Apps / Photos

PhotoPrism

Your photos, indexed where they lie

Browses and searches a folder of photos you already have, rather than asking you to import them into its own store. Face and object recognition run locally, and it reads the originals read-only — so it can sit alongside Immich on the same library without either one owning it.

Installing it

Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:

sudo homebox install photoprism

Where to open it

Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.

Good to know

• Originals are mounted READ-ONLY on purpose: this is an indexer, and it can run beside Immich on the same folder without the two fighting over the files
• MariaDB rather than SQLite — PhotoPrism supports both, but SQLite locks up on a large library during indexing, which is exactly when you notice
• The first index of a big library takes hours and pegs the CPU. Start it and leave it
• The admin password is generated at install: homebox secrets photoprism prints it

View this app's definition on GitHub