging.
ownphotos-frontendOwnphotos is a self-hosted, open-source photo app replicating Google Photos with face recognition, object detection, event albums, and map browsing via Docker Compose.
About these Narrative alternatives
1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Narrative are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- facet (323 GitHub stars, Other license, written in Python)
- Docker
- 1 of the top 1 ship an official Docker image
- Recently updated
- facet v1.25.0 on 2026-10-28
Narrative alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| facet | Other | Python | 323 | Yes | Moderate | v1.25.0 | 50 |