# Self-hosted alternatives to Narrative

> 1 self-hostable, open-source alternative to Narrative, ranked by score.

- [facet](https://selfhost.directory/project/facet)

## Also in Photo Management

Not listed as Narrative alternatives, but from the same category:

- [librephotos](https://selfhost.directory/project/librephotos): Self-hosted, open-source photo library that indexes the folders you already have with face clustering, places, captions and natural-language search.
- [Photoview](https://selfhost.directory/project/photoview): Photoview is a self-hosted, open-source photo gallery organizing photos from your filesystem with RAW support, EXIF metadata, face recognition, and multi-user sharing.
- [Damselfly](https://selfhost.directory/project/damselfly): Self-hosted, open-source photo management system for large collections with AI face/object detection, IPTC keyword tagging, and fast search.
- [PiGallery 2](https://selfhost.directory/project/pigallery-2): PiGallery2 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.
- [Monbooru](https://selfhost.directory/project/monbooru): Self-hosted, open-source booru for organizing personal image collections with tag-based browsing, AI metadata extraction, local ONNX auto-tagging.
- [ownphotos-frontend](https://selfhost.directory/project/ownphotos-frontend): Ownphotos is a self-hosted, open-source photo app replicating Google Photos with face recognition, object detection, event albums, and map browsing via Docker Compose.

All 62 Photo Management projects: https://selfhost.directory/photo-management

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