Everything in Immich,
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Gallery is built on top of Immich — the best self-hosted photo platform. We keep every core feature and add the ones we've been waiting for.

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Space AlbumsGallery Exclusive

Bring whole albums into a Shared Space — link an existing album or create a new one inside the space, and every photo lands on a dedicated Albums tab for every member, on web and mobile.

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Shared Spaces gain a dedicated Albums tab. Owners and Editors link an existing album or create a new one right inside the space, and its photos appear for every member — organized into named collections instead of one endless stream. Albums are linked by reference, so nothing is copied and unlinking is clean, and members can contribute photos across libraries without the originals ever leaving their owner.

A dedicated Albums tab in every Space, with the same search, sort, group, and view controls as your personal Albums page
Link an existing album or create a new one inside the space — linked by reference, so nothing is copied and unlinking is clean
Cross-owner contributions let members add photos to a shared album without the originals leaving their library

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Timeline GroupingGallery Exclusive

Switch between a yearly overview, monthly snapshots, or full day-by-day detail on every timeline — tap any card to zoom in without losing your place.

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Every timeline in Gallery — Photos, Spaces, Albums, People, Map, and more — now has a Years / Months / All switcher. Switching compresses the grid into full-width representative cards, one per period, each showing a cover photo and a count badge. Tapping a card zooms into that time range without restricting the query, so months stay fully scrollable after a year zoom. Position is preserved when switching between modes on both web and mobile.

Years, Months, and All views across Photos, Spaces, Albums, People, Map, and more
Tapping a year or month card zooms in without restricting the query
Switching granularity anchors to your current scroll position on web and mobile

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Global PeopleGallery Exclusive

People now resolve across your personal library and timeline-enabled Shared Spaces, so the same person appears once wherever Gallery can safely prove it is the same identity.

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Gallery now builds an access-scoped face identity graph underneath personal people and space people. The People page, filters, global search, metadata inheritance, representative thumbnails, and optional face statistics all use the same permission-aware identity model without exposing private names, counts, or faces from spaces you cannot access.

People dedupe across personal libraries and timeline-enabled Spaces
Names, birthdays, thumbnails, filters, and search stay permission-scoped
Representative face picking and optional face counts make people repair clearer

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Inline Search FiltersGallery Exclusive

Type filters directly into the search bar — people, tags, dates, locations, ratings, media type, favorites, cameras, and album gaps — with live suggestions before you press Enter.

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Gallery search now accepts structured filter tokens alongside normal search text. Type searches such as beach person:anna tag:travel country:Germany, pick live suggestions for people, tags, countries, and cities, then commit once to update Photos or the current Space with shareable URL filters.

Typed filter tokens work inside the global search bar
Live suggestions resolve people, tags, countries, and cities while editing
Committed filters sync into Photos and Spaces URLs, chips, and filter panels

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Noodle Gallery for AndroidGallery Exclusive

The Noodle Gallery Android app is now live on Google Play — background camera backup, on-device CLIP search, the map, and Shared Spaces, all from your Android device.

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A native Android app with the full Noodle Gallery experience: timeline, map, on-device CLIP search, and background camera backup straight to your own server. Sign in once with your Gallery server URL and the whole library is on the device — no Noodle-operated middle layer, no third-party photo bucket.

Live on Google Play today
Background camera backup and on-device CLIP search
Shared Spaces, the map, and full library browsing on Android

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Memories ArchiveGallery Exclusive

Browse every retained generated memory from the Memories page, and choose how long generated memories stay in your library.

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Gallery now has a dedicated Memories page for retained generated memories, grouped by the date they were shown with local search and an All/Saved filter. Admins can keep generated memories for the default 365 days, set a custom retention window, or use 0 to preserve memory records indefinitely while cleanup still removes invalid asset links.

A Memories sidebar page shows retained generated memories beyond today's carousel
Local search and All/Saved filtering make older memories easy to revisit
Admin retention controls keep unsaved generated memories for 365 days, a custom window, or indefinitely

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Global SearchGallery Exclusive

Cmd/Ctrl+K is now the main search surface: one command palette searches your current page, photos, people, places, tags, albums, Spaces, commands, and settings.

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The command palette is now the search bar. Open it from anywhere, type a query, and the Top result routes the search to the page you are already on when that page has its own searchable timeline. Photos and Spaces keep their sort controls next to the trigger, while the palette still searches every library entity, command, and settings page in parallel.

Search Photos and Spaces from the same Cmd/Ctrl+K entry point
Top result routes page searches without leaving the current surface
Sort controls stay beside the search trigger on searchable timelines

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Smarter MemoriesGallery Exclusive

Recent trip and birthday memories are generated by server-side rules, with curated trip recaps and birthday sets that adapt to the photo history you have.

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Gallery now supplements On This Day with rule-based memories for recent trips and birthdays. Trips are detected from location clusters outside your normal baseline, then curated into a chronological recap instead of a burst-heavy dump. Birthday memories become multi-year recaps when the person has enough history, or a recent-photo birthday set when the library is newer.

Recent trips are detected from location clusters and shown as chronological recaps
Birthday memories show multi-year recaps when available, or recent-photo sets for newer libraries
Server-defined titles and subtitles let new memory rules render on web and mobile

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Photos Filtering on MobileGallery Exclusive

A three-snap bottom sheet on the Photos tab that filters your timeline by people, places, tags, dates, rating, and media type — without ever leaving the grid.

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A bottom sheet docks on the Photos tab with three snap positions — a Peek showing active-filter chips, a Browse snap with the most-used facets, and a Deep snap with the full picker. People appear as face grids, Places cascade from country to city, When aggregates by year with month drill-down, and a debounced search field runs smart search and text-in-image lookups. The timeline re-queries as you filter — count, chips, and grid all stay in sync.

Three-snap bottom sheet — Peek, Browse, Deep — filters the timeline in place
Face grids for People, country→city cascade for Places, year/month drill-down for When
Debounced search handles smart search + text-in-image alongside tag, rating, and media-type filters

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Search PaletteGallery Exclusive

A keyboard-first command palette that searches photos, people, places, tags, jumps to any settings page, and fires context-aware verbs on the album or space you are viewing — all from Cmd/Ctrl+K.

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Press Cmd/Ctrl+K to open a single input that searches your entire library in parallel — photos, people, places, tags — and fuzzy-matches every admin and settings page. Prefix shortcuts (@, #, /, >) scope to one kind of thing; a Commands section fires verbs like upload, create album, and admin-only job-queue controls without leaving the page. On album and space pages the palette adds context-aware verbs — rename, share, leave, delete, add member — with a two-step inline confirm that arms destructive commands before firing. Recents bring you back where you were.

Cmd/Ctrl+K opens a unified palette across photos, people, places, tags, albums, and spaces
Commands fire verbs from anywhere — upload, create album, toggle theme, admin queue controls
Recent searches and entities persist across sessions for instant re-access

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Prefix-Scoped SearchGallery Exclusive

Type @ for people, # for tags, / for albums & spaces, or > for commands and pages — one prefix narrows the search palette to a single section, bare prefix opens the full index.

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Prefix scoping turns the global search palette into a lightweight faceted browser. Type @ to find a person by name, # to jump to a tag, / to navigate to an album or shared space, or > to fire a command or navigate to any settings page. Typing just the prefix without a query opens a suggestion list sorted by recent activity. The palette resets to the full multi-section view the moment you backspace out the prefix.

@ for people, # tags, / albums & spaces, > commands & pages
Bare prefix opens the full index sorted by recent activity
Backspace out the prefix to return to the full palette

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Page CommandsGallery Exclusive

The search palette grows context-aware verbs when you're on an album or space page — rename, share, add member, delete — scoped to what you can actually do there, with a two-step confirm before anything destructive fires.

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Open Ctrl+K on an album page and the Commands section adds Rename, Share, Download, Leave, or Delete — only the verbs you're allowed to perform on that specific album. On a space page it becomes Manage members, Add member, Add all my photos, Leave space, or Delete space. Every verb is gated by the same permissions the rest of the UI uses. Destructive actions arm on the first Enter (the row turns red) and fire on the second, with a 3-second auto-cancel and an Esc bail-out at any point.

Album and space verbs appear only on the relevant page
Permission-gated — owners, editors, and viewers see different commands
Two-step inline confirm before any destructive action fires

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Noodle Gallery for iPhoneGallery Exclusive

The Noodle Gallery iPhone app is now live on the App Store — background camera backup, on-device CLIP search, the map, and a working Shared Spaces preview, all from your pocket.

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A native iPhone app with the full Noodle Gallery experience: timeline, map, on-device CLIP search, and background camera backup straight to your own server. Shared Spaces ship today as a working preview — full parity (in-space search, faceted filtering, activity log) is landing in the next release.

Live on the App Store today
Background camera backup and on-device CLIP search
Shared Spaces preview today, full parity coming soon

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Noodle Gallery for iPhone screenshot

Shared SpacesGallery Exclusive

One timeline for photos that live across multiple people, phones, and group chats — without forcing everyone into one account or one owner.

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Family trips, weddings, school events, and team projects usually leave photos scattered across group chats, shared albums, and private libraries. Shared Spaces give the group one chronological timeline where members can contribute their own photos, search and filter the combined collection, and keep permissions clear. Each contributor keeps their own library while the Space becomes the shared view everyone can come back to.

One shared timeline for group memories
Contributors keep their own libraries
Roles control who can add, manage, or browse

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Shared Spaces screenshot

Search Sorting & RelevanceGallery Exclusive

Order smart search results by date or relevance, and dial in a similarity threshold so filtered searches only return photos that actually look right.

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Sort CLIP search results by Relevance, Newest, or Oldest on both the main timeline and Shared Spaces, with date-grouped results and infinite scroll. A new admin-level relevance threshold excludes weak CLIP matches so combined text + filter searches stop returning noise.

Sort by relevance, newest, or oldest
Date-grouped results with infinite scroll
Tunable similarity threshold (maxDistance)

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Smart Search & Contextual FiltersGallery Exclusive

Search inside Spaces with full-text and CLIP, and filter suggestions that adapt to what you've already selected.

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Type natural language queries and get instant results. Filters adapt to show only relevant options based on your current search context.

Natural language queries
Adaptive contextual filters
Results ranked by relevance

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Interdependent FilteringGallery Exclusive

Every filter narrows every other filter. Select a country and only see cameras, people, tags, and ratings that exist in those photos.

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Every filter you apply updates all other filter options to show only what's still relevant. No dead-end combinations.

Filters update in real-time
No dead-end combinations
Intuitive guided browsing

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Spaces FilteringGallery Exclusive

Filter your Space timeline by date range, people, locations, cameras, and tags. Find exactly what you're looking for.

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All the powerful filtering capabilities of your main library, available inside shared spaces.

Full filter suite in spaces
Date, location, people filters
Consistent UX everywhere

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Map FilteringGallery Exclusive

Filter your map view by people, camera, tags, rating, favorites, and date — the same powerful filters, now on the map.

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The full filter panel from Photos and Spaces now works on the Map view. Filter by people, camera, tags, star rating, favorites, media type, and date range — markers update in real time. Works on both the global map and space-scoped maps with space-aware suggestions.

Real-time marker filtering by people, camera, tags, and more
Works on global and space-scoped maps
Space-aware suggestions show only relevant people and cameras

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Video TrimmingGallery Exclusive

Trim your videos directly in the browser. Lossless stream copy means instant results with zero quality loss.

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Cut videos to the perfect length without re-encoding. Stream copy means zero quality loss and near-instant processing.

Zero quality loss
Near-instant processing
Works with 4K and larger

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Image EditingGallery Exclusive

Quick-rotate, crop, and adjust your photos without leaving the gallery. Non-destructive edits with automatic thumbnail refresh.

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Edit one photo or hundreds at once — crop, rotate, and adjust, all non-destructive so your originals are always preserved. And the editor now travels: the same crop, rotate, and adjust tools are built into the mobile app, so you can straighten a shot on your phone exactly like on the web.

Crop, rotate, and adjust — originals always preserved
Now in the mobile app, not just the web
Batch-edit hundreds of photos at once

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Auto-ClassificationGallery Exclusive

Define what clutter looks like — screenshots, memes, receipts — and Gallery tags and archives them automatically using AI.

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Photos are automatically tagged and categorized on upload. CLIP-powered AI understands image content.

Automatic on upload
CLIP-powered understanding
Zero manual tagging

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Video Duplicate DetectionGallery Exclusive

Find duplicate videos even when they've been re-encoded, resized, or converted to a different format.

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Find duplicate and near-duplicate videos using visual similarity, not just file hashes.

Visual similarity matching
Catches re-encodes
Resolution-independent

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Pet DetectionGallery Exclusive

Your pets deserve their own page too. AI-powered detection recognizes cats, dogs, birds, and more — right alongside people.

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Your pets deserve their own albums too. YOLO11 detects dogs, cats, and other animals automatically.

Dogs, cats, and more
Automatic grouping
Browse by individual pet

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Connected LibrariesGallery Exclusive

Link external photo libraries to Shared Spaces so thousands of photos appear instantly — no manual selection needed.

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Point Gallery at existing photo directories. Photos are indexed and searchable without being moved.

No file duplication
Full search indexing
Original files untouched

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User GroupsGallery Exclusive

Create named, color-coded groups for one-click sharing. Select an entire group when inviting to Spaces or sharing albums.

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Create groups like "Family" or "Photography Club" and share spaces with the entire group at once.

Named groups
Group-level permissions
One-click sharing

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S3-Compatible StorageGallery Exclusive

Store your photos on any S3-compatible provider — AWS, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi.

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Use any S3-compatible object storage as your media backend. Scale storage independently.

Any S3-compatible backend
Independent scaling
Cost-optimized storage

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Bulk Add to SpacesGallery Exclusive

Add your entire photo library to a Shared Space with one click. A background job handles hundreds of thousands of photos.

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Select hundreds of photos and add them to any shared space in one click. Background processing.

Thousands at once
Background processing
Non-blocking UX

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Google Photos ImportGallery Exclusive

A guided wizard to import your Google Takeout archive directly from the browser. No CLI needed.

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Import your entire Google Photos library with all metadata intact — dates, locations, favorites.

Full metadata preservation
Google Takeout compatible
Dates, locations, favorites

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Mobile App

Native iOS & Android app with automatic camera backup and full library browsing.

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Full-featured native app for iOS and Android. Automatic camera backup runs in the background.

Native iOS & Android
Background camera backup
Full library on mobile

Automatic Backup

Set-and-forget camera backup from your phone with background sync.

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Photos and videos from your phone are automatically backed up in the background.

Background sync
Set and forget
Photos and videos

Face Recognition

Automatic face detection and clustering to browse photos by the people in them.

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Automatically detects faces and groups them by person. Name once, recognize everywhere.

Automatic clustering
Name once, recognize everywhere
Merge similar faces

AI Smart Search

Natural-language search powered by CLIP — find photos by describing them.

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Type "sunset at the beach" and CLIP-powered search finds matching photos.

Natural language
CLIP-powered
No tagging needed

Timeline View

Browse your entire library chronologically with smooth infinite scroll.

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Scroll through your entire photo history with a smooth, performant timeline.

Smooth infinite scroll
Date scrubber for jumping
Performant at any scale

Albums & Sharing

Create albums, share them via link, and collaborate with other users.

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Organize photos into albums and share them with anyone via link.

Share via link
Collaborative albums
Public or private

Partner Sharing

Share your entire library with a partner for seamless family photo access.

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Share your complete library with a partner so both have access to all family photos.

Full library sharing
Seamless family access
No duplicates needed

Live Photos & Videos

Full support for live photos, motion photos, and all major video formats.

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iOS Live Photos, Android Motion Photos, and all major video codecs fully supported.

Live & Motion Photos
All major codecs
Cross-platform playback

RAW File Support

Import and preview RAW files from all major camera manufacturers.

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Full support for RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and more.

All major manufacturers
Browser preview
No download needed

EXIF / Metadata

View and edit EXIF metadata including camera settings, location, and timestamps.

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See all EXIF data — camera model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, GPS, and more.

Full EXIF display
Editable timestamps
GPS coordinates

Reverse Geocoding

Automatic location names from GPS coordinates — see where every photo was taken.

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GPS coordinates are automatically converted to human-readable place names.

Automatic place names
City, country, neighborhood
Works on upload

Hardware Transcoding

GPU-accelerated video transcoding for fast playback on any device.

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Videos are transcoded using GPU acceleration for instant playback on any device.

GPU-accelerated
Instant playback
Any device support

OAuth / SSO

Enterprise-ready single sign-on with any OAuth or OIDC provider.

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Connect Gallery to your existing identity provider. Supports any OAuth 2.0 or OIDC service.

Any OIDC provider
Google, Microsoft, Keycloak
Enterprise-ready

Multi-User Support

Full multi-user with per-user storage quotas and isolated libraries.

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Each user gets their own isolated library with configurable storage quotas.

Isolated libraries
Storage quotas
Admin dashboard

External Libraries

Mount existing photo directories as read-only libraries without re-importing.

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Mount directories as read-only libraries. Photos indexed and searchable but remain untouched.

Read-only mounting
Full indexing
Zero file duplication

CLI & API

Scriptable CLI and REST API for automation, bulk operations, and integrations.

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Full REST API and CLI for scripting uploads, managing users, and integrations.

REST API
CLI tool
Full automation

Recently Added

See what just landed. A view that sorts your library by when photos arrived — not when they were taken — so newly imported and just-restored photos are easy to find.

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Most timelines sort by capture date, which buries a photo you added today among years-old memories. Recently Added sorts by upload date instead, so a fresh import, an AirDrop from a friend, or a just-restored backup shows up right at the top where you expect it. Available on web and mobile.

Sorted by upload date, not capture date
Great after a big import or a restore
On web and mobile

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Instant Video Streaming

Videos start playing right away and adapt to your connection — no waiting for a download or a pre-transcode.

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Play any video the moment you tap it. Gallery streams it on the fly and adjusts quality to your connection, so a phone on cellular and a laptop on fibre both get smooth playback without waiting for a full download or a background transcode. Seeking and quality switches stay fast, even on large 4K clips.

Playback starts instantly
Quality adapts to your connection
Smooth seeking on large 4K clips

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Text in Your Photos

Read and copy the text inside your photos — signs, receipts, whiteboards, screenshots — straight from the viewer.

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Your photos are full of text you might want later: the total on a receipt, a wifi password on a whiteboard, a street sign, an address in a screenshot. Open a photo and Gallery recognizes the text inside it so you can select and copy it, just like text on a web page. No retyping, no squinting.

Select and copy text from any photo
Works on receipts, signs, and screenshots
Tap to toggle in the mobile viewer

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Slideshow

Play any album or day as a full-screen slideshow, straight from your phone.

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Hand your phone around the dinner table and let the memories play. Start a full-screen slideshow from any album or day and Gallery advances through your photos one by one — a simple, lean-back way to relive a trip or an event on the device that is already in your pocket.

Full-screen sequential playback
Start from any album or day
On the mobile app

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Workflows

Teach your library to file itself. Build rules that run the moment a photo arrives — archive the screenshots, album the drone shots, lock the scans.

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Every library collects chores: the screenshots that clutter the timeline, the drone footage that belongs in its own album, the scanned documents that should never show up at all. A workflow does that filing for you. Pick when it runs, narrow it down with filters, then chain the actions — and every photo that arrives from then on is handled the moment it lands, without you lifting a finger.

Runs automatically on upload or after metadata is read
Filter by filename, server path, EXIF, date, type or location
Archive, favorite, lock, album, or call a webhook

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Workflows screenshot

Reversible Immich migration

Try Gallery on your existing Immich library.

Swap three config lines, keep the same database and uploads, and use the switch-back script if Gallery is not for you. Your photos and videos stay exactly where they are.

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